Pinoy adventure
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Is every will published in newspapers??
The Sunday Indo publishes a summary of about 20 wills in a side column every week. I assume just the larger estates. No details - just "Pinoy adventure, Howth, Co. Dublin left an estate valued at €15,056,600 in his will.Is every will published in newspapers??
I’ve seen some before but didn’t think it was a regular occurrence,mostly for larger amounts.The Sunday Indo publishes a summary of about 20 wills in a side column every week. I assume just the larger estates. No details - just "Pinoy adventure, Howth, Co. Dublin left an estate valued at €15,056,600 in his will.
Quite separate to this, some newspapers will occasionally publish fuller details from a well known person's will - this may include beneficiaries.
If newspapers were dedicated to serious news only (or for the most part), as they were decades ago, then it would be appropriate.
Same thing today.Decades ago newspapers were dedicated to protecting the powerful by concealing anything damaging to their interests.
They don't do that though, so by your measure there is no issue.When the likes of the Sindo publish this information alongside celebrity gossip headlines etc, then I'd say there's an issue.
No, you're confusing the Sindo with the tabloids.The target audience of these rags is the prurient / the opposite of those reading in the public interest.
They still are.Decades ago newspapers were dedicated to protecting the powerful by concealing anything damaging to their interests. They were also dedicated to attacking anyone who sought to expose the powerful or speak out against their abuses.
They ignored and suppressed knowledge of the abuses of children and "immoral" women. Instead they published "serious news" glorifying those who were perpetuating the abuse.
The point more generally is that such information should be found in the right place, rather than in a mixed bag where the main focus is on entertainment etc than on actual journalism - how I'd describe the Sindo.No, you're confusing the Sindo with the tabloids.
Fair enough. I haven't read it in probably 15 years. It may have improved since then (I doubt it but I could be wrong). I have glanced at headlines in shops sometimes.When did you last buy it?
The point more generally is that such information should be found in the right place,
They don't do that though, so by your measure there is no issue.
Their page 2, where the wills lists have been published for decades, has never been a page for celebrity gossip headlines.
No, you're confusing the Sindo with the tabloids.
When did you last buy it?
It hasn't improved in the past 15 years, but the fact remains that the main focus of their page 2 where they list the wills is most certainly not entertainment. The same goes for their obituaries page.The point more generally is that such information should be found in the right place, rather than in a mixed bag where the main focus is on entertainment etc than on actual journalism - how I'd describe the Sindo.
Fair enough. I haven't read it in probably 15 years. It may have improved since then (I doubt it but I could be wrong). I have glanced at headlines in shops sometimes.
There was a case a few decades ago where a long serving Dublin Corporation Councillor of outwardly modest means died and the processing of his estate revealed substantial and previously undisclosed wealth. This received considerable media coverage in the context of possible planning corruption and an investigation into it later formed part of the work of I think the Flood/Mahon Tribunal.
No way should reporting of cases like that be suppressed.