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

And you would be very very wrong.

Which you would expect of a new media outlet, would you not? Now I will say they are setting their stall out on the opposite side to what media there is in this country and they also seem to be asking the hard questions of the ministers at press conferences which seems to get some peoples goat up that they would ask those questions of a minister, where as I would think all media should be asking these questions.

Gript is centre right and socially conservative.

It reflects the views of the majority of Irish citizens - particularly the over 50s

RTÉ, Irish Times & Independent are centre left and centre right economically speaking. 

All 3 are ultra liberal in terms of social issues. 

I am all for a wide variety of media outlets in Ireland, from the complete spectrum of political views - let them ask the hard questions and let the audience choose who they listen to/read/are guided by. 

Far healthier than the current wayyy too cosy consensus that exists between Montrose and Leinster House

Most of those would have a soft left veneer in fairness. Newstalk is probably a bit more centre-right, but the rest would be centre-left and depending on the journalist in question, could be more hard-left to centrist.

People go on about Gript as if it's hard right, like Breitbart, Info-Wars, or 4Chan of old.

It's not, it is just a bit more right-wing, and given our media landscape is small, and quite samey in the centre-leftish point of view, it stands out more.

Mainstream newspapers across the water would be more right-wing than the Gript!

" Gript also simply don't have a journalistic reputation atm, shock headlines that largely focus on immigrants appears to be about it."

This is the line I should have quoted, Gript have gone against the narrative here in focusing on immigration and largely that is down to the government and other media outlets looking to shut down the discussion on it in the first place. Would Gript have any subscribers or exposure if this was not the case?

They've been around for a few years now so I'd expect them to have produced semi decent journalism at this stage if that was their intent. Gript have subscribers cause a cohort of people like their anti immigrant obsession. Eg many of the gript fans in this thread seem more concerned with attacking the guy who is taking legal action against them over questioning how shoddy their handling of the story was.

Try reading the post before mashing reply ffs

I said they have made mistakes and they have been held responsible for those mistakes.

I also said I'm not aware of any instance where RTE, Irish Times, Independent, etc. made a mistake which resulted in credible death threats to a person - are you?

The point is, they are independent of the main power brokers in society. Which allows them to give other perspectives.

In some cases they may also be uninfluenced by big advertisers

Unless they are actually intelligence ops for hostile foreign powers there's no scandal.

Just strongly disliking some techpreneur or a Christian life group that funds Catholic/pro-life media is not damning evidence of anything.

Claiming that all legitimacy flows from official institutions is a form of redundancy.

Don't remember Harney or O'Malley spending their days banging on about immigrants and trans women.

Whatever about the actual magazine and its writers, its readers are much further to the right. Check out any of Gript's tweets and read the replies underneath - they seem to have something akin to a BNP or National Front type following.

The degree to which media in general is compromised by reliance on advertising or other factors is an interesting subject.

This discussion is about Gript and it's been going on for over fifty pages.

We still don't know much about it's funding and ultimate ownership.

You were able to go online and get details about the IT and you could do the same for any of our newspapers.

We can't do likewise with Gript so we don't know which techpreneur or group we are dealing with if any.

For an outfit which lays claim to asking hard questions they leave quite a few unanswered themselves.

Trans issues weren’t really a thing during Harney or O’Malley’s time in politics.

It has become an issue in the last decade.

Extreme right would be neo-Nazi skinhead types giving Hitler salutes etc. But Gript would certainly come under the heading of 'far right' in European terms : Le Pen, AfD, Orban, Meloni in Italy etc.

Like when then Irish Times recently printed a ridiculous piece that turned out to be a hoax written by Ai?

They're clearly not very discerning when they think they’ve a story that supports their preferred narratives