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Dubliners Forced To Be Biased On Iraq?

a bientot · 2003-04-02 17:52:05

Further to the ongoing tedious debate on the objectivity of media available to us in Dublin I feel that it is impossible when you have this forced addiction by journalists and the general public to (second hand*) CNN if based in Iraq and to Sky News if in Ireland. The situation would seem to have reached the limit when you…

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02-04-2003 6:52pm

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Further to the ongoing tedious debate on the objectivity of media available to us in Dublin I feel that it is impossible when you have this forced addiction by journalists and the general public to (second hand*) CNN if based in Iraq and to Sky News if in Ireland. The situation would seem to have reached the limit when you hear programmes on Irish radio being interrupted for 'Breaking News' from Mr Murdoch! You also hear daily debates on audio-visual media on the objectivity of the print media and read the infamous media watch in the written press.

95% of all English language media journalists here 'survive' on Shakespeare's language and so all research has to be done in English and these professionals feel very proud to walk the world with this as their 'trump card' but fail to realise that all other journalists they communicate with have at least two languages and this includes those who work for RnaG and TG4. In fact TG4 can proudly boast of the prowess their 'iriseoiri' have in speaking and working in three or four languages.

Why is it that the cable service now owned by ntl has put communications in other languages back fifty years by not continuing the good work of Cablelink who were prepared not only to continue broadcasting TV5 as for the previous eight years but to add 24 hour channels in German, Spanish and Italian.
Now that would have given us REAL possibilities for objectivity as we survey the tragic events in Iraq and its neighbouring countries.

* CNN was thrown out of Iraq on the first day of the war.

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