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  • Rated by Thamus on Apr 02 2009, 2:18pm

    'The Orphans of the Newspaper Industry' I know a Stumbler sent me this because of my previous post on an asinine American article. But really, New York Times? This is the limit. Now I clearly must despair for the future of American journalism. Less I be accused of picking my targets, I'll let comments posted by some real Irish readers of this article hammer home the point for me: Quote: "What a cliche ridden load of twaddle. Hated England? Celts in their beehives? Eating their corned beef and cabbage no doubt. Yeats and misery and pints of Guinness. It's all here, even the famine. Give yourself a slap on the back, idiot!" Quote: "Ah yes, written with the kind of glossy-eyed misinterpretation of facts that only a romanticising writer from the US could produce." Quote: "This is one of the most patronizing articles I have ever read. Find it hard to believe that my Irish friends consider the English 'still hated'. It would be great to read an article about the Irish without reference to travelers, sods of earth, beer and poets." Quote: "Yes, Ireland had a boom and it's over, as it is everywhere. But why does the article need to inject every single cliche and stereotype about the country - alcoholics, hatred of England, Guinness, saints and scholars, peat, blustery winds, 'Ryan's Daughter', tradition of misery, etc. Inevitable too that Yeats gets a mention! A pretty dire piece of writing." Quote: "Every sentence in Egan's embarrassing piece contains a cliche or a stereotype, often both. And every statement is presented with no supporting evidence. Anyone with a mortgage could get rich? I doubt it. And exactly how many 'former potato-diggers bought Porches'?" Quote: "Why do these writers lose all sense of objectivity, originality, and clarity when it comes to Ireland? It's a cliché bug that infects them when they step off the plane." Quote: "What load of malarkey! Big fancy American coming home to the old sod? Still-hated English? Land of Merry Alcoholics? Why not leprechauns, bag pipes and potato dinners? You sir are an idiot." Quote: "Please. Can we wait a few years to hold a wake for Ireland? Clearly many things have changed for Ireland but not the patronizing drivel written about it." Quote: "Anyone still wonder why US newspapers are failing?" [PICTURE: Dingle, Kerry, the home of cabbage eaters, alcoholics, leprechauns, English haters, poets, Porsche-owing potato diggers - and the Hotel Grande Yankee Cliché, for visiting New York journalists.]