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Newspapers

  • 31-07-2006 1:06am
    #1
    #Smokey#
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭


    Why is it that no newspaper i have ever seen can tell the truth without hyping the sh*t out of their stories.

    Example:

    Event: man arrested by accident by nosy cop with 1 hash plant in a house in northside.

    Newspaper says: big time dealer was raided and an unknown quantity of cannabis and plants were taken from his north dublin home.he is suspected to have been involved with many major drug gangs


    the papers are full of sh*t these days.especially bout the chap arrested in connection with the westies murder


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I like your tags


  • #3
    Tchocky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 356 ✭✭Tchocky


    what papers are you reading?


  • #4
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Hype=sales.


  • #5
    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    I think it's because people are getting so desensitised and used to news stories that they have to blow stories WAY out of proportion just to catch the readers attention!


  • #6
    #Smokey#
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭#Smokey#


    the ususal papers. sunday world, evening herald etc.

    ps. i like my tags too


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  • #7
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Fajitas! wrote:
    Hype=sales.


    Yup...They have to do it or people won't be interested at all


  • #8
    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    LOL. Knob cheese.... SMEG!


  • #9
    Tchocky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 356 ✭✭Tchocky


    #Smokey# wrote:
    the ususal papers. sunday world, evening herald etc.

    ps. i like my tags too


    Well there ya go. Good to read if you want to mix the editorial with the reporting.

    check out the guardian


  • #10
    Matthewthebig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭Matthewthebig


    you are reading ****e papers

    try The Irish Times. The words and articles may be longer than you're used to but, it is a better paper.


  • #11
    #Smokey#
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭#Smokey#


    just read their report on the westies murder and thats lies too.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1825542,00.html


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  • #12
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Imagine the stories (or lack of) if they didn't lie all the time!


  • #13
    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    #Smokey# wrote:
    just read their report on the westies murder and thats lies too.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1825542,00.html

    Tabloids seem worse than the broadsheets. They like to blow it out of proportion more and use harsher language to make everyone look like a criminal! Thats as far as I can see anyway!


  • #14
    spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭spanner


    it is funny though

    Headlines in the sun was once "THE MOST EVIL DIOCESE IN THE WORLD" talking about wexford after the child abuse cases, if it wasnt due to child abuse I quite like the idea of living in the most evil diocese in the word

    just laugh at them


  • #15
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,341 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Caco wrote:
    Tabloids seem worse than the broadsheets. They like to blow it out of proportion more and use harsher language to make everyone look like a criminal! Thats as far as I can see anyway!

    Broadsheet: Bush visits Dublin causing major traffic jams.

    Tabloid: Bush invades Dublin! Many cars lost!


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