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broadsheet.ie is closing.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 75,826 ✭✭✭✭ Atlantic Dawn


    It's a pity, I would usually check the front pages of the papers regularly and there was some intereresting discussions on it too.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,740 ✭✭✭✭ Loafing Oaf


    Used it to look at Sunday paper front pages the night before but can't say it'll leeave a big void in my life...



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭ AndrewJRenko


    Was an occasional visitor until they went all Gemma, that was it for me. The comments always seemed like a clique, no interest in that stuff.

    I think breakingnews.ie does the newspaper front pages, for anyone needing that.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,838 ✭✭✭✭ nullzero


    The idea that they went down some full on alt right conspiracy road isn't really accurate.

    Most of the Covid "conspiracy" stuff they posted was nod and a wink type stuff, never full on by any means, but that's the memory people have of it for some reason.

    Some of the more "Woke" people in their comment section seem to be welcoming the closure as a victory even though they're the most vocal people on the entire platform, they'll have to find a new bridge to hide under.

    They ran Bloggorah in years gone by (before all the thicko's got on the internet thanks to social media), hopefully there's another project on the way but I wouldn't hold my breath.

    Glazers Out!



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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,838 ✭✭✭✭ nullzero


    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭ AndrewJRenko


    Isn’t it funny how none of Gemma’s many defamation cases never quite make it to Court?

    SOP within far right circles to be threatening and fighting each other when things go sour.



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭ AndrewJRenko


    There's 'different opinions' and there's 'Let's listen to Gemma now because she has some interesting ideas'.

    You're right though, I probably should have implied Broadsheet was 'far right'. They're not Grift, for sure. Maybe medium right, and leaning towards the far side.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,838 ✭✭✭✭ nullzero


    Some people on Twitter.

    Now that's proof that you're right.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭ EmmetSpiceland


    Never ceases to amaze that the far-right will go out of their way to claim there is no far-right. I guess you could call it “gaslighting”.

    And, isn’t it weird how much they hate the, applicable, “labels”? What’s that about? Lots of denial. Racists, homophobes, misogynists, transphobes, bigots and the rest can’t stand to be called as such.

    What’s that old saying again, ‘to thine own self be true’? Might be a lot less angry, and hate filled, if they just accepted what they are and tried to get past it.

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,622 ✭✭✭✭ AndrewJRenko


    Gemma was a travel features writer who had well gone off the rails at the time of her bizarre presidency bid. Broadsheet didn't 'interact' with her, they provided a platform for her to extend her reach.

    You've gone for some fairly extreme levels of strawmanning in your post there, attacking stuff I didn't actually say. I'd broadly agree with you about the fringe nature of the far right and pathetic levels of organisation and support. The closure of broadsheet is a fairly good measure of the pathetic levels of support, as you go further out to the right.

    Nope, it doesn't prove that I'm right. It DOES prove that my position isn't that unusual or extreme, as some round here seem keen to spin things.





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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭ youngblood


    Always was first port of call for news, Irish takes on things and then I forgot about it for a while and when I came back it was all this

    Conspiracy BS, is there even a virus? Gender type sh!te,

    that I couldnt be bothered scrolling as I presumed they were pushing some crazy extremist narrative-

    It's mad how they originally started out as being very relatable and ended up agreeing with the likes of Gemma O Crazy pants & Co.

    I'd even wonder are they ok???



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,493 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Weepsie


    Didn't a few regular commenters get involved in some doxxing campaigns too.


    Used to be decent, but it's far from what it was in only a few years.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Chickens coming home to roost.

    How weird that advertisers want nothing to do with the cesspit of conspiracy crap and right-wing nonsense BS became. Sad to see it go, but completely unsurprised by it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 19,426 ✭✭✭✭ Muahahaha


    It went completely down hill during covid which is why many people stopped visiting. Also the comments used to be quite funny years back but they just turned into a nasty cesspit in the last few years. I really dont get why they let it lurch into all the anti vax shite, it turned off their audience. Surely John Ryan saw the numbers of visitors going down but they just kept on pushing that line, they shot themselves in the foot. The same thing happened to the Property Pin as well.

    Hopefully someone will set up a site with the next days newspapers on it, it was very handy for that



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,838 ✭✭✭✭ nullzero


    I'm the one arguing that broadsheet wasn't a far right platform and that the far right in Ireland is a joke.

    Are you implying that I am myself a member of the far right? I'm assuming you have proof of this.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,838 ✭✭✭✭ nullzero


    Is it your contention that by addressing issues that are relevant to a lot of discourse in modern Ireland in relation to this that I am constructing a strawman?

    Any time something is raised in a discussion in the abstract sense the person doing so is "building a strawman". More lazy argument, always playing the man and not the ball.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ Fallout2022


    broadsheet.ie is closing.


    It's folding?



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭ EmmetSpiceland


    No, certainly not. Very dangerous to, directly, call any users, on this site, “far-right”, “bigot” or “racist” etc.

    I’m sure I’ve explained it before, on another part of Boards.ie, but it’s a “quirk” of the site where if you call a racist “a racist”, a transphobe “a transphobe”, a bigot “a bigot”, a homophobe “a homophobe”, and so on, then you, yourself, are liable to get sanctioned, if not banned when the racist, transphobe, bigot, homophobe etc reports you to the moderators.

    The tide is turning…



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,993 ✭✭✭ Badly Drunk Boy


    Yet you created an account as recently as 6 weeks ago...🤨



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