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The Irish Daily Star

  • 02-04-2011 12:33pm
    #1
    PaulieG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭


    Just saw in a shop this morning the front page headline in one of the biggest selling daily's in the country is: BRIAN AND DELTA SPLIT UP
    So basically the most important thing happening in the world today is a guy who used to be in a boy band a few years ago is splitting up with his girlfriend!!
    I know The Star is a tabloid but I wouldn't think even those who go for that sensationalist crap would find this 'story' in any way interesting. The Brits love this type of tripe (the biggest selling daily newspaper in England is The Sun!!!) but it's a real shame to see it creeping into Irish jouralism. Utter garbage.


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  • #2
    kevin99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭kevin99


    Sadly, this type of sensationalist, human-interest journalism has been trading in Ireland for the past 20 years.It hasn't just happened in the past five years or so.
    I mean can I really take Daily Star Editor, Ger Colleran seriously when his Sunday sister paper carries such a lead story and then listen to him guest present the Dunphy show on NewsTalk?
    The answer is no.
    But it is not just the tabloids that run these publicity seeking stories. The SINDO does it every week. Some sort of tripe dressed up to be interesting news.
    And also you must remember that the publicists for these so called 'celebrities' will always create a rumour or whatever in order to keep their client's name in the media.
    Look at Mc Fadden who has splite up his GF in Australia, who gives ****e?
    But the papers all run with the story as if this is a major news value.
    This was the guy who wrote a song about being abused by somebody in a school it turned out he never attended.
    I know of past situations where publicists and wannabee celebrities ring 'entertainment' journalists and ask them to write some sort of gossip about them in order to keep them in the papers.
    I can never understand why the public swallow all this bull**** written in so called responsible, mature papers.
    But don't mistake this rubbish as being the exclusive preserve of the UK owned tabloid media in Ireland, it is also alive and well in Irish owned papers.l


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