24 Responses to “The Tribune fires Richard Delevan”

• Littlesapling Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

  heard you played a blinder at Leviathan the other night…
• Johnny5 Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 5:03 pm

  It means fuck all for you because you’re a big fat gayer.
• Twenty Major Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 5:18 pm

  I was hoping that was the case. Thanks for clearing that up for me J5.

  Sapling – it was quite good fun, I have to say.
• Twenty's Wriggly Chum Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

  Poor start to anti-racism week that they sack their house yank!
• FERRY Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

  What is wrong with quoting a blogger? Is it a credibility issue!
  Sounds like contrived bullshite to get rid of him!
• one man and his dog Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

  By the fuck you are milking every little thing, my brother has eighty five cows and he only has a go twice a day!
• MMN Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

  Renowned cunt.
• problemchildbride Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

  Bearing in mind i haven’t a clue about the people involved I’ve had a scout around the links and I still cannot see why this fella’s been sacked. He acknowledged his sources, the article itself looks to be full of information that would be freely available in the public record. All he seems to have done is called a guy on being unable to sell his own high-end home while claiming there’s nothing wrong with the market. Isn’t that his job, as an economic analyst? To expose the inconsistencies and the cant and get at the real situation?

  Is it just about his sources being mere bloggers?
• Twenty Major Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

  There’s the suggestion that the person mentioned in the article didn’t like it and as a very large advertiser may have used some influence.

  http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2007/11/05/richard-delevan-sacked-from-the-sunday-tribune/
• OneForTheRoad Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

  serves him right I say. And you can quote me on that.
• Twenty Major Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 10:42 pm

  How come it serves him right?
• FERRY Says:
  November 5th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

  Seems as tho he wasn’t an embedded hack, but the good ones always get a shafting! PS:Do bully experts know how to give the best wedgies!
• TheDailyMagnet Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 12:45 am

  “How come it serves him right?”

  - clearly it’s because he’s a blogger, the man should be tied to a post in the main square and horse whipped.
• OneForTheRoad Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 12:56 am

  Everyone knows that everything on the internet is made up.
• porridge Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 1:33 am

  bet you just made that up.
• Littlesapling Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 8:40 am

  Problem was he wrote about the chair of Independent newspapers difficulty in selling his own home when he’d been bigging up the market (he’s an estate agent y’know) and given the fact that said chair is also the biggest advertiser in the Trib..lets just say it was the only possible result.
• Twenty Major Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 9:00 am

  Well, they’d want to give him a pretty nice lump of money to stop a court case they’d lose in a second.
• Littlesapling Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 9:07 am

  I’d say they’re already counting loose change Twenty.
• Boomtown Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 10:25 am

  Littlesapling, Ken MacDonald is the chairman of Hooke and MacDonald rather than Independent Newspapers, the rest is quite true. This property business is now so out of control that the kingpins believe they should control the media.
• Conan Drumm Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 10:48 am

  Irish newspapers have depended hugely on property advertising for income since the mid-1980s. The property supplements are conspicuously lacking in critical analysis and the newspapers themselves never really cover issues like build quality, social housing, homelessness, or the social cost of the buy-to-let sector.
  When capital gains tax was reduced from 40% to 20% it gave an enormous boost to investors. At the height of the boom most of the ‘quality’ newspapers would have had their weekly production costs covered by income from property advertising. (The IT recently protected its back by buying myhome.ie)

  Since property advertising is the keystone of print publication it is quite logical that property advertisers believe they should get the press they’re paying for. Or perhaps Matt Cooper will tell us different….
• Boomtown Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 10:59 am

  Conan, property advertisers have every right to expect their adverts to be published as agreed and paid for. They do not have every right to dictate editorial, whether or not they believe they should.
• Conan Drumm Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 11:03 am

  Well Boomtown, while every paper would plead its editorial independence, I suggest you compare and contrast the IT’s coverage of the 1960s housing crisis with that of the last ten years.
• Littlesapling Says:
  November 6th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

  @ Boomtown..I actually meant the chair of Hooke McDonald..
• buy let mortgage provider Says:
  May 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

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