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A Fianna Fáil Senator says that media should not have to give equal time to both sides on issues like climate change – even during a referendum campaign. @Ben_Scallan reacts.
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Punishment for ‘biased’ coverage?
Political parties don’t deliver objective and factual information. They are always trying to persuade you of something. That, too, is increasingly true of the media.
For most of yesterday, the name of the person who was wrongly suspected of carrying out the unprovoked and brutal murder of Ashling Murphy was not made public by the Gardai. All that we knew is that he was male, in his forties, originally from Romania, and was known to Gardai. And, of course, that […]
In 2003, American journalist Bill Moyers asked Bill Gates a question. Why, Moyers wanted to know, are you so passionate about reproductive issues? Gates considered. “But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual, philosophical pursuit?” Moyers pressed. “Or was there something that happened? [W]as there a revelation?” “When I was growing up, my parents were […]
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Jon Williams, the Managing Director of RTÉ News, has apologised for RTÉ’s reporting of climate change, saying that the broadcaster was wrong not to more strongly link extreme weather, such as the recent heatwave across Ireland, with climate change. This is despite Williams having previously pointed out, correctly, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
The below picture is copied and pasted from Pat Leahy’s report of the Dublin Bay South by-election, in the Irish Times of 28th June 2021 – that is, in the middle of the election campaign. The picture is interesting in a number of ways, not least in comparison with the actual result. Ivana Bacik received […]