It has been sad, though not altogether surprising, to find no reportage in the mainstream Irish media of the death of the brilliant Scottish/Irish/American journalist, Alexander Cockburn, who died of cancer last weekend at the…
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Round Ireland with the Falange: County Wicklow
“You’re not from around these parts, are you, Señor?” “On the run from the authorities and living in Cork.” “Died in the arms of a rent boy from a methamphetamine overdose.” “Lost his house in…
Wronging Writes
OUR CLIENT: is an internationally known mass-media organization at the forefront of disseminating carefully selected pieces of data, on behalf of its customers, to the general public. It has both a traditional and longstanding outlook…
Book Review: The Death and Life of American Journalism
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again. By Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols — Nation Books What would Thomas Jefferson do? That might seem an…
The Media Bite blog on the morphing of the economic debate
The Media Bite blog on the morphing of the economic debate “It’s official, the barrage of PR and spin referred to by Stephen Kinsella has finally, and quite brilliantly morphed what was a crisis caused…
Sarah Carey’s Not Very Generous Response
Updated on 5th of May 2009 to take account of the fact that I have since verified that the explanation about OECD tables being ‘problematic’ was provided to Sarah by a press officer in the…
Drowning the Good Guys and Gals
This analysis of our interview with Harry Browne is not a critique of his journalism but rather of the coercive effect on him of the professional, corporate media environment as it seemed evident during the…
Book Review: Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn
One of the secret weapons of the occupation forces in Iraq has been the sheer danger of reporting on the conflict. The occupiers themselves have attacked the local offices of Al-Jazeera, the broadcaster with the…



