Formerly respected journalists and broadcasters.

Hangdogroad

First up David Ike when he was known as the guy who read the sports results on BBC rather than the loon who claims the world is run by shape shifting lizards from outer space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVd8cLmshI4

Ger Roe

Martin Bashir ..... a BAFTA winning interview programme, until it wasn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTPgqy2__M

Roy Greenslade: Former Guardian columnist and former Professor of Journalism. Turns out he was a member of the Provisional IRA and SF for much of his career, while never revealing that. Revealed recently, and one of his nastiest pieces involved trying to minimise the rape of a 16 year old girl because it was someone very very close to Gerry Adams who brutalised her.

Me_Grapes

Gemma

Hangdogroad

Eoghan Harris..........actually was he ever respected?

CageWager

Any “Journalist” who claims to hold politicians and public figures to account before disappearing and resurfacing soon after as a “Special Advisor” with generous taxpayer funded compensation.

whisky_galore

John Waters.

Water John

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Eoghan Harris..........actually was he ever respected?

Feared.

I can't think of one famous journalist that I hold in high regard.

I think the only way to become famous in the world of journalism is to lose your integrity

Hangdogroad

Eddie Hobbs, he could do no wrong before the financial crash.

BrianD3

IIRC George Lee used to be respected before his foray into politics and subsequent return as hurricane correspondent.

Also, Pat Kenny? Before taking over from Gay Byrne on the LLS, before his run ins with his neighbours and before he earned SIX HUNDRED TOUSAND POWEND A YEAR- for eleven hours jobs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU

humberklog

Tom Humphries.

There's no coming back from that sh1t.

Glenn Greenwald.

Has let 'anti-WOKE culture' consume him. Shilling for the conservative $.

Dyr

Deleted User wrote: »

Glenn Greenwald.

Has let 'anti-WOKE culture' consume him. Shilling for the conservative $.

Thread title was "formerly respected" not "I don't like the bad man boo hoo"


Poor old Kevin Myers, both gone and forgotten it seems

vriesmays

The female one who write the book about TDs taking coke but made it up.

Cabaal

whisky_galore wrote: »

John Waters.

nah, he was never respected :pac:

Strumms

humberklog wrote: »

Tom Humphries.

There's no coming back from that sh1t.

Nope...

I used to really enjoy his writings and take on sports... he was widely liked and respected by both the readers / public and those involved in the world of sport, then.... weird.

sligeach

People are getting outraged over Martin Bashir now, but it's long been known he's a backstabbing rat. He's responsible for the farcical 2005, that never should have been. That broke Michael Jackson, and ultimately led to his death. Martin has blood on his hands.

ABC NEWS Martin Bashir confessed he lied in Living with Michael Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prm2n9HVMRA

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Prm2n9HVMRA

The Michael Jackson Estate are suing HBO, it's been going on for a couple of years. That's going to arbitration, as they've won this round.

https://news.sky.com/story/michael-jackson-estate-can-take-private-action-against-hbo-over-leaving-neverland-documentary-12161778

Tom Mesereau has joined the Estate as special counsel. He's confident they will win. Which will hopefully mean Dan Reed is exposed and join Martin Bashir, in having no future career.

dulpit

Don't forget Ewan...

dulpit

dulpit wrote: »

Don't forget Ewan...

MacKenna? Went from being sports writer of the year to angry Twitter crank.

branie2

Gemma O'Doherty

ILoveYourVibes

Any journalist who went over to opinion journalism.

Its really bad in the states ...both cnn and fox do it.

Just report the facts and be polite.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Roy Greenslade: Former Guardian columnist and former Professor of Journalism. Turns out he was a member of the Provisional IRA and SF for much of his career, while never revealing that. Revealed recently, and one of his nastiest pieces involved trying to minimise the rape of a 16 year old girl because it was someone very very close to Gerry Adams who brutalised her.

So many lies here.

For one, he was not a member of the Provisional IRA. Secondly, I do not believe he was a member of SF. Thirdly, he did not try to minimise the rape of anyone. He said that a TV show had a lack of political balance, particularly in light of Maria Cahill's virulent opposition not only to Sinn Féin (understandable) but the Good Friday Agreement itself, given her own membership of a dissident republican group. Fourthly, there is no evidence that Martin Morris is or was someone who was "very very close to Gerry Adams". "Very very close" suggests that he was some part of Adams's inner circle or something like that, which was not the case. Presumably though, he knew him.

The Maria Cahill episode is bad and damning enough to the provos without exaggerating it.

Greenslade was and is a good journalist. He has lost the respect of some because he did not disclose that he supported the IRA (like many), wrote for An Phoblacht (SF's newspaper) and did not disclose this to employers. He was a sympathiser, not a member of the IRA.

Beechwoodspark

CageWager wrote: »

Any “Journalist” who claims to hold politicians and public figures to account before disappearing and resurfacing soon after as a “Special Advisor” with generous taxpayer funded compensation.

Currently 1 or 2 few Irish times hacks at that

Burt Renaults

Bambi wrote: »

Poor old Kevin Myers, both gone and forgotten it seems

Author of his own demise. Also author of some terrible articles in his post-Irish Times years. His Irishman's Diary column was occasionally quite good, albeit ruined by increasingly frequent outbursts like the 'Bastards' one that ultimately got him sacked. Good riddance to him.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Glenn Greenwald.

Has let 'anti-WOKE culture' consume him. Shilling for the conservative $.

Still fighting the fight against American imperialism and war mongering. Not sure if that is conservative these days.

The J Stands for Jay

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Eddie Hobbs, he could do no wrong before the financial crash.

Well, he was doing plenty wrong, but his audience didn't notice.

archfi

Deleted User wrote: »

Glenn Greenwald.

Has let 'anti-WOKE culture' consume him. Shilling for the conservative $.

:rolleyes:

Purple is a Fruit

Fintan O'Toole. Losing credibility because of his "Everyone is terrible except me" preaching.

vriesmays wrote: »

The female one who write the book about TDs taking coke but made it up.

Which *woman* do you mean?

Bambi

Bambi wrote: »

Thread title was "formerly respected" not "I don't like the bad man boo hoo"

Which is exactly what I responded to.

Dick phelan

Most journalism now is garbage. Far too much of it is clickbait, opinion pieces and biased. Rare to see really good quality investigative journalism these days. I would say the likes of Vice still produce some great stuff but most mainstream media, be it in Ireland, UK or US is very poor.

Tilden Katz

sligeach wrote: »

People are getting outraged over Martin Bashir now, but it's long been known he's a backstabbing rat. He's responsible for the farcical 2005, that never should have been. That broke Michael Jackson, and ultimately led to his death. Martin has blood on his hands.

ABC NEWS Martin Bashir confessed he lied in Living with Michael Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prm2n9HVMRA

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Prm2n9HVMRA

The Michael Jackson Estate are suing HBO, it's been going on for a couple of years. That's going to arbitration, as they've won this round.

https://news.sky.com/story/michael-jackson-estate-can-take-private-action-against-hbo-over-leaving-neverland-documentary-12161778

Tom Mesereau has joined the Estate as special counsel. He's confident they will win. Which will hopefully mean Dan Reed is exposed and join Martin Bashir, in having no future career.

And yet, even with Bashir having no journalistic integrity, Jackson still managed to hang himself in ‘Living With Michael Jackson’. It can’t all be blamed on Bashir, I’m afraid. Jackson was a big boy and said things in that documentary that made him look very bad.

knucklehead6

Purple is a Fruit wrote: »

Fintan O'Toole. Losing credibility because of his "Everyone is terrible except me" preaching.

Which *woman* do you mean?

Female/Woman. Interchangeable, no?

omerin

Matt Cooper, jumps on every bandwagon, and for a host of a radio show, he's so one sided and bias.

shtpEdthePlum

whisky_galore wrote: »

John Waters.

Nah he was always a crank.

Mad_maxx

omerin wrote: »

Matt Cooper, jumps on every bandwagon, and for a host of a radio show, he's so one sided and bias.

probably the biggest Wally in irish media , used to be good but that changed about six years ago when he wholeheartedly embraced WOKEness

vriesmays

Purple is a Fruit wrote: »

Fintan O'Toole. Losing credibility because of his "Everyone is terrible except me" preaching.

Which *woman* do you mean?

This "woman":

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-denies-tape-of-cocaine-minister-26332890.html

Stewball

Sarah Carey
Lying to Moriarty tribunal

Paul Reynolds is basically a mouth-piece for the Gardai. I don't trust a word he says as RTE's crime correspondent.

McGinniesta

Dick phelan wrote: »

Most journalism now is garbage. Far too much of it is clickbait, opinion pieces and biased. Rare to see really good quality investigative journalism these days. I would say the likes of Vice still produce some great stuff but most mainstream media, be it in Ireland, UK or US is very poor.

Top quality investigative journalism has been on life support for years if not decades. It doesn't exist in Ireland.

You'll get occasional big stories but a lot of these land on journalists desks rather than the journalists desks.

An example being the FAI story last year. I'm not slagging the journalists off in this particular case but it literally landed on his desk.

Water John

No media is willing to put in the resources to major investigative journalism. Journalists cannot be blamed for that. Individual journalists are responsible for their own integrity. Paul Reynolds is a classic example of someone who as expected to be balanced but when the spotlight came on was found to be very wanting.

crooked cockney villain

BrianD3 wrote: »

IIRC George Lee used to be respected before his foray into politics and subsequent return as hurricane correspondent.

Also, Pat Kenny? Before taking over from Gay Byrne on the LLS, before his run ins with his neighbours and before he earned SIX HUNDRED TOUSAND POWEND A YEAR- for eleven hours jobs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU

What an absolute gobshyte that fella is.

dasdog

Hangdogroad wrote: »

First up David Ike...

Me_Grapes wrote: »

Gemma

She "interviewed" him last month. Waters was probably very jealous.

DuckFeather

David Walsh - Great reputation in the downfall of Lance etc but then lost respect when becoming embedded with Sky and also in his character reference for a particular former sports journalist.

mikemac2

omerin wrote: »

Matt Cooper, jumps on every bandwagon, and for a host of a radio show, he's so one sided and bias.

He used to be good, fell away 5-6 years ago

Now if a guest takes an opposing view then Cooper will be sighing and moaning and just waiting to jump back in. "Ah heyor, ah c´mon now"

Ain't no opposing views allowed.

George Hook used to have right wing US radio show host Michael Graham on his show and while I disagreed with almost all his points dammit he was entertaining.

Matt Cooper would never allow such a slot, his American 10 minute section is ridiculously biased

guy2231

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Roy Greenslade: Former Guardian columnist and former Professor of Journalism. Turns out he was a member of the Provisional IRA and SF for much of his career, while never revealing that. Revealed recently, and one of his nastiest pieces involved trying to minimise the rape of a 16 year old girl because it was someone very very close to Gerry Adams who brutalised her.

What a wind up, the guardian was the only paper in England that showed both sides of the story everything else was just propaganda.

crooked cockney villain

mikemac2 wrote: »

Matt Cooper would never allow such a slot, his American 10 minute section is ridiculously biased

To be fair while they pile on Cal a bit at least he gets to speak his mind. Imagine Matt giving 10 minutes a week to an Irish version of Cal.....in fact is there even anybody conservative left in Irish media that could do the slot? Niall Boylan or Ian O'Doherty perhaps? I've not seen O'Doherty on air since he argued with Liam Cunningham about the Cologne rapes.

Hangdogroad

crooked cockney villain wrote: »

What an absolute gobshyte that fella is.

Pat or yer man?

Purple is a Fruit

Purple is a Fruit wrote: »

Fintan O'Toole. Losing credibility because of his "Everyone is terrible except me" preaching.

Jaysus it’s tiresome trying to keep up with St. Fintan

The average O’Toole article: “You’re a racist: Here’s Why.” or “Do you permit your wife to peg you? No? You’re a Racist.”

Hurrache

"Wokeness". I'd happily see the phrases blast it with piss/yore ma in return for this phrase, and everyone that uses it, being physically blasted with piss.

HBC08

mikemac2 wrote: »

He used to be good, fell away 5-6 years ago

Now if a guest takes an opposing view then Cooper will be sighing and moaning and just waiting to jump back in. "Ah heyor, ah c´mon now"

Ain't no opposing views allowed.

George Hook used to have right wing US radio show host Michael Graham on his show and while I disagreed with almost all his points dammit he was entertaining.

Matt Cooper would never allow such a slot, his American 10 minute section is ridiculously biased

Whilst I agree Matt Cooper has turned woke to a fairly embarrassing degree he has a very similar American right wing gobsh1te to Michael Graham on his show every week,his name is Cal Thomas.

For Forks Sake

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Eddie Hobbs, he could do no wrong before the financial crash.

I have an apartment in Cape Verde to sell you....