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FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3
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Fair enough. I had assumed there was sufficient maturity among contributors to the Current Affairs forum that someone could express agreement with one specific point made by FOT without automatically being accused of being Fintan's own version of
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The government, over the last few years due to Covid, has been a major advertiser. The publishers don't really want to upset their big advertisers. It is not good for business.
Lots of stuff here to unpack, but is it your theory that the media publishers in Ireland won't run a story because the government may take out ads in a paper? Is there any proof of this ever happening in Ireland? Just one instance? Is it just a pie in the sky theory you have?
The Dublin media is really that of a small village with about three Irish broadsheets (IT/Indo/Examiner),
Eh, you do know that the Examiner is a Cork-based publication? LOL It was after all called the 'Cork' Examiner
The Irish local radio market was destroyed in the 1980s by FF.
Ireland has about 75 independent non-RTE radio stations as of today. Another one of your points falling flat.
When it comes to journalism, political correspondents have to be careful not to upset too many politicians or their sources will disappear and they'll be stuck recycling press releases.
Then why do Journalists always get stories like Golfgate? TD's know the game as well as journalists. Journalists doing their job.
And if a journalist becomes too good at their job, there's always the possiblilty of being offered a job as an advisor.
Example please? One of the best Irish Journalists around is Pat Leahy, when did he get a job? What about Vincent Brown of old? Did he get one of those jobs?
The funny thing is that some political correspondents who have been in the job too long become institutionalised and begin to side with the politicians
Example please
There was a funny audio clip from a newspaper political correspondent on a radio programme (Pat Kenny show, I think) before the 2016 joking about how a minority government with Independents was impossible and yet that's exactly what happened after the 2016 GE.
Link please.
That soft power exercised by the government is generally quite effective.
Effective in doing what exactly?
The Village Magazine and The Ditch have become more effective at breaking stories and the legacy media generally follows up these stories when they achieve a critical mass of notability.
These are fringe publications and outlets, that don't really matter all that much and once in a blue moon may get a story. Anyone and everyone is a journalist these days because the have an iPhone and internet connect. Doesn't mean they are good at their job though.
The small independent news organisations like The Ditch and the Village Magazine have their place in the ecology of the media and they are not constrained by a dependence on large advertisers.
The village magazine has been bankrupt more times than I've had breakfast. It still needs money to run.
As for the ditch, well we all know Paddy Cosgrove our own wannabe Elon Musk funds that. Tell me, when Paddy gets bored of his side project, how long with those working for the Ditch hang about and work for free?
These independent medias also has a crackpot element to them. Gemma o'Doherty was a frequent writer to the Village for example.
A free press is essential for a democracy.
About the only thing you said that is true.
According to 'Reporters without Borders' 2022 Index on Press Freedom, Ireland ranks number 6 in the world. Not the EU, not the OECD but the world.
TLDR, your lengthy but wrong summary on how the Irish Government welds the power to stop the press from doing its job is both dishonest and fundamentally wrong, given the facts and independent sources I have provided.
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