sunday independent

argentum

I bought the Sunday independent today as my normal paper was not for sale.I just don't understand how its called a newspaper.It seems to be just opinion pieces from various people without much actual news.Am i missing something as i believe its the biggest selling paper in the country.The funny thing is that i buy the indo the other six days of the week and think thats a great paper

jdivision

No you're not missing anything, it rarely breaks stories but it has gotten better on that front. Before it never broke anything at all. It's useless D4 heads talking about D4 heads, I genuinely don't know why people down the country buy it and it seems to be largely those people who do buy it.

Lapin

It has a very good sports supplement which is the reason I buy it.

That, and Gene Kerrigan's articles.

irishh_bob

jdivision wrote: »

No you're not missing anything, it rarely breaks stories but it has gotten better on that front. Before it never broke anything at all. It's useless D4 heads talking about D4 heads, I genuinely don't know why people down the country buy it and it seems to be largely those people who do buy it.

1st time ive ever heard the SINDO described as being written by D4 heads for D4 heads , D4 types tend to read the irish times or whatever paper caters to champagne socilists , thats isnt the SINDO

Fuinseog

argentum wrote: »

I bought the Sunday independent today as my normal paper was not for sale.I just don't understand how its called a newspaper.It seems to be just opinion pieces from various people without much actual news.Am i missing something as i believe its the biggest selling paper in the country.The funny thing is that i buy the indo the other six days of the week and think thats a great paper

the indo is aimed largely at women. topics are largely light hearted and a bit of gossip about up and coming Irish VIPS.

without Barry Egan a lot of irish people would be in the dark about how celebrity lawyer gerard keane spent his saturday night.

Sergeant

Lapin wrote: »

Gene Kerrigan's articles.

Gene Kerrigan is one of the main reasons I wouldn't buy the paper, faux anger while talking O'Reilly's money, and availing of the artists exemption for his detective novels. Stones, glasshouses, and all that.

wurzlitzer

Gene Kerrigan is good, a bit OTT and sensationalist exaggerated satire that sometimes does not come off..

does he write detectve novels?

jdivision

irishh_bob wrote: »

1st time ive ever heard the SINDO described as being written by D4 heads for D4 heads , D4 types tend to read the irish times or whatever paper caters to champagne socilists , thats isnt the SINDO

The Sindo is written for fake tanned Ugg wearing airy headed Dort accent people - ie D4 types

Dempo1

This Rag needs to be renamed the SUNDAY SUPERMARKET SUPPLEMENT, Jesus wept i gave up buying this publication primarily when they let the gossip columnist run amok and then with the fall in recruitment & property advertising, every second page was a full spread advertisement from the entire supermarket fraternity. Its got to the stage when i wonder why these companies bother, its a complete Joke of a publication!

irishh_bob

jdivision wrote: »

The Sindo is written for fake tanned Ugg wearing airy headed Dort accent people - ie D4 types

im from rural ireland and its the only paper which represents my views

Fuinseog

irishh_bob wrote: »

im from rural ireland and its the only paper which represents my views

which are?

Rigor Mortis

A few years back Tony O'Reilly said he didnt think that newspapers had much of a future, but rather that 'viewspapers' would take their place. The direction of the Sindo in recent years would bear that out. Its relative success in the market would also suggest that it is weathering the media crisis better than most.
To each their own I guess

jdivision

Fuinseog wrote: »

which are?

Presumably that good looking women belong on page 1 and inside my opinion changes week by week

uvox

Do we have figures on the regional sales of this 'paper'? I find it hard to believe it's a Dublin problem given the economic and social wannabe buffoonery that we've seen outside the Dublin county.

jack presley

The Sunday Independent is now a tabloid in broadsheet form.

I don't know when they change happened but I remember the first time I noticed it was during the Iraq war and there was a major news story and the lead in the Indo was that Bryan Mcfadden had split up with kerry katona. Says it all really.

And what is there obsession with polls and surveys? Do they have the guy who draws pie charts on a retainer or something and want to get value for money?

jdivision

When they're stuck for a story they ring up a few people and write the story. They're not polls as such - they're never done by an MRBI or Red C, they're done by a few of them on a Saturday ringing a few mates.

Getonwithit

The SINDO is some bag of ****e, today they squeezed in their annual homage to Gavin ****ing Friday, has he released a song since 1999 and if he has is it me or him thats wrong not to know??

Smacks of "social" journos doing stories on their mates out of a D4 centred universe. Brendan O Connor is the bloody editor of the magazine, I remember reading a piece he did on baked beans in his previous life as a food writer? The format of the magazine is usually throw a pair of tits on front and fill the inside with double entendre and more tits, is it depressing that this is the best selling sunday paper?

todolist

It's a dreadful publication.Why would one purchase such a paper when one could choose such quality papers such as the Sunday Times,Sunday Telegraph.The Observer?