Letters to the editor, Irish Times
Gayle Follard writes:
I see the Irish Times is using its own Letters Page to try and boost their 61K print circulation.
Desperate measures or handy firelighters?
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Aaaaaand ?
Print IS great.
I don’t bother with my Kindle anymore: back to books for me.
+1 Andy.
My Kindle is gathering dust too.
+1
I’m the same. Cracked open a box of my books from the younger days and have been spoiled all over again. Books are timeless.
I like print but I love not having to schlep a couple of hardbacks in my luggage when I ‘use a season as a verb’ abroad. That said, I do appreciate the pose value of having shelves full of Arthur Hailey bukes.
yes, but no.
Print is great – I love my books.
But the Kindle is unsurpassed for holidays. I can now bring as many books as I want.
In the olden ‘ I used to be limited by weight – I’d carefully choose (some) books that I would be willing to leave abroad (difficult choice) so I could buy more out there to bring home. There were some advantages to limits, I ended up reading some of herself’s books when I normally wouldn’t have. Rachel’s Holiday sticks out as a great read.
The holiday thing used to be a problem before BabyAndy arrived. Now I don’t have to worry about how many books I can read: instead I worry that I won’t even read one.
The Irish Times makes for great kindling.
The Indo gives off a terrible smell when you burn it.
Thank you.
A Printer.
‘i simply LOATHE having to read stuff online for any great length’
oh the huMANity
*swoons
Wait.
The Irish Times is using its own Letters Page to try and boost their 61K
printcirculation.…by showing letters from IT readers that are only visible to those that can already read the IT (i.e. IT readers)?
It’s AN OUTRAGE ! So only the privileged can read this…. I’m disgusted! BURN IT DOWN !
You mean, get a JCB and tear it down? amirite?
Have you just called me a scumbag? That’s dehumanising.
Write a letter to the Irish Times that the s-word has been used. Disgraceful. Cancelling my subscription immediately.
That’s an affront to all your daycent neighbours!
A new low. The IT Letters Page now reads like a fridge door.
I kinda feel sorry for the IT, was a great paper, now a rag that nobody reads. Most of the most read articles on line are click-bait dross from the usual and/or Financial times and Guardian/Associated press articles. With the circulation figures now of all the dailies, I am pretty sure the SCU are wasting their time, nobody reads or cares.
Do you contribute to the Guardian’s coffers? I keep meaning to (whenever I read a good article from them online) but haven’t to date. It’s on my to-do list.
When you do you get a lovely tote bag that you can sport to show how right-on you are. It’s tremendous. I let it lapse this year though as I’m a bit poor at the moment.
Nah, I just read their best articles free on the IT online in incognito mode.
When was it a great paper? It was latterly a proto unionist rag – a home for the Kevin Myers of the world carefully concealed
Crypto-unionist, darling!
Prepare for many newer and lower lows: I’ve always thought of it at as a student mag with a condign level of intellectual heft and/or decent reporting. I only ever look at Presbyterian Notes and the crossword.
Why Presbyterian Notes?
Why not?
Eyesight issue. Presbyterian is an anagram for Britney Spears. Britney Spears and Notes? Come on….
@GTS: superb.
@ Neilo: Much more fashionable to peruse BS and celebrate its talent for futurology #.Mystic Meg at your local parsonage.
@ Wellness: are you hinting at necromansey, perhaps?
The Clock Comes Down The Stairs, what an album….
Aye, that’s a platter for sure.
*Mutters to self* Thought that Presbo/occult wordplay would land. Pearls before swine :)
Angelus bad. Presbyterian Notes good. That’s the Irish Times sermon to the masses (see what I did there?) in a nutshell. Sectarianism dressed up as prose and community spirit.
I’m surprised we haven’t seen a letter from Tallaght/Jobstown arguing the LIDL/Centra, etc invasion was really to get at those undistributed Irish Times.
Especially as there was a shortage of Andrex in circulation.
The Sunday World is better value in terms of pages than the Irish Times. I light my coal fires with it, and also with The Irish Catholic, the giveaway Alive! and occasionally The Beano and Mad magazine. I send copies of Ireland’s Own to a friend in Russia.