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Irish Star & Irish Mirror exact same articles

iseegirls · 2023-09-18 11:46:34

Was scanning through the Irish papers online this morning on PressReader.com. I looked at The Irish Daily Star first, and then went to look at The Irish Mirror, and had to double check many times that I wasn't rereading the same paper as earlier. Putting them side by side, the exact same articles, pictures from the same…

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18-09-2023 12:46pm

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iseegirls

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Was scanning through the Irish papers online this morning on PressReader.com. I looked at The Irish Daily Star first, and then went to look at The Irish Mirror, and had to double check many times that I wasn't rereading the same paper as earlier. Putting them side by side, the exact same articles, pictures from the same journalist/author. Is this a recent thing?
Star on the left, Mirror on the right. Somehow it's an Exclusive for The Mirror.

Another example below - exact same pictures in all.
Irish Mirror:

Irish Star:

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magicbastarder

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both owned by the same company. you'd have to ask why would they pay two different journalists to write two different articles which are likely to be near identical?

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