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Phoenix Magazine versus Private Eye

  • 10-07-2010 6:21pm
    #1
    crowdflash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    Is it just me, or is one "being informed" by the other for ideas?

    ANy subscribe to both? I have to say I think the Phoenix is not a bad publication, though it ducks some hard questions.... ones about Fianna Fail and RTE for a start.


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  • #2
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    crowdflash wrote: »
    I have to say I think the Phoenix is not a bad publication, though it ducks some hard questions.... ones about Fianna Fail and RTE for a start.

    Err what?


  • #3
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    crowdflash wrote: »
    Is it just me, or is one "being informed" by the other for ideas?

    ANy subscribe to both? I have to say I think the Phoenix is not a bad publication, though it ducks some hard questions.... ones about Fianna Fail and RTE for a start.

    The Phoenix can be good in breaking stories, but is very nationalistic in outlook.

    Don't have much time for a publication that lampoons politics and culture, while remaining stoically silent on the goings on of former republican prisoners, SF election funding and so on.


  • #4
    kpbdublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭kpbdublin


    The Phoenix is a curate's egg, good in parts. It has some decent gossipy stuff, particularly about the meejah. However its craic and codology section tends to be entirely devoid of humour. Private Eye is usually much funnier.
    Through the Troubles, Phoenix peddled a kind of cocktail party republicanism. It ignored the grotesque sectarian excesses of the provos, while labelling anyone who strayed from a narrow nationalist line as an MI5 stooge. While espousing apparently leftie views, it has an unpleasant whiff of misogyny.
    But I still buy it.


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