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Mother & Son columnists in Ev. Herald

  • 01-05-2011 5:12pm
    #1
    kevin99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭


    Herald readers have you noticed on Friday's edition you have columns on opposite pages from Terry Prone and her son, Anton Savage?


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Everyone knows who they are, what's your point?

    Terry Keane and her daughter Madeleine for years had separate columns in the Sindo, I don't recall anyone commenting on that setup.


  • #3
    kevin99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭kevin99


    Incestuous?
    We know who TP is, her son is also a PR guy. So, why should he be given a column?
    Why not some other PR person or a business person, or a priest or a pilot?
    I would question your comment that everyone knows who they are.
    In relation to the Keane's they both wrote specific columns for the SINDO. Their respective columns related to gossip and the arts.


  • #4
    bill_lehane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭bill_lehane


    It's incestuous all right, not too unusual in the Irish media though unfortunately. I think if anyone tried to compile a list of all the journalists related to one another it would have like 200 names on it.


  • #5
    easychair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 905 ✭✭✭easychair


    I suppose the most curious thing about this thread is that people actually buy and read the Evening Herald. I suppose someone has to otherwise it would be defunkt, but in life I've never come across anyone who admits to buying it. I wonder how long papers like the Herald can continue to survive, in the age when computer tablets can let one read 100's on newspapers from anywhere.


  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    easychair wrote: »
    I suppose the most curious thing about this thread is that people actually buy and read the Evening Herald. I suppose someone has to otherwise it would be defunkt, but in life I've never come across anyone who admits to buying it. I wonder how long papers like the Herald can continue to survive, in the age when computer tablets can let one read 100's on newspapers from anywhere.

    The people who read the Herald don't even know what a computer is, let alone own one!


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  • #7
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    coylemj wrote: »
    The people who read the Herald don't even know what a computer is, let alone own one!

    There is certain boards snobbery to reading the EH but if you don't use computers for your media fix what other choice have people if they want an Evening newspaper?


  • #8
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Read the Beano, it's closer to reality and the truth than the garbage in the Herald.


  • #9
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    I'm a bit confused by the OP here...

    Both Prone and Savage are media figures in their own right (from their work in the family company, The Communications Clinic and the wider punditry work etc. that that has created).

    In the last few years Savage has actually done quite well for himself, going from the back-up boy at Today FM to (co?)-presenting his own radio show there (The Sunday Business Show), presenting a show on TV3.

    It's not exactly uncommon (or I imagine hard) to get yourself a column in a tabloid if you're in the public eye a lot, so it's no surprise that either write for the Herald.

    As for why the Herald have both their columns side-by-side? Because it's a neat little gimmick, I suppose.


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