Potentially the worst article ewver written

Dwights Alright

I read this article today and could not get over the complete ignorance and self righteousness of it. I can't understand how this talentless hack actually has a job with a national newspaper.. or a job at all for that matter http://www.independent.ie/national-news/on-just-euro196-a-week-it-hurts-to-part-with-the-pennies-2271802.html

mikemac

Yep, discussed already by another poster who already called it the worst article ever.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055979867

Poor Alison, people are registering on boards and the first thing they do is trash the article, even if it's deserved

Podgoricka

cant see a problem shopping in aldi!! he is a bit ignorant about it and livig on the dole in fairness!! OTT i might even say!

Dwights Alright

sorry, didn't realise it had already been discussed..just thought it was awful..

mikemac

You're grand
It truely is a terrible article

Standard fare from this "journalist"

A junior Cert student would do better

pog it

Well if there's a market for Amy Hubermann's Junior Cert level of English chick lit, there must be a market for this type of journalism too. The sindo sells over 900,000 copies a week ....

Corsendonk

Well most seem to use the independent group as a springboard to writing bad chicklit! Sickening how self absorbed most of there writers appear to be.

MrStuffins

There was a MASSIVE thread on her in AH that got deleted.

She really is the hackiest of hacky hacks!

PeterIanStaker

Its preachy incoherent braying drivel, so it ticks the boxes and conforms to the written lobotomy that characterises Sindoism.

joseph brand

Firstly, 'I' remember from English class in school, that 'I' should avoid using 'I' too often, even though 'I' found it near impossible, . . . so 'I' did.

Secondly, who is this article for? People on welfare are not going to be able to relate to this middle class person's patronising tone. Never mind she only did it for a week, try 10 months or more. Maybe it'll make the middle class feel happier in their 4 bed 8 bathroom houses.

Either way, it does smell of leaving cert level writing.

PS: Does anyone else think that sounds like a very busy week? If I'm trying to save money, I'll probably stay at home more often than go out, makes sense.

She bought an apartment for 525K. (just found this via google, I could smell the middle class off her writing)

http://www.politics.ie/economy/80957-alison-o-riordan-sindo.html

mathepac

pog it wrote: »

... The sindo sells over 900,000 copies a week ....

Their circulation figures are every bit as good as their standards of journalists / journalism. The 900,000 pw figure includes freebies given out in places like Mother Hubbard's etc.

pog it

mathepac wrote: »

Their circulation figures are every bit as good as their standards of journalists / journalism. The 900,000 pw figure includes freebies given out in places like Mother Hubbard's etc.

Cheers for that. Do you know did they include those freebies for the Sunday Times at all and compare like with like?

My father gets it for the Sport section every week - maybe they are selling copies largely due to that? And because of Shane Ross?

speedboatchase

'ewver written'

Ash.J.Williams

Somewhere along the progression of the previous threads, it was suggested that perhaps there is a possibility, that she may not be the ****e journalist we thought, but actually a fictional character along the lines of ross o carrol kelly!!

Dwights Alright

speedboatchase wrote: »

'ewver written'

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point that out. New to boards and didn't know how to change it.

There was just so much wrong with this article. It doesn't serve a purpose at all as she seems to have ignored the fact that people who live on the dole also have to pay their bills, mortgage, rent etc. Give me or anyone 196euro for the week with no bills to pay and I'm pretty sure you could have a great time, as she sounded like she had.

Just really annoys me that this type of self righteous drivil can be printed in a national newspaper, by what can only be described as a complete and utter hack. Or as Mr Stuffins so perfectly put it "hackiest of hacky hacks"..

Rant over..

speedboatchase

Here's another 'pretend to be poor' article from herself. 'Alluminous Nike runners' anyone?

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/the-humiliation-of-begging-for-a-day-on-dublins-mean-streets-2200548.html

Dwights Alright

Dwights Alright wrote: »

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point that out. New to boards and didn't know how to change it.

There was just so much wrong with this article. It doesn't serve a purpose at all as she seems to have ignored the fact that people who live on the dole also have to pay their bills, mortgage, rent etc. Give me or anyone 196euro for the week with no bills to pay and I'm pretty sure you could have a great time, as she sounded like she had.

I found it incredibly sad that this woman had 196 euro to spend on food, drink, travel and leisure activities and genuinely thought it was a struggle. She had to ditch the fancy gym membership and jog on the pavement, oh my :rolleyes: She had to leave the car at home and take the bus. Hard life! :rolleyes: What planet is she on? Instead of realising that she spends far too much money on pointless crap and lives way beyond her means, she genuinely felt like a pauper 'only' having 196 euro a week. It's really quite pathetic that someone thinks making a coffee in your luxury apartment instead of getting Starbucks every day is really 'slumming it'.

WesternNight

She sounds like one of those women I can't stand.

"The whole lycra-clad herd of them" - jogging in the open air too good for you, eh?

Yeah, shockingly poor.

Obnoxious twaddle indeed, although I wonder with such hysterical phrases as "the era of gulping down Cosmopolitans was long gone" if this was purely tongue-in-cheek or just gormless ignorance. The quality barometer in the Independent has descended to the gutter in recent years so this shouldn't be greeted as an alarming surprise. I'll defer to the parish newsletter for a delicately poised and objective worldview :pac:

theteal

I read the thread title and I knew it would be poor wee Alison again...she makes mention of her wise investment in this article too! She has to be a fictional comic strip character, nobody could seriously be writing this stuff.

sundaypapers

Contender:

I am not on the Earth to be bullied by women journalists who envy my freedom, my courage, my talent and my arse



- Sinead O'Connor

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/i-am-not-on-the-earth-to-be-bullied-by-women-journalists-who-envy-my-freedom-my-courage-my-talent-and-my-arse-2297876.html

Ash.J.Williams

check this out:
Here is a quote from one of alisons interviewees:

"We were living beyond our means in Marbella," a wife of a top banker tells me as she sits in the corner of Patrick's 19th hole pub on the strip. "My husband was an executive hotshot who used to do deals on the golf courses with his Irish clients and later seal the deals over large brandies in Sinatra's Bar in the port. He has been forced to throw that extravagant lifestyle out the window, along with the expensive bubbly and foie gras."

Here are her own words from another article:

I was invisible to those high-powered men in pin-stripe suits with their suit jackets thrown over their shoulders in the blistering heat and a mobile phone up to their ear finalising a deal.

partridge2k

I read that 'article' a few times just to make sure I wasn't imagining things. It's unbelievable. Sindo is great for these offerings. If you want to get angry buy it. It's second only to John Waters' piece on Katy French's death, which was classic hysteria.