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Niall Boylan latest ambush attempt
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.”
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