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Irish Independent very stereotypical

  • 02-07-2011 2:57pm
    #1
    Freiheit
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    Last weekend's magazine featured an article on how different boys and gilrs are. It was a non event with no analysis at all, merely a repitition of stereotype. This week an article on how poisonous female friendships can be. Again it only reinforced stereotypes,made no attempt to uncover anything new. There's individual journalists I could mention but I'm afraid of the libel law.

    Am I the only one who feels the Indo is stereotypical and a bit sexist at times?.

    I'd buy the Times more expect for it's broadsheet format.


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  • #2
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    Freiheit wrote: »
    Last weekend's magazine featured an article on how different boys and gilrs are. It was a non event with no analysis at all, merely a repitition of stereotype. This week an article on how poisonous female friendships can be. Again it only reinforced stereotypes,made no attempt to uncover anything new. There's individual journalists I could mention but I'm afraid of the libel law.

    Am I the only one who feels the Indo is stereotypical and a bit sexist at times?.

    I'd buy the Times more expect for it's broadsheet format.


    i didnt see the article but it being the indo , i imagine it was trying to puncture the pc thesis doing the rounds that thier are no real differences between boys and girls or that thier shouldnt be


  • #3
    outandabout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭outandabout


    The Indo have been doing stories like these for the last 30 years. A lot of them are rehashed or reworked from the Daily Mail or Daily Express


  • #4
    Bloody Nipples
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Bloody Nipples


    I give an old roll of the eyes to stuff like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13581835 but at the other end of the scale is the Indo which is a poorly written rag that I wouldn't wipe my ass with. It's just too tabloid-esque.


  • #5
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    The Indo has gone down a lot in my estimation, I buy it largely only because Mum likes some of the supplements and the tabloid format. If the Times was tabloid I'd buy that most of the time. Very hard to read a broadsheet at a dinner table or on a bus or train. Yeah very tabloid in a lot of ways.


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