tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22388467.post115101100138230386..comments2024-03-21T04:28:58.336-05:00Comments on Empire State View: Doyle and Enright give The Irish Times what forhesitant hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210377364150123884noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22388467.post-63108626457548125672022-08-28T23:31:55.002-05:002022-08-28T23:31:55.002-05:00r4v56c6c81 e7v66i7k37 t2b82n8x50 o4y05q9d72 r2... <a href="https://teddaf11560.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>r4v56c6c81</strong></a> e7v66i7k37 <a href="https://nere03734.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>t2b82n8x50</strong></a> o4y05q9d72 <a href="https://mcthasme97038.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>r2n28b4d92</strong></a> e6w43h3f64shesteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978824067193892683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22388467.post-3770697570225160592019-10-30T03:36:27.974-05:002019-10-30T03:36:27.974-05:00air max 90
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The Irish Times, a paper that once boasted of its robust reviewing, doesn't want them. And there are no brave magazine editors who will risk the 'wrath' of some scribe who disapproves of the reviews he/she publishes. The Irish Times has moved closer to the Right with every passing Saturday; it reflects a trend in Irish society to pretend that all is well in our arts' world and there are no flaws, no bad writers, no hyped scribblers. It is the nature of ultra-conservatism to assume a monopoly on perfection. No critic worth his or her salt - and this goes doubly if he or she is also a writer trying to get published - will dare to risk any chance of future publication by being seen as subversive, caustic, or not toe-ing a certain line about who deserves merit and who does not. It may be said that, in Ireland, writing has ceased being about literature just as criticism has ceased to be about criticism or even'robustness' of approach. Whatever you say, say nothing.Fred Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13456241851305088019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22388467.post-82306951785309404492007-03-07T12:51:00.000-05:002007-03-07T12:51:00.000-05:00The magazine does some of what it's meant to do ve...The magazine does some of what it's meant to do very well - it is meant, in certain respects, to be a Saturday morning, relatively entertaining-cum-escapist read, after all. So lifestyle, fashion and columns of the ilk of Roisin Ingle's have their place and I have no problem with them. There is a need for meatier features - and if you're going to slag Roisin's column, you should also account for her work as a features writer, which I think is often very fine and original, as well. I don't mean this in reference to your comment, Ada, but I think that Ingle-bashing is often used as a lazy shortcut to real engagement with the question of what the Times should and should not be doing. On the commissioning editors, I've never actually found their range to be particularly narrow, but I do find that it's sometimes a chaotic and unpredictable experience for writers to pitch to the paper, because the editors are carrying so much work between them after the redundancies. They're stretched, and opportunities are missed as a result, inevitably, and that is very frustrating for writers. But it's not strictly the fault of the editors themselves.hesitant hackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02210377364150123884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22388467.post-1151348806735821552006-06-26T14:06:00.000-05:002006-06-26T14:06:00.000-05:00Stellanova is right. The Irish Times does have som...Stellanova is right. The Irish Times does have some good writers but I think they are rather stupidly keeping them in their respective ghettos too much. I’d like to read more Donald Clarke, Hugh Linehan, Mary Hannigan, Jim Carroll and Hilary Fannin (to name but five), but they all seem confined to very defined areas. It seems to me that it is very narrow-minded commissioning editors who are at fault here. You can also blame the very narrow range of features which are covered on this. At the weekend, there was a really interested piece in the Guardian Weekend magazine which followed a tenner on its travels round London. The chances of seeing something similar in the Irish Times Magazine? Not a chance, darling. There needs to be a revolution at that particular supplment and that can only begin by getting rid of the current editor, awful dreary dribble like Roisin Ingle and letting some new ideas and writers run riot. Sure, it will lose readers initially but give it six months and it will be a different story. They should look at how The Ticket has worked and take stock from that. <BR/><BR/>Good blog by the way, ms hackAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22388467.post-1151057688532338442006-06-23T05:14:00.000-05:002006-06-23T05:14:00.000-05:00While the quality of news journalism at the Times ...While the quality of news journalism at the Times is really good, if a little dry, I think that the Irish print media in general have little time for stylish, witty and original writing (present company excepted, of course). There are lots of writers for the Guardian and the Observer whose work I will always read, regardless of subject, but they seem to have the freedom to be a bit more adventurous. The only Times writer whose work I'll always read, whether he's writing about films or football, is the ever-wonderful Donald Clarke.<BR/><BR/>I also don't think that most of the arts/features editors are particularly willing to take risks. I've pitched a few ideas for pieces in the past that have been rejected on the grounds of being a bit too non-mainstream - and then seen pieces on the same subjects on the cover of the Guardian's G2 section a couple of weeks later, which is just terribly frustrating. It's as though anything that isn't already familiar to the average Irish mammy or daddy is automatically too weird to be included.<BR/><BR/>And I agree that there are plenty of excellent critics contributing to the books pages of the Times - like all the writers you mentioned (I wouldn't include Battersby in such a list). In defence of my old employers, though, the Tribune is the only other Irish paper that devotes several broadsheet pages to book reviews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com