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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Looks like the Taoiseach, Tanaiste and Eamon have had enough of this guy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Looks like cowards to me, who fear any proper questions



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    The Grift sorry Gript surely taking the Mick now saying someone else is spreading misinformation



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭Cheddar Bob


    One single complaint upheld in four years under the auspices of the Press Council.


    Last year the paper of record published a prank article written by an AI bot about fake tanning being racist, and an account of a mass assault on a Finglas migrant camp that didn't remotely pass the smell test.


    They all reported on the Carlow teachers.


    One complaint.


    One. Out of thousands of articles.


    Can you imagine how many daily complaints the press council must have to sift through from nutters desperate to get Gript shut down?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,014 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Nah gave the dullard all the attention and respect he deserves.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Probably best you stick to state sponsored media



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,224 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭HerrKapitan


    It looked like the press conference had merely come to its conclusion and gript ran out of time, not the politicians ignoring them.

    Politicians cant stand there indefinitely, they have work to do. Typical Gript twisting appearances.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump




  • Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I can't remember the same uproar from the usual suspects post the Carlow teachers debacle that is being seen here over Gript

    Has Gript an agenda? Yes I would say so

    Has pretty much every media organisation an agenda? Yes I would say so also

    But a lot of posters appear to have the hump not over Gript having an agenda, simply with Gript having an agenda that's different to theirs........



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    If RTE were more balanced and actually called it down the middle I don't think Gript would exist. But they don't, so people will always look for an alternative imho.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,846 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    I think you know the answer there ...not a secret.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,556 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    What really annoys some people is that any opinions they don't agree with should have a platform to be expressed to begin with.

    There's plenty of platforms presenting opinions I may not agree with, I simply don't engage with them, I don't feel entitled to stop them from doing what they do.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NoMoreDonegalTuesdays


    Says the guy who loves Donald Trump so much he named his account after him. Lol.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,223 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Says the guy who was probably banned in the past , is that the best you got, attacking my username ? grow up



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,982 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    Gript is ideologically motivated shoite, of course it is.

    Sadly our media has been hit by years of cuts and it has found a niche. It’s not hard to see that the IT has gone a certain way when it was codded with an article about fake tan being racist.

    Anyway it’s a shame that we seem to be going the way of the UK with publications, most notably Gript, covering the news according to their agenda.

    The traditional media has gone through a good 15 years of constant cuts, and sfa was done about it. Society is increasingly seeing the effects I believe.

    It’s distasteful to many people, but it is essential that the State works to provide an effective funding model for honest, unbiased media. Easier said than done I know, especially at a time when the country’s best publication can get caught out by a spoofer pretending they wrote an article about fake tan beint racist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NoMoreDonegalTuesdays


    I'm not a guy. Donald Trump banned journalists (as opposed to far right propagandists, which is what Gript are) from the White House and has constructed an entirely fake world around himself where he can never be challenged by anybody hostile. He is the ultimate coward. I presume that's why you named yourself after him.

    It's some laugh that you are accusing anybody of being a coward when you're a fanboi of the ultimate coward to the point where you try to adopt his name.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Fanboy? it's username dude relax lol , the fact that you're triggered by it says a lot about you. I guess TDS is real. Attacking me over a bloody username FFS!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NoMoreDonegalTuesdays


    The reality is that the internet by its nature has been a disaster for public information in general. The internet decentralised information but that led to a decline in sales for quality publications. Less and less people wanted to pay for their news. That drove cuts and drove a move towards opinion and sensationalism in reputable publications. The logic of "the market" took over. The publication of incendiary opinions became more and more common because incendiary opinion drove engagement. But a blizzard of incendiary opinion isn't good for public knowledge.

    Outside reputable publications, the logic of the market was everything. Only engagement mattered. The market has no morals or values or ethics. Disinformation and lies became the currency of engagement along with destruction of nuance and context. And they were free. Gript is a product of an ethics-free environment logic of the market. It's pure clickbait to drive anger among the gullible, it's vulture stuff.

    It's no wonder we now live in a world where hysterical conspiracists are multiplying every day. In hindsight, it was inevitable. Facts won't change that. Too many people don't want facts now and will never want them. They want anger and dopamine and to feel part of a mob. The cat is out of the bag.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NoMoreDonegalTuesdays


    Your position is one of the most ludicrous hypocrisy and bad faith. And you're clearly embarrassed at being exposed as such. Like all fans of the troll propaganda operation that Gript is, you're full of shlt.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Thing is, they could easily have ended up reporting on a rumour from one Garda if there was a Garda source. Due diligence means you don't assume one guy has it right and get secondary confirmation. Think journalists tend to go for 3 sources as confirmation.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭tom23


    MSM in my opinion offer a herd, group think reporting... basically offer all of the same opinion, are politically aligned (they will never admit that) to the FF, FG and some labour. Are biased. thats fine. Don't read gript as a rule unless an article is shared. I find some of their articles interesting, not all. For me the rise of this 'citizen journalist' asking questions, there is one or two of them fuckers should be walked off a cliff.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭gotaf


    You would worry about the state of our education system when you see so much respect for Gript.ie.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    The controversies that Gript are involved in are great to increase their visibility, prominence and subscribers.

    Long may it last!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭lbunnae


    I think it started over Covid for some people. The less intelligent of society just weren’t preoccupied enough.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,042 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    RTÉ - while piously styling itself a neutral public broadcaster - is very very very biased, as we all know - it incessantly promotes the “none more woke than us” agenda.

    It is good to have some semblance of balance where a small media outlet with limited resources tries to address the endless streams of woke audio and visual “scutter talk” flowing from Montrosia.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭seanin4711


    when all you get from RTE is misinformation and its accepted then everything else is then misinformation(objective questioning and truth).



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