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Does the irish media have a unhealthy obession with death?

  • 15-10-2012 9:09pm
    #1
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭


    i was reading the times this weekend and in the first 3 pages of the weekend supplement there was an artical about abortion comming to ireland, one about assisted suicide and another about hiring contract hitmen....all in 3 pages. i nearly spit out my coffee.

    it is dark and dreary enough at winter without adding to it with this in my opinion, having 3 articles in 3 pages all about death (and grim aspects of it too) is the apotheosis of iresponsibility. I think the irish media as a whole has a unhealthy obession with death. they always report car wrecks, suicides and everything.

    what do you think?


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  • #2
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Were you reading a supplement about the ill aspects of death?
    Haven't even noticed really


  • #3
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    Were you reading a supplement about the ill aspects of death? :rolleyes:
    Haven't even noticed really

    no if u check it is realy true. they are death obsessed....


  • #4
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Old journalism adage - "If it bleeds it leads."

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #5
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Internet Hero wrote: »
    i nearly spit out my coffee.?

    Seriously?


  • #6
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Seriously?

    yeah man. i was like rashad in your picture, in shock


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  • #7
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Seriously?


    As the OP says.....on a regular basis----:)


  • #8
    9959
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    Genuinely don't know what the "apotheosis of irresponsibility" means, sorry.


  • #9
    Gee Bag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    What are you, fvckin five yours old?

    'But why do people have to die mummy? It makes ickle me feel sad' <sniffle, sniffle>'


  • #10
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Gee Bag wrote: »
    What are you, fvckin five yours old?

    'But why do people have to die mummy? It makes ickle me feel sad' <sniffle, sniffle>'


    I'm 13, what is this?


  • #11
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Gee Bag wrote: »
    What are you, fvckin five yours old?

    'But why do people have to die mummy? It makes ickle me feel sad' <sniffle, sniffle>'

    they could depress a nation. suicide rates are high enough without everyone having a dose of death served with there scrambled eggs and bacon on a rainy saturday morning in autumn....


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  • #12
    Gee Bag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    Internet Hero wrote: »
    they could depress a nation. suicide rates are high enough without everyone having a dose of death served with there scrambled eggs and bacon on a rainy saturday morning in autumn....

    Nothing depresses a nation as much as sh1t threads


  • #13
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Gee Bag wrote: »
    Nothing depresses a nation as much as sh1t threads

    yeah its a pity you cant post on all the other threads and your stuck just with this one...


  • #14
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Have another bottle of vodka, OP - be grand :p


  • #15
    Peregrine
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    Internet Hero wrote: »
    they could depress a nation. suicide rates are high enough without everyone having a dose of death served with there scrambled eggs and bacon on a rainy saturday morning in autumn....

    Well maybe the objective is to make more people see the sad reality of unnatural death; suicide, abortion, assisted suicide etc. and to prevent it


  • #16
    eedie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭eedie


    'if it bleeds it leads' how true. sky news is the worst, those reporters are like vulters. but would we stayed tuned if it was all good news?


  • #17
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Gee Bag wrote: »
    Nothing depresses a nation as much as sh1t threads
    In all fairness, this guy actually created an account to reply to this thread :eek:
    eedie wrote: »
    'if it bleeds it leads' how true. sky news is the worst, those reporters are like vulters. but would we stayed tuned if it was all good news?

    Welcome to the graveyard boards.ie mate


  • #18
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    Well maybe the objective is to make more people see the sad reality of unnatural death; suicide, abortion, assisted suicide etc. and to prevent it

    they could depress a nation :)


  • #19
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Not just death but RTE for example is the most depressing TV ch on the Planet, any tragedy and their on it like a fly to ****e. No wonder all the auld granny's do nothing but whine and moan. They should just have a black ribbon in the top right corner for the icon.


  • #20
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    nocoverart wrote: »
    Not just death but RTE for example is the most depressing TV ch on the Planet, any tragedy and their on it like a fly to ****e. No wonder all the auld granny's do nothing but whine and moan. They should just have a black ribbon in the top right corner for the icon.

    yes it is true rte is the apotheosis of a depressing channel. they are no better than the times for having noting but depression on the screen. if we had better weather it would be ok but it is dark and we dont need a dose of depression and death served in the morning with our fry


  • #21
    kowloon
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    People are obsessed with death, don't see why that wouldn't be reflected in the media.


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  • #22
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    kowloon wrote: »
    People are obsessed with death, don't see why that wouldn't be reflected in the media.
    Its gone beyond a joke. How many times have RTE reported on someone found dead and Gardi are investigating; only for that person to have died of natural causes. Wait until the guards set up a murder enquiry before putting it in the news; a 90 year old man found dead from old age is not news.


  • #23
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    Its gone beyond a joke. How many times have RTE reported on someone found dead and Gardi are investigating; only for womenthat person to have died of natural causes. Wait until the guards set up a murder enquiry before putting it in the news; a 90 year old man found dead from old age is not news.

    yes rte news is a death dealing entity...you get it in the morning in your newspaper over a cofee and toast and then in the evening with your pototoes and roast beef you get another big dosage of death in the rte news at 6


  • #24
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    nocoverart wrote: »
    Not just death but RTE for example is the most depressing TV ch on the Planet, any tragedy and their on it like a fly to ****e. No wonder all the auld granny's do nothing but whine and moan. They should just have a black ribbon in the top right corner for the icon.

    I think you'll find that its the young ones that do the most moaning..well here anyway.

    You'll find very little, if any, moaning here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1480


  • #25
    Internet Hero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 373 ✭✭Internet Hero


    Chucken wrote: »
    I think you'll find that its the young ones that do the most moaning..well here anyway.

    You'll find very little, if any, moaning here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1480

    most of the people talkin about death are the older and that is the most depressin moaning. was in a cafe today and i heard too old ladys talking to each other at the next table. they were going on about all the people they know who died. nothing like having a serving of death along with a latte


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