Handing out “end of year awards” to politicians is a venerable and stupid Irish media tradition
We must be purer than pure, when surrounded by such moral degeneracy. John Charles McQuaid and Eamon Ryan have this much in common: They both desired, or desire, Ireland to be a beacon of virtue to a fallen globe.
The difference between mistake, and mindset.
“whoever made the comments, I hope he faces the full force of the law”.
In public relations, the concept of an “embargo” is used to guarantee maximum coverage of a news story at a time chosen by the people behind the story. How it works is simple enough: A media organisation is given access to a piece of news well in advance, and told that it may not run […]
Who checks the fact checkers?
The good news is that a media that behaves like this cannot survive, long term.
The bad news just keeps coming for RTE.
“I think it is only right.”
In such an environment, the argument for public funding of RTE will get weaker over time, not stronger.
After all, if Tubridy was expendable, why wouldn’t they be?
A smart Russian would look at Ireland and see a country relatively friendly to the west, on good terms with the Americans, and with absolutely negligible counter-intelligence capabilities, and ask a simple question: Why change what works for us?