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

That’s all interesting stuff jm, but there’s no competition between Gript and the likes of TheJournal or RTE News online, as demonstrated by the graphic in the article I provided earlier. Gript’s main audience are unlikely to want to part with the €10/month for a subscription, no matter how much of an affinity they feel with Gript’s content creators.

The comparison with GB News was entirely apt - as you suggest, Gript has little competition for its niche, because there’s little revenue to be made in said niche. It’s similar to the way in which family members will agree with an entrepreneur that theirs is a fantastic business idea, yet the market demonstrates otherwise. Gript’s continued existence simply demonstrates that PT Barnum was right, as if it weren’t entirely obvious.

That’s why it’s easy to make a statement that it remains to be seen whether they can ride the wave to major success when you set the bar so low as being outstanding in their niche. It’s not that difficult when they’re the only player in that space. The likes of mainstream media players are on an entirely different level that Gript just can’t compete with, they don’t even try, they’re perfectly happy to be a thorn in the side, as that is their niche.

Who was the minister or junior minister that let the cat out of the bag by admitting they needed to reword to help with family reunifications?

It must be so that all those mormon men can bring their multiple wives, sorry durable partners in their polygamous relations, and their associated offspring to Ireland.

AFAIK there is no explicit statement that one can only be in one durable relationship so multiple durable relationships could be argued i.e. multiple wives or husbands (but I bet there won't ever be many of those).

Interesting that it is only Gript that now ask any of these seemingly probing, hard or difficult to answer questions of our politicians.

I genuinely love the way you can see the disdain on the faces of politicians when they see the Gript journalists in the press pack about to ruin their day by asking them for specifics and details on policy. It would be so much easier if they were like the other hacks asking soft soap questions in the hope of getting a lucrative special advisors gig on €130k per year or were married to one of the other ministers special advisers.

How many questions have they ever asked about native Irish repeat offenders?

They cherry pick issues to report on to drive an agenda and that is what de-legitimatises them as an organisation

So cheery picking to suit an agenda rather than dealing with the issues of today - good, reporting facts -bad

Yes?

Interestingly Gript is now aligning themselves as understanding the DUP position. Any commonality in sources of funding for Brexiteers, DUP fundies and Gript grifters is purely coincidence though

They all do that craic, especially concerning certain infallible indigenous repeat offenders. We had a segment about Irish travellers in The Irish Times last weekend, reporting on their huge headstones in rural graveyards, how a huge number of them are breaking every planning law concerning the erection of these massive structures in graveyards that are physically and structurally not fit to be built in said areas, but at the end of the article they had that pavee point NGO mouthpiece Collins basically saying "This is our culture and we aren't conforming to settled culture... because you want us to conform, and that's racism" And that was that. He had the final say in that article.

And his final say was total bull$hit, but the Irish Times never pulled him up on his total lack of knowledge on the subject. He just said "racism" and they let him off talking total waffle about something he literally has no clue about. That's an agenda right there.

What's the plan then? Are Grift being used to subvert the state and install a Unionist government or something? What's the theory? Or as you lot call them; "conspiracy theories"?

This is the "journalism" we're meant to support. Four different people airing their views in this article, yet not one alternative view for balance.

And in what articles do gript provide balance?

Shouldn't we all at least try to understand the situation?

What the article actually says:

https://gript.ie/the-dup-normal-politics-and-the-political-framing-you-dont-notice/

Let's not get hung up on marketing slogans.

Just buy a copy of the IT and compare the content with the same day's output from Gript.

Decide for yourself if one or the other or even both are worth supporting.

I read and view all media, surely that's how you get the full picture. An echo chamber of Fintan O'Toole and Una Mulally would give you some world view, as would Ben Scannlon or David Quinn.

Take this video for example, it's about as balanced as one fat man on a seesaw. If it was written by the refugee council it couldn't be any more biased. She couldn't just explain the factual differences without adding words hurt

Or this one, "Who's behind opposition to asylum seekers in Rosslare" was the original headline here with the obvious conotations that goes with that language but they changed it. "Who's behind" clearly implies a controlling or hidden force manipulating things, as if the locals aren't really opposing things. It was used in Rosslare, Roscrea, Ballinrobe, Galway etc etc and it's clearly designed to say the locals aren't doing this, it's "outsiders" or the far right. "Who's behind the global banking system or who controls the media" would very quickly draw accusations of anti semitism.

And the replies to that...jfc. Ireland's best and brightest right there.