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Tabloid Irish Times

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  • #2
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    No its okay because its golf and educated classy people play golf.


  • #3
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    It's not a particularly well written or formatted article, but far from tabloid style. It's also a small link in the golf section of sports.

    Even so, look where it is: http://i.imgur.com/Ry01c.png

    Can you really blame them? The actual article is hidden away in the site, yet it's the most read story. People lap this kind of fluff up, both average punters and boards.ie tabloid fetishists alike. Are there any ads on the page? (I run adblock so I'm not sure)


  • #4
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,227 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    OctavarIan wrote: »
    It's not a particularly well written or formatted article, but far from tabloid style. It's also a small link in the golf section of sports.

    Even so, look where it is: http://i.imgur.com/Ry01c.png

    Can you really blame them? The actual article is hidden away in the site, yet it's the most read story. People lap this kind of fluff up, both average punters and boards.ie tabloid fetishists alike. Are there any ads on the page? (I run adblock so I'm not sure)

    it was listed under their breaking news, and popular or populist is the very definition of tabloid.

    it has no news value, if a opinion columnist mentioned in passing while discussing his form recently I wouldn't let it pass but there no excuse for having this article in the Irish Times.


  • #5
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    Seriously ... this required a thread did it?


  • #6
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    On the RTE website, this story was down in the entertainment section.

    Since when is the personal life of a sports star entertainment?


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  • #7
    IRE60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭IRE60


    Lets not open the can of worms that's the 'tagging' of stories on the RTE website. Their own G Ryans - his death was reported on the site and was in the entertainment section for weeks - as was his funeral. Seriously someone needs to wake up there.

    Anyway, they were right to run it. It may have been a little 'light' and (dare I say it) somewhat populist (there goes the trust fund), but it got enough traffic to make the popular list.


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