Who is Ireland's worst journalist?

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Do you also believe Gemmas claim that the Northern Ireland Troubles were a staged event?

No. I disagree with a lot of what she says. I hate her Catholic Revivalism with a passion, but I refused to exist within a simple polemic that we discount every opinion and statement a person might make based on the ones we do not like.



The Lockdown - at this stage is an abomination - and the agenda it services is politicians and senior civil servants intoxicated on protocol and bureaucracy to the point whereby they have lost the run of themselves and the best the Irish media can do is cheer-lead them while distracting the public consciousness for the billions of people the world over who are not in lockdown and are not all dead.

Strange how some journalists, like the curate's egg, are good in parts. For example Fintan O'Toole: good theatre critic, very good on the beef tribunal years ago, and brilliant with his Brexit pieces, especially in the Guardian.

However when it comes to the health service and equality-related issues he reverts to Dave Spart mode.

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

No. I disagree with a lot of what she says. I hate her Catholic Revivalism with a passion, but I refused to exist within a simple polemic that we discount every opinion and statement a person might make based on the ones we do not like.



The Lockdown - at this stage is an abomination - and the agenda it services is politicians and senior civil servants intoxicated on protocol and bureaucracy to the point whereby they have lost the run of themselves and the best the Irish media can do is cheer-lead them while distracting the public consciousness for the billions of people the world over who are not in lockdown and are not all dead.

How specifically does the lockdown benefit politicians and senior civil servants?

Terry Prone....

Something quite ‘off’ about that one... no interest in the counter views of any other individual... like a blogger rather then a journalist.

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

She has a permanent brain injury, from a car accident years ago.
She was also left with serious facial injuries, and had to get extensive surgery to correct it, dental implants too because her teeth were knocked out.

I think she's most definitely an 'odd' individual, especially many of the things she has said. But some of that I, I wonder how much of it is tied into her brain injury.

Impossible to know, you’d need to be a psychologist I’m guessing to suss all that out..

You’d wonder though what the editor at times must be saying.

BeerWolf wrote: »

All of TheJournal.ie's ... they copy/paste everything.

They're practically dead right now.

Those 'clickbait' sites have a shelf life, and The Journal's been trimming it's crew over the last few years.

I mean, if Buzzfeed, Huffpo, and others are letting staff go, despite being a larger organisation, then you just know The Journal is not gonna last much more.

The One Doctor wrote: »

If The Journal dies, Boards will die too. Media is dying all over the world, good riddance.

There's a difference between media and forums.

Boards isn't a digital media journalistic site.

But notice how quickly the 'digital media' sites bottomed out? Buzzfeed, Huffpost, DailyEdge, Joe.ie etc... all reliant on clicks, and then later clickbait.
Many were told that 'print would die'... yet the decline of digital media was far quicker than print media.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

How specifically does the lockdown benefit politicians and senior civil servants?

When this all blows over and Varadker is taking up some EU, UN or Globalist Woke NGO/QUANGO cushy number you can get back to me.

As for Holohan, he used the pandemic as a kind of cynical 'Road to Damascus' in order to bury his appalling behavior/legacy with the Cervical Cancer horror. The spin this time last year was out of control with an artist hired to paint 'Dad' as Superman on a high traffic location with the 'artist' being told to mentioned 'that WOMEN wanted a poster of Dr Holohan'. It was pure Tony Blair/Bill Clinton level image massaging. Right down to him being touted for Freedom of the City.

Apart from the RTE propaganda bureau, I can't think of anything who has capitalize more on the C19 than politicians and civil servants. They are 'heroes' now. For basically doing what the UK did - because the UK did it - and none of them had the cognition/balls to apply independent thinking. It's still going on.

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

When this all blows over and Varadker is taking up some EU, UN or Globalist Woke NGO/QUANGO cushy number you can get back to me.

How many examples from our long history of politicians taking EU, UN or global NGO roles would it take to convince you that this has nothing to do with Covid?

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

As for Holohan, he used the pandemic as a kind of cynical 'Road to Damascus' in order to bury his appalling behavior/legacy with the Cervical Cancer horror. The spin this time last year was out of control with an artist hired to paint 'Dad' as Superman on a high traffic location with the 'artist' being told to mentioned 'that WOMEN wanted a poster of Dr Holohan'. It was pure Tony Blair/Bill Clinton level image massaging. Right down to him being touted for Freedom of the City.

Wow. Just Wow.

The government/civil service did not hire any artist to paint any pictures of Tony Holohan. Presumably you've heard that repeated so many times in the fun circles that you hang out with that you failed to notice it is an absolute lie. The only image massaging going on round here is by you.

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

Apart from the RTE propaganda bureau, I can't think of anything who has capitalize more on the C19 than politicians and civil servants. They are 'heroes' now. For basically doing what the UK did - because the UK did it - and none of them had the cognition/balls to apply independent thinking. It's still going on.

I haven't heard too many people describing politicians as heroes. I don't follow the opinion polls religiously, but from what I recall, the government parties were coming out pretty badly in recent months.

And again, you're factually wrong to say we followed the UK - quite the reverse. The UK went off on their solo run on herd immunity, until they eventually realised how many citizens they were going to kill (with the emphasis on the mostly elderly mostly tory voters), and backtracked to follow what Ireland and the rest of the world were doing.

So you might want to see if you find any actual facts to back up your bitterness?

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

How many examples from our long history of politicians taking EU, UN or global NGO roles would it take to convince you that this has nothing to do with Covid?


Wow. Just Wow.

The government/civil service did not hire any artist to paint any pictures of Tony Holohan. Presumably you've heard that repeated so many times in the fun circles that you hang out with that you failed to notice it is an absolute lie. The only image massaging going on round here is by you.



I haven't heard too many people describing politicians as heroes. I don't follow the opinion polls religiously, but from what I recall, the government parties were coming out pretty badly in recent months.

And again, you're factually wrong to say we followed the UK - quite the reverse. The UK went off on their solo run on herd immunity, until they eventually realised how many citizens they were going to kill (with the emphasis on the mostly elderly mostly tory voters), and backtracked to follow what Ireland and the rest of the world were doing.

So you might want to see if you find any actual facts to back up your bitterness?

The elderly weren't mostly Tory voters so stop spouting ****e. Look at the figures in the big traditional Labour constituencies.