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Liberal.ie goes off line.

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  • #2
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭9or10


    Oh dear.


  • #3
    Mouseslayer17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Mouseslayer17


    No loss.


  • #4
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    no big loss, the founder is a knob with no journalistic integrity at all!


  • #5
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Good riddance.


  • #6
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Excellent

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #7
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭Duff


    His Twitter profile was glorious before he made it private. Seems like a toss-pot of the highest order.


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Famous for its competitions?

    That's a bit of a euphemism!


  • #9
    Ineedaname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Ineedaname


    Apparently it's a "scheduled necessary technical update"

    Copy and paste buttons must not be working.


  • #10
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #11
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Seems to work ok for The Journal.


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  • #12
    mullyboyee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭mullyboyee


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Haven't they been caught out just ripping stories from other sites and republishing them word for word as their own?


    Allegedly caught rapid and dealing with the consequences.


  • #13
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,105 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Seems to work ok for The Journal.

    But without the journal how ever will we know the 15 reasons why its cool to be from somewhere or when the latest viral sensation hits?


  • #14
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #15
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,105 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Isn't it all part of The Journal? It wouldn't surprise me if the first thing they do in the morning is see what can be copied from Reddit.


  • #16
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #17
    arayess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭arayess


    i like the liberal cos it upsets the PC types


  • #18
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,875 ✭✭✭SteM


    I think they were one of my 3 followers on Twitter!


  • #19
    B_Wayne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭B_Wayne


    arayess wrote: »
    i like the liberal cos it upsets the PC types

    I have no problem with freedom of speech, right to publish whatever you want. I do have a problem with a media outlet using another journalist's content without their permission and passing it off as original.


  • #20
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,222 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    mullyboyee wrote: »
    Allegedly caught rapid and dealing with the consequences.

    Yep, CCC Nuacht have launched a lawsuit against them for plagiarism.

    Well, I shouldn't say "them"...the site is registered as a sole trader with Leo Sherlock as its owner.


  • #21
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    B_Wayne wrote: »
    I have no problem with freedom of speech, right to publish whatever you want. I do have a problem with a media outlet using another journalist's content without their permission and passing it off as original.

    To be fair, sometimes they just make stuff up

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #22
    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

    https://twitter.com/corasherlock


  • #23
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Bad news for the winners of all their iPhone giveaways though :pac:


  • #24
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Ineedaname wrote: »
    Apparently it's a "scheduled necessary technical update"

    Copy and paste buttons must not be working.

    Destroying the evidence, more like. Someone should tell Leo that's not how the internet works.

    My favourite thing about The Liberal was when the marriage equality referendum passed, they didn't even report it. Months of awful opinion pieces on the subject (some claiming to have been written by 'young mothers' and 'concerned primary school teachers', but all written in the barely-literate style of Leo Sherlock himself), and then... nothing whatsoever.


  • #25
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Clarebelly wrote: »
    Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

    https://twitter.com/corasherlock

    The whole family is at it.


  • #26
    C. Montgomery Gurns
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭C. Montgomery Gurns


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.


  • #27
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #28
    B_Wayne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭B_Wayne


    C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »
    I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.
    There's a fair few examples here. Plenty of journalists that have faced the issue.

    http://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/05/31/sam-steal-this-article/


  • #29
    topmanamillion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
    A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
    No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
    Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.


  • #30
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    topmanamillion wrote: »
    Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
    A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
    No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
    Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

    It's a Breitbart wanna be. The guy sounds like a Steve Bannon wanna be.

    Incidentally Breitbart ran a similar story about Germany over the holidays. Got some facts, blew them up and created a whole new story with a racist twist.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/07/german-police-quash-breitbart-story-of-mob-setting-fire-to-dortmund-church


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  • #31
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    topmanamillion wrote: »
    Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
    A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
    No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
    Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

    The Independent originally reported about the "riot", the liberal then picked it up and added the racial twist to it, because that's their agenda.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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