Sad to see Broadsheet go – I hadn’t been hugely loyal to it in the last couple years due in part to their support of certain things I disagreed with (and it sounds like that was the case for a lot) but I still enjoyed visiting when I did and always saw a very random collection of stuff including some great music. They also did a service previously when they highlighted the water meter stuff.
It really went to the dogs the last 2 1/2 years. There was some great stuff on it, some good commenters who spoke a lot of sense. But their inability to moderate multiple accounts, their views on the pandemic and vaccines really turned the place into a shit show.
I’m not surprised they lost all ad revenue and it was just bodger left in his conspiracy hovel searching out the latest nonsense.
I still don’t forgive them for leather jacket guy.
r/broadsheet_ie
It used be a good site for the odd random link from around the Internet and they did some great investigative pieces over the years. However, in more recent times it seemed to cross over to anti vaxx and conspiracy theory shite.
They seem tonbe pretty aware of that themselves given this extract from their announcement:
“Those remaining are shells of their former selves.
Their deeply unfashionable take on recent world events alienated everyone on Broadsheet but a few and proved to be ‘box office poison’.
With no income of any kind, we are unable to replenish the workforce, pay the hosting fee in a timely fashion or defend ourselves in legal actions taken against the site in any meaningful way”
They did some great stuff around Denis o’redacted and his shady dealings when no other media would touch it. Same with the tuam stuff.
The beginning of the end was supporting Gemma o’d, but then again, who knew she’d turn out to be a nut case
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Sad to see Broadsheet go – I hadn’t been hugely loyal to it in the last couple years due in part to their support of certain things I disagreed with (and it sounds like that was the case for a lot) but I still enjoyed visiting when I did and always saw a very random collection of stuff including some great music. They also did a service previously when they highlighted the water meter stuff.
It really went to the dogs the last 2 1/2 years. There was some great stuff on it, some good commenters who spoke a lot of sense. But their inability to moderate multiple accounts, their views on the pandemic and vaccines really turned the place into a shit show.
I’m not surprised they lost all ad revenue and it was just bodger left in his conspiracy hovel searching out the latest nonsense.
I still don’t forgive them for leather jacket guy.
r/broadsheet_ie
It used be a good site for the odd random link from around the Internet and they did some great investigative pieces over the years. However, in more recent times it seemed to cross over to anti vaxx and conspiracy theory shite.
They seem tonbe pretty aware of that themselves given this extract from their announcement:
“Those remaining are shells of their former selves.
Their deeply unfashionable take on recent world events alienated everyone on Broadsheet but a few and proved to be ‘box office poison’.
With no income of any kind, we are unable to replenish the workforce, pay the hosting fee in a timely fashion or defend ourselves in legal actions taken against the site in any meaningful way”
They did some great stuff around Denis o’redacted and his shady dealings when no other media would touch it. Same with the tuam stuff.
The beginning of the end was supporting Gemma o’d, but then again, who knew she’d turn out to be a nut case
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/08/23/five-years-after/
This story was one of their better pieces of work.
The connections highlighted are interesting to say the least.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/08/23/five-years-after/
This story was one of their better pieces of work.
The connections highlighted are interesting to say the least.
Went the way of the Property Pin with a conspiracist lunatic running the show and driving out all the good contributors.
How much traffic does this site get and how much would they sell it for?