Whatever the facts around Climate Change, journalists who take money to promote the Government’s views are not journalists
It does count, without any doubt, as a social media company actively putting its thumb on the scale of public discussion and debate to influence public policy outcomes.
You’re not being informed, you are being insulted.
It’s not journalism, it’s public relations.
Putting Richard Boyd Barrett’s ideas about the housing market into practice is a lot like putting an eight year old at the wheel of a formula one car.
Discussion ‘shut down’ on Liveline
Her unpopularity should not be surprising.
Paper demanded changes
This outlet is receiving state funding to inform the public, and carry out “fact checks”. That money is being disgracefully mis-spent.
That is the whole point of these sessions, at the end of the day: They are intended to train you how to think, and how to behave.
In many ways it is hard to blame the campaign group “Together for Safety” for lying as brazenly and openly as they did about the purpose and timing of prayer vigils at University Hospital Limerick. They are, after all, a campaign group, pursuing a political goal. So, when they claimed that “pro-life” campaigners had been […]
These have been long, dark, miserable years. Covid 19 bears much of the blame for that. As a society though, our own share of the blame is much, much, greater than we will ever admit to ourselves.