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

They do bring balance yeah, if you think that lies balance truth

I only offer respect to those that respect me.

And the aforementioned minister certainly does not respect me or any other of the citizens, the real valid citizens, of this country.

Oh and BTW the real citizens are not just pasty white Irish people that can trace the lineage back generations.

They include patriots like the black man that asked question on RTE the other night, but was effectively ignored by Katy Hannon (I believe it was her).

It includes patriots such as Kevin Sharkey who can see the writing on the wall for Irish culture and society.

Real citizens didn't rock up here a few years ago claiming asylum, refuse to leave when the bogus lies were found out, most likely spend their time on social welfare to then get an amnesty and citizenship.

I explained my reason for saying I'd read some of Myers stuff.

People forget that Kevin Myers and his erstwhile colleague John Waters wrote some good columns before they both incinerated their careers.

I have a longstanding interest in the print media and I will look with a critical eye on what he produces in this latest incarnation.

As for supporting Gript, you can search my posting history but you won't find any support for that website.

So I had a look at Gript for the first time.

I just looked at the main Irish and World news pages, just the headlines, I didn't read any articles.

What I noticed straight away was the lack of variety in the headlines.

They were all more or less pointing in the same direction.

In Irish news there were articles about people against the referendum on women, a few articles about immigrants in Roscrea, and people arriving without passports, and a few articles about government overreach in the Digital Service Bill and another about electronic dog collars.

In the world news if was pieces about the Italian PM giving out about socialism, some Canadian university and Jordan Peterson, Trump, and the Rochdale grooming scandal.

And on both pages there are pieces about mainstream media and misinformation.

Now if you look at RTE, the main items on their app are

War in Gaza, an orange weather warning, reduced EV car sales, Trump, a Limerick hurler in court, Roscrea, naming rights of GAA venues.

Not surprisingly Gript is front loading it's page with the same narrative, right wing, anti government, immigration obsessed, socialist obsessed, mainstream media obsessed.

The only article about the war in Gaza was about the genocide case, there was nothing about the weather, business, sport etc.

Anyone who thinks that this sort of site and this type of reporting is a viable and legitimate alternative is living in an echo chamber.

It has been covered but not many taking notice.

Merely reading a few articles does not mean that you understand the business of publishing. RTE is a government funded media outlet. Gript is not. Gript has to define its market and then tailor its content to that market. It may even have to get some of those readers to subscribe or donate. With RTE, the licence fee has to be paid so most people are RTE subscribers whether they like it or not. If someone doesn't like Gript, they have the option of not reading it.

Gript seems to be running its publication as a business. One of the reasons that many Left wing publications never reach the public awareness level of Gript is because they concentrate more on issues than the bottom line. A niche publication like Gript will always be restricted in what it can publish because all those filler articles from other broadcasters and the wire services (Reuters/AP etc) cost money. Thus comparing RTE (a well funded broadcaster) with Gript (a niche publication) is not really comparing apples and oranges.

Regards...jmcc

Who is funding Gript?

Government media?

Nobody knows but it does have links to Youth Defence type people having the MacMathuna sisters Niamh UiBhriain and Ide OHara on its board so it's likely it is getting American religious evangelical funding.

Rte and 2fm are effectively government media. Propaganda stations.

Absolute nonsense.

If you lived in a country with government media propaganda stations you'd know the difference.

But I was never comparing Gript and RTE as like for like.

I was looking at their differences.

And what I saw immediately was that Gript was pushing a narrative, right wing, anti government, immigration obsessed, socialist obsessed, mainstream media obsessed.

And that's all they are interested in, pushing that narrative.

And in the world we live in if you keep pushing and pushing a narrative people will start to believe it.

No matter what people think about RTE that's not what they do.

They are not there to constantly push a narrative.

Obviously there are left leaning narrative pushers claiming to be truth tellers also, but this thread is not about them.

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RTE is not a government funded media outlet.

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