Is the Irish Independent the most right wing paper in the country?

RayM · 09-08-2014 03:36AM

spook_house wrote: »

the irish times is the labour party in print , rte is the labour party in sound and pictures

( socilism which lives in a nice part of town )

I agree that the editorial slant of the Irish Times is mostly quite liberal, but it's definitely not 'socilist' (sic). It's aimed towards a more educated audience than the Independent, so it's obviously going to be less bigoted. RTE, on the other hand, is pretty damn conservative (with a small 'c'). Although they go out of their way not to be overtly offensive, so I can understand why someone on the far-right might accuse them of being liberal or PC.

No idea why I'm bothering to reply to a blatant re-reg, who will almost certainly be banned before he gets a chance to even read this.

Warper · 09-08-2014 06:25AM

It is a glorified tabloid for half - wits, one only need to look back a few years when they postedpictures of those girls from pwc on the front page

Warper · 09-08-2014 06:27AM

It is a glorified tabloid for half - wits, one only need to look back a few years when they postedpictures of those girls from pwc on the front page

Warper · 09-08-2014 06:27AM

It is a glorified tabloid for half - wits, one only need to look back a few years when they postedpictures of those girls from pwc on the front page

No Pants · 09-08-2014 06:40AM

The main problem the Independent has is that it is trying so hard to out-Mail the Daily Mail and is failing badly at it, both in print and online.

tritium · 09-08-2014 08:41AM

To my mind the Info and the IT provide a nice balance to each other. Both a little bit out on the fringes, both convinced they represent the sensible middle ground.

Not sure I'd agree with the poster earlier who said IT targets a better educated demographic. A more establishment demographic maybe, the ladies who lunch and the Latte Lads

c_man · 09-08-2014 09:38AM

Its pro-Garth Brooks bias is sickening.

suicide_circus · 09-08-2014 09:43AM

It's a shiite heap of a rag. Suggesting it is right wing gives it too much credit, it doesn't have the depth or conviction to even have an ethos, it's pure drivel. A shame as it wasn't always thus.

TwoShedsJackson · 09-08-2014 09:50AM

They sacked all their subeditors recently then a while later put up a 'please email us if you see any mistakes in the paper and help us keep the Independent great!' i.e. 'please do these sacked people's former jobs for free' plea.

crockholm · 09-08-2014 10:13AM

RayM wrote: »

I agree that the editorial slant of the Irish Times is mostly quite liberal, but it's definitely not 'socilist' (sic). It's aimed towards a more educated audience than the Independent, so it's obviously going to be less bigoted. RTE, on the other hand, is pretty damn conservative (with a small 'c'). Although they go out of their way not to be overtly offensive, so I can understand why someone on the far-right might accuse them of being liberal or PC.

No idea why I'm bothering to reply to a blatant re-reg, who will almost certainly be banned before he gets a chance to even read this.

A self-fellating post if ever there was.

catallus · 09-08-2014 10:50AM

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

They sacked all their subeditors recently then a while later put up a 'please email us if you see any mistakes in the paper and help us keep the Independent great!' i.e. 'please do these sacked people's former jobs for free' plea.

Surely you jest!?

B0jangles · 09-08-2014 11:05AM

catallus wrote: »

Surely you jest!?

Nope:

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/07/24/below-subs-standard/

michael999999 · 09-08-2014 01:08PM

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

They sacked all their subeditors recently then a while later put up a 'please email us if you see any mistakes in the paper and help us keep the Independent great!' i.e. 'please do these sacked people's former jobs for free' plea.

But don't worry, if any of there columnists write anything critical about Denis o Brien. Editor stephen rae will change it to leave he's reputation untarnished!

DarkyHughes · 09-08-2014 02:55PM

Magaggie wrote: »

I'd call Myers centre-right. ..

AHAHAHAHA.

This is the man who said Africa has given nothing to world but aides & the Black & Tans were a great bunch of lads & thinks were going to be overrun by Muslims (the man hates HATES Muslims btw) in a few years & turned in to some sort of Taliban controlled country.

I'd call him bordering on fascism.

PopePalpatine · 09-08-2014 03:40PM

DarkyHughes wrote: »

AHAHAHAHA.

This is the man who said Africa has given nothing to world but aides & the Black & Tans were a great bunch of lads & thinks were going to be overrun by Muslims (the man hates HATES Muslims btw) in a few years & turned in to some sort of Taliban controlled country.

I'd call him bordering on fascism.

Don't forget this nugget of cuntishness. I'm pretty sure I remember him decrying racial equality before the law/in the courts too. Only Jugendschutz are more poisonous. I honestly hope he gets Alzheimer's.

j80ezgvc3p92xu · 09-08-2014 09:57PM

As far as I can tell, all mainstream Irish newspapers are very liberal and, if anything, bordering on the left wing. The IT has to take the award for having the most obvious liberal agenda, with their love for abortion and gay rights very noticeable. Just take a look at how they report on the anti-abortion rallies- always show pictures of small groups of old women, yet anyone who has ever seen them always notices the huge numbers of young people present.

The Indo and the Mail are very close behind in peddling mind numbing, nauseating, politically correct mush. Stay away.

Nodin · 09-08-2014 10:00PM

Michelle Prickly Uranus wrote: »

As far as I can tell, all mainstream Irish newspapers are very liberal and, if anything, bordering on the left wing. The IT has to take the award for having the most obvious liberal agenda, with their love for abortion and gay rights very noticeable. Just take a look at how they report on the anti-abortion rallies- always show pictures of small groups of old women, yet anyone who has ever seen them always notices the huge numbers of young people present.

The Indo and the Mail are very close behind in peddling mind numbing, nauseating, politically correct mush. Stay away.

Not Gay Rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shakespeare's Sister · 09-08-2014 10:56PM

crockholm wrote: »

A self-fellating post if ever there was.

Could you explain how?

DarkyHughes wrote: »

AHAHAHAHA.

This is the man who said Africa has given nothing to world but aides & the Black & Tans were a great bunch of lads & thinks were going to be overrun by Muslims (the man hates HATES Muslims btw) in a few years & turned in to some sort of Taliban controlled country.

I'd call him bordering on fascism.

Controversy merchant yeh, but I'm not sure he really believes what he says (not that that's good or anything). He didn't simply say Africa has given AIDS to the world, and wasn't it Eoghan Harris who said that about the B&T?

crockholm · 09-08-2014 11:18PM

Magaggie wrote: »

Could you explain how?

Controversy merchant yeh, but I'm not sure he really believes what he says (not that that's good or anything). He didn't simply say Africa has given AIDS to the world, and wasn't it Eoghan Harris who said that about the B&T?

probably got some of it's ribs taken out I guess.

Eramen · 09-08-2014 11:44PM

Nodin wrote: »

Not Gay Rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Group rights are disgusting, they are for those who are afraid to express themselves as genuine individuals.

There was a time when only natural, individual rights were permitted, as rights for the group leads to the nullification of the person and thus inequality between people.

Go figure.

porsche959 · 10-08-2014 12:05AM

In answer to the OP, no I don't think the II is the most right wing paper in the country. It's basically a populist paper with a few right of centre commentators and a few middle of the road and left of centre ones.

Its sister paper, The Sindo, is probably the most right wing paper in the country. Pretty much all the writers there are on the right to a greater or lesser degree, with Gene Kerrigan being a kind of token leftie.

conorh91 · 10-08-2014 12:07AM

Eramen wrote: »

There was a time when only natural, individual rights were permitted

When?

conorh91 · 10-08-2014 12:21AM

Eramen wrote: »

'Where?' is actually the correct question.

No it isn't.

You said:

There was a time when only natural, individual rights were permitted

What time?

Eramen · 10-08-2014 12:26AM

conorh91 wrote: »

No it isn't.

You said:

What time?

"Never" - in Africa.

'Where' is a better suited criteria, not all nations and cultures are equal or conceived of life and property in the form of 'rights' as we know. The advent of humanism during the Renaissance is a good place to start, to answer your question.

jimgoose · 10-08-2014 12:27AM

conorh91 wrote: »

...What time?

November 1863, Gettysburg PA.

conorh91 · 10-08-2014 12:37AM

Eramen wrote: »

he advent of humanism during the Renaissance is a good place to start, to answer your question.

To clarify, your ideal era was… the middle ages?

j80ezgvc3p92xu · 10-08-2014 04:02PM

conorh91 wrote: »

To clarify, your ideal era was… the middle ages?

I would also support the idea that the middle ages have been unfairly demonised, we can learn a lot from that epoch.

Nodin · 10-08-2014 05:09PM

Eramen wrote: »

Group rights are (.........)inequality between people.

Go figure.

*yawn. Off with the pseudo intellectual nonsense again? Always surprised you weren't one of those "freemen".

Nodin · 10-08-2014 05:10PM

Michelle Prickly Uranus wrote: »

I would also support the idea that the middle ages have been unfairly demonised, we can learn a lot from that epoch.

Do please explain this.

Donkey Oaty · 10-08-2014 05:11PM

Nodin wrote: »

Do please explain this.

Please don't.

Is the Irish Independent the most right wing paper in the country?

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