Michaela Harte biscuit story on Irish Independent

speedboatchase

"TRAGIC Michaela Harte once revealed how she would never drink a cup of tea without having a biscuit to eat with it."

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/she-never-had-tea-without-a-biscuit-2495855.html

I wish I was making this up! I realise the Irish press likes to piggyback on stories like these and milk them (with a bit of tea, probably a biscuit) for all they're worth, but surely this is a new low?

mike65

I think that's there to make her more human or something "gosh I have busciuts in tea as well, we're so alike. I feel her parents pain all the more now" and so on.

steelcityblues

Reads like something from The Onion or the Day Today.

The mainstream media continues to parody itself.

The Dagda

That story is just embarrassing

Run_to_da_hills

According to another report the buscuits were an Irish brand they brought with them.

uvox

Similar story in the Irish Daily Mail. Along with a picture in case you're unsure what a packet of biscuits looks like.

And I thought broadsheet.ie was desperate for content....

Lapin

FFS

Let the family grieve and let the girl rest.

uvox

Couldn't agree more. Enough already.

Skid

speedboatchase wrote: »

"TRAGIC Michaela Harte once revealed how she would never drink a cup of tea without having a biscuit to eat with it."

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/she-never-had-tea-without-a-biscuit-2495855.html

I wish I was making this up! I realise the Irish press likes to piggyback on stories like these and milk them (with a bit of tea, probably a biscuit) for all they're worth, but surely this is a new low?

That's unbelievable.

It stinks of 'we need to fill up 4 pages about this death, whether we've any material or not'

Oh_Noes

I had to do a double take on the URL of that story.

It's very bizarre.

telekon

Congratulations to Anita Guiders who has now joined the ranks of Niamh Horan, Alison O'Riordan and Barry Egan as the greatest purveyors of sh*tty Irish journalism.

Oh look, they all work for the Independent...who would have thought! :rolleyes:

coylemj

Journalist Shane Hegarty yesterday tweeted:

There must be ways to make Nicola Tallant's Sunday World 'Murder in Paradise' ad more salacious. But I can't think of any.


Has anyone seen this ad?

Oh_Noes

coylemj wrote: »

Journalist Shane Hegarty yesterday tweeted:

There must be ways to make Nicola Tallant's Sunday World 'Murder in Paradise' ad more salacious. But I can't think of any.


Has anyone seen this ad?

I heard it on the radio. Not sure if it's being advertised on television but you never know with the Sunday World.

goose2005

But what spoon did she stir her tea with?

jack presley

So which Sunday paper's going to be the most insensitive tomorrow?

psycho-hope

in fairness does it matter the poor girl has lost her life and left her family and friends devasted, personally i think there should be a media ban on stuff like this, yes report about the facts but other wise let the poor girl rest in peace and let her family and friends grieve in peace.

murpho999

Haven't seen any TV ads, but have heard radio ads from Sunday World stating to reveal "Maritius' Dark Side" and Sunday Tribune are going to reveal "the question on everyone's lips.....is the killer still out there".

Find both ads equally disgusting.

A murder like this does not represent a country.

A Swiss teenager was murdered here a couple of years ago and it does not mean that Ireland has a dark side.

No one I have met in the last few days is wondering if the killer is still out there, especially since people have been arrested for the murder.

I find it disgusting that both papers are trying to make profit out of a family tragedy before victim is even buried!

starbelgrade

The one thing that always struck me, she always called Mickey 'daddy', never Mickey,"

It's amazing what passes for journalism these days.

How is the Sindo still going?

Troll central.

telekon

starbelgrade wrote: »

It's amazing what passes for journalism these days.

How is the Sindo still going?

Troll central.

257,000 readers can't be wrong. :mad:

Probably the same idiots that vote FF no matter what, the bane of this country.

Run_to_da_hills

According to Daily Mail today, the biscuits were more than likely Rich Tea which were brought all the way from Ireland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347599/Bride-Micheala-Harte-murdered-honeymoon-just-rupees.html

MalteseBarry

I've tried to work out why this has become such a big story. Tragic as it is for her family and friends, it's of little interest to me as a news story. I don't have tv so have been spared the tv-fest this has undoubtedly become, but I do read newspapers and listed to the radio, and was amazed to hear RTE had a reporter outside the actual hotel to see and report on the actual coffin coming out of the actual hotel. Why?

As soon as I hear this being reported I hit the off button, and avoid reading it in the papers.

Does anyone have any clue as to why its so all consuming for the news organisations?

tipptom

Get aload of the story by suzanne breen in the tribune yesterday about the farmer with the thai bride who they wouldnt let back in to N I after she went home and he is complaining that he needs her as the calving season is coming up and shes a great little girl around the farm.

mike65

MalteseBarry wrote: »

Does anyone have any clue as to why its so all consuming for the news organisations?

Its another example of the tabloidisation of media generally, in which everything is about "cheap" emotion, news versed in terms of the person rather than the event hence the obsession with survivors and victims and the family of victims.

MalteseBarry

mike65 wrote: »

Its another example of the tabloidisation of media generally, in which everything is about "cheap" emotion, news versed in terms of the person rather than the event hence the obsession with survivors and victims and the family of victims.

Perhaps it's just another adjunct of the celebrity culture, where the only qualification for many celebrities is to be well known for being well known. I keep thinking we will all wake up and realise that the so called celebrity culture is pointless and infantile, and makes idiots of those who fawn on anyone who the glossy magazines, and nowadays mainstream media, tell them are celebrities.

I opt out by not having tv, and by selecting which news media I read or listen to.

kevin99

Agree with the media milking the Harte funeral.
But I am intrigued why the President and her husband attended her funeral.
The reason I am intrigued is because earlier that week, a young mother was apparently summarily executed in a house in Limerick.
I didn't hear nor read the President's condemnation of tha brutal murder 120miles away from her Phoenix Park house, yet she issued a statement about the brutal murder of Michaela Harte and offered the nation's sympathies.
Why?
Can somebody explain why she went to one funeral and not to the other?
Or was it the GAA connection and the media hysteria that persuaded her?
Of course, the women in Limerick was that in Limerick.

Topper Harley01

It really was scraping the bottom of the barrel.

And then today, we have this sort of trash in the paper-

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/lady-gaga-hatches-from-egg-for-grammys-2539637.html


Seriously? Of all the things to fill a paper, this is the best they could find? That's why I stopped buying the Indo a long time ago. On the plus side, they will be lucky to last another year if they keep this crap up.

kevin99

The Indo is basically the Star of the broadsheets.

shotgun mike

Topper Harley01 wrote: »

It really was scraping the bottom of the barrel.

And then today, we have this sort of trash in the paper-

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/lady-gaga-hatches-from-egg-for-grammys-2539637.html


Seriously? Of all the things to fill a paper, this is the best they could find? That's why I stopped buying the Indo a long time ago. On the plus side, they will be lucky to last another year if they keep this crap up.

Every paper in the country and the majority of papers across the world covered both the grammys and lady gagas entrance... what exactly is your point? how is the indos so bad? and how will teh biggest-selling newspaper in ireland be lucky to last a year over a relatively by-the-book account of the grammys (compared to some of their more 'trashy' articles'?

Topper Harley01

shotgun mike wrote: »

Every paper in the country and the majority of papers across the world covered both the grammys and lady gagas entrance... what exactly is your point? how is the indos so bad? and how will teh biggest-selling newspaper in ireland be lucky to last a year over a relatively by-the-book account of the grammys (compared to some of their more 'trashy' articles'?

It might warrant a mere paragraph in a newspaper-but ffs, this was the second article after the main headline. Is it really that important?

It seems to me that the media are focusing more and more on non-events to distract people from the real issues. And for the last point, I was referring to the Indo's decline in overall standards, not just the Gaga rubbish.

Raging_Ninja

kevin99 wrote: »

Agree with the media milking blah blah.
But I am intrigued why the President blah blah.
The reason I am intrigued is because earlier that week blah blah.
I didn't hear nor read the President's condemnation of blah blah.
Or was it the blah blah whinge.

Why would anybody want to go to the funeral of a friend's daughter when they could have gone to one of a perfect stranger. It just doesn't make any sense.