Todays Sunday Tribune

mike65

Two stories, one taking up about two-thirds of the page which was about the mother and child who jumped from the Cliffs of Moher and the other was report from the funeral of Limerick suicide victim. There is a two spread spread inside on the general subject however the leader does'nt touch on the issue - so its not a "suicide special edition".

Clearly the subject is worth covering but it just struck me that it must have been a quiet hard news weekend in the eyes of the paper to lead with such stories and something I'd associate with a womans magazine or middle market paper.

Mike.

FlutterinBantam

Is the Tribune not a middle market paper??

DMC

Another patented Turbine identity crisis, it still has to figure out what type of paper it wants to be.

Tom Dunne

I stopped reading the Tribune a year or two ago after an overload of borderline tabloid stories.

For a moment this morning, I actually considered buying it with my other Sunday papers, glad I didn't.

mike65

Flutterin, as DMC notes the paper does'nt know what it is never mind the rest of us! Bearing in mind the domestic competition it should be the class leader but you can see its not got the resources to be an Irish Observer/Sunday Times, too many opinion columns not enough news.

Mike.

Dundalk Daily

The journalists or the editor are not given enough flexibity by Mick Roche and in my opinion its him and the Indo or Aindo influence that will finish off what was a great paper.

mike65

Okay I've got todays edition on my lap and the main section of 36 pages contains the following

14 pages of sport
11.5 pages of "features" some very soft
2 pages of actual NEWS reporting at most.
2 pages of Opinion Columns
1 page of editorial/letters
1 page of odds and sods (weather,cartoons etc)

The rest is advertising.

I think I'll try something else next week.

Mike.

mike65

My sister saw todays copy and remarked without any prompting from me - "its a bit tabloidy is'nt it?" Yep.

Mike.