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Tabloid Tribune

  • 19-09-2010 6:51pm
    #1
    Lenny Lovett
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    So the new Tabloid Sunday Tribune. Is it a good move or a last ditch attempt to survive.


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  • #2
    IRE60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭IRE60


    It's a move at least and a last ditch attempt to struggle on.


  • #3
    sataction
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    First impressions are that it looks better than the old Tribune, all pages in colour.

    The Tribune was always a kind of Sunday Indo Lite and the relaunch has not changed this.

    It reads like a magazine not a newspaper no late news, last results from Listowel Races not included, no result for Arsenal match that finished at 7pm.

    If they were really serious about changing the circulation around they should have dropped the price to €2.00, this would make it comparable to the Mail on Sunday.

    Hard to justify purchasing the Tribune when you can get The Sunday Times for the same price.


  • #4
    jdivision
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    Tribune way ahead news wise than S Times this week. But sataction, you make a number of good points.

    Am listening to Marian and Batt at the moment. Nauseating.


  • #5
    JustinDee
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    I thought it was a nice change. And doesn't tip out shedloads of flyers/leaflets when its lifted.

    Better and more balanced sunday paper than any of its competitors from Ireland or the UK, in my opinion.

    Can get a tad 'moany' with its editorial content but at least, the content is what matters and not some free DVD/CD or even money (as the Mail have hocked already).


  • #6
    uvox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭uvox


    Similarlities between the Government and the Sunday Tribune: More repackaging, same old faces, clueless leadership, Twitter obsessed, disappearing support, lucky to make it to EOY.

    Seriously, there was a couple of good stories, true enough, but honestly, such utter filler they wrap around it (sorry Una Mullaly but that's basically the same article you've written about Twitter three times).

    The magazine is ludicrously small. And the size of the byline pix? What are they avatars from Twitter accounts, 16 X 16 pixels or something? What is the point of that? I'd love to see the rate card for it. Utterly useless commercial proposition.

    I concur with the analysis in the Phoenix (current issue) - this paper is a gonner.


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  • #7
    JustinDee
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    uvox wrote: »
    Similarlities between the Government and the Sunday Tribune: More repackaging, same old faces, clueless leadership, Twitter obsessed, disappearing support, lucky to make it to EOY
    I know which paper that would be suit just fine.
    You've mentioned Twitter three times in your post, by the way :p
    uvox wrote: »
    The magazine is ludicrously small. And the size of the byline pix? What are they avatars from Twitter accounts, 16 X 16 pixels or something? What is the point of that? I'd love to see the rate card for it. Utterly useless commercial proposition
    Thats a supplement. About as relevant to the content of the newspaper as a free-gift, DVD, CD, scratch card or as the Mail used as a lure, money.
    uvox wrote: »
    I concur with the analysis in the Phoenix (current issue) - this paper is a gonner.
    I can't read that effort any more. Find it a poor attempt at Private Eye. Far too pro-agendaic, repetitive, begrudging for my liking.

    I find the Sunday Independent obssessed with trying to promote Irish 'celebrities' and much ado about nothing.

    Biz post isn't so bad though. Outside of the Tribune or Sunday Business Post, not much choice for Irish (or non-Irish actually) sunday newspapers .


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