The Record

Mark200

Wasn't one of the SU President candidates saying it should be scrapped? Or maybe it was Trinity News? Either way... I just picked up The Record there and was just wondering why don't they have paid advertisements? Surely it'd help fund the thing? And I'm sure there's plenty of companies out there who want to target college students.... although having a look through it, and on page 13 they couldn't even photoshop in their 'journalists' pictures properly ... and on page 16 you have to look very closely at the "before Earth Hour" and "during Earth Hour" pictures to actually see a difference, maybe they might want to work on a few things first....

And as well as that, they have more journalists wanting to talk about Obama than about Irish politics...

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

You've only just discovered The Record is ****ty? You must be new here

I believe it was Daniel Curry who said it should be scrapped

EGaffney

It's an appalling rag and I can't see how it manages to turn a profit. If it doesn't, it ought to be done away with for the good of Trinity student media as a whole.

Mark200

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote: »

You've only just discovered The Record is ****ty? You must be new here

I believe it was Daniel Curry who said it should be scrapped

Well I was never motivated to read it after all I read on here

Oh and I just noticed they actually do have paid advertisements! I didn't notice earlier because I don't think i got that far into the paper....

Scarinae

There are the usual spelling and punctuation errors - for example on page 13 we get "a few million people on a small island, on a small plant in a galaxy in one small corner of the entire Universe" - I know that kind of thing is easy to miss when you're in a rush though, especially since spellcheck wouldn't pick up on it.

However, there are other places where it is painfully obvious that nobody re-read the article before it was printed - see the article about films on page 28, in the main text and the highlighted quotation we get "this is another sign of Hollywood scraping the bottle of the creative barrel" (er, don't you mean bottom of the barrel?!) or the very confusing sentence "The Wolfman is a remake of 1941 starts Benicio del Toro" (???) This kind of mistake is incredibly clumsy, and it is a shame because some of the articles aren't half bad but people get put off by the bad editing.

Also, how obvious is it that people from the Comedy Soc are involved with The Record? Articles about society stuff always go on and on about them. There is an article in this issue called 'Comedy Soc comes out on top in society survey', which has a long paragraph about the Comedy Soc and their various events along with a quotation from one of their officers, while other societies brought up in the survey have only vague descriptions (there is no author listed) This isn't the first time I have noticed it either, I remember the article about Freshers' week was very obviously written by a Comedy Soc person as well, cos they kept going on about it.

Karlusss

Not a major fan of the Record as a whole. Would have supported its scrappage. I think if it wants to have a valid existence it needs to a) get its house in order, sub-editing-wise, and b) attempt to find some sort of identity of its own so it doesn't just come off as a sub-par Trinity News.

Like maybe relaunch as a tabloid.

Pet

Essentially,

-If you're a keen writer with an interest in quality journalism, write for the Trinity News.

-If you're a talentless hack who enjoys throwing together badly-written, self-aggrandising muck to be published in a rag read only by your fellow hacks, the Record's your choice.

shay_562

Fishie wrote:

Also, how obvious is it that people from the Comedy Soc are involved with The Record? Articles about society stuff always go on and on about them. There is an article in this issue called 'Comedy Soc comes out on top in society survey', which has a long paragraph about the Comedy Soc and their various events along with a quotation from one of their officers, while other societies brought up in the survey have only vague descriptions (there is no author listed) This isn't the first time I have noticed it either, I remember the article about Freshers' week was very obviously written by a Comedy Soc person as well, cos they kept going on about it.

Well, the Record is SU propaganda, and Comedy Soc is full of SU-heads, so I guess it extends to them too. The survey article was ridiculous though - they only collected the opinions of 60 people? In a college of 15,000? Seriously, with €5 worth of lollipops and an hour in the middle of the arts block you could triple the size of that survey at least. It'd still be statistically bollox, but it might look marginally less rigged and shambolic.