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

Well they were always contrarian cranks, it’s just that nobody took much notice of them then either, because they were still on the left whereas those on the right and conservatives have no interest whatsoever in their nonsense. They’re still on the left when they claim an affinity with the working class, whereas in the normal course of events they wouldn’t look twice at them.

McGuirk knows this, but I imagine he’s more interested in making money than politics, because he failed at that.

So it looks like Gript has made the Irish Refugee Council (IRC) take their lies off their website.

Oh yes they lied by claiming that all these lovely lads with no passports had their fingerprints checked against criminal databases, sepcifically those of Interpol and Europol.

When in reality as stated by Dept of Justice nothing of the like was happening.

Oh and chief trough swiller Nick Henderson of the IRC also lied to the public when claiming

"When somebody applies for asylum in Ireland, they would either do so at the airport or at the International Protection Office in Dublin,” he said.

“There commences a very rigorous process which would begin with a person’s fingerprints being taken, and those fingerprints go on to a European Union-wide database called Eurodac.

“That is for two reasons – one, to check if they’ve claimed asylum elsewhere and two, to check if they are on any criminal databases”.

Eurodac is not and never has been a criminal database according to our Dept of Justice.

It must be galling to all the ones in the mainstream media, the political party lackies and NGO trough snorters around here to see the voice of right wing Ireland catching out one of the insiders for lying to the public.

Was a total attack on him, but he defended himself well

he said himself on X that "Who knew that reporting factual stories about government spending on immigration was in fact dangerous dog-whistling"

I swear to god... The conceitedness of those in power knows no bounds.

You don't need to know what we're doing on where, and if someone tells you what we're doing, well they're clearly just trying to stir up sh!t and are right wing Nazis.

McGurik and Co are trying to ride high on the wave of an opinion poll - but the reality is that they are trying to insinuate that everyone who is concerned about the gov's policy on immigration agrees with the opinion pieces of Gript and their views.

You can be critical of the government's policy and record on immigration and also be critical of Gript's commentary on the subject. This poll does not validate Gript's blogs (they aren't a news outlet - just a group of bloggers in my opinion)

there is nothing in there that says they need to be a news outlet

Anyway - in their short history they have already fallen foul to press council rules and have been pulled up on it.

So - yep - I stand over my opinion of them being just glorified bloggers

So what makes Gript different to something like The Journal (or the Gruaniad) when it comes to getting readers to contribute or subscribe? Why shouldn't there be a diverse set of opinions in the media?

Regards...jmcc

I think that you've got it backwards. Disagreeing with Gript confirms to them that they may be correct in what they are doing. The more that the Far Left and the Left disagree with Gript, the more attention it gives Gript. The criticism from the Far Left and Left actually helps Gript and gives it a profile it otherwise would not attain. McGuirk is a regular because he's good entertainment. He is well able to handle the unbalanced panels. Gript and those who write for it expect that people will disagree with them. And they do.

Regards...jmcc

Nonsense. Many people want them to not exist at all, and that's the issue that many of us have.

Have gript accused the fella found with a toy gun of going on a mass shooting rampage yet?

Who is opposing your right? As is always the way, you pretend the other side have a position that they don't, and force them to argue against it.

So government-approved "diverse" opinions are OK? The Journal is very much an Irish version of the Huffington Post model. It isn't really a news organisation as much as the anti-Gript catering to the ideologically opposite market to Gript. Gript's targeting is much more effective. It doesn't use AI algorithms though. Do you think that Gript should not exist?

Regards...jmcc

For someone unconcerned about whether Gript exists or not, you are spending an awful lot of time criticising it.

Regards...jmcc

And it would have exactly the same effect on Gript. :)

Regards...jmcc

Yep but the next challenge for Gript is to go "mainstream". It is on one of the lower rungs of that ladder. It is already starting with the media appearances and its Social Media game is way better, in terms of interaction, than some other publications. Never mind that stuff about "Far Right" and "disinformation". What Gript is doing is combined arms warfare while the mainstream media is still in the Stone Age.

The mainstream media is still stuck in the typical "one to many" model of publishing. Gript is pursuing an almost "few to many" model that creates a feedback loop with its readership so that it can produce better targeted content. While the mainstream media bleats about "studies" on the "Far Right" and disinformation eco-systems, the danger is that they haven't much of a clue about how Gript and similar publications work in terms of targeting and effectiveness. (Read Chis Wylie's "Mindf*ck" book about the Cambridge Analytica scandal for a better insight.)

Regards...jmcc

 It is on one of the lower rungs of that ladder.

I admire your optimism jm, but they’re not even ON the ladder. They peaked too soon IMO by believing in their own hype - much like GB News which still remains a non-entity in the UK media landscape. They introduced a subscription model before they’d even gained a foothold on the first rung of the ladder, and I don’t think their content, as attractive as it is to the people attracted by the algorithm, it’s considerably more difficult to convince those people to part with their hard-earned cash to have their opinions parroted back to them when there are a plethora of free platforms on which they can exercise their right to freedom of expression without having to pay for the privilege.