33 thoughts on “There’s A Twitter Storm About This Cartoon”

  3. This is my last comment on Broadsheet.

    I knew you’d wait to build up a following before monetizing the whole thing like an Entertainment.ie clusterfuck of banner ads.

    You’re killing the very thing which draws people in. I can’t trust the motives of posters from now on.

    And you’ll probably delete this anyway which would prove my point. But then you might not delete it so as not prove my point. But you’ll agonize over it. Or maybe you won’t. But I’ll take a screen grab anyway just in case.

    But good luck if it means income for the contributors. It just won’t be same thing anymore.

    • Seeing as you won’t be replying to this, I’d just like to say that I always thought you were a cock anyway.

    • RJ mate, try moving the scroll bar at the bottom to the right, hey presto the ads disappear. Either that or just chill the fuck out, everyone’s got to earn a living.

    • I’d like to personally say, I’m delighted broadsheet.ie are monetising, and I hope they make a mint. It will ensure the website survives, and it’s their right to make money off the thing. Why the f**k shouldn’t they? They obviously spend a lot of time on it and provide a good, entertaining service. Why would you begrudge them the few bob for their time? Might keep them off the streets, anyway. I hear it was previously funded exclusively by mugging grannies in dole queues.

    • Now you should have time to write that sequel to ‘Fly Fishing by RJ Hartley’ everyone’s been waiting for.

      (Aw, don’t go…)

    • RJH, Goodbye, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu. You will be missed by some of us.

    • Adblock Plus is allowing these ads through on my browser. Can any computer literate people help me customise it to get rid of McGregor and Michael Caine?

      • Ignore last comment. I figured it out on my own. Very proud of myself, so I am.

  6. Storm in a teacup. The cartoon is a very astute comment about the British media’s current obsession with a minor kerfuffle about phones while millions are on the verge of dying of starvation and at the risk of sounding like a complete cnut, but fuck it…. I’ve had a bellyfull of famines in Africa!

    • I can’t agree with that. It’s about context. The Irish Times in their earlier cartoon could be said to be making that point. As for the London Times, the goal was clearly to gloss over the phone hacking, play it down, and they used a famine to do so. It doesn’t get worse than that. And if anyone doubts that was the goal, see this absolutely staggering Fox News clip (also Murdoch owned)

      • If anything, it was a stark reminder to people that there were more important things going on in the world than the corrupt mis-management of a Newspaper that everyone seems to be getting knotted up about.

          • So if a non-Murdoch-owned paper published the same cartoon it’d be alright then?

          • The point of the post is that a non-Murdoch paper DID publish a similar cartoon, and it wasn’t only alright, it was a well-needed bit of perspective. From a Murdoch paper it’s a shockingly crass bit of grotesque and self-serving cynicism.

      • That is some virtuoso whitewash attempt! “What about Bank of America?”!! Nicely equating hacking with being hacked…

  10. I think the Cartoon sums up the medias Hackgate coverage Bias beautifully.. If you get offended then you deserve to be..

  11. Start censoring cartoons, oh wait thats already happened, Allah be praised.