Why do so many people hate the Sunday Independent?

silverdolphin wrote: »

Nearly everyone says it's a rag. I heard someone say once about its sister paper "Ew, I can't believe I touched the Irish Independent." I agree the content could be better. I don't read it too much, but I've read some pieces and I don't think the reporters are bad writers (although some of them may have poor judgment). To be honest, I kind of prefer the Sindo's style of writing to the Irish Times because it's more engaging to me.

Maybe because people see someone else say it is a rag

as an example of the rubbish it prints, refer to it's edition of 2 or 3 weeks ago when it's editor saw fit to put the niamh horan story with that scumbag mcfeehily on its front cover.
now anyone that follows current affairs is aware of his disgusting business dealings-priory hall for example. yet he's on the front page for basically telling niamh to **** off and smashed a glass. i'd be more curious to know how a 'bankrupt' is on holidays in portugal yet he cant compensate the victims of the priory hall debacle.
again today there's more claptrap about horan/mc feehily:rolleyes: so basically scumbags can threaten people without any coverage but woe betide if they threaten a journo.

i'd agree with tippspur that it's anti public sector and they're always having a right pop at the government no matter who's in charge. however colm mc carthy is always the voice of reason.

If you want to know whats going on buy the business post. However tbf to the sindo it's a catch all, sport the rag mag etc, covers most of the population hence it's populatity. I buy it every sunday-i think my wife would die without it:)

I think it is because people are marched at gunpoint to buy it.

Because Eoghan Harris writes for it.

Maybe that's just me.

kunst nugget wrote: »

Do people really have memories this short. What about all the fawning they did over Bertie? More than one article was written sympathizing with his 'plight' over the Moriarty tribunal. Articles like the one below seemed to be part of a concerted effort to denigrate the work of Moriarty:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/the-ahern-years/theyve-got-him-and-sunk-to-a-new-depth-1339720.html

While we're on O'Connor, how can we forget his infamous article about the smart, ballsy guys:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-smart-ballsy-guys-are-buying-up-property-right-now-1047118.html

Helping to push up property prices was another goal of the Sindo. Only recently they had an front page article saying the Irish property market was going to rise like a ping pong ball in water. :rolleyes:

Not to mention it's love for trying to make faux celebrities for the Irish market and it's ability to write completely tasteless articles like this:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2poqk2v.jpg

As a paper, it is utterly reprehensible. I only ever see it if I call into my parents on a Sunday but any time I read it I'm still shocked by how utterly vile it is.

I'm new (and a luddite) so haven't worked out how to thank that post, but agree with every word of it. A horrible paper written by horrible people to promote prejudices I want nothing to do with.

Its more widely available in England than other Irish papers but there's still no danger of me buying it. Occasionally pick-up a copy kicking about the pub on a Sunday and its always the same dispiriting gutter nonsense.

Another stirring article by intrepid Sindo journalist Niamh Horan today all about what women wear when going to visit their men in prison!!! The Purlitzer surely beckons at this stage...

Tool_ wrote: »

I'm new (and a luddite) so haven't worked out how to thank that post, but agree with every word of it. A horrible paper written by horrible people to promote prejudices I want nothing to do with.

Its more widely available in England than other Irish papers but there's still no danger of me buying it. Occasionally pick-up a copy kicking about the pub on a Sunday and its always the same dispiriting gutter nonsense.

Dispiriting sums it up completely.

It's complete and utter rubbish, and is out of touch with the average Joe in the country.

Most of the opinion pieces are irrelevant.

I enjoy reading about crime in Sunday papers, but their crime correspondent Jim Cusick is a joke. Almost every other piece he used to write was about Sinn Fein trying to take over the country. He might have changed tune since I last read, I doubt it though

Snickers Man wrote: »

Because Eoghan Harris writes for it.

Well thats 1 of the many reasons why I don't support this rag, I mean Eoghan Harris is so self opinionated, he's right and everybody else is wrong. Well after his very infamous performance backing Bertie the chancer in the 2007 General Election on The Late Late Show and then getting a cushy job on the Seanad Eireann gravy train, his reward from Bertie, he certainly showed flawed judgement on that account, then he has the gall and hard neck to slagged off public sector workers, he certainly feels at home in the Sindo because no other papar would have him. He was never elected by anybody, not even in the Seanad, just a Bertie appointee, these days he's just a sad old man with another opinion.