Pandering to your audience might be good for you, as a media outlet. But it’s almost always in the worst interests of the audience itself.
Unfortunately, the absence of a trial is also a boon to those “unnamed Garda sources”, who get, as ever, to spin a yarn that does not, entirely, add up.
One shudders to think of the national conversation that would presently be ongoing if the attacked migrants had been handing out leaflets in favour of more immigration, rather than in favour of more prayer.
Those people who roll their eyes and see an establishment that enforces rules and regulations selectively against its enemies are not imagining things.
No political party, after all, has ever won votes by criticising the popular people in the country.
The surest way to eliminate violence, over time, is to make violence a futile endeavor.
Nobody wants to be the journalist who says “Dublin is a Kip”, only to see Justin Barrett, or someone only vaguely less awful, win a City Council seat on a “Dublin is a kip” platform.
Apocalyptic language simply does not translate.
How can you oppose this, as many on the left do, and at the same time wish to decriminalise and regulate prostitution?
By indulging her public suffering and despair, did we really help her? I’m not sure the answer to that question is “yes”.
Whether this curriculum, full to the brim with nonsense, gets enacted is a matter entirely of how much parents care to stop it.
This is important because it goes to the very basic question about whether you, as a member of the public, can trust the things you read.