What newspaper do you avoid like the plague?

Ardent · 10-06-2004 10:21AM #1

And why?

For me it's the Sunday World - I can't stand Amanda Brunker and the paper's trashy "news" stories.

quarryman · 10-06-2004 10:25AM

The Sun. well, except one page.

Kermitt · 10-06-2004 10:30AM

has to be the mirror.. what a pile of horsesh!t

Pacifico · 10-06-2004 10:31AM

The Sun. Jesus i hate reading that paper

Zulu · 10-06-2004 10:37AM

Any tabloid (and I'm including the indo here).

Stephen · 10-06-2004 10:41AM

The Sun. I get angry if I read it, the pure retardedness of it all just pisses me off.

"CELEBRITY BOLLOX PASSING AS NEWS, WE LOVE IT!!111!2"

Lump · 10-06-2004 10:44AM

The Mirror......

I normally read the Sun at 4am on a 15 hour night shift, at that time the sun is the only thing my brain can manage.

John

dudara · 10-06-2004 10:47AM

pretty much any tabloid

ixoy · 10-06-2004 10:47AM

Tabloids. *Spit* Learn to write properly you morons.

dod · 10-06-2004 11:13AM

I avoid The Irish Independent and The Sunday Independent. I simply refuse to buy them. They are an offence to journalism. Not even tabloid standard journalism masquerading as a broadsheet newspaper. The Independent makes me sick. I hate it. I HATE IT.

Did I mention that I avoid the Irish Independent newspaper?

KdjaCL · 10-06-2004 11:15AM

the sun

kdjac

garthv · 10-06-2004 11:19AM

Id have to say the sun as its the biggest load of bolli* being printed.It's practically another version of the National Enquirer or Weekly World News

the cat · 10-06-2004 11:26AM

The sun.

TwoShedsJackson · 10-06-2004 11:47AM

The Evening Herald is the biggest load of reactionary shite ever. I wouldn't wipe my arse on it if it was the last piece of paper on Earth.

simu · 10-06-2004 11:53AM

All tabloids, I hate.

I avoid The Irish Independent and The Sunday Independent. I simply refuse to buy them. They are an offence to journalism. Not even tabloid standard journalism masquerading as a broadsheet newspaper. The Independent makes me sick. I hate it. I HATE IT.

I agree. I hate they way so many of their staff members can't decide if they're models or journalists and the way they always have photos of semi-naked women plastered everywhere (if you want porn, get some on the interweb, says I). They also employ young writers who can't string a coheret line together - it's embarassing to read the stuff they come out with and these people are supposed to represent all young irish people. Argh!

I don't like the Sunday Times much either. The news section is always bulked up with silly stories, they can't seem to make up their minds if women having a career is a good idea or not - they have articles on this topic nearlty every week. Who cares? It's not that interesting a topic anymore! They also bulk the paper up with huge, unnecessary photos and wheneever they're going on about some (usually trivial) social phenomenon, they give the example of how this happened to one named and photographed person as if that were proof that the issue is relevant to all their readers. The critics on the "Culture" magazine are dull and pretentious. The Style magazine is particularly awful in how it encourages people to become image-obsessed dimwits.

Mighty_Mouse · 10-06-2004 11:54AM

Sunday World and Irish Independant. Although I will read the sports of any paper.

pickarooney · 10-06-2004 12:44PM

Evening Herald. Worst excuse for a paper ever, it has no positive points.

super_furry · 10-06-2004 01:38PM

The Sun because of the Hillsborough lies and a million other wrongs. They are scum of the highest order.

Emmo · 10-06-2004 01:44PM

The S*N.

Its a ****ing rag that printed "The Truth"

buch of ****ing scumbags

Emmo

IgnatiusJRiley · 10-06-2004 01:46PM

Originally posted by TwoShedsJackson
The Evening Herald is the biggest load of reactionary shite ever. I wouldn't wipe my arse on it if it was the last piece of paper on Earth.

Beat me to it and worded the reasons for hating it perfectly!

soma · 10-06-2004 01:46PM

The Sunday Independent grrrrrr :mad:

(a) 80% of it is thrashy tabloid stories dressed up in broadsheet. Who is shagging who in dublin 4 is not national news (it's not even news to *me* and I *live* in d4). And how can you take a "journalist" seriously e.g. when half of the female writers are good looking women who get their kit-off *alot* in the photos that accompany their pieces..? :dunno:

(b) The attempts at serious journalism are the most infuriating type of UK-worshipping, pro-Bush, pro-Israel, anti-arab, anti-nationalist lies & rubbish.

billy the squid · 10-06-2004 01:48PM

The Sun

There is no real news in it (and the ink sticks to your arse)

The Monday Tuesday and Wednesday editions of the Limerick Leader

There is more advertisements in it than news.

The Evening Echo

I could care less about all their cork news being peddled in Limerick. The limerick Echo should have limerick news.

Stuff · 10-06-2004 01:54PM

The Southside people, not worth a penny:D

Sleepy · 10-06-2004 05:52PM

Pretty much all of them barring the Irish Times. Though I read the Sunday Times regularly enough too...

Marq · 10-06-2004 07:15PM

If there's one thing I hate more than supposedly intelligent people writing stupid stories aimed at idiots (ie, the tabloids), it's idiots writing stupid stories aimed at supposedly intelligent people (the Daily Mail). The Daily Mail is far and away the most reactionary, fascist and downright terrible form of toilet paper known to man.

Ugh, makes me feel dirty just to think of it.

Civilian_Target · 10-06-2004 07:46PM

Daily Express or the Irish Independant. Both crap. At least The Sun has its market right, it's just tits and celebrities. However, the Indo and the Express were once broadsheets that degenerated and now seem to think of themselves as "clever tabloids" and therefore don't have tits.

The Irish Times or if not availiable, the Guardian or the Independant (the UK one that is, and not any Sunday ones) are the way to go.

Still waiting for a sunday version of the Irish Times.

Raskolnikov · 10-06-2004 08:11PM

I avoid; The Sun, Sunday World (and all the other Sunday tabloids), Irish Independant.

Newspaper of choice in Ireland, Irish Times, Irish Examiner or Sunday Business Post. When in N. Ireland, Belfast Telegraph.

nlgbbbblth · 10-06-2004 08:36PM

I buy The Guardian every day and The Observer and Sunday Tribune on Sundays

I read the Irish Times and Irish Independent at work. The Indo has better sports coverage (particularly GAA) than the Times but that's about it.

I have a serious hatred of The Sun/Mirror and Star etc

Not too fond of Rupert Murdoch's Times/Sunday Times either

Some no-brainers at work give me grief for reading The Guardian "that English/British ****" they call it - while clearly unaware that it's the most pro-Ireland / pro-Irish nationalist / least jingoistic of all the UK press.

Ironically they read The Oirish Sun or Oirish Mirror - while clearly unaware that the "Irish" tag is an insult and those rags are reactionary pro-British rubbish.

Same sort of guys who would support Celtic [The Plastic Hoops] citing their "Irishness/Irish roots" but wouldn't dream of following an actual Irish club like Shamrock Rovers [The Real Hoops]

kano476 · 10-06-2004 08:51PM

shams are scum though.they needed police dogs from dublin to come down with them to the blues game the other night.

anyway back on topic - mirror is an absolute waste of trees. the sun not much better (page 3) the star can be decent enough at times, good sport coverage.
i dont read broadsheets cause they are just too feckin awkward!

nlgbbbblth · 10-06-2004 08:52PM

Originally posted by kano476
shams are scum though.they needed police dogs from dublin to come down with them to the blues game the other night.

anyway back on topic - mirror is an absolute waste of trees. the sun not much better (page 3) the star can be decent enough at times, good sport coverage.
i dont read broadsheets cause they are just too feckin awkward!

I don't follow Shams - was using them as comparison against Celtic
St Pats myself

kano476 · 10-06-2004 09:16PM

apologies

GO ON THE BLUES!

What newspaper do you avoid like the plague?

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