Up until relatively recently, a politician in Ireland could watch the 6 and 9 news on RTE and get a broadly reliable sense of the news the country was seeing, and how, therefore, to calibrate their message.
I am hesitant, here, to accuse the Journal of consciously serving a nefarious agenda – but I am entirely comfortable in noting that a nefarious agenda exists which is served, even unconsciously, by this nonsense.
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In highlighting the alleged diversity of organised crime, RTE isn’t telling you anything new about organised crime. It’s telling you what it thinks of you, the Irish people.
One of the basic jobs of elected officials is to see things coming. There are some candidates running in these elections who did see this problem coming, and warned about it.
Voters, in a democracy, have a duty to themselves and their fellow citizens to be deeply skeptical.
I am right and Mrs. McGuirk, for the first time since about 1987 (at least in her view), is entirely wrong.
Not coincidentally, it must be suspected, the new Taoiseach has pledged to sort the issue of RTE funding before the next election
“Conservative, or right leaning, or alternative media is of no use to anybody if it’s just propaganda. That’s a hill I’ll die on”
The blackout on this report and its significance in Ireland is little short of a disgrace, and there is very little that can be said in mitigation for those in the Irish media apparently determined to attempt to cover it up.
The Irish Times is certainly in love with this – in fairness, fascinating – story it has uncovered about former Irish soldiers training a rebel group in Libya. No fewer than three articles on the story adorned the IT on Wednesday, with a series of follow-ups coming yesterday, and doubtless more by the time you’re […]
When politics and journalism becomes a self-reinforcing echo chamber, with each side adopting the attitudes and opinions of the other, that’s good for neither.