Standard of Journalism in Indo

copacetic · 04-12-2008 05:41PM #1

From today, how can this make the paper and still be on the website?

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/promoter-gets-836450000-award-over-unfair-dismissal-from-hotel-1562967.html

Promoter gets €50,000 award over unfair dismissal from hotel
By Anne-Marie Walsh Industry Correspondent

Thursday December 04 2008

AN EMPLOYEE who promoted shows such as 'Lord of the Dance' has been awarded €50,000 after a tribunal found he was unfairly dismissed by the operator of the Citywest Hotel.

Entertainment events consultant Shane McGrath said he was "delighted" with the award but unhappy that his "career did not go as planned".

Mr McGrath, of Kilcullen, Co Kildare, was the promoter of shows at Citywest Hotel -- including Michael Flatley's 'Lord of the Dance' -- but claimed he was sacked without warning.

He brought his claim for unfair dismissal against HSS Developments, which runs the Citywest Hotel in Saggart, Co Dublin.

Unhappy

"I'd like to say I'm delighted with the outcome, but I'm not," he told the Irish Independent

mike65 · 04-12-2008 05:44PM

They don't edit anymore.

Aidric · 04-12-2008 06:30PM

Over the last few years the Indo has descended to the level of the red top rags. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise given O Regan is at the helm. He's only delighted to indulge in the appetite for sensationalism, to hell with standards in the process.

naidheachdair · 05-12-2008 09:36AM

mike65 wrote: »

They don't edit anymore.

Are they another paper who've sacked all there subs?

(Spelling mistake intentional... we've got no subs!)

mrsdewinter · 05-12-2008 12:04PM

OP, that's hilarious. I've a friend who's a journalism lecturer... I'm passing it on

windowcleaner · 05-12-2008 01:12PM

"Over the last few years the Indo has descended to the level of the red top rags."

I think you'll find that the tabloids still have sub-editors who would make sure sh!te like this would not appear in print

PhiliousPhogg · 06-12-2008 05:29AM

That's a shocking article. The third sentence repeats the first. Typical stuff for the indo.

I find they tend to leave unanswered parts to reports aswell. Usually after reading the initial few sentences of a report, some obvious background questions pop into your head out of curiousity, in this case how long had the guy been an employee for example. You can be guaranteed the Times would cover those kind of details.

Added to this they're columnists are pretty poor and state the obvious a lot. A lot of them write plain pub talk and exaggerate out of proportion.

shane86 · 06-12-2008 07:22AM

An awful, occasionally libelleous (sp) rag written by semi literates who rely on such hackneyed nonsense as imagination journalism describing events that the journalist did not actually witness, or even knows ever happened, in order to back up their article on whatever issue (the drug trade, the sex trade, etc etc etc)

And that is just the Monday to Saturday edition. You have to wonder if the Sunday Indo is written up at 3am by journo staff and columnists on their way home from the pub.

06-12-2008 02:00PM

Check out the attached image, it's a screenshot of the independent website from today. How do you have a typo in the headline of the main story? Fair enough if it's one word in a 500 word article, that's easy enough to do, but this is just taking the piss

HalloweenJack · 06-12-2008 02:10PM

Had to laugh today when I saw a piece's headline by Daniel McDonnell which said "Keane should follow mentor McCarthy".

mike65 · 06-12-2008 02:10PM

I'm guessing they don't proof read the online edition.

HalloweenJack · 06-12-2008 02:11PM

Maybe the American spellcheck didn't recognise Lenihan?

Standard of Journalism in Indo

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