Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

Beechwoodspark

whatever about this latest controversy, Gript will be revelling in the attention they are getting.

They have a very good correspondent - Ben I think his name is?

By God he makes the politicians sweat when he steps up to question them.

Case in point - that Heather Humphreys interview recently - he exposed her as a right mug know nothing mediocrity. Worth watching.

Sweet.Science

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442173#Comment_121442173

They can ask these questions as they aren't funded by the state.

The rest are bought and paid for.

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442151#Comment_121442151

You just read it. 😉

gotaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442197#Comment_121442197

Who funds them do you know?

Ahwell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442364#Comment_121442364

Their website is a bit vague on this, just saying that they are funded by “readers and supporters”. A Business Post article from 2019 claims that it was “funded by the Life Institute along with donations from anti-abortion supporters” at that time.

https://www.businesspost.ie/news-focus/pro-life-groups-fund-new-website-in-response-to-liberal-bias-in-mainstream-media/

RobbieV

Heres Irish Times journalist kitty Holland telling the BBC that media get to decide what facts they should report. IE they decide what news people should be given

https://x.com/griptmedia/status/1730574048445317331?s=20

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442173#Comment_121442173

They have a very good correspondent - Ben I think his name is?

That it, like Prince or Cher?

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121441718#Comment_121441718

If falsely accusing some random guy of stabbing children and then inventing a conspiracy theory to excuse it is the "other way", then no, let's not try it.

Anyone getting their "news" from Gript is a danger to the wider society, far more dangerous than your average immigrant.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442670#Comment_121442670

Of course the media decide what they should report. You've heard of 'editors', right?

johnny_ultimate

There's also the implication that Gript - maybe one of the most nakedly ideological media operations on the island, outside of maybe TheLiberal - is not choosing what to report and only offering up the straight, non-partisan facts. Their editorial decisions are entirely built around a particular ultra-conservative Christian agenda - even fans of theirs must recognise that!

gotaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442670#Comment_121442670

To bring in back onto the topic of thread, gript.

Gript do the same thing?

Hodger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442676#Comment_121442676

Attitudes like Kitty has that people shouldn,t know of or hear about certain things is why some people are distrustful towards media outlets.

Acosta

I don't see gript as a valid current affairs source. They generally target a specific group of people, with stories tailor-made for right wing consumption. In many ways it's similar to The Daily Mail, but obviously on a much smaller scale. It's basically rage bait.

I could never take something seriously that's run by John Mcguirk, and features the likes of Fatima Gunning( of the Repeal jumper false flag fame) and former Irish Freedom Party candidates. It's basically Youth Defence news, under a different name.

applehunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBh7f0fjvA

Full mea culpa from John McGuirk here.

Sarah Ryan made some great points re : Ireland's new liberalism in this.

She is very likable.

Beasty

TokTik threadbanned

The topic is Gript, not Deliveroo

Augme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443367#Comment_121443367

Lol, within the first 60 secs he states that "finally one of your stories makes the six one news and all we had to do to achieve that was to get something wrong." An amazing attitude to take givne the fact that the person he falsely identified needed Garda protection.

He really doesn't give a ****. 😂

gotaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443367#Comment_121443367

I couldn't make it far in that, maybe just me but the sibilance (?) was too much. A poor podcast setup maybe?

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443451#Comment_121443451

I see my policy of not clicking on video dumps once again validates itself.

Beasty

Gatling threadbanned

Snooker Loopy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442971#Comment_121442971

Principle 8 of the Press Council Code Of Conduct squarely backs her up.

Ryan Casey's impact statement incited hatred against immigrants by the far right. He may not have meant to do this, but that's exactly what happened. His words were used as justification. Without Ryan Casey's exceptionally bad and stupid choice of words being reported, Conor McGregor very likely doesn't announce "we are at war".

Kitty Holland has now been banned from Twitter. Seems standing up for reality and for decency and responsible reporting is an automatically bannable offence for rabid racist Elon Musk.

buried

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442896#Comment_121442896

Yeah, yeah, because all the rest of the neo-liberal media outlets in this country wouldn't dream of selecting what and what not to report, would they?

Oh wait..... they did it two weeks ago when they left out a certain section of Ryan Casey's victim impact statement that the man had every single right to say.

chopperbyrne

Gript massively fucked up. They will get sued, and will almost certainly have to give a big payout. If true that the source was a serving member of AGS, that is just as big a story, but seems to be getting ignored by most media outlets.

Topgear on Dave

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443611#Comment_121443611

They want rid of gript but they don't want to cut off their nose to spite their face.

They all seem to get plenty of info from the cops.

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443621#Comment_121443621

They seem to but they are real journalists who will go to prison to protect their sources unlike gript who outright threw a Garda under the bus now as he would have signed a state official secrets act and now Garda headquarters will be investigating to find out which member broke that act.

They also have very publicly told all there sources they will not protect them if the sh1t hits the fan.

applehunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443611#Comment_121443611

With a name like chopperbyrne you would think you wouldn't be so naive.

Beechwoodspark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121442682#Comment_121442682

I checked for you Boggles - his name is Ben Scallan - he’s head and shoulders better than any of the Montrose mafia.

Politicians start sweating and grimacing (the more Irish term would be “sh1tting themselves”) when they realise he is asking the next question - watch his interviews - you will enjoy.

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443586#Comment_121443586

Never suggested anything of the sort. Merely noting the utterly nonsensical and potentially disingenuous implication the rest of the media is ‘selectively reporting’ and that Gript is somehow above that, because they’re on another side of the ideological spectrum.

Spanish Eyes

Surely it's a good thing that a media outlet like Gript can exist here. I know they have some rather strange views on certain topics, and have an agenda, but it is refreshing to read things that are not a cut n paste of every other newspaper in the country.

I've often felt that MSM in this country is all singing from the same hymn sheet when to comes to the topics du jour. Little room for an opposing view that tilts against the Government/woke line really and that can frustrate people since they often feel their views aren't being listened to.

So where there is a vacuum something will fill it. The MSM do not like Gript because they are covering things that other media wouldn't touch with a bargepole purely because it is not following the right "agenda".

Free speech is just that, not what the Government want us to hear with our fingers in our ears blocking out anything that even vaguely opposes the received wisdom of our "betters".

buried

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121443710#Comment_121443710

Gript are just doing what the rest of the media propagandists have been successfully doing on the other scale of the ideological spectrum for years.

Monkey see, monkey do. A bit late to start noting it now.

Snooker Loopy

I decided to do a small experiment. I typed in the name of the woman brutally murdered near Tullamore in September this year (the woman was named publicly) to see what came up on Gript.

Nothing.

By comparison Ashling Murphy's name brings up 1,050 results.

I wonder could this just possibly have to do with the fact they can't make anti-immigrant capital out of the murder of Lorna Woodnutt because the only suspect is white Irish, not an immigrant.

Who knows.