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Category: Media and Journalism

  • Controversial Myers resigns from Irish Times

    There was speculation during the week that Kevin Myers had not been seen for some time in the pages of the IT. The SBP report that Myers has resigned, and is in talks with the Indo.

  • Irish singer shuts up bloggers' tirade

    Update: The people at El Paso say its an April Fool’s day joke. They posted it on March 30th?>. Anyways that aside, the most important thing coming up is McDowell’s defamation bill. Now that is serious. Dearbhail McDonald contacted me about that John Gray saga I went through a couple of years back. She wrote…

  • Dodgy quiz

    SO pissed off was I today with the Gerry Ryan show that I emailed them to complain. The subject of my anger was a very ill-thought out quiz, where Aer Lingus are promoting their new route to Dubai. Now as readers know I have been there quite a few times, so I would have known…

  • Images and pictures of Mohammed, historical

    Michelle Malkin linked to images of Mohammed, the notion that any images of Mohammed are forbidden in Islam seems odd to me, but then I’m not religious myself. What I had not realised is that this story has been brewing since October. That this is the case lends more weight to an argument that the…

  • Question

    I wondered if directly showing the cartoons on here, for the purposes of debate, and in order to see what all the fuss is about, would be a directly offensive exercise to Islamic people? Or does one wait a few months until the furore has died down? I am getting a spike in visitor activity…

  • Blog-aholics

    Here is an interesting statistic according to a recent study, 25% of US workers read blogs. This contributes to a loss of 9% of the working week. In other words U.S. workers in 2005 wasted the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs. Here’s the money quote: According to a survey (sub.) by the magazine Advertising…

  • Danish Mohammed cartoons

    This really has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Michelle Malkin has, perhaps rightly, been going to town on it. Last night RTE’s Prime Time decided not to show any of the cartoons. I have decided to link to the cartoons, I actually think they are not that good, and to be honest I can’t see…

  • Oprah as journalist

    The Daily Show do a great piece on how the journalists of America could learn something from Oprah’s grilling of James Frey. Watch the video here. I find the Random House blurb by Coates Bateman quite funny: What’s interesting is that the most affecting scenes (for me at least) are not gratuitously violent. They’re not…

  • Vincent misses the point

    Normally I like Vincent Browne, even when I don’t agree with him. But todays piece in the Irish Times is bordering on lunacy, at least in my opinion. An opinion that I am expressing freely. On a blog. On the ‘Internet’. Has Vincent heard of new media? Let’s put his views up here for debate.…

  • MSM standards

    The subject of MSM versus new media has often been debated on the blogosphere, and while I have never argued that blogging or citizen journalisn will fully replace mainstream media, I think it does serve as a valuable addition. I was struck this week, after reading an article in the Evening Echo (yes I know…