By now, much digital ink has been spilled about Minister Patrick O’Donovan’s comments on the media’s “lopsided” coverage of the fuel protests. By which he meant, of course, that protestors – people critical of the Government – received a greater share of the airtime than he thinks they should have done.
Minister O’Donovan said that he’d be asking the independent media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, to undertake a review of the coverage of the protests, to ensure that democracy is served with the guarantee of sufficient “balance”, as he sees it. A call he later backtracked on, it should be noted, following significant outcry and scrutiny.