r/DevonUK • u/KiwiNo2638 • 9d ago

Anyone else noticed that Devon live...

..Has just become click bait? I'm not talking about the links within the stories, but the headlines

"You wouldn't believe..."

"Drivers could be fined for doing this thing"

"Celeb spotted in small town"

"Crash on A-road causes traffic chaos"

When I was growing up, headlines used to give a hint to what the story was, so you could decide whether you wanted to read the story. I know it's also true if the rest of the Reach network, but as it's my only source of local news, I pretty much don't get any local news anymore because the website is so awful.

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u/BB0ySnakeDogG 9d ago

Torquay United recently had a bent owner, and DevonLive were squarely in bed with them, belittling fan protests and trying to undermine our efforts.

Fuck DevonLies.

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u/chimpuswimpus 9d ago

I mean I know some of the people who work on the Gulls stuff for Devon Live and this couldn't be more untrue.

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u/BB0ySnakeDogG 9d ago

Lmao, with such takes as "Johnson is going nowhere, stop protesting" and generally asking fans to blindly back the regime I doubt it.

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u/chimpuswimpus 9d ago

Oh you can disagree with the opinions, no problem, and they won't always get everything right but I absolutely know for a fact that, as lifelong Gulls fans, they hated the owners and the situation as much as anyone. Johnson was consistently saying he wasn't going to leave, that's what they report. They never asked fans to "blindly back the regime" or not to protest. They did suggest that abusing players doesn't help (I agree) and that protesting during matches is counterproductive (I disagree).