Raw notes are up on the Wiki for the Tribune. The best paper I read all weekend, and it’s still only 23% journalism. And lots of that isn’t very good journalism. Also, there was far too much free publicity being handed out, most egregiously in the case of page 3 being handed over almost completely to the Sony Playstation3. The score for Opinion was also very high, but that may be a fact of life in the Sunday market.
That said, I gave out some gold stars for particularly good work. There were five stories that were intelligent, original to the Tribune , and focussed on matters of national importance. This is the kind of thing I was after when I went looking for the whereabouts of the Fourth Estate. Shane Coleman, Odran Flynn, Sara Burke, Isobel Hayes, Una Mullally, John Burke and Madam Editor, accept your stars and take a bow. Now go back and fix the other three quarters of your paper. Being better than the Sindo is not the kind of laurel upon which one can rest.