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Deseret News App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Deseret News app received 27 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Deseret News? Can you share your negative thoughts about deseret news?
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✓ Interesting Article ChoicesThe DN seems to have a high proportion of articles that are tawdry e.g. Herb Schriber’s constant coverage of Lori Loughlin and other Hollywood types. Disney gets a lot of coverage as does BYU football (some days last fall there were five different articles in one day), the Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell saga. It’s like the DN is trying to compete with tabloids like the National Enquirer. The other section that get’s more that it’s share of landing-page space is the sports section. I turn to the DN less and less for news..Version: 5.1.3
✓ Delervy problemsWe have terrible delivery problems. Two or three times a week we do not get a paper. Numerous times I ask for the paper to be put on our front porch and it continues to be thrown onto our driveway on the side of our house where we can’t see it. We are an older couple and don’t get around too well. We have such poor service we would stop taking the paper if we did not like getting the Church Section so much. Regardless of our many calls the service continues to be terrible. I would think hard before subscribing to the Deseret News..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Content is great but the app is a painI love the idea of this and the plus content. However, this app makes me INSANE! It constantly logs me out. And I hate that I get weird things happening when I try to download audio books. Please make it more like audible where you are always signed in and the book is there with one click! Even when I press the download all, half the time I get started on the book and it moves me to weird places because something didn’t download..Version: 5.0.2
✓ The Devalued Deseret NewsI find the electronic version of the Deseret News lacking most of the features that I enjoyed in the old hard copy version. I find it very biased towards conservative politics, and very oriented towards opinion instead of actual news reporting. The Sports section no longer provides box scores or league standings for any teams, and it is biased towards BYU. I miss coverage that used to be more balanced, moderate, unbiased and newsworthy. I also miss the daily comics. The Deseret News has lost value in terms of news, information, and entertainment as it has transitioned to its e-version..Version: 5.1.1
✓ Fails at most important functionOverall, the app has a nice new interface. However, it fails at its most important function - providing the news! You can only see the articles that can fit on a single page. So, unless you are able to go through the app every 2-3 hours, you will miss articles. The old app and the web site have the ability to “view more” articles so that you can go back several days. If they fix this problem, I would give the app four stars. It is a little harder to navigate than the old app. For now, I recommend the web site..Version: 5.0.4
✓ Very HelpfulIt's nice to keep up with current events from a Utah perspective..Version: 4.2.9
✓ Struggle with “click-bait” style headlinesOver the past several months, perhaps a year or so, I have noticed a trend in the way headlines are presented. More and more, they look like “click bait,” designed to entice, rather than to fulfill the purpose of a headline. They are now, more often than not, written as a question, such as “Why …,” rather than stating the primary focus of an article. As a result, I find myself reading fewer articles..Version: 5.2.0
✓ No search boxBasically a decent app that gets the job done except there is no search capability. No search box to quickly drill down to the news you’re looking for. What to see the latest covid stats? You have to wander around until you find it. Want to show someone an article you read a few days ago? Forget it. No way to search for it. No other major (or minor) newspaper I’ve looked at does this. They all have a search box..Version: 5.0.18
✓ Same as website but without commentsThe Deseret News app has a clean look and is easy and intuitive to use. The app duplicates the paper’s website with one major difference: it does not have the reader commenting feature. If you are someone who finds a benefit in reading comments on articles or In commenting on them, you might as well skip the app and just read the paper on your web browser instead. The app gives the convenience of one-click (tap) access on your device, but you can get nearly the same ease of access and the exact same content by bookmarking the website on your browser, plus you get the commenting functionality. The paper is conservative in its editorial stance; some of this filters through to the reportorial side, mostly in the choice of stories covered. National news is mostly wire service. Utah and SLC news reporting is in-house. Reporting quality varies. Some is excellent, some just skimmed from the internet..Version: 5.1.1
✓ Still crashing on the loading screen.Still crashing on the loading screen..Version: 2.4.1
✓ Deseret NewsUtah has two main newspapers - The Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune. Historically the Tribune leaned liberal and the News leaned more conservative. I’ve become very disappointed in the editorial direction of the News over the past couple of years as it seems to have blown left with an oversupply of news, stories and opinions pieces that are Woke in nature or seem to overly focus on what’s wrong with America and Utah. People who think America is so bad haven’t likely been to many other countries. Send your editors on a good long road trip to talk to people in other countries. You will likely hear that they are concerned that the world is about to lose its greatest asset - a stable, religious, prosperous USA. In short Deseret News should take a hard look at whether it has anything different and valuable to say in these turbulent times. Let’s have some decent old fashioned journalism and report more of what’s right than what wrong in our nation and in Utah. Trust me, there is much more right than wrong in America. For some reasons many politicians and new media outlets, including the Deseret News, don’t what us to see it that way..Version: 5.1.4
✓ Relied on youI used to rely on Deseret news for true, unbiased journalism. Although that may not have been true 100% of the time, Deseret News demonstrated more integrity than could be found in other news media outlets. But where is the reporting of anything other than telling us whether black lives matter, and how we should think and feel about current issues? Please lose the Buss and use real journalism. And why can’t you report the NEWS - including the good - and people making a difference for good in our community? We have enough doom and gloom, enough demoralization, enough mental illness, enough heartache, enough, enough, enough. Please stop grinding out nose in all your stories and headlines. Please go out and find the good things and report on that as well as the difficult things happening around us. Make for GOOD the headline instead of the bad. At least half of the time. Help lift people. Then you’ll be making a difference..Version: 5.0.18
✓ Too little contentMy major complaint with this app is that the content disappears too quickly. For example, I just went to the sports section. There are only 10 stories available, and the oldest one is only 20 hours old. I should be able to search back several days at least, if not weeks. Another complaint is that there is no link to the comments section and also no link to open the story in a browser. You really should have one or the other, if not both. Also, some stories make reference to charts or graphs, and the chart/graph is not viewable in the app..Version: 5.1.7
✓ Mr & MrsDeseret news does not reflect the values that My parents and I grew up with. The editorial that was anti ACB reflects the DN pro abortion pro big government position. The American Dream of hard work, self reliance, taking care of family etc. is no longer supported by the DN. It has become a smaller version of the NY times I have followed the paper for over 70 years and disappointing in what the paper has become It now appears that right after Elder Oaks called on all Christians to understand minority racial issues, Burgess Owens, says the Deseret News has dropped his adds days before the election. The Deseret News has pushed Ben McAdams even though he supports all pro- abortion candidates. The DN has not condemned abortions which can only conclude they are in favor of late term abortions of viable fetuses. So the DN is racist as well as pro abortion (or to be fair) may not be pro abortion but definitely doesn’t take a stance against late term abortions of viable fetuses.Version: 5.0.18
✓ Logging In/Buyist OpinionsSo first of all, I open the app, keep in mind I have never had problems with it before and it crashes, I didn’t think anything of it and I check my WiFi to go back in. As I try to log in the entire app keeps crashing! I have never had a problem with my WiFi I even checked it multiple times, but this honestly was ridiculous. This started about a week ago as-well so it was kind of annoying to have it not work. As for their buyers opinions they are incredibly bad. You might be asking why I downloaded the app if I knew this was gonna happen and to be honest, I didn’t. I always used the news in the morning just to see what’s going on in the world, but everything at Fox has been escalating really quickly and they are BIG trump supporters. So be that as it may, they are showing pictures and clips of protests (which are SAFE because I have been to a few and everyone has a mask and gloves) saying that all of the black people are incredibly violent which isn’t true at all. Also saying that protesters are killing the earth because we aren’t at home. This honestly isn’t a good news app at the moment, please try looking somewhere else for something better because it’s incredibly sad to see all of this going on..Version: 5.0.17
✓ New update has so few optionsOne of the great things about the Deseret News app is that you could scroll through days of stories. If you’d missed a day or were trying to find an old article, it was ideal. The last update severely limits the numbers of stories you can scroll though. One day last week, it was only stories through the last nine hours. And the last update wasn’t optional on my device. It was update or never receive more news. I’m very disappointed..Version: 5.0.2
✓ Mixed feelingsStill not used to the digital format. Not easy to navigate especially on phone or tablet. Dislike being glued to a screen. Miss the daily comics. Don’t like ads in the middle of the articles. On the plus side it saves paper and doesn’t get soggy in rain or snow. Miss daily TV listings. Difficult to use when multiple users share a single device. So far I prefer old fashioned paper copy..Version: 5.1.1
✓ Quality has gone downThe change of the Deseret News to online has unfortunately caused the quality of the paper to spiral down. I have read the paper for about 45 years so I feel informed to say this. There is a huge redundancy with the same articles appearing in the monthly magazine, weekly printed edition, and daily online editions being in more than one section of the paper. There are more opinion articles than there used to be. The instant analysis of Jazz games is simply opinion and assumes the reader watched the games instead of reporting on the game. I miss box scores and standings of our MLS and NBA teams. I also miss the writing of Amy Donaldson. I think it is very narrow minded to only use local sports. When RSL had three members on the under 24 national team there was not a single article about how they did or there feelings about participating. I understand the need to change because of revenue issues but right now this version is way below expectations. Sincerely, Ann Alley.Version: 5.1.3
✓ Go back to the old oneThis app is immeasurably worse than the previous. It is difficult to navigate, you can’t tap from an article in the app and go to the online version of the article. The online version home page and app home page don’t match up, so you can’t find stories if you want to navigate to them manually online. Once you get to an article online, the comments load S L O W L Y, if at all. On iPhone 11 the navigation bar floats around the article, making it difficult to go back to the home screen. I don’t know what Carnival vending machine they got this out of, but they should get their money back..Version: 5.0.8
✓ Liberal views should not represent the ChurchI have been reading this news for a couple months. Even the non-opinion pieces follow the news I get on ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC without ever telling the facts found on Fox News or other conservative news outlets. I am dismayed that this is my Church pushing opinion that I find sometimes disgraceful. I have enjoyed learning where the word “woke” started, but I believe that is the ONLY useful piece of information gained from reading this news. My heart aches that the journalists are doing this possibly being funded, in part, with my tithing! I hope not..Version: 5.1.3
✓ Article on Kamala HarrisI can’t believe the Deseret News would run an article like this. she is speaking to impress and her daily actions and convictions do not in any way support her dialogue. Known as the most liberal of all senators, she is on the forefront of the planned parenthood fight- wanting abortion at any time in the pregnancy , even after birth. I was first exposed to the kind of person she was during the disgeaceful hearing of Brett Kavanaugh. Again her inflammatory and accusatory style did not highlight her “background of faith. It’s easy to act “good” in an environment that would vote for that kind of behavior but Kamala is anything but the values she strongly professes. Her own father has questioned her integrity..Version: 5.0.18
✓ Doesn't work!Just hangs on the loading page!.Version: 1.2.6
✓ Great layout, but crashes a lot...I really like the design of this app and the layout. My big issue is that it crashes a lot. Clicking on pictures or the home screen often makes it crash. Fix that and it will be golden..Version: 1.2.6
✓ Fake newsDessert news is the same as fake mainstream news. It follows the covid propaganda of WHO.Version: 5.1.3
✓ Mixed reviewGood content. Interesting stories. Unfortunately the app uses completely inappropriate advertising at the bottom. It is very disturbing to be reading articles in the family or faith section and see adds along the bottom for companies/products that encourage inappropriate Internet usage and provide a way to get around blocked sites - including a picture of a woman in lingere. Also adds for highly violet video games. It just doesn't fit well with the supposed integrity of Deseret News. Too bad money talks and a church owned company is willing to compromise standards for advertising money..Version: 2.4.1
✓ New update bad for DeseretThe new version might look pretty but doesn’t deliver what I want from the app. Often when I select “US and World” news I am hoping for news from around the world but for some reason the top articles are often about local high school sports.... I don’t think those are nationally or internationally relevant. It also will only show about 5 or 6 articles back, that’s not helpful when I only am checking the app once or twice a week. Seems like I’m missing a lot. I loved the previous app but the update needs work.Version: 5.0.2
✓ Getting worseBloated, buggy, crashy, and ad-centric..Version: 4.3.9
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