Irish Media Boycott?

DavidCollins

Guys, I think we should start a media boycott.

It's become rediculous. Every Irish media outlett, newspaper, radio station news and current affairs TV programs are reinforcing the idea of depression, of hoplessness, of negativity upon negativity.

There is a marked lack of any attempt to be positive, to try to find solutions to problems, to be proactive about how we move from here. We need these things, we need reporting on opportunities and strategies

Well the media aren't doing this, and we need to force them.

Many people I know and I are already turning off the radio and news outlets. We are sick of the negativity and depressive slant. It doesn't help us, it doesn't improve things, it's just forcing us into a slump.
I'm sure that there are others who are doing the same thing.

I say we turn this into a movement, a full out boycott of the media until they change their tune to become more positive.

Now some of you will probably think "Isn't this manipulating the media? Isn't this just trying to force them to give a different slant on their reporting?" The truth is that the media is already giving a slant on everything they're reporting, we're just trying to force it in the other direction.

If we spread word of this movement, through blogs and social media and through friends in the real world and maybe unify under some website with maybe an online petition to show support, we can send a message that the Irish people are sick of the way the media is portraying the situation in Ireland. That we believe however bad things may be, optimism and positivity are vital for the future of our country.

Maybe through this, we can turn things around and get people looking more positively to the future. We can show we as a people are not willing to buckle to ideas of gloom and visions of bleak future and instead show that we ourselves forge the future ahead of us.

A boycott would send this message to the media of Ireland.

It could change moods, change tones across the entire country of Ireland, and I think that's something worth fighting for.

jdivision

The slump is happening, it needs to be reported. What do you want people to do? Ignore it's happening? That's what brought us here in the first place. That said if you're finding negativity then why not change the paper you usually read. Plenty of newspapers are trying to dedicate some coverage to positive stories.

mailforkev

People will always want to get their Irish news somewhere though. Unfortunately, shit does happen and it is better to report it than pretend everything is a-okay

Newspapers are already in the toilet, I generally listen to Newstalk and read the Irish Times online, I've never bought a physical newspaper Mon-Sat, and I'm 31.

As for a boycott, I already have one in place for anything to do with INM and all the tabloids, as I feel like keeping my braincells intact for as long as I can.

mikemac

I used to download the Liveline podcasts.
Lots of different topics, lots of variety.
I struggle not to get depressed after listening to them
Every story seems like Ireland's greatest disaster

And the newspapers aren't much better.

I don't buy national papers, I buy our local weekly one.

pog it

But the news outlets are supposed to reflect reality. And the reality is grim! I'm not being flippant but either avoid the bad stuff, by turning a page, turning off a news item, or get yourself positive by reading self help books or whatever it takes.

The media are doing a good job.

sundaypapers

This call for a boycott sounds more like the FF/GP Your Country Your Call / Big Ideas / National Government crap.

This isn't a totalitarian state. You are free to address your concerns to the media. Are you seriously suggesting people are angry and depressed for no reason?

Or are you actually Diarmuid Gavin?