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    #32
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    They posted an article this morning warning about online disinformation, without a hint of irony. You can only admire that type of bravado.


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    #33
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    keano_afc wrote: »
    They posted an article this morning warning about online disinformation, without a hint of irony. You can only admire that type of bravado.

    They are very lacking in self-awareness. They deal in nothing but one sided politics, which isn't an opinion, it's a fact, you can see it in nearly every opinion piece they publish. Nearly everything they push even out side of opinion pieces has a progressive spin too. If any NGO or politician on their side want to push something radical, they'll be given a platform. It's pure naked partisan nonsense dressed up as journalism.
    “It just feels like whack a mole, really,” said Brian Mahon, a journalist with The Times Ireland who has been covering the issue closely. “You write a story, you go to Facebook for comment and they say, thanks for flagging, we’ll take that down, and you think to yourself, well, this isn’t supposed to be my job!”

    Indeed, it's not. You're not meant to be censorship warden, yet you choose to be one. Modern journalists honestly think themselves saviors of our planet, the enlightened keeping the plebs in check, yet they are nothing but jesters to the vast majority of sane people.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




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    #34
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    keano_afc wrote: »
    They posted an article this morning warning about online disinformation, without a hint of irony. You can only admire that type of bravado.

    Not even an article but an opinion piece. They closed the comments to that opinion piece incase someone might have a different opinion to their opinion piece.


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    #35
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    When thejournal close a comment section on a crime story, its usually a pretty solid indicator that a minority person or traveller is the perpetrator.


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


    beerguts wrote: »
    I'd imagine their ad revenue is decimated, don't be surprised if it goes under within the next year. It cannot be sustainable.


    They were asking readers for money not too long ago. That was before covid. Haven't seen anything since it started so it must be lucrative. They probably have some nice government/HSE covid ad revenue.

    Which is the explainer itself on why Irish media seem to want this to go on for longer.


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    #37
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    They were asking readers for money not too long ago. That was before covid. Haven't seen anything since it started so it must be lucrative. They probably have some nice government/HSE covid ad revenue.

    Which is the explainer itself on why Irish media seem to want this to go on for longer.

    The government covid ads have saved atleast 1 print title in Ireland and been a soft bailout for many others, they are probably the only customer in the world paying full ratecard for print advertising anymore, i dont think the media want the pandemic itself to go on longer , but they damn sure want the advertising slush fund to continue


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    #38
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users Posts: 7,448 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Shield wrote: »
    Actually, nope.

    Boards is on its own again. In case you missed the announcement here in December. No longer connected to Journal Media. I just think the respective bits of each site have yet to be updated.

    Yes I did miss that.


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    #39
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    A lot of the time the comments section was just abuse, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia or racism so it's probably a good idea not to give that kind of stuff a platform.


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    #40
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,534 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    This is not a current affairs issue, closed.


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