Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

It's all about the narrative and controlling that narrative. All sides want to control the narrative and this is why as others have said it is good to get a wide a range of reading from all sides and then make up your own mind. If you only stick to certain publications then you may not be getting the full narrative as well see all too often in certain media in this country.

Scepticism is good - of all media - that’s why you need to read a wide range and make your own mind up.

Imagjne someone advocating to keep an open mind - shocking stuff

In the wake of the Parnell street standings there was an article in gript along the lines of “parents had voiced their concerns weeks earlier about the proximity of the male hostel to the school”. The only place “I” could find that reported was on gript.

Genuine questions here:

Are these concerns something you've experienced/expressed yourself, or witnessed from people you know? Or do you have some other evidence that makes you believe these concerns exist?

I mean, are you highlighting that Gript are the only one reporting on a phenomenon you know to be true?

Or is is the case that you only heard about these concerns from Gript in the first place?

Why not? Gripts raison detre is to cause polarisation

Why is anyone reading it in the first place, that question has to be answered.

Why is there a failure of the middle ground/ official Ireland to get their message across?

Recently there was a thread about homeless services and a particular homeless service, it descended to a hysterical frenzy of how dare anyone question homeless services, how dare anyone question the social policies around homeless services, eventually people get tired of being told don't question us in any way.

Still not addressing why the middle ground is losing out? and why people are seeking out that sort of narrative in the first place.

Perhaps I am not making my point well.

It could be funded by anyone, the more important question is why would an individual be predisposed to seek out the narrative it is putting forward, instead of any other narrative? The vast majority of individuals are not going around like lost sheep waiting for some news source to tell them what to think not everyone's brains have fallen out, ( or so I would like to think )

John McGuirk has only even been a horseshit peddler, that is his entire career. He was found out in college, and again during the abortion referendum when he used a fake nurse to try push off these horrific stories that they saw...all complete and utter lies.

He is a jester, he doesn't get it wrong time to time, he always gets it wrong.

I haven't come across this particular site before but looking at it's reviews of various irish and international media organisations it seems to be relatively on the money. Some examples:

UK Media

Irish Media

Here's the overview of Gript (seems more than fair)

Full Report:

If you're referring to our engagement on the PMV thread, that's a fairly substantial misrepresentation of the discussion that occurred - a classic Grift technique, funnily enough.

There was no hysterical frenzy, and no 'how dare anyone'.

There was a fairly simple suggestion that while everyone can have an opinion on complex policy matters like homelessness, all such opinions aren't of equal value. We can all have opinions on cardiac surgery techniques and cyber protection security techniques and bridge structural design techniques, but in general, we recognise the importance of expert training and experience in these areas.

There is a tendency from posters here, accentuated by Grift and other right wing media of downplaying the training and experience of experts in these areas - which doesn't stand up to any rational analysis.

I have no idea what is actually the case. Personally I am sure there is some element of truth in it but who knows how much........im just commenting on the variety of news that is fed to us daily. I am highly sceptical of it all. I read as varied a number of sources as I can...and for the record my ex-wife is a foreign national who overstayed her tourist visa almost 23 years ago. I have two Muslim children and they have lived in emergency accommodation for the past 6 years and I'm damn glad they have that and the other supports they have too.They live in an apartment just outside Dublin CC and stayed at home for a few days after the recent riots on the advice of friends who were getting WhatsApps about vigilante groups. I have skin in the game and getting as much as a feel as possible for what's going on out there is in all our interests. That's what I keep scanning these threads regularly......in between the crap there is the odd nugget of information

I'm just saying broaden the range of media you take in to try and get a good rounded picture of what's going on? Can't see how anyone can have an issue with saying keep an open mind. If you do it says more about you than my post.......

And that's me over and out - I've seen the 5hit show these threads get turned into by the same posters....

MSM do the exact same thing, yet you'd take it as fact because it suits you. Lets me honest, this isn't about how something it's approach, it's about who approaches it.

No. It is far simpler than that. The Journal is Left of centre because it is Left of centre. That's the market which it is targeting (just as Gript targets its own market) and there is another part that you missed. The Journal's journalists are younger than those in the mainstream media. It seems that it is some kind of half-way house between newbie journalism and getting to write for a mainstream publication with a few Journal journalists making it to the mainstream.

Regards...jmcc

It wasn't clickbait. It was far more sophisticated. Read Chris Wylie's book "Mindf*ck" if you want a somewhat colourful explanation. It was partially the application of Social Network theory in that it identified "influencers". CA also used other techniques to identify the psychological triggers (with a bit of Maslow's hierarchy) that would get these people to propagate a message.

Gript used AggregateIQ for some market research work a few years ago and a test version of Gript was visible for a while. Any journalist or PR person would immediately recognise the triggers being used. The funny thing is that the same techniques work equally well on people who think of themselves as being too smart to be manipulated. People like being outraged because it makes them feel like part of a crowd. Think of it as the Two Minutes Hate from George Orwell's "1984" being extended to every waking moment.

Regards...jmcc

This is beyond dishonest framing. The Journals opinion pieces are literally nothing but agenda pushing. This is the problem with posters like yourself, you can't admit that both play the same game of knowingly shaping minds in a way that suits them.