Thanks to Agmates member Sue for bringing this to our attention. It is a curious Rural Press article and I love the way they describe OUR Agmates Community as a “niche online chat forum“
“Angry comments that were confined to a niche online chat forum less than 10 days ago have now spilled onto the mainstream website, farmonline.com.au, owned by Rural Press.”
You make up your mind who is niche and who is mainstream.
Last Sunday we ran the post: Joyce Fronts Turnbull – I’ll Split The Coalition which attracted 109 comments from 33 members – plus one comment from our Agmate member Barnaby Joyce.
The same time – farm online ran virtually the same article (which was just a reposting of and article out of the The Sydney Morning Herald – farm online and the SMH are both owned by Fairfax) – Titled Coalition split by end of the year with a big photo of Barnaby. The farm online article had 16 comments from 14 people (2 of whom are Agmates members).
Lets look at the two stories and the break up of people and comments.
Agmates – 33 members – 109 comments.
Farm Online – 14 people – 16 comments.
State by Sate – Agamtes – Farm Online
QLD …………………..18……………… 2
NSW ……………………7……………… 8
VIC …………………….7………………. 1
SA ………………………1………………..2
WA ……………………..1……………….1
Total people…………..33……………14 (* 2 of these were Agmates members)
Total Comments……109……………16
Plus every member who commented on Agmates got a personal message of thanks from our fellow member Barnaby (by way of comment). See comment here
The farm online site is the one web site for The Queensland Country Life (QCL), The Land (NSW), The Stock & Land (VIC), The Stock Journal (SA) and the Farm Weekly (WA). They put next to the commenter which state publication they came through.
Obviously Rural press is not proud of the conduct of its online forum. They insinuate that the bile and vehenm that is on their forum came from Agmates – Click here to see the Rural Press forum in question.
“Angry comments that were confined to a niche online chat forum less than 10 days ago have now spilled onto the mainstream website, farmonline.com.au, owned by Rural Press.”
This comment is a joke. Have a look for yourself at the Comments on Agmates Community forum they are referring to. See here. Every commentator has their real name visible and a photo.
Then go and have a look at the bile and invective that spews out from the faceless nameless crew on the rural press forum. See here
Make up your own mind which one is the trashy niche chat room.
Is it our privately owned – voice of the real people Agmates community or is it the multinational corporate owned media giant Rural Press ?
Word of advice for Rural press. When you try and discredit the Agmates community you are actually trying to discredit hundreds of people who used to be your loyal readers, because Agmates is the sum total of our members. You demean our community , by virtue you demean our members.
Who knows, like me in protest many of those members might just decide not to spend the $3.40 a week on your newspapers anymore. Then try explaining that to your advertisers as your circulation falls.
Oh wait, isn’t that a problem they are having at the minute … hhmmm I wonder why?
Thats not very smart Mr Rural Press.
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Tags: Agmates, Barnaby Joyce, Farm Online, Rural Press
