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Monday, Feb 6th 2012


Articles Covering Journalism

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 a poker game, went insane, now raising llamas in Monaghan for gladiatorial combat.”
“Locked herself in a cellar in 2005 and refuses to come [...]

Wronging Writes

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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 odd question for 21st-century analysts and activists to be posing. But the answer to that question in regards to journalism — that [...]

The Media Bite blog on the morphing of the economic debate

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • July 20th 2009

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 by establishment greed and corruption into a crisis of public service expenditure.
The banking boogiemen have slinked off into the shadows, the [...]

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 Dept. of Finance. I have also modified a section which may have implied that the other claims about Ireland’s generous [...]

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 interview. We contend all mainstream journalists are unavoidably affected by this phenomenon - even those who are conscious of it.
These [...]

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 least inclination to “embed” itself in the protective grasp of the US army: their claim that this was an unfortunate [...]

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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