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DailyEdge.ie is gone.

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    #32
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Cina wrote: »
    It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

    Personally I enjoyed it and I'll miss some of its content, but I can see why people might celebrate the demise of a particular online media source - whether we like it or not, they command a ridiculous level of influence over culture in general. If the Huffington Post, Vice, and Buzzfeed had never been created, it's likely enough that all the PC culture / identity politics garbage would never have entered mainstream cultural consciousness, these three outlets used clickbait tactics to push that agenda hard from 2013 onwards. The media has a lot of influence on wider society, and media which choose to use this influence to actively attempt to affect social change as opposed to mere passive reporting of it are highly unethical.

    Regarding the Daily Edge specifically, I'm opposed to SJW bullsh!t as much as anyone, but was Daily Edge known for it? I thought it was more of a student-esque cultural thing like Lovin Dublin rather than an opinionated space for social issues?

    EDIT: Ok, just looked over it and I can see where people are coming from, but unless my memory is faulty here it wasn't always like this - I distinctly remember a time when it was centred around socialising and general craic, so talking about festivals, clubs, cultural memes and things like photos of crowds having cans outside The Barge in the summer. Am I confusing it with another subsidiary of The Journal?


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    #33
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,487 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Hopefully Journal will follow, gone downhill massively...

    Downhill? Journal started at the bottom of the barrel and kept digging.


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    #34
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,135 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    If DE and Joe.ie go, whats Matt Coopers Last Word going to do for specialist knowledge?


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    #35
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    NIMAN wrote: »
    If DE and Joe.ie go, whats Matt Coopers Last Word going to do for specialist knowledge?

    More roe mc Dermott and Jennifer Gannon and current presenters stepping in on various topics like ferg Darcy on brexit


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    #36
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    The Daily Edge is gone... And you'll never guess why?


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    #37
    The Highwayman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    Cina wrote: »
    It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

    Learn to code.


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    #38
    Maurice Yeltsin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 127 ✭✭Maurice Yeltsin


    The Toad wrote: »
    The government needs to introduce free coding classes for the massive layoffs that are coming in the media sector.

    The most ironic learn to code I saw used was by Gemma O'Doherty.

    Y'know, given it's a meme aimed at sacked journalists who won't ever get another well paid gig :pac:


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