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

Who is Gript 'managing up' to? Their funding sources are kept a secret.

Why would it matter to you what other people are reading? Should I be worried about what bile you are consuming because you seem to be have tunnel vision that anyone who does not consume the same as you wrong or far right? Why do you feel you are right?

The thing is, they clearly only used one source and then blamed it on a conspiracy by the Gardai... That's less putting your hands up and more going for the Donald Trump response... Any other media outlets tend to make a standard apology on top of any damages in that scenario.

These things happen in a rush to get a "scoop". It is unfortunate what happened to that man and yes I am sure Gript will more than likely pay for it but does it mean then that everything they print should be dismissed. Did RTE on the night of the riots also claim that the Army were on the streets should we dismiss everything said by them now as well?

left wing and honesty is much the same. Centre and honesty as well unfortunately for us all balanced honest media doesn't exist anymore. if it ever did.

Holding the Govt to account on behalf of who though? Gript's audience is clearly very right wing, conservative and reactionary - they don't seem to be even bothering to appeal to anyone from a mainstream audience or inform them.

oh absolutely I'm in late middle age and try to get different news inputs.

interestingly a work colleague whose kids are in the 20s get all their news off social media. he was trying to explain the social media is one person's opinion after been told its on social media so it must be trueand you need to balance where you get info from or at least check it from different sources.

nah didn't wash

world we live in now.

You can no longer use the old definition of leftist no more than you can no longer use the old definition of right wing.

In decades past left leaning meant firstly pro labour union, pro state ownership, pro working class which meant pro social welfare & state provided healthcare/education and housing, somewhat socially liberal and pro women rights.

Nowadays half of that isn't on the agenda of the modern left, because if it were still pro working class as above it would certainly not be so pro immigration which especially competes with the native working class for limited state resources.

For instance the 1960s leftist British Labour party would now be seen as far right.

Identity politics, pro mass immigration and so called woke agenda are now to the fore for modern leftists and the likes of Irish Times, Irish Independent, RTE, Newstalk, etc follow the very same agenda, hence they are now seen as left wing.

Also the likes of RTE were even somewhat left leaning when you go back decades and see the numbers connected to old Labour and how they pushed social issues often against the wishes of church and state resources.

You clearly do not understand Left wing thinking which has always been based on solidarity across all boundaries. What you call wokism is at the core of left wing politics and always has been.

Yours is just a right wing wedge narrative to try to cleave off left wing support.

It's only the right and the purveyors of the right that are so insistent on this.

And it's nonsense.

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And that's why they are not trustworthy as journalists

Yeah that was why the left wing British labour party government published a very restrictive white paper on immigration in UK from Commonwealth countries.

They saw solidarity with their own working class citizens and voters as more important than solidarity with immigrants from Jamaica, Nigeria, Kenya, etc.

The old college educated Champagne Socialists were the ones more concerned with this world solidarity.

The ordinary leftists were copped on enough to know it was food in the bellies of their own workers that mattered most.

If the left were always about modern work politics why didn't the likes of British labour party decriminalise homesexuality in the labour governments of 1920s and 1940s.

They were more concerned with building public housing, social welfare, education, NHS for healthcare for all, nationalisations, etc.

You know the real concerns of the working classes.

It was only in the 1960s that Labour tackled discrimination in pay, racial discrimination and decriminalising homosexuality.

If you look at Mitterands socialist/communist government of 1980s it was massive nationalisations, pro union, worker welfare, welfare state that were the focus.

So remind us what the lefts priorities have always been?