Your news ends up being censored without you ever knowing.
There is such a thing as decency and the hysterical, inaccurate reporting around Tuam isn’t it.
Irish journalists live in mortal fear of that one question: Whose side are you on?
Modern journalists are largely (with some honourable exceptions) defined by two characteristics. One is a studiously-cultivated, carefully-curated ironclad-stupidity.
“I think it is very important to protect the identity of sources.”
At Gript, we have a clear stake in this debate.
The biggest open prize has already gone to Hugh O’Connell of the Sunday Times
“We are the media now” – and journalists absolutely HATE it.
The public might be forgiven for thinking that the state had bought their silence on a matter of public interest.
When a media organ is suggesting – vaguely – that some people making some arguments might be Russian agents, then that media organ is not doing the public a service.
“The truth was that McCafferty was the quintessence of the 1960s, in which shallow posturing was esteemed and holding fashionable lefty-opinions was not brave but obligatory.”
It is to the states’ shame that the Ditch had to go fighting for this information, and to the Ditch’s very great credit that they went and fought for it.