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

I think the blanket dismissal of any significant news outlet is all too common.

One side auto-dismisses The Guardian whilst the other auto-dismisses The Telegraph etc.

We see the same phenomenon with Gript.

My point is this: even if a news outlet has a bias, that bias doesn't invalidate everything they publish.

I don't personally use Gript as my primary, secondary or tertiary news source. It exists, and sometimes I come across it peripherally on social media or elsewhere. So I'm not speaking here as some prophet advocate for Gript.ie.

Rather, what I have found is that many people who condemn Gript ab initio have never read an article from the website to begin with. Yet they speak with undying hatred about it. Their ostracism began before they even began publishing. Yet this is from the same people who condemn Gript for not being accurate or fair. At the very least, that's ironic.

Second to that, I have no doubt that sometimes Gript have, at times, published inaccurate stories and issued retractions; the same as any other news outlet. I mean, if the Irish Times or any other experienced news organization sometimes get it wrong, then surely it's not beyond possibility that a start-up outlet is more likely to experience the same thing?

Is that a reason to wholly dismiss absolutely everything they publish, or the arc of bias they happen to promote? It's unsound.

For what it's worth, here is the current homepage stories on the Gript.ie:

This is extreme hatred?

If anything, it's very banal.

I think the hysteria around Gript.ie is fomented from an online echo-chamber who want to hate the outlet for the crime of just existing.

If you are going to argue that Gript.ie is foreign funded by malevolent actors, you would need to provide a citation to back up that so far unsubstantiated claim. Remember again, that you criticised Gript.ie for being inaccurate and not sourcing their stories properly, so it would be the absolute summit of irony if your claims are held to that very same standard.

I think you're missing the point.

Nobody expects Gript to report the same content as RTE or the Irish Times.

If that were the case, why would they have a reason to exist?

The purpose of Gript, from my understanding of it, is to precisely report on those stories and angles that would not be expected to be parroted on RTE or the Irish Times.

There are many people in this country who feel that their views on specific concerns go ignored. If we are to claim to live in an open and democratic country, we cannot dismiss those concerns or shout those concerns down. In the end, that's what contributes to the rise of violence and extremism. Nobody should want either.

And I say that as someone who doesn't agree with everything published on Gript, in the same way that I don't agree with everything published on RTE or the Irish Times. I read all the stories and evidence, and I make my own mind up — matter by matter.

That's what it means to think critically.