EVERYDAY the media tries it best to keep you up to date on the truly important news occurring around the world. Elsewhere, the media also works incredibly hard to distract you into becoming bogged down in utterly trivial shit, hooking you with ‘news items’ that have been crafted to either play on your emotions or… Read more »
“YEAH, I had so much fun too. Let’s keep in touch. You’re number? No, I’ve totally got it already somehwere. Mine? It’s like 017-something, there’s like a 5 or 2 in there as well. Oh shit, is that the time? I gotta go!” Waving a fond farewell at a Paris airport, the sports media made… Read more »
PINCHING the bridge of his nose while expelling yet another exhausted sigh, son-of-two James Prendeville took a moment to steady himself in a bid to answer his father’s latest question as to why he was staging this intervention. “So, when you say it’s run by a right-wing nutcase, what exactly do you mean, son?” dad Tony Prendeville asked, seemingly oblivious… Read more »
CRIMINAL trials of all descriptions are sadly exploited and poured over in lurid details by newspaper editors and principle-less online news publications, but luckily for the public Irish tabloids are always a bastion of restraint and respectful reporting. The temptation to turn someone’s tragedy into titillating conversation pieces for rubbernecking readers must be quite high,… Read more »
IF THERE’S one thing we’ve learned by closely observing our online news site rivals it is that putting critically acclaimed Channel 4 comedy ‘Derry Girls’ in a headline can guarantee more clicks and better engagement. However, this story is about the new roll out of wheelie bins in the wider Dungarvan area and we apologise… Read more »
WWN would like to apologise to readers for alarming them with a headline that suggested a huge tropical storm was about to destroy their lives, loved ones and properties, and would like to reassure you that said storm is taking place on the far side of the world and as such has no bearing on… Read more »
THE New York Times has reported nothing in the last 24 hours, WWN and all other Irish news outlets can confirm. Seemingly operating under reporting guidelines that are far removed from what must be adhered to here in Ireland, the egregious NY Times somehow managed to string together zero words and no images to back… Read more »
DELEGATES from the world’s media have offered a 21-pen salute to the gallant men and women of ISIS, in a moving ceremony to mark the fall of the last stronghold of the terrorist organisation. With the last members of the Caliphate holed up in a desperate, hopeless siege in Syria, journalists and editors from the biggest news outlets… Read more »
UNSURE as to which vaguely threatening female internet sensation to create scaremongering articles about this week, the media has decided to run with stories that combine the mythology of brainwashed ISIS teen bride Shamima Begum and spooky YouTube banshee Momo, and who are we at WWN to not follow suit. Following discussions in newsrooms around… Read more »
TOMMY ROBINSON made yet more headlines this week after he was banned from Facebook and Instagram. An enigmatic and divisive figure to many, what truly makes Tommy Robinson tick remains a mystery despite his large following in the UK and around the world. To learn more about the man away from the YouTube videos, the… Read more »