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Question from an Icelander about media coverage

  • 01-12-2010 9:13am
    #1
    karlth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭


    How come during one of the most pivotal moments in Irish history, the IMF visit and debt increase, hardly anyone seems to be reading about it in the news?

    Independent.ie most read stories today:
    1. It's going snowhere fast as record lows sweep in
    2. Commuters struggle as more snow falls
    3. Man (87) jailed for raping five of his granddaughters
    4. Arctic bite here for week with minus 13C blizzard conditions
    5. Teen fighting for life after fall from horse
    6. Revealed: dentist's shocking murder confessions
    7. Ahern accuses ECB of bailout plan leaks
    8. Boy (14) handcuffed with dad in failed tiger kidnap
    9. Wikileaks controversy: Prince rails at 'corrupt, stupid and backward'
    10. Dermot Ahern to step down at next election

    Two years ago in Iceland everyone went absolutely bonkers. The front pages of every newspaper and every news site were plastered with economy and hardship news for months after our bank crash.

    Why is it different in Ireland? Can anyone explain the difference? :confused:


Comments

  • #2
    uvox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭uvox


    They are keeping up with it. 750K viewers for primetime and so on. I wouldn't place much credence in independent.ie or their analytics.


  • #3
    constitutionus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    theres also the fact its been all over the place for well over a week.

    hell the net was aflame with the deal before the politicans would even admit one was being sought, something that ended up with RTE being publically humiliated by being the last to "know" behind reuters and bloomberg.

    the snow thing is a freak event thats hitting everyone right now, practically everyone either knows someone that fell or got hurt during it or was effected themselves in terms of not being able to get to work. bar earlier on this year we havent seen anything like this since 82

    its an immediate thing that people can relate to now and want to talk and read about.

    be assured onece the budget is announced on tuesday it'll be back to wall to wall coverage on the deal

    to paraphrase an old quote , "it hasnt gone away you know"

    :)


  • #4
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    most people have been expecting it for months so ennui has set in.


  • #5
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    karlth wrote: »
    The front pages of every newspaper and every news site were plastered with economy and hardship news for months after our bank crash.

    Why is it different in Ireland? Can anyone explain the difference? :confused:

    But our bank crash happened 2 years ago aswell - except they never told the truth about what 5hit they were in!


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