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Sunday, Jul 6th 2008


Archive for the ‘Irish Media’ Category

Joe MacAnthony and the Failure of Irish Media

“The point about a free press as presided over by O’Reilly’s INM is that editorial content is a matter for journalists, not proprietors.”
So says Eamon Dunphy in his April 12th Irish Times article about the battle between Denis O’Brien and Tony O’Reilly for the ownership of Independent News and Media. The article has raised […]

The Red Herring Diet Plan

That ol’ red herring - Labour’s links with trade unions - is raising its head again. Kevin Rafter suggests the Party’s 21st Century Commission (an internal review body) should:
‘ . . . look at Labour’s relationship with the trade union movement.’
Mr. Rafter likens this relationship to that which the State used to have with religious […]

Interview: Dr. Heinz Brandenburg on Political Bias in Irish Media

 
In the third of our interviews on the media I talked to Dr. Heinz Brandenburg of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, about political bias in the Irish media, how parties manage the media or fail to, and how the media covers politics in general.
Background
Dr. Heinz Brandenburg has written […]

Interview: The Paper Round Pundits

In the second of our interviews with independent commentators on the Irish media, I asked Simon McGarr and Fergal Crehan of the Tuppenceworth blog and fellow blogger Copernicus of Midnight Court about their Paper Round project. The exercise was to dedicate a weekend to reading Ireland’s newspapers in order to sift their contents and see […]

Interview: Chekov Feeney on The Press Council and the Defamation Bill, 2006

As part of a series of interviews on the Irish media by independent commentators, I asked Chekov Feeney, who writes on the Irish media for Village magazine, about the newly formed Press Council, the forthcoming changes to the Defamation Act, 1961, and whether this would have any impact on how the Irish media behaves.
The setting […]

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