Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
Last week, in interview with a More 4 journalist, Mark Regev, one of Ehud Olmert’s spokespeople, admitted that Israel knew and had officially recorded the fact that Hamas had not broken the ceasefire between the two regions and, further, that the Israelis were also aware that Hamas had made attempts to prevent other, small groups [...]
It is a common enough for blogs, independent magazines, message boards and independent news sources to take issue with how the mainstream media reports on climate change. The argument is that mainstream media is still sending out a mixed message and is failing to provide the public with the sort of accurate information that is [...]
“This debate will go on and on. It’s been an interesting discussion and hopefully we’ll come back to it again.” [Miriam O'Callaghan, RTE's Prime Time, 25th November 2008]
Miriam O’Callaghan concluding a recent Prime Time segment ‘Questions raised over global warming’, making the surprising claim that there exists a ‘debate’ over the science of climate change. [...]
Towards the end of Tuesday night’s edition of TV3 current affairs programme ‘Nightly News with Vincent Browne’ the host asked one of his guests, almost rhetorically, whether the media have some responsibility for the artificial inflation of property prices in their promotion of the market through property supplements and advertising. His guest agreed that to [...]
Journalists are too often criticised for being pessimistic, lacking balance and failing to take due recognition of good news. One Irish Independent writer referred to this alleged phenomenon as the “doom and gloom blackout of the Irish Times”.
Admittedly, few journalists are known for injecting humour into their work, without, that is, compromising the integrity of [...]
The category ‘immigrant’ has been systematically substituted for the category ‘worker’, only to be supplanted in its turn by the category of the ‘clandestine’ or illegal alien. First workers, then immigrants, finally illegal aliens. If we insist that we are actually talking about workers - and whether they have worked, are working, or no longer [...]
Endearing Ingenue, Country Pumpkin, or Simple Puppet of His Evil Taskmasters?
According to the newspapers here in Las Canarias, the people of London, England, have voted in for their new mayor a complete idiot who is very smart, the man named Boris Johnson, grandson of Samuel Boswell, who founded The Spectator magazine.
This was not entirely unespected [...]
