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What became of the Blog Irish?

Hairy Homer · 2004-10-19 13:40:42

Anyone know whatever happened to this bunch of dipsticks? Seems to have been set up by somebody who wanted to do a mirror image of media matters for the Irish media, only focussing on how 'liberal' and 'anti American' they all were. Of course, the reverse is true: most commentary in the Irish papers is pro-Bush, pro-war on…

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19-10-2004 2:40pm

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Hairy Homer

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Anyone know whatever happened to this bunch of dipsticks?

Seems to have been set up by somebody who wanted to do a mirror image of media matters for the Irish media, only focussing on how 'liberal' and 'anti American' they all were. Of course, the reverse is true: most commentary in the Irish papers is pro-Bush, pro-war on Iraq and anti-John Kerry.

Their front page hasn't been changed in months and it's a link to some idiot in the Indo (pardon the obvious tautology) misreporting a spat between Robert Fisk and Zionist apologist Tom Cooney on the late lamented Agenda program.

Maybe, with the increasing rightward leaning of Irish media, they felt their work here was done.

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#2 25-10-2004 10:44pm
Memnoch

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I have noticed that the irish media is fairly right wing...

what is the reason for this i wonder?

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