Is the Tribune fucked? It is not.
Posted on | July 19, 2007 | 40 Comments
The Indo is today full of glee and good cheer about the fact that Ross O’Carroll-Kelly will no longer write his column for the paper. One ‘media source’ says the weekly column was the ‘linchpin’ of the newspaper and that without him they will struggle. Poppycock and balderdash and possibly some piffle thrown in. The Tribune has the awesome power of the Irish blogosphere to keep it going.
Now, firstly the Tribune has Damien Mulley whose weekly column about a man living in Cork airport desperately waiting for his bags which end up in a different country each week prompting him to use hilarious profanity is an absolute classic, in my opinion. Sure, it might look like it’s dressed up as a technology column but you’ve got to read between the lines to find the hidden depth. It’s like one of those Magic Eye pictures. It takes a while but once you see it it’s cool.
Then there’s Richard Delevan who is American and sounds like a cowboy. Not a builder who uses shoddy materials and working practices but a real life, home on the range cowboy. If you read his work in the voice of John Wayne it’s fucking cool. Who knew business news and editorials could be so engaging? Plus Richard has a beard and as you all know a beard is a sign of a real man. His could do with a little lengthening, whitening and twisting into a little point but for the time being it’ll do.
Una Rocks, another Irish blogger, is part of the team too. Despite spending much of her week on the piss backstage at every gig that happens in the country – and taking pictures of herself from really strange angles – she, single-handedly, writes 45% of the paper’s material (and not many people know that they just use a picture of Liam Brady and get Una to write about football too).
Then there’s the Blogorrah connection in the magazine in which Editor Eminiminus Derek O’Connor writes a piece about Star Wars each week. Of course Blogorrah is gone by the wayside now. Some have spoken of a falling out between the two top dogs, some have suggested a lack of money, but I can exclusively reveal they’re all in jail having been caught trying to score some PCP after Lindsay Lohan promised them a go of her fanny if they sorted her out. A truly sordid tale.
So Ross O’Carroll-Kelly will go off and write a play, which is the only thing on earth gayer than a poem, but the Trib, the wonderful blog powered Trib, will press on. Pardon the pun. Or don’t.
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July 19th, 2007 @ 10:21 am
ooo twenty does Una have a new secret admire, you aul sailor you!
July 19th, 2007 @ 10:26 am
Jayz, will the IndoTribune not give you a gig?
July 19th, 2007 @ 10:31 am
Well, lets hope Ross O’Carroll-Kelly has plenty of pictures in the new Indo column, because that’s all people buy the Indo for.
July 19th, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Rock
July 19th, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
Having worked for the chairman ( He may be former now) of the Tribune for seven years I would say that it will take more than Ross leaving too really fuck the paper.
I am now in Lebanon because the other company went down in a blaze of Glory starting on 11/10/2001.
The tribune will be here long after we are saying Ross Who ?
July 19th, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
Ah they said that when Dunphy left the last word, no one is irreplacable.
July 19th, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
ross who?
maybe twenty should start his own paper. could call it “twenty a day”. anything would be better than the current load of shite out there.
July 19th, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
Or “Twenty Shades” of …
July 19th, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
What the fuck is going on with Blogorrah anyway??
July 19th, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
The Phoenix predicts the demise of the Turbine about every six weeks (or it did when I was in Ireland to read it). Let’s see how Twenty does as a predictor!
July 19th, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
Probably a restraining order from Katie French.
July 19th, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
Let’s see how Twenty does as a predictor!
I’ve probably just doomed them.
July 19th, 2007 @ 1:53 pm
Blogorrah have retired. Made millions with those independent film adverts that used to pop up in between every second paragraph.
Barbados I last heard.
July 19th, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
[...] Twenty Major’s take: Of course Blogorrah is gone by the wayside now. Some have spoken of a falling out between the two top dogs, some have suggested a lack of money, but I can exclusively reveal they’re all in jail having been caught trying to score some PCP after Lindsay Lohan promised them a go of her fanny if they sorted her out. A truly sordid tale. [...]
July 19th, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Blogorrah was a pile of dog poo dressed up as an entertainment site the like of Batty Eagan could get his copy off. Good riddence to them and their censoring comments.
July 19th, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
Of course the Tribune is fucked. See this week’s Phoenix for just how fucked.
July 19th, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
where do we go to see how fucked the phoenix is?
July 19th, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Nice title Twenty. A quote from Julius Cesar if I’m not mistaken.
July 19th, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Go on the Trib! The only decent frikkin’ read of a Sunday.
I’m convinced Twenty secretly works for them and is a good pal of Richard Delevan givn the amount of mutual knob gobbling that goes on between that august publication and this blog…
Prove me wrong 20, prove me wrong!
As for the Phoenix, the same old-school-tie hackery shite being churned out for the last 20 years, old, old , old. As for Bog Cuttings, condescending cuntbutlerish quimification.
July 19th, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
[...] of drunken escapades. I think she also writes for the Tribune – a trait I’ve found to be surprisingly common among the Irish bloggers I follow. Might actually buy the Tribune one of these days. Don’t [...]
July 19th, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
What are you saying Michael? 20 is a woman? That’s like finding out the same thing about Zoltar in G-Force in the early 80′s!
July 20th, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
Irish bloggers eh?, bunch of jumped up wanna be hacks
July 21st, 2007 @ 5:22 pm
[...] Paul Howard and “Ross” will be a heavy blow to the circulation figures of the Tribune. Others [...]
July 22nd, 2007 @ 1:20 am
“Damien Mulley… prompting him to use hilarious profanity is an absolute classic”
People in glass fucking houses, Twenty.
July 22nd, 2007 @ 11:17 am
It would be nice if the Tribune were to actually update their site the day the newspaper comes out, if it loaded in under 5 minutes and what’s with the cheap layout and design? Even the online Sindo looks better!
July 22nd, 2007 @ 11:36 am
The website really leaves a lot to be desired, you’re right.
July 23rd, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
And don’t forgot that other American dude, Jon Ihle, cool biz writer.
Is Ross switching to the Sindo? Nothing would persuade me to buy that rag.
August 16th, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
I may be late to comment, but the trib is still fucked
August 25th, 2007 @ 2:55 am
Only went looking for this after reading about some blog about the Tribune in the Phoenix…. Seriously, what are you all talking about?
What do you all buy papers for? The Tribune has been shedding ACTUALLY GOOD journos for about 2/3 years.
It has no original foreign news and the foreign news it buys are 50 percent celebrity stories, he classic being a week when half their foreign section (1 and a half pages) was devoted to a story about Michael Jackson and another about Britney’s haircut woes!
It’s Irish news is more tabloid now than the Herald.
(You guys are seriously outa da loop) One or two Phoenix and Tribune bosses are as close as buddies get… Phoenix has done more PR for Tribune than their marketing dept with fake intrigues and suggesting Trib could have dirt on Sean Quinn.
Anyone wonder why Phoenix hadn’t a word to say on the Tribune devoting 4/5 pages going after Denis O’Brien, Tony O’Reilly’s competitor for INM shares?!!!
Phoenix seriously giving inches to Richard ‘I’ve never worked as a business reporter before but yeah I’d love to be your business editor’ Delevan. The paper’s business section don’t cut it. Period.
The paper’s own editor Noreen Hegarty said Ross O’Carroll Kelly was their chief marketing focus.
And NEWSFLASH… it’s now the only Sunday ‘broadsheet’ to lose readers in latest ABCs, down nearly 3 percent!
August 25th, 2007 @ 3:02 am
That said, I forgot to add it has some good people. The Sport is very good, but what’s the story with it not having it’s own separate section? The monthly Mad About Sport mag is very well done.
The Arts review is printed on what seems like jacksroll and hidden behind one of the sections like property or something. I keep forgetting it’s there.
August 25th, 2007 @ 3:06 am
Final (and unconnected) comment: the layout, date-and-time display of posts, and the general look of this blog (1st visit) is first class.
August 25th, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
[...] seem to think it was Tricky Dicky that wrote this. Now, I know the old man with the beard and Richard Delevan are pretty similar looking but [...]
September 6th, 2007 @ 1:09 am
For those still checking this blog for the Is the Sunday Tribune fucked? debate to kick off… I see there’s another inclusion in the Phoenix today, alleging some manner of woe befalling that paper’s business editor, a man who seems to get a lot of space on this blog for no apparently good reason other than there seems to be some self-congratulatory filial bond between those who blog in Dublin.
Twenty may appreciate the humour of Phoenix describing his blog a tad dismissively as ‘someone called Twenty…’
More importantly, those of us fond of trying to figure out what goes on between the lines might be inclined to think that such a leak to the Phoenix, (a magazine which is friend to some but not all in the upper echelons of the Tribune) might spell trouble for those who are inexorably linked by patronage to those who fall foul of the Phoenix’s claws.
September 6th, 2007 @ 1:10 am
Sorry, I meant to write ‘this’ blog, not ‘his’.
September 6th, 2007 @ 8:48 am
, a man who seems to get a lot of space on this blog for no apparently good reason other than there seems to be some self-congratulatory filial bond between those who blog in Dublin.
Does he really get a lot of space on this blog? He’s been mentioned twice in relation to this Phoenix thing – and yes it’s because I ‘know’ him through blogging but it’s hardly ‘self-congratulatory’, is it?
Did the Phoenix fess up to completely cocking up their story?
September 6th, 2007 @ 8:49 am
‘Someone called Twenty’ – heh. I do like the Phoenix though. I hope we can still be friends.
September 7th, 2007 @ 1:47 am
The ‘lots’ of space is more about the context of what’s said than how much. Refuting a claim that the Tribune is fucked with a reference to the Tribune’s business section ed just cos he is a blogger more or less sums up most of the nonsense on Irish blogs.
No wonder you won that Irish blog award. Genuinely, who else is out there? There must be half a dozen media-related blogs in circulation and nobody has the inside track on anything happening in the media. The content of Irish blogs is largely irrelevant. It’s Sindo-hack-style self-promotional dross peddled among a small core of mutual admirers. Someone should write a Ross O’Carroll-Kelly-style column on Dublin bloggers who don’t get the joke that the are mostly an internet verison of Sindo ’03 Girls desperate for some undeserved status. So… ‘self-congratulatory filial bond among bloggers in Dublin’… yeah absolutely.
What u mean ‘the Phoenix fess up to cocking up their story?’ I’m not defending the Phoenix which has come down firmly in sympathy with a buddy caught up in a bit of major legal warfare that makes Basra look like Ballsbridge. The Phoenix has gladly adopted the benevolent role of PR office for one wounded soldier who is conscious he may face a firing squad if all goes pear-shaped. My original point above is that the most recent dispatches suggest that the Phoenix’s buddy has decided to start directing some fire into the home camp, at another soldier’s boot-cleaning recruit!
September 7th, 2007 @ 8:59 am
Refuting a claim that the Tribune is fucked with a reference to the Tribune’s business section ed just cos he is a blogger more or less sums up most of the nonsense on Irish blogs.
Well that was the whole point of the post. A rather tongue in cheek suggestion that because a number of Irish bloggers had connections to the Tribune it could easily survive the loss of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly.
I assumed that nobody would take it as seriously as the Phoenix have. They must have had an irony bypass in there. Perhaps I should write a post about how Irish blogs will cure cancer and bring about world peace – perhaps they might get it then. The Trib post was obviously far too subtle.
And I’ve seen the new article and yet again Goldhawk insinuates that Delevan and I are the same person, something to which many people, not least of all myself, can testify to completely and utterly untrue.
The fact that he links to my blog does not make him me. The fact that he used a link to my blog in a press release does not make him me.
Whatever the Phoenix’s beef is with him is causing them to overlook the basic facts and it’s making them look really quite stupid.
January 10th, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Eminiminus is a googlewhackblatt, (A single word that returns only one result). Even as an unword that’s still pretty cool… well cool in the loosest sense of the word.
July 22nd, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
“It has no original foreign news”
Minor point of order – that’s not true. They bought an original nearly-full page article from me for their international section-before-last. And it wasn’t about celebs. Compared to what else is out there, I the Tribune’s international section is pretty good.