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I can't stand people being negative about others, always highlighting their bad points, even if there are many good points.
I'm not a FF buff by any means but RTE's reporting of the election was very anti FF and GL seemed to be the leader of the pack!
At one stage years ago they were controlled by the workers party hacks now they are a law unto themselves J. Charley Bird and George Lee are no friends of FF and RTE would have a left wing colouring in most of it’s current affairs offerings. The old saying that you shouldn’t argue with a man who buys his ink by the tonne can also be applied to those who schedule the national news.Who controls RTE really ? I remember Gay Byrne saying years ago when interviewed that he was told in no uncertain terms about Gerry Adams appearing on his show for the first time. 'Shake his hand and your career is finished.' I always assumed there was a political agenda from the government. Money = power and the government control the flow of money dont they ?
Not necessarily a bad thing.The government also got rid of the legislation making it necessary that both sides of an argument get equal time before a referendum. I would call that real power.
At one stage years ago they were controlled by the workers party hacks
An well educated American friend who is a doctor came to visit me last year for New years and he had to comment he never saw so many headlines screaming about rape and murder and shame and scaremongering we basically dont need to know and which pragmatic Americans arent interested in.
Indeed - the US printed media is pretty dire alright!God bless us all if all we had to read was USA Today or the Wall Street Journal.
Indeed - the US printed media is pretty dire alright!
I always heard that the US media intentionally keeps those kinds of stories off the front pages and always tries to keep everything positive; a kinda "think happy thoughts and athe bad stuff will go away mentality"?!
Similiarly Its the reasoning behind those special reports after news bulletins, they dont want to leave the public with a sour taste of another Irag story but rather close with a story about how 12 ducks were recued from an old pond and given a new home blah blah blah.........
All we want is the truth not sensationism. By the way I heard the opposite that if you want to keep people down you just keep giving them depressing news. I will never forgive goverment and papers in the 1980s because they gave one no hope. This country is as good a country as is in the world at the present, thank God.The media got burned during this election they thought they had more power than they did, they probaly thought that people had respect for them.
Unfortunately, I think that's precisely the problem. The business of newspapers is to sell newspapers. Full stop....shock and insult the senses with a headline frequently taking poetic license. Maybe thats what people buy newspapers for but...
Irish/UK for example.In comparison to which media ?
This is a common view, but in my opinion the New York Times is the best newspaper printed. It consistently reports from Iraq on actual events, some of it's reporting is scathing of US actions, some is not. It also consistently reports from Darfur with factual essays that strive to provide a context to what is going on there. The same applies to it's reporting around the world. I don't have the background knowledge to judge it's reporting on Indian and Chinese affairs but I do have it to judge it's reporting in Africa and it is exemplary. Given the complex nature of reporting there this is no mean feat.Indeed - the US printed media is pretty dire alright!
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