broadsheet.ie is closing.

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

That's sad news, it was a bit of a staple of Ye Olde Irish Internet for me for a good few years. Haven't gone near it in a while but there was a time when I'd have read it daily with a coffee.

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...

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.

The same Gemma who is now accusing John Ryan of defamation?

I have a problem with how the term "far right" is used, it's lazy labeling. Broadsheet isn't/wasn't a far right website, yes they were posting stories about Covid that weren't in line with popular consensus but saying they're far right is a stretch.

Someone in the broadsheet comments section mentioned that the people they've been arguing with there for the last few years should join Stormfront, similar garbage gets thrown around on this site ("boards is turning into storm front") and it's just lazy argument.

Differing opinions exist, we all need to deal with that as a fact of life. Everyone who disagrees with us nowadays has to be identified and labeled as something repugnant, it's easier and more expedient than rational discourse.

Must you ruin every thread with your own obsession with the far-right boogeyman under the bed?

Gemma was listened to there about 5 years ago. She was at one stage a respected journalist, the guy who runs broadsheet comes from the same industry, who would have thought that two journalists would talk to each other? Must be a massive far right conspiracy.

There's plenty of people who interacted with Gemma O'Doherty over the years before she went off the deep end, are those people all far right loonies too?

This is the problem with the type of garbage you're stating as fact, it's based on a foundation of your ill informed opinion, you don't stop to think, never mind do due diligence before posting absolute waffle that is at best daft ramping up to libelous , then you go on to row back when it's pointed out to you.

The amount of clowns in Ireland who are hell bent on willing a strong far right into existence never ceases to amaze me. Far right political entities in Ireland are the absolute fringe with a pathetic level of organization and support, but all the same they're about to take over according to some people on the internet. I won't be checking under my bed for the far right any time soon.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing to do with advertisers but instead contributors I believe.

The company they were keeping? By highlighting a five year old article involving somebody who is now in conflict with the website in question?

What you posted suggested that broadsheet and Gemma O'Doherty had some sort of symbiotic relationship when the reality is far removed from that.

Another poster cited what they saw as your "obsession with the far right". I can't speak to this myself but I'm going to assume it's a topic you've spoken about before on this site as you chose not to correct that poster when they mentioned it.

I'm another who used to be a regular before they ruined it. I stopped going back when the conspiracy stuff took over. You can say it was with a nod and a wink or "exploring both sides" but Bodger seemed to lean that way. Then that dragged in the right wing commenters.

My 'obsession' about the far right extends to four posts so far this year, one of them on this thread. Maybe I should work harder on my obsessions?

Do you generally condemn people for the things they chose NOT to correct?

Some batsh!t crazy content during Covid. Think that mostly finished the site. The only thing to miss is handy to see the following mornings front pages.

Used to read BS every day, often interesting content on it. I stopped completely last year as they'd gone totally over to the conspiracy theory, anti-vax etc side (there was alway an element of it TBH). Looks like I wasn't the only one.

Shame to see them going (based on what the site used to be like), but they made their decision, and this is the result.