Irish Daily Star to shut?

GSF · 15-09-2012 08:55PM

Oarrack Bama wrote: »

No fan of tabloids BUT believe me the British press are such hypocrites. They would post nude pictures of foreign heads of state in an instant - but they won't their own. They are all ethical now eh? Also "porn king" Desmond has a crisis of concious over this. That's hilarious.

I hope it is not shut down for the simple reason, as has been pointed out, are we to allow the British to decide editorial stances here and what we can read in our own country!?

Hope Denis O'Brien keeps it going - not because I like it, I despise it - but because I don't think we should be kow toeing to what the British press want.

Nothing stopping you buying the title then so!

Cavehill Red · 15-09-2012 08:56PM

Dozens of Irish jobs are set to be lost all because one tasteless gimp decided to reprint some blurry pics of some English bint's baps.
Why not replace the editor and move along if this is deemed so heinous a crime to a man (Richard Desmond) who made his entire fortune publishing blurry pictures of English bints' baps?
Why must the Irish media suffer the loss of another national newspaper for the sensitivities of a porn magnate seeking a knighthood?

GSF · 15-09-2012 09:00PM

It is profitable. Desmonds share will be sold to another buyer if he exits

http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-daily-star-records-e4-3m-operating-profit-218764-Sep2011/

€4m annual profit in 2010. Pays dividends to share holders. 50% share would be worth probably €20m ish?

Cavehill Red · 15-09-2012 09:02PM

GSF wrote: »

It is profitable. Desmonds share will be sold to another buyer if he exits

http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-daily-star-records-e4-3m-operating-profit-218764-Sep2011/

€4m annual profit in 2010. Pays dividends to share holders. 50% share would be worth probably €20m ish?

It is profitable but not as profitable as previously. There have been rumours of imminent cuts there for months. This will come down to Denis and whether he wants to keep it going or not.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-09-2012 09:05PM

Anyone who bought the Star for blurry nude pics of Kate middleton should be sent for mandatory therapy. As should the guy who thought it would sometime of interest to an irish person.

Seanchai · 15-09-2012 09:07PM

snaps wrote: »

There's a line that's been crossed here, royal or no royal. At the end of the day, they are normal people, they deserve time where they should be allowed to do things any other person would at their age etc. If she was on a public beach, then yes, slap her all over the tabloids, but pictures taken like these are a disgrace. The press need to be brought down a peg or two now, enough is enough.
If a couple can't have some privacy for time to themselves away from the press, then its a sad world we live.
I'm not bothered about the royals, but actually feel disgusted what's happened to Kate and her family, end of the day they are just a married couple, trying to enjoy life together.

Em, they're not, unless it's normal for "normal people" to have their lives followed. Of course, they could always abdicate their right to the (anti-Catholic) British crown if they hate the publicity and go off and work like "normal people" and have private lives like ordinary people. They chose not to do that. They chose to keep their life of lazy-arsed status and privilege. Ergo, they're not victims.

squod · 15-09-2012 09:09PM

Will get relaunched as the Stor. Exclusive interviews with rugby stars and Irish celebs. Nothside version will be called Story

The Idyll Race · 15-09-2012 09:09PM

GSF wrote: »

It is profitable. Desmonds share will be sold to another buyer if he exits

http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-daily-star-records-e4-3m-operating-profit-218764-Sep2011/

€4m annual profit in 2010. Pays dividends to share holders. 50% share would be worth probably €20m ish?

How about this?

Desmond sells his half to the Irish Times and they relaunch it as the old Evening Mail: it was a posh evening paper for "nice" people

Boobies optional.

Dotsie~tmp · 15-09-2012 09:10PM

The only hypocrisy is from those who purchase these gutter publications. If someone came sneaking over your fence and took naked pictures, you would rightfully call the guards and want them arrested. There is an expectation of privacy behind closed doors.

The royals are unsympathetic figures but if you allow their rights to privacy in private settings to be diminished then all others will follow. There can be no public interest agument either. They are husband and wife.

Seanchai · 15-09-2012 09:13PM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Dozens of Irish jobs are set to be lost all because one tasteless gimp decided to reprint some blurry pics of some English bint's baps.
Why not replace the editor and move along if this is deemed so heinous a crime to a man (Richard Desmond) who made his entire fortune publishing blurry pictures of English bints' baps?
Why must the Irish media suffer the loss of another national newspaper for the sensitivities of a porn magnate seeking a knighthood?

It's not a "national newspaper" in Ireland. It's the Oirish version of yet another British tabloid "national newspaper".

And to be honest the sort of jobs lost in that British tabloid rag would hardly be occupied by classy, intelligent and decent people. To lament its demise would be akin to lamenting the closure of the Sunday Independent and the unemployment of O'Connor, Harris, Myers, Dudley Edwards, etc.

I await such happy days.

15-09-2012 09:14PM

Isn't that paper written for people with a reading ability of 7 year olds?

Only retards read it. Anyone who'll miss it is a sad individual. Although I doubt it's going anywhere.

Seanchai · 15-09-2012 09:15PM

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

The only hypocrisy is from those who purchase these gutter publications.

In fairness, the Desmond guy who is claiming he'll pull out of owning this newspaper on moral and ethical grounds made his fortune selling porn. That counts as hypocrisy in the eyes of most people, I'd say.

gobnaitolunacy · 15-09-2012 09:17PM

One less colouring book for adults/emergency bog roll.

vitani · 15-09-2012 09:19PM

kowloon wrote: »

Don't they take pictures of celebrities on the beach and the likes all the time? I don't see how this is anymore of a scandal than any of the previous times. Tabloids exist for this type of muck and their sports section. Some strangely misplaced outrage here.

There's a massive difference between taking a photo of someone on a public beach and taking them of somebody in a private estate. There's laws against what they did for a reason.

fionnsda · 15-09-2012 09:19PM

so have you all seen her tits then!

Cavehill Red · 15-09-2012 09:19PM

Seanchai wrote: »

It's not a "national newspaper" in Ireland. It's the Oirish version of yet another British tabloid "national newspaper".

No, you're entirely wrong. Unlike the Irish Mirror or Irish Sun, or Irish Daily Mail or Irish Sunday Times for that matter, the Irish Daily Star generates all its own content here in Ireland with Irish journalists.

Seanchai wrote: »

And to be honest the sort of jobs lost in that British tabloid rag would hardly be occupied by classy, intelligent and decent people. To lament its demise would be akin to lamenting the closure of the Sunday Independent and the unemployment of O'Connor, Harris, Myers, Dudley Edwards, etc.
I await such happy days.

You celebrate the loss of Irish jobs. I guess you just lost the right to claim the 'classy' high ground right there.

vitani · 15-09-2012 09:20PM

Seanchai wrote: »

In fairness, the Desmond guy who is claiming he'll pull out of owning this newspaper on moral and ethical grounds made his fortune selling porn. That counts as hypocrisy in the eyes of most people, I'd say.

People who appear in porn choose to do so, and get paid for it. Kate didn't.

Wee Willy Harris · 15-09-2012 09:20PM

We're all stars, on a daily basis

dave1982 · 15-09-2012 09:21PM

PICS OR GTFO:D:D:D:D

boards.ie would probably <Snip> :rolleyes:

http://maxfarquar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/kate-william-balcony-BJ.gif

Awaits MI5's arrival

Wanderer2010 · 15-09-2012 09:23PM

Who the hell cares if her pics are published, people out there are trying to put food on the table and pay their bills and if you have enough time to care about these topless photos you must have an empty life. I mean, a bit of perspective here, there are much more important things going on in the world than what some Princess does with her spare time :rolleyes:

Fatbiker · 15-09-2012 09:28PM

fionnsda wrote: »

so have you all seen her tits then!

Fionnsda...I thank you sincerely! FB

GSF · 15-09-2012 09:28PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Who the hell cares if her pics are published, people out there are trying to put food on the table and pay their bills and if you have enough time to care about these topless photos you must have an empty life. I mean, a bit of perspective here, there are much more important things going on in the world than what some Princess does with her spare time :rolleyes:

many more are sitting on their backsides posting to the internet all day

later12 · 15-09-2012 09:30PM

super_furry wrote: »

Such staggering hypocrisy. It's ok to torture celebrities by following their every waking moment and taking pictures of them in some of the most vulnerable moments of their life but if someone does it to one of their untouchables, that's crossing the line.

I heard the editor of the Irish Daily Star make almost this exact point. He said "she's not our future Queen/ we'll treat her like we would treat Rihanna".

Two points there - (a) no, it's not ok to take pictures of any celebrity when they are in a private setting and believe themselves to be invisible to prying eyes, and then to publish those pictures and (b) there is a difference between Rihanna and Lady Gaga vs Kate Middleton (and believe me, I'm not Monarchist) ; the difference is that Lady Gaga and Rihanna need the press and to some extent endorse that sort of celebrity ; Kate Middleton is firstly an army officer's wife, that's her day job, and she doesn't court that kind of publicity.

666irishguy · 15-09-2012 09:30PM

It would be a pity if those jobs go. The Star should claim that although initially publishing them might not have been in the public interest, the fact that the story got so big means that they decided to run the story just to show the public what the fuss was about. At the end of the day I think it's a bit of a joke that a newspaper in this country would have to close because they ran a story on a British royal. UK media bosses are media are the living definition of hypocrites.

AllGunsBlazing · 15-09-2012 09:31PM

Haven't bought the Star since the late 90's - it had a fantastic sports section back in those days.

Like most people (I'd imagine) I get my news via the old interweb machine. And that's part of the problem - the more we look for our news elsewhere the more salacious the red tops become in trying to attract sales. There's also been a significant dumbing down of the tv news as well imo.

As for some ex-porn baron trying to claim some sort of moral highground...:rolleyes:

Latchy · 15-09-2012 09:32PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Anyone who bought the Star for blurry nude pics of Kate middleton should be sent for mandatory therapy. As should the guy who thought it would sometime of interest to an irish person.

They are already up on the net anyway so nobody had to buy any newspaper to see them if they so wished .

kowloon · 15-09-2012 09:35PM

vitani wrote: »

There's a massive difference between taking a photo of someone on a public beach and taking them of somebody in a private estate. There's laws against what they did for a reason.

My mistake, I assumed in this case it was the former.

Sir Pompous Righteousness · 15-09-2012 09:40PM

Solair wrote: »

Basically, we've a foreign company dictating editorial policy to an Irish news outlet by threatening it with financial destruction.

It doesn't matter if they're from Ireland or from the moon, they still own the news outlet and they can disassociate from them financially whenever they see fit if they're not happy with what they publish or if they feel what the outlet published might threaten the entire franchise. It's well within their rights to do so. Plus, they're a private company.

later12 · 15-09-2012 09:47PM

Solair wrote: »

While the publication of the photos was fairly tasteless, I think this is a total over-reaction by this company which is only a partial owner / shareholder.

Basically, we've a foreign company dictating editorial policy to an Irish news outlet

No, they have a major shareholder protesting editorial policy, which may bring the paper down.

While that may be excessive from a commercial point of view, that has nothing to do with "us" or whatever sort of injury to "our" sovereignty that you seem to feel has occurred.

girl in the striped socks · 15-09-2012 09:49PM

It you're willing to take your top off on holiday then don't come crying about invasion of privacy when titty photos make the newspapers.
You don't want your boobs in magazines, newspapers & on the Internet? No problem, keep your top on. A harsh lesson has been learned.
I'd be more concerned about them being shot dead if a photographer is able to get photos from long range.

Irish Daily Star to shut?

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