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Is "The Herald" the guardian of our democracy?

  • 22-08-2010 10:11PM
    #1
    Fulton Crown
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭


    There is a case to answer for this.

    This paper is in the forefront of reporting against the currrent crime lords.

    They name and shame in a forthright fashion.

    They tackle the sleveen politicos in a very agressive style ..witness their reportin of the david Murphy / Mickey Fingleton encounter at Dublin Airport.

    Is any other rag as direct and to the point.

    is The Herald a national treasure....


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  • #2
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Do you work for the Herald by any chance??!!


  • #3
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Just no.


  • #4
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Do you work for The Herald by any chance at all...


    Also, i haven't heard anyone called a sleeveen in years. Brings back memories!


  • #5
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Fulton Crown wrote: »

    is The Herald a national treasure....

    National?
    Is it even sold outside Dublin?


  • #6
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    It's got that certain - I don't know how to describe it - you know, that certain something - it's on the tip of my tongue - that thingummy - that je ne sais quoi - ah, it doesn't matter.

    But whatever it is, the Herald has it.


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  • #7
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    The rest of the country is outside Dublin.


  • #8
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    ...But whatever it is, the Herald has it.
    Ink?


  • #9
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    I'll never forget thier front page headline on 12th September 2001. "Billy from Crumlin loses bicycle". Ahh the memories.


  • #10
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Biggins wrote: »
    Ink?

    I have just googled "Whatever it is, the Herald has it" and there are only eight replies, with my post first!

    When did they stop using that slogan?


  • #11
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    I have just googled "Whatever it is, the Herald has it" and there are only eight replies, with my post first!

    When did they stop using that slogan?
    When the STD's cleared up?


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  • #12
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Biggins wrote: »
    When the STD's cleared up?

    Believe it or not, you have just reminded me of a sketch in one of the "John Player Tops of the Town" winning acts in the early 1980s, which was broadcast on RTE.

    "Whatever it is, the Herald has it" was the punchline.

    I'm showing my age here.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Do you work for the Herald by any chance??!!

    I am completely and utterly sick of this exact question being asked.


  • #14
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Fulton Crown wrote: »
    There is a case to answer for this.

    This paper is in the forefront of reporting against the currrent crime lords.

    They name and shame in a forthright fashion.

    They tackle the sleveen politicos in a very agressive style ..witness their reportin of the david Murphy / Mickey Fingleton encounter at Dublin Airport.

    Is any other rag as direct and to the point.

    is The Herald a national treasure....

    WHAT?


  • #15
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Jeebus, how far does your 'democracy' extend - Dun Laoghaire?


  • #16
    baltimore sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    you're a taxi driver aren't ya?


  • #17
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Is this a troll? The only people who read the herald are working class scumbags who drink pints all day in between placing bets in the bookies, collecting their dole money and eating chipper every night for dinner.


  • #18
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    Newspapers are sh1t.


  • #19
    Fulton Crown
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭Fulton Crown


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Is this a troll? The only people who read the herald are working class scumbags who drink pints all day in between placing bets in the bookies, collecting their dole money and eating chipper every night for dinner.

    Eh ?

    Back up that statement when you are finished your Pimms pal ?

    We need papers who are BALLSY and not afraid to take on the GOLDEN CIRCLES.

    You with me so far Mr Bland ?

    Now you fcukin middle of the roader from the leafy lanes of D4 shut the fcuk up >>


  • #20
    lionela
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭lionela


    The Hearld ..to me personally ..is overpriced and a sheer waste of money.
    At nearly every traffic junction..this newspaper is shoved in your face with huge dramatic headlines which you hear about on the Radio anyway.
    The worst of it is the timing of the evening issue...11.00 am WTF is that all about...I have only put down my Irish Mail and here's the evening Hearld

    I stopped buying the Hearld when it went over the €1.00. As a result I saved myself €7.20 weekly in doing so. that's €374 per year Am I any less informed without this paper..no
    There is the News on the Telly on the Radio on the Internet ...we are bombarded with news items..the important bits that is. To justify the excessive cost of the Hearld they fill it with extra pages of rubbish. Better reduce the silly contents by 10 or 20% and reduce the price by that percentage.

    That's my gripe anyway.

    Cheers


  • #21
    nommm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭nommm


    lol


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  • #22
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Fulton Crown wrote: »
    Eh ?

    Back up that statement when you are finished your Pimms pal ?

    We need papers who are BALLSY and not afraid to take on the GOLDEN CIRCLES.

    You with me so far Mr Bland ?

    Now you fcukin middle of the roader from the leafy lanes of D4 shut the fcuk up >>

    The only thing worse than reading the shoddy attempts at journalism in the herald is reading your posts.


  • #23
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    lionela wrote: »
    I stopped buying the Hearld when it went over the €1.00. As a result I saved myself €7.20 weekly in doing so. that's €374 per year

    Did you buy it on Sundays?

    Edit: Or - horror - is it really Euro 1.20?


  • #24
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    barf


  • #25
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,870 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Fulton Crown wrote: »
    We need papers who are BALLSY and not afraid to take on the GOLDEN CIRCLES.

    >>

    What paper would that be? I tried reading the Herald but apart from telling me possibly what the underworld kingpins ate for breakfast that morning it doesnt really have any real news. If it was such a hardnosed paper as you appear to think why arn't these criminals locked up using the investigative journalism that you seem to think they do? Its a tabloid full of lazy journalism from the cut and paste school with sensational headlines over middling at best articles which at times have weaklinks to the headline. Ohh yes lets not forgot a couple of photos of the next big dolly bird everyday in a swimsuit, I wouldn't even call them models more potential ex-wife for one of the golden circle that you seem to have a beef with.


  • #26
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    My rule is I won't read any tabloid. I barely read any newspaper, but the times is the only one I would bother with. Tabloid rags = not a fcuking chance. Gutter press paper imo.


  • #27
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    My mother used get the Herald free from work everyday. I couldn't figure out at first how it was allowed to call itself a newspaper when it really contained nothing of the sort. I was a naive child...


  • #28
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    lionela wrote: »
    The Hearld ..to me personally ..is overpriced and a sheer waste of money.
    At nearly every traffic junction..this newspaper is shoved in your face with huge dramatic headlines which you hear about on the Radio anyway.
    The worst of it is the timing of the evening issue...11.00 am WTF is that all about...I have only put down my Irish Mail and here's the evening Hearld

    I stopped buying the Hearld when it went over the €1.00. As a result I saved myself €7.20 weekly in doing so. that's €374 per year Am I any less informed without this paper..no
    There is the News on the Telly on the Radio on the Internet ...we are bombarded with news items..the important bits that is. To justify the excessive cost of the Hearld they fill it with extra pages of rubbish. Better reduce the silly contents by 10 or 20% and reduce the price by that percentage.

    That's my gripe anyway.

    Cheers
    The Mail and the Herald? Jesus.


  • #29
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    The Mail and the Herald? Jesus.
    Don't even bring up Jesus - he gets The Post!


  • #30
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I heard that the write The Herald using "plain man's english" so that taxi-drivers can understand it.


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  • #31
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I heard that they write The Herald using "plain man's english" so that taxi-drivers can understand it.
    Ooo... thats bad! ;)


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