The Sun - Misleading Story - Google News App

[Steddenm]

There is an image on Google News app (below) with the headline "Major railway station used by 100,000 each year set to close for 10 months for upgrade works" which is from The Sun.

Major railway station used by 100,000 each year set to close for 10 months

A MAJOR railways station used by 100,000 passengers each year is set to close for 10 months for improvement works. No trains will run from Ty Glas station in Cardiff until spring 2026, Transport fo…

www.thesun.co.uk

A MAJOR railways station used by 100,000 passengers each year is set to close for 10 months for improvement works.

No trains will run from Ty Glas station in Cardiff until spring 2026, Transport for Wales said.

Improvements will include five new, quieter Class 756 tri-mode trains rolled out on the Croyton and Caerphilly to Penarth lines and a new level crossing at the station.

However, if you open the story, the same image of Euston comes up with the same headline yet the station in question is Tŷ Glas in Wales for works to be taken out for the new trains.



This is likely to scare passengers with AWC, LNWR, Overground, Caledonian Sleeper and Underground as it gives the impression Euston is closed.

Shouldn't the press - and yes, I know it's the gutter press here - be showing the correct images.

 

[Trainman40083]

There is an image on Google News app (below) with the headline "Major railway station used by 100,000 each year set to close for 10 months for upgrade works" which is from The Sun.

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However, if you open the story, the same image of Euston comes up with the same headline yet the station in question is Tŷ Glas in Wales for works to be taken out for the new trains.

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This is likely to scare passengers with AWC, LNWR, Overground, Caledonian Sleeper and Underground as it gives the impression Euston is closed.

Shouldn't the press - and yes, I know it's the gutter press here - be showing the correct images.

All about click bait these days.. The more that click to read the actual article, the more advertisers like it

 

[swt_passenger]

I’m not sure why Google get the grief, they’re only scraping the Sun webpage, which still shows Euston…

 

[MerlinRail 804]

Shouldn't the press - and yes, I know it's the gutter press here - be showing the correct images.

I know it’s not quite the same as blatantly (and probably deliberately) showing completely the wrong thing, but I’ve seen several examples of stuff like “disruption for thousands of Kent commuters today” and then going and plopping in a picture of a Northern 150 deep in the Pennines or something. Obviously most people probably won’t notice but you’d think they’d try to use something at least loosely related!

 

[Trainman40083]

I know it’s not quite the same as blatantly (and probably deliberately) showing completely the wrong thing, but I’ve seen several examples of stuff like “disruption for thousands of Kent commuters today” and then going and plopping in a picture of a Northern 150 deep in the Pennines or something. Obviously most people probably won’t notice but you’d think they’d try to use something at least loosely related!

That assumes they know what is loosely related...

 

[Steddenm]

I’m not sure why Google get the grief, they’re only scraping the Sun webpage, which still shows Euston…

Have edited the title accordingly

 

[py_megapixel]

I'd guess 100,000 passengers per day would be closer to the mark for Euston...

 

[bluenoxid]

Not at all far off at 36.185m in 23/24

 

[Kite159]

'Major station' is pushing the boat considering Ty Glas is a Category F2 station (according to wikipedia). I presume any of the users can simply use Birchgrove station a couple of hundred metres away

 

[m0ffy]

Major station. Ty Glas. It’s misleading garbage all the way down.

 

[Flying Snail]

Purposely misleading people for clicks, exactly what you'd expect from that filthy Murdoch rag with a long and despicable history of publishing trash.

The good folk of Merseyside have it spot on when it comes to that; Don't buy the Sun.

 

[Mojo]

Click bait media websites are really good at this, every week I see on my Facebook page a headline from a Reach plc publication which says something like “all the London Underground lines to be closed this weekend,” obviously intending people to believe that the entire network is closed, however when you open the article it is just a list of the sections of track closed for planned engineering works.

 

[Merseysider]

The good folk of Merseyside have it spot on when it comes to that; Don't buy the Sun.

Seconded

Or any Murdoch grot.

 

[Jimini]

Or any Murdoch grot.

I'm not sure you can put The Sun and the New York Post (traditional "red tops") in the same basket as The Times and the Wall Street Journal. All owned by Uncle Rupert, of course. Very different editorial trajectories and very different staff / opinions.

 

[Andyh82]

It’s not unique to The Sun, all the clickbait sites national and local newspapers do it.

The local news are probably worse, as half the time the site for your local paper is talking about news from about 50 miles away that isn’t even in the area your paper covers

The rule is to give as little information as possible, in the most dramatic terms, so the maximum number of people click on the story

 

[DelW]

This is likely to scare passengers with AWC, LNWR, Overground, Caledonian Sleeper and Underground as it gives the impression Euston is closed.

Shouldn't the press - and yes, I know it's the gutter press here - be showing the correct images.

It's entirely deliberate.

If the headline read "Ty Glas station to close for 10 months", with a picture of Ty Glas, probably a few hundred people would open the article.

By saying mendaciously "Major railway station to close for 10 months" with a picture of Euston, probably hundreds of thousands of Euston users will open it.

It's cynical and deceitful, but that's what newspaper websites have been reduced to. Murdoch's rags, Reach, Daily Mail etc are as bad as each other.

 

[31160]

The Sun, misleading story, surely not I'm off to clutch my pearls

 

[John R]

In a similar vein, a couple of days ago the Daily Fail had an article about a "major" change to BA's drinks service, which actually amounted to a week's trial on three LH routes of replacing bottles of water in economy with paper cups. See if you can spot the slight inconsistency in the picture that accompanied the article...

And whilst on the subject of clickbait, I scream every time I see the word beloved

 

[Horizon22]

Click bait media websites are really good at this, every week I see on my Facebook page a headline from a Reach plc publication which says something like “all the London Underground lines to be closed this weekend,” obviously intending people to believe that the entire network is closed, however when you open the article it is just a list of the sections of track closed for planned engineering works.

Oh definitely. Or “the nearby town that has just been rated #1 at X in the country”.

Queue comments naming the town in question!

 

[ScotGG]

I’m not sure why Google get the grief, they’re only scraping the Sun webpage, which still shows Euston…

Google do also choose which sites to give prominence to and too often it's clickbait rubbish. It's a choice made by the likes of facebook and Google which has been very controversial in recent years given what they choose to push in their apps and sites. It's not an entirely organic process. Decisions are being made.

The worst in the UK are Reach titles (Express, Mirror, local rubbish like MEN, Liverpool Echo, Essex Live or any with Live at the end etc), The Sun, Daily Mail and Newsquest who own hundreds of local sites. All push out clickbait en masse.

 

[Lampshade]

The Sun? Misleading? Noooooooo

 

[yorkie]

It’s not unique to The Sun, all the clickbait sites national and local newspapers do it.

The local news are probably worse, as half the time the site for your local paper is talking about news from about 50 miles away that isn’t even in the area your paper covers

The rule is to give as little information as possible, in the most dramatic terms, so the maximum number of people click on the story

My local paper often uses terms such as "popular"; we had a thread on this a couple of years ago:

Is there any point in 'local press' websites any more?

Here in York the so-called York Press has a terrible reputation for clickbait/cryptic headlines and posting news articles that are not related to York and/or are misleading in relation to the situation in York. For example headlines are typically cryptic, such as: 'Fire in popular York suburb'...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[styles]

It's just garbage now.

I pay for a subscription to the FT, Guardian, and Private Eye. They're not perfect, but I have at least some confidence in their journalism.

Also the stories aren't written one sentence to a paragraph like a primary school child writing their first news story. I know attention spans are decreasing but I would like some 'meat on the bones' when I'm reading a news story.

 

[Brubulus]

It’s not unique to The Sun, all the clickbait sites national and local newspapers do it.

The local news are probably worse, as half the time the site for your local paper is talking about news from about 50 miles away that isn’t even in the area your paper covers

The rule is to give as little information as possible, in the most dramatic terms, so the maximum number of people click on the story

Every couple days there is a national Reach story along the lines of "Major motoring law change to land driver's with £1000 fine and 6 points" and it's reminding you that you can't drive over the speed limit, with a quote from some "expert" reaffirming said point.

 

[styles]

Every couple days there is a national Reach story along the lines of "Major motoring law change to land driver's with £1000 fine and 6 points" and it's reminding you that you can't drive over the speed limit, with a quote from some "expert" reaffirming said point.

Or indeed implying that some wacky petitions.gov.uk petition is pending imminent implementation.

Comes up all the time about motorway limits changing to 80mph. Multiple transport ministers have dismissed the idea and it's frankly not a priority even for those who MPs who agree with it.

 

[Kite159]

Or "Major Road to close for works" with an image of a dual carriageway or other main road, only to say it's a narrow country lane in the middle of nowhere with little impact due to having an alternative route

 

[Trainman40083]

Every couple days there is a national Reach story along the lines of "Major motoring law change to land driver's with £1000 fine and 6 points" and it's reminding you that you can't drive over the speed limit, with a quote from some "expert" reaffirming said point.

Birmingham Live has headlines like that every hour. Britain to be buried in snow bomb. I must have missed it.

 

[sor]

That Google breaking news thing is just useless. It's even worse when it brings up "headlines" from websites that I have never heard of (they sound like random blogs, rather than some newspaper that's unfamilar to me), with headlines that make the Sun look restrained.

One day I'll muster the effort to turn the thing off.

 

[Strathclyder]

The Sun deliberately posting/printing misleading headlines in a cynical clickbaiting effort? That's a new one on me. /s

It's the gutter press, so I shouldn't expect anything else.

 

[DelW]

Another "let's grab any library picture" howler, this time from Yahoo news. It implies that EWS liveried class 66s are hauling trains in er, Pennsylvania.

(Screenshot of news item including picture of class 66)

A trio of passengers narrowly avoided disaster after a Tesla in self-driving mode made a left turn down a set of railroad tracks in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, WFMZ reported. The three were able to safely exit the vehicle before the EV was struck by a train just minutes later.

Original article here:

Tesla hit by train after extreme self-driving mode error: 'Went down the tracks approximately 40-50 feet'

The potentially disastrous mishap came as Tesla began to roll out its first autonomous taxi service in Austin, Texas.

www.yahoo.com