TheJournal.ie?

IrishProd

thejournal.ie

Does anyone here use it? Is it the biggest and most popular news site in Ireland and will it effect the sales of newspapers especially amongst the younger generation?

From reading the comments on the articles it seems so in my opinion.

What do you think?

wazky

Its a load of balls, that's what I think.

Jijsaw

IrishProd wrote: »

thejournal.ie

Does anyone here use it? Is it the biggest and most popular news site in Ireland and will it effect the sales of newspapers especially amongst the younger generation?

From reading the comments on the articles it seems so in my opinion.

What do you think?

I think you work for thejournal.ie

The Backwards Man

It's a bit like watching the news in the morning, then going round your granny's house and have her relay the newspaper and all the news you already know to you.

Except your granny doesn't have all the idiotic comment makers hiding in her press.

mitresize5

read it daily for news but never bother with the comments, they make After House look fair and balanced in comparison

The Backwards Man

mitresize5 wrote: »

read it daily for news but never bother with the comments, they make After House look fair and balanced in comparison

Why did this get so many red thumbs?:mad:

Chucken

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Except your granny doesn't have all the idiotic comment makers hiding in her press.

Maybe yours doesn't.......

The Backwards Man

Chucken wrote: »

Maybe yours doesn't.......

You're my granny Chucken.:)

Artful_Badger

The journal is basically yesterdays twitter feed.

IrishProd

Jijsaw wrote: »

I think you work for thejournal.ie

Ummm no.

Anyway, it is a fact that newspaper sales are declining in Ireland due to social media and other online content, perhaps that is a good thing, as traditionally until recent times, news content in the mass media of this country was/is always controlled by people with vested political interests.

Chucken

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You're my granny Chucken.:)

OI :mad:




:P

The Backwards Man

IrishProd wrote: »

Ummm no.

Anyway, it is a fact that newspaper sales are declining in Ireland due to social media and other online content, perhaps that is a good thing, as traditionally until recent times, news content in the mass media of this country was/is always controlled by people with vested political interests.

There's no such thing as impartial news. Everyone has a vested interest.

Artful_Badger

IrishProd wrote: »

Ummm no.

Anyway, it is a fact that newspaper sales are declining in Ireland due to social media and other online content, perhaps that is a good thing, as traditionally until recent times, news content in the mass media of this country was/is always controlled by people with vested political interests.

They are still the ones who put the content on the websites that the likes of the journal get the local news from though. Not much is gonna change with the decline of print when everyone is still relying on established media as the main reliable source of news.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Artful_Badger wrote: »

The journal is basically yesterdays twitter feed.

Yip, i use it, but just for a read.
Not for the (swooooosh) breaking news.

IrishProd

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There's no such thing as impartial news. Everyone has a vested interest.

Yes, but when it comes to acting as transparent free PR for establishment parties then one should be concerned, especially when it comes to the national broadcaster who the taxpayer foots the bill for.

Holsten

It's gotten ****.

Everything is just taken from Reddit.

Plus the comments.. my god the amount of retards is unreal.

Menas

Sounds like market research to me.

Femme_Fatale

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There's no such thing as impartial news. Everyone has a vested interest.

News reporting can be pretty balanced in any publications that aren't the red-tops/Independent Newspapers/Daily Mail/TheJournal.ie - it's opinion/analysis where the mask slips.

Riamfada

breakingnews ftw.

things I dont like about the journal

• out of date news
• news blatantly taken from other sites
• the comments (oh my god the comments)
• the opinion pieces are shockingly written, they make this post look like shakepeare

IrishProd

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Sounds like market research to me.

Nah, just my innate intellectual curiosity, but I am happy to see the decline of extremely politically biased mouthpieces like the Sindo.

The Backwards Man

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

News reporting can be pretty balanced in any publications that aren't the red-tops/Independent Newspapers/Daily Mail/TheJournal.ie - it's opinion/analysis where the mask slips.

True, but as long as there will be a human being doing the reporting, there will always be a mask nevertheless.

The Backwards Man

Riamfada wrote: »

breakingnews ftw.

It used to be half decent, it's all aliens and lizard people and horoscopes now.

hfallada

I found thejournal a load of ****. Its a bad copy of huffpo. The headlines are eye catching but dont relate to the article at all.

The irishtimes on the other hand is pretty solid. Its funny and factual. Although they are buying a lot of articles of nytimes, but its still decent.

Femme_Fatale

The comments-by-dullards problem has seeped into Breakingnews.ie now too.

moxin

hfallada wrote: »

The irishtimes on the other hand is pretty solid. Its funny and factual. Although they are buying a lot of articles of nytimes, but its still decent.

I'd be wary on that, the Irish Times has recently employed a few "journo's" from the Sindo. Its going to go downhill if not already.