What's happened the Indo/Sindo?

thee glitz

I buy these papers quite regularly (and visit the site) despite being quite dismayed by the drop in standard
over the last few years. They seem to have their spelling
down but grammatical errors are rife. Then there's the
whole Gerald Kean fascination. There's also the time the
Sindo ran the pic of that young one with modelling
aspirations, wearing clothes from the ma's boutique,
pimped with phone number and deceased bf sob story
on the front page! Pg 22 of the today's sindo narrates
5 photos. 1 is shown.
I'll still buy it for Gene Kerrigan and a few others but I'm not otherwise impressed.

biko

Lovely poem OP

Daqster

She was shot.

Annasopra

thee glitz wrote: »

I buy these papers quite regularly (and visit the site) despite being quite dismayed by the drop in standard
over the last few years. They seem to have their spelling
down but grammatical errors are rife. Then there's the
whole Gerald Kean fascination. There's also the time the
Sindo ran the pic of that young one with modelling
aspirations, wearing clothes from the ma's boutique,
pimped with phone number and deceased bf sob story
on the front page! Pg 22 of the today's sindo narrates
5 photos. 1 is shown.
I'll still buy it for Gene Kerrigan and a few others but I'm not otherwise impressed.

Have you only noticed this now?

I haven't bought the sindo rag in about 15 years.

Sir Arthur Daley

Daqster wrote: »

She was shot.

With a ball of her own shoite.

Femme_Fatale

I remember it even as a kid in the 80s being obsessed with modelling peeps like Michelle Rocca and Olivia Tracey so I don't think its z-list celeb fascination is anything new.

As far as I know, they outsourced a lot of their roles that would involve proof-reading, for woeful pay, so... peanuts... monkeys.

Blitzkrieger

I found their radio ad this morning funny. They must have pre-recorded it and from the tone of it assumed Munster wouldn't get a home quarter final. Hope someone gets a bollicking this morning....

sydthebeat

It's no more than a tabloid these days.
I only by it occasionally for the sports as i rate their journos.
Other than that it was always an opinion paper rather than a fact paper.

Teyla Emmagan

The Sindo has been obsessed with gossip about nobodies and photos of models for as long as I can remember. As well as the bizarre notion that its own columnists were themselves somehow newsworthy. It was okay at one point but has been complete drivel for about 15 years, as Mango said. Still, somebody must be buying it!

El Siglo

Atrocious paper, absolutely pitiful journalism. Only ever bought it for the odd Robert Fisk article (nowadays read his stuff online). I thInk it actually started getting worse when they went to colour photographs.

No Pants

It's daily paper is trying to be the Daily Mail and failing. I'm not quite sure what the Sindo is up to, it's a strange mix of Hello and an attempt at serious journalism.

Phill Ewinn

Needz moar bewbs.

*Available for consultancy work.*

Sunglasses Ron

I wouldn't touch the Sindo print version, I can't ever recall it being anything but adverts and a local paper stalking D4 socialites who the rest of the country could care less about.

The quality of the Indo app(on my android anyway) is brutal, the colour photos are something else quality wise.

topper75

So read the Kerrigan pieces online OP. Time, grief, and money saved.

whirlpool

Newspapers?

Do they sell those next to the callcards?

Alf Veedersane

thee glitz wrote: »

I buy these papers quite regularly (and visit the site) despite being quite dismayed by the drop in standard
over the last few years. They seem to have their spelling
down but grammatical errors are rife. Then there's the
whole Gerald Kean fascination. There's also the time the
Sindo ran the pic of that young one with modelling
aspirations, wearing clothes from the ma's boutique,
pimped with phone number and deceased bf sob story
on the front page! Pg 22 of the today's sindo narrates
5 photos. 1 is shown.
I'll still buy it for Gene Kerrigan and a few others but I'm not otherwise impressed.

So you've noticed it was an awful paper for years yet you still buy it and you started a thread to tell people you buy it?

Have a think about that.

No Pants

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

So you've noticed it was an awful paper for years yet you still buy it and you started a thread to tell people you buy it?

Have a think about that.

He's right OP. You have better things to be spending €3 on each week.

josip

I think all their journos are on commission for each snipe they can make at any other media outlet.
Denis O'Brien taking them over was a match made in heaven.
It's muck, layered over drivel, with a generous sprinkling of shoite on top.

J_E

It's a tabloid, just looks a little fancier than the Sun and their like. To be honest, the Times aren't much better at times either.

The online component in particular has some dire stories.

To be honest I can't seem to find a single serious news outlet in Ireland, they're all similar in their sensationalism at some point. Journal is no exception.

jimgoose

It's a tabloid for knackers who a) have money and, b) don't know they're knackers.

anncoates

No Pants wrote: »

it's a strange mix of Hello and an attempt at serious journalism.

That actually spot on.

It has a unpleasantly moral gravitas but usually it's about things like property, restaurants and tits

Alf Veedersane

It employs Barry Egan.

QED.

jimgoose

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

It employs Barry Egan.

QED.

Oh there's some shower of po-faced, sanctimonious twerps in love with the smell of their own sh!t on the payroll there, especially in the Sunday edition. :pac:

dd972

I only buy it for the Ian O'Doherty column





(you knows i'm joking)

mike65

Barry Egan has been re-submitting the same article for 25 years now. Amazing. One almost have to admire that fact he can get away with it.

OU812

I stopped reading it when they stopped reporting on Toni the exotic dancer.

She must be in her 60s now...

TwoShedsJackson

How can anyone slag off the home of the great Alison O'Riordan and such literary gems as 'the trees circled the church'?

ted_dancin

I used to like alan Ruddock who was a serious political writer , died very young

Declan lynch is a humorous writer and knows his sport

so as Ruddock is dead , that leaves not one decent writer who doesn't deal in sport or humour

My name is URL

The Indo is slowly becoming the Sunday World, and the Irish Times is slowly becoming the Indo. It's the natural progression for ****ty small-pond press.

Lapin

^^^^

True - The Irish Times was a far superior publication back when it was entirely staffed by Protestants.

gramar

The Independent looks and reads like a tabloid. It always dipped a bit into the 'celeb' world but in the last few years it's become insufferable with daily drivel about Tubs, BOD, his missus, Ronan, his ex-wife and every other git that no-one cares about.

Just a quick scan of todays paper brings up a 'Corrie alert', some complete **** about Gerald Kean and Red Hurley's wife has dimples on her other cheeks.

Augmerson

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

How can anyone slag off the home of the great Alison O'Riordan and such literary gems as 'the trees circled the church'?

Somebody link us some Alison O'Riordan articles.

And any chance of that one by Brendan O'Connor about the smart people should be buying houses in 2008?

Eeden

I've never felt as smug as I do right now :P - I had to google Gerald Kean!

Ash.J.Williams

the indo died a death when they assembled a group of "typical celtic tiger cubs" to tell us about their antics on a weekly basis...and they were so far removed from reality it wasn't even funny!

old hippy

Same as it ever was...

07Lapierre

So what paper do you lot read then?

josip

07Lapierre wrote: »

So what paper do you lot read then?

Indo.

TwoShedsJackson

Augmerson wrote: »

Somebody link us some Alison O'Riordan articles.

And any chance of that one by Brendan O'Connor about the smart people should be buying houses in 2008?

www.independent.ie/lifestyle/trapped-in-a-negative-equity-nightmare-after-dreams-of-city-apartment-living-turned-sour-1794601.html

Aidric

anncoates wrote: »

It has a unpleasantly moral gravitas but usually it's about things like property, restaurants and tits

Property and tits are one and the same when you boil it down.

Brendan O Connor has gained too much influence at the Sindo which hastened the decline. As for the Indo they drafted in the editor of the star which was always going to lead in one direction.

J_E

07Lapierre wrote: »

So what paper do you lot read then?

I use an RSS feed to group all the sources together so I can easily pick out the crap and get as balanced of a coverage as I'm gonna get between them.

Hootanany

Cydoniac wrote: »

I use an RSS feed to group all the sources together so I can easily pick out the crap and get as balanced of a coverage as I'm gonna get between them.

How does one do that?

beauf

Aidric wrote: »

...As for the Indo they drafted in the editor of the star ...

I didn't know that, it explains a lot. It goes further than simple tabloid tat though. Even semi factual stories are given a real spin, to promote what ever is their agenda.

J_E

Hootanany wrote: »

How does one do that?

There's a free app called Feedly for phones, which is super. I'm sure it has a desktop version too. All you do is search and add the pages!

Richard Hillman

it is a left-wing Daily Mail.

tony007

Richard Hillman wrote: »

it is a left-wing Daily Mail.

Lulz

keeponhurling

I'm not sure the OP can be serious, Indo was always the way he describes.

That Alison O'Riordan article had me in stitches reading it.
She didn't even go for a dear apartment, just the 525k, that's all!
And some of the apartments near her have list so much value they're selling for an "astonishing" cheap price if 450k !! OMG!

Aidric

beauf wrote: »

I didn't know that, it explains a lot. It goes further than simple tabloid tat though. Even semi factual stories are given a real spin, to promote what ever is their agenda.

Their agenda changes with the wind.

thee glitz

keeponhurling wrote: »

I'm not sure the OP can be serious, Indo was always the way he describes.

That Alison O'Riordan article had me in stitches reading it.
She didn't even go for a dear apartment, just the 525k, that's all!
And some of the apartments near her have list so much value they're selling for an "astonishing" cheap price if 450k !! OMG!

It's a bit of a stretch but I can remember it much different.
Like when there was actual news pgs 2 and 3.
Also, they used to not show dead bodies.
I buy it because my data allowance is awful, I
travel a lot, and the website is infuriating.
It's not all rubbish, it's the best of a poor selection.

old hippy

Richard Hillman wrote: »

it is a left-wing Daily Mail.

Left wing? The Sindo?

It was a paper that was very much in its element during the boom years, it focussed on glamour, money and social ambition. Some of the people that were featured in the paper were social climbers of Alpine proportions!

Femme_Fatale

Richard Hillman wrote: »

it is a left-wing Daily Mail.

Good one.

Its anti public sector agenda and obsession with "entrepreneurialism" is a parody of itself

MRnotlob606

Dont cry for me argentina.