Worst Newspapers

darkman2

Any opinions on what the worst newspaper is. I think Britains 'Sun' newspaper is the worst. I mean youd have to question the IQ of some of the readers of this rag when the most important story is some celebrity pratts love life. Equally that anti Irish rag, the Sunday Ido, is probrably up there aswell.:mad:

Davei141

The star, about a million (crap) stories a page and 20 words written on each one.

melekalikimaka

the herld, its just the times for toddlers, turning more tabloid every day

Vulpiner

There are a few good columists in the Sunday Independent. Dont knock them all.

On my list:
The Star, Sun, News of the World , Ireland on Sunday et al.

Paul Williams is about the only good thing in the Sunday World.

The only thing worth reading really is the Sunday Times. Best value for money.

whiskeyman

You didnt state what type of content they're "worst" at.
If you want thrashy celeb gossip and sport stories, the tabloids are excellent.
The Irish Times is the "worst" for such content.

Papers are there to feed the market for different sections and audiences.
If anything, this is just a tabloid bashing thread...

There's a News/Media forum too ya know...

RoundyMooney

Vulpiner wrote:

There are a few good columists in the Sunday Independent. Dont knock them all.

Agreed.

The Star/Sunday World are moronic rags. Outdated file pictures, sensationalist crap, articles as brief as they are misleading.

The Sun has mild entertainment value, and st least makes no pretense for what it is (bar the ridiculous "Oirish Sun" moniker).

The Examiner is overpriced, although well put together, but has never been accepted as a truly nationwide newspaper, understandably so for the most part.

Ireland on Sunday is muck...

Lisapeep

The Daily Mail during "Big Brother" season is unreal! No other news seems to happen in Daily Mail land at this time of year, or at least if it does, they clearly don't count it as being as important as knowing how many showers Science has had in the week or how Saskia's feeling got hurt the other morning!

youcancallmeal

Close call between the sun and star, both absolute rags imo.

WallysWorld

Vulpiner wrote:

The only thing worth reading really is the Sunday Times. Best value for money.

Its a reasonably good paper , dont know about value for money though as in my case i only ever read the same few sections, driving, magazine, sport, main section, occasionaly the review and I sometimes skip the sport as Stephen Jones rugby coverage can be unbearable at times! The rest get chucked.

Tabloids can be unbelievable at times, important things can be happening in this country and what do you get on the front page? some 'celebrity' shaggin some other 'celebrity' with a 5 page spread on it inside:mad:

BendiBus

I've voted the Irish Independent because it pretends to be a proper paper but some of the content is truly appalling. At least nobody believes the nonsense published in the redtops. The same can't be said of the Indo.

Chucky the tree

The Sunday World, christ its brutal.

RoundyMooney

Lisapeep wrote:

The Daily Mail during "Big Brother" season is unreal! No other news seems to happen in Daily Mail land at this time of year, or at least if it does, they clearly don't count it as being as important as knowing how many showers Science has had in the week or how Saskia's feeling got hurt the other morning!

I remember when the Mail was a real newspaper, and only wrote about such things as Julie Burchill's opinions on the "working class" and Princess Di's death affecting house prices*





* This may be a satirical comment.

WallysWorld

double post apologies

Idgeitman

The irish Sun, pure tripe!

darkman2

RoundyMooney wrote:

I remember when the Mail was a real newspaper, and only wrote about such things as Julie Burchill's opinions on the "working class" and Princess Di's death affecting house prices*





* This may be a satirical comment.

The Daily Mail was also the most sectarian paper in Britain, particularly against the Irish, which is Ironic considering theyve come in here now to make money.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Chucky the tree wrote:

The Sunday World, christ its brutal.

Seconded. It's not even consistant. Fr Brian Thingy reporting from Catholic ireland three pages away from 1500-sex line numbers.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

The Herald AM especially since it's mingin desktop publishing makeover, but its free so i suppose i can't really complain too much
But it really is a load of bollicks

melekalikimaka

sean_keevey wrote:

The Herald AM especially since it's mingin desktop publishing makeover, but its free so i suppose i can't really complain too much
But it really is a load of bollicks

oh man i don't even classify that as a paper, i use it on the floor of buses so my bag doesnt get wet

Agamemnon

Ireland On Sunday is the worst. It pretends to be a quality newspaper but it's full of drivel, its columnists are freaks and I wouldn't wipe my dog's arse with it.

The Sun might be a comic but it's got plenty of pictures of good-looking chicks in it and sometimes that's all a man needs to see while eating his Weetabix of a cold winter morn.

melekalikimaka

ya can always tell a sun reader on a bus. no matter what paper they spin it to page 3, panic at no boobies and flip to the back, don't see wayne rooney(at this points there is a quick glance round for a hidden camers, convinced its a joke of some sort). finally opens it up, if its the indo or times, a quizical look and its dropped, mirror/star, a relieved sigh

phantom_lord

I can't stand any paper except the irish times now. The indo has just become a complete rag paper...and as for the rest....

nlgbbbblth

melekalikimaka wrote:

ya can always tell a sun reader on a bus. no matter what paper they spin it to page 3, panic at no boobies and flip to the back, don't see wayne rooney(at this points there is a quick glance round for a hidden camers, convinced its a joke of some sort). finally opens it up, if its the indo or times, a quizical look and its dropped, mirror/star, a relieved sigh

Ha!

I know exactly what you mean.

F*cking braindead loser scum

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Not exactly a thumbs-up for the journalistic trade...!

Oriel

Who the FCUK voted for Britain's The Times?
****ing morons.

Dave!

The Herald... absolutely appalling.

ctrl-alt-delete

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Ha!

I know exactly what you mean.

F*cking braindead loser scum

Make you wonder alright, wonder what you voted for

Ruu_Old

I hate the daily mirror

dr zoidberg

phantom_lord wrote:

I can't stand any paper except the irish times now. The indo has just become a complete rag paper...and as for the rest....

Yeah, it's sad that there's only one decent newspaper on the market. The Indo is an absolute rag, as is the Herald.

blu_sonic

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Ha!

I know exactly what you mean.

F*cking braindead loser scum

easy there defining people by their choosen media little OTT.

The Herag gets my vote, its trash

drunkdaz

has to be the indo, always jumping on the bandwagon and hyping things up (eg cocaine use, bebo speeding, tony o reilly etc etc) despite claiming to be a quality broadsheet. At least you expect it from the tabloids

mikedragon32

I've voted for the Sindo.

It's pure rubbish. It lives on its reputation of years ago and is no longer what I would consider a newspaper.

IMHO it's nothing better than a poor quality weekly edition of VIP or similar.

catholicireland

Sunday Indo - west-brit, toffy-nosed prod paper, as described by them not me!!

Peteee

I voted the Sun but really that has no illusions as to what it is, and is mildly entertaining.

I *should* have voted the Independent/Sunday Independent, pure rubbish masquerading as a quality newspaper. What worse is that has much higher readership then the Times.

Sunday Times is easily the best paper, great value for money too.

Lambsbread

The Irish Times and the Sunday Times are the only papers i would buy. The red-tops are just toilet paper.

On an aside, I have stopped watching sky news ever since they have been sponsored by The Sun. What a load of complete sh ite. Sky news has gone down big time in the over the past five years.

Peteee

Lambsbread wrote:

The Irish Times and the Sunday Times are the only papers i would buy. The red-tops are just toilet paper.

I have stopped watching sky news ever since they have been sponsored by The Sun. What a load of complete sh ite. Sky news has gone down big time in the over the past five years.

The Sun and Sky News are run by the same company.

Of course, the Sunday Times is also owned by said company. Funny world really.

Stephen

Ireland on Sunday is just a Sunday edition of the Oirish Daily Mail, so its clear what a ball of sh1te that is.

I found it so hard to choose between the mail and the sun, but eventually the sun won. I agree with the opinions expressed here about the Sunday Independent too, its full of 'socialite' twats that the world would be better off without.

i am a lady

darkman2 wrote:

Any opinions on what the worst newspaper is. I think Britains 'Sun' newspaper is the worst. I mean youd have to question the IQ of some of the readers of this rag when the most important story is some celebrity pratts love life. Equally that anti Irish rag, the Sunday Ido, is probrably up there aswell.:mad:

Hmm, you left off the one that offends me the most in terms of poor grammar, spelling, and general shoddy penmanship: The Sunday World. I have voted for The Evening Herald as a close second, though I also hate The Sunday Independent for being a tabloid in broadsheet's clothing.

Lambsbread

Peteee wrote:

The Sun and Sky News are run by the same company.

Of course, the Sunday Times is also owned by said company. Funny world really.

I know, but i don't like getting The Sun rammed down my throat while watching news on telly.

Wertz

Definitely the Star...at the least the Sun has a pair of tits...

nlgbbbblth

ctrl-alt-delete wrote:

Make you wonder alright, wonder what you voted for

I voted for The Sun.
The Irish Times and The Guardian are the best daily newspapers around in my opinion.

nlgbbbblth

catholicireland wrote:

Sunday Indo - west-brit, toffy-nosed prod paper, as described by them not me!!

Do have a problem with protestants?
Your username is not the nicest.

Equating protestants with 'west Brits' is a particularly shallow and inaccurate generalisation principally made by ignorant and sectarian idiots.
And don't get me started on your f*cking signature.

Some famous Irish protestants.

- Charles Parnell
- Wolfe Tone
- Robert Emmet
- Henry Grattan
- Sean O'Casey
- WB Yeats
- JM Synge
- Samuel Beckett

nlgbbbblth

Peteee wrote:

I voted the Sun but really that has no illusions as to what it is, and is mildly entertaining.

Sunday Times is easily the best paper, great value for money too.
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Rubbish. The Sun is the worst. The fact that it has 'no illusions' etc makes no difference. Westlife have 'no illusions' etc and are still utter crap.

The Observer is far better than The Sunday Times in my opinion.

Devious

Sunday Independent. Why? Three words; Gavin Lambe Murphy.

catholicireland

Do have a problem with protestants?

No.

Your username is not the nicest.

At least its better then yours!:D


What I said is the description they made of themselves. If you read the paper last week on the front page you will see in the first paragraph how they describe themselves. I did not link prods with west-brits, the indo did!

So get down off your high horse, we dont care about famous irish prods.

Dirk Gently

88.4% of Irish people are Roman Catholic :rolleyes:

Out of which only .4% are practicing Catholics.*

*73% of all statistics are made up on the spot

Peteee

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Rubbish. The Sun is the worst. The fact that it has 'no illusions' etc makes no difference. Westlife have 'no illusions' etc and are still utter crap.

The Observer is far better than The Sunday Times in my opinion.

No, The Sun is crap and it knows its crap.

The Independent has illusions of grandeur when in fact is just crap as well. Thats far worse then what the sun is.

latenia

My vote goes to the Irish Times; a tedious mish-mash of wire-service reports, clunky Dail/Court/Tribunal 'highlights', features whose subject matter few give a sh1te about and what seems to be the entire sports section of the Guardian.
To top this all off we have the editorial and letters section - a curious mixture of the banal, pretentious, and holier-than-thou preaching from people who never got over student politics.
Their supplements are nothing more than revenue-spinning adverstising filler which they seem to think are an actual bonus for the reader.

Inside today-2 part property supplement

Gee thanks- a load of ads for gaffs I can't afford; you're really spoiling us.

For this they charge €1.60-****.

nlgbbbblth

Peteee wrote:

No, The Sun is crap and it knows its crap.

How does The Sun know it's crap?

Does it proclaim it on the pages?

From my experience most people who buy The Sun think it's ok:

'the sport is good' (boll*cks - there are far better writers for other newspapers)
'broadsheets are boring'
'loadsa gossip'

dead air

The (British) Daily Mail. An absolute rag of paper, no worth whatsoever. OK, that's a little strong, It's just that I personally detest it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

nlgbbbblth wrote:

How does The Sun know it's crap?

Does it proclaim it on the pages?

From my experience most people who buy The Sun think it's ok:

'the sport is good' (boll*cks - there are far better writers for other newspapers)
'broadsheets are boring'
'loadsa gossip'

All other ways of saying 'I'm ignorant and happy about it'. It's like masturbating... only embarrassing if people see you doing it in public.

arbeitsscheuer

Oddly, you missed out on the worst newspaper of all in that Poll:

The Daily Telegraph.

Bigoted, ridiculously Conservative, bafflingly pompous journalism. Altho, to be fair, it's often worth a read purely to see what the enemy's thinking...

EDIT: Just in case ppl equate "enemy" with English, I should point out that I'm English. I meant "enemy" as in neo-con fascist nitwits having a go at whatever ethnic minority might have offended them today.