March 16, 2003
Doppelgängers
The Irish Times is finally put their new printing presses to work (the building of
which nearly bankrupted them), and the paper has plenty of colour and a nice
new format. There is still room for improvement - Saturday's opinion page was a
duplicate of the previous Saturday's. Must have been a cut-and-paste error.
The problems with the Sunday Independent go a bit deeper.
Their latest feature is to dress up five young women every week, print a big
photo of them, and give each of them a paragraph to write. The Sindo refers to
them as writers but there's scant evidence of it on the page. It goes without
saying that they wouldn't dream of treating five male writers in the same
manner.
Mind you, there was that cover photo story with Conor Cruise O'Brien and Andrea Corr.....