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When newspapers abolish the use of “pregnant woman” and endorse “pregnant people”, they are essentially saying that they accept that the most hardcore trans rights activists are correct, and their opponents are incorrect. It is not reporting, it is activism.
Photo Credit: www.chrisboland.com Had Rooney made these comments about Muslims, or Jews, she would be denounced by consensus as a far-right extremist. As it is, all she has done is to articulate the acceptable, and accepted, bigotry of her own caste. Say whatever you like about catholics, and the most people will do is maintain […]
Fascinating. The decline in traditional television has been going on for years, but one of the reasons that sport commands such huge royalty payments, in general, is that it has largely been the exception to the trend. The Olympic Games this year, though, suffered a massive collapse in viewers. Why? These are US figures, not […]
The Pandemic has been very bad news for some people – restaurateurs, publicans, students, anybody working part time in hospitality, and so on, but it has been absolutely superb news for some others. Mainly, of course, the media: Our subscriber numbers jumped by nearly 50 per cent last year to 126,000 – a great performance, […]
Jon Williams, the Managing Director of RTÉ News, has apologised for RTÉ’s reporting of climate change, saying that the broadcaster was wrong not to more strongly link extreme weather, such as the recent heatwave across Ireland, with climate change. This is despite Williams having previously pointed out, correctly, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
Quietly, this is one of the most scandalous episodes in Irish journalism for long and many’s the year. And rather than being appropriately embarrassed, the editor was out over the weekend, bragging about it. “An absolute box office piece”, says he, without shame: Sunday Independent P1– Gardai probe sinister calls to Nphet chiefs– Sinéad O'Connor […]
The point of the media – the reason it exists – is to report the news to the public. Our job, as journalists, is to pull together relevant information about the things that are happening in the world, and present it to you, the public, in a way that is accessible, understandable, and accurate. When […]
Revised rules about handling allegations of wrongdoing against clergy and others in the employment of the Catholic Church were published by the Vatican in June (New Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, 01.06.2021) and were generally received as a positive step towards holding offenders to more stringent account under a wide number of […]
There was universal delight, and joy unconfined, in the media yesterday, amidst the release of the latest “trust in media” figures from Reuters. Irish people may have turned on the Church, their politicians, big business, and most institutions, but, as it turns out, we sure do love our journalists: Irish people’s trust in media increases […]
There was never any first hand evidence, of any kind, that a teacher or teachers in Presentation College Carlow had told female students in November of last year that their leggings were causing male teachers to be sexually distracted by their anatomies. Despite that, the story travelled around the world, as far as Australia, New […]
The media pummelling of Fine Gael bye-election candidate for Dublin Bay South, James Geoghegan, shows no immediate signs of easing off. One might suspect, given the ferocity of the criticism headed his way, that some elements of the media who had a soft spot for snubbed ex-TD Kate O’Connell are taking a little bit of […]