Comments on: Katy French, Independent Newspapers and Hypocrisy

By: billyboy

billyboy — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:28:53 +0000

Its called transference of pain and its caused by an overload of independent bullshit and some RTE “God love her sure she was a lovely girl” bolix. ears, nose, throat and testicles are all connected.

By: Bock

Bock — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:06:29 +0000

You can hear with your testicles?

By: billyboy

billyboy — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:28:04 +0000

I have a pain in my testicles hearin bout “poor Katy”. Who the fuck held her down and blew it up her nose. We’re supposed to be a society of equals.BOLLOX to that.Someone anonymous dies in a doorway and its verdict misadventure but some upper class junkie croaks and its murder and investigation and tributes and “aw jaysus god love her”. Why the fuck are we even wastin time talkin bout her.

By: mortgage o'hack

mortgage o'hack — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:27:46 +0000

Okay, so the indo is not going to win many pullitzer prizes, but is it really all that bad?
As the bestselling Irish daily paper, it is certainly a lot better than its British equivalent, The Sun. I know I should not say things in the company of bloggers, who believe the place is a nest of malodorous vipers.
I won’t add my tuppence to the whole Katy French saga. But Katy seems to be exercising the minds of bloggers just as much as the wicked old meeja.

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:39:39 +0000

That’s right Rosie. There are many questions to be asked about the two cases.

As regards “class”, I’d have to point out that class in Irish society is an invention of a small group in the media. Most of us are muck-savages, including Katy and friends. It’s what makes this country so easy to survive in.

One question I’d be asking is this: how long before being brought to hospital was Katy French taken ill?

I’d also want to know where Katy and those poor lads in Waterford got the cocaine. In Katy’s case, I’d want to know how thorough the forensic investigation was: when did they examine the house and what tests did they do? Who did they question?

In both cases, I’d like to know what the cops did to determine the source of the poison.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:24:31 +0000

Just a comment on the coverage of Katy French’s death.
When Kevin Doyle and John Grey were sent to hospital in Waterford the Gardai searched the house for drugs nearly immediately, but when Katy French was hospitalized there wasn’t sufficient evidence to go looking?
They left it days before speaking to people in the house, so if there was any drugs there, they had time to be removed.
The incident in Waterford was constantly on the news, whereas there was this strange mystery surrounding Katy French’s “illness”.
Even now, the girl is dead and all we know is there was cocaine in her system. Toxicology reports came back a lot quicker in Waterford. The well-known in Ireland obviously get more privacy. Sounds like a difference in class to me.
And I didn’t see The Tribune calling Mr. Doyle or Mr. Grey “a role model for a generation”, so why would Ms. French be? Mr. Doyle survived cancer only to killed by cocaine. Katy survived the modelling business only to be killed presumably by the drug.

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By: JackMcMad

JackMcMad — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:43:13 +0000

Our local rag, the DI is another ING jumped up piece of loo roll. The quality of journalism is appalling. They don’t broach real issues for fear of upsetting their advertisers. You just gave me an idea to do a post about them at some stage down the road.

By: Bock

Bock — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:31 +0000

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By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:46:44 +0000

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