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Category: Media and Journalism

  • NI madness

    Last Sunday, the number one item on RTE’s flagship news programme, This Week, informed the nation that the McCartney sisters were back in Ireland and would later travel on to Belfast. The next day, another RTE headline informed us that a Belfast fireman had been hit on the elbow with a stone. There are many…

  • The Eason Jordan story

    Michelle Malkin has a great review of the entire story, beginning to end…

  • Irish Times blog article follow up

    Robin O’Brien-Lynch’s article in the Irish Times has sparked some controversy in the Irish blogosphere. In general, people have been taken aback by what some considered to be negative comments in the article. Bluire is not happy at all… And anyway, who is Robin O’Brien to be telling the Irish Blogging community that we need…

  • CNN Executive Eason Jordan Resigns Post Over Remarks

    Another scalp for the blogosphere, I am not sure the witch hunt was entirely necessary, but the pressure put on by the blogosphere was enormous. Instapundit has a roundup on the story.

  • Lots of blogs but few talking about Irish matters

    …or so claims Robin O’Brien-Lynch in the Irish Times today. To be honest he has a point. It is something I said to Richard back at the blog party, by covering mainly Irish politics he is the first blogger in Ireland to do so. Slugger does cover Irish politics, but not Southern stuff do as…

  • The Myers/Kennedy apology

    In his by now notorious article on mothers of bastards (MoBs) Kevin Myers wrote: “…upon a career of mothering bastards because it seems a good way of getting money and accommodation from the State? Ah, you didn’t like the term bastard? No, I didn’t think you would.”. Here’s what he wrote in his apology. “I…

  • Myers losing it?

    As Anthony posted below, Kevin Myers has got himself in a bit of trouble. The issue was discussed on Vincent Browne’s show last night. You can listen to it here with Real Player. Vincent became quite irate. Geraldine Kennedy and Myers were invited onto the show, both of whom declined. Michael Higgins describes it as…

  • Myers causes a storm

    Kevin Myers has finally lost the plot. Writing in the Irish Times(sub. required), he attacks teenagers who, as he says, “Consciously embark upon a career of mothering bastards because it seems a good way of getting money and accommodation from the State.” Despite massive public and media reaction, Mr. Myers has (perhaps wisely) apparently gone…

  • Eason Jordan and Kate Adie?

    I have been following the huge coverage surrounding “Easongate”, and what he did or did not say about the US military targeting journalists in Iraq. For those of you unfamiliar with the news, and so big has the story been on all the top blogs, there is now a blog devoted entirely to the story.…

  • So you want to influence public opinion…

    Dan Drezner has a break down of the publications that influence opinion…Foreign Affairs tops the poll. I always enjoy reading it, though the cover price is a bit steep. The top 10 are: Foreign Affairs CQ Weekly The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Economist Harvard Business Review The Washington Post The New…