Don't Mess with Goona Bullally

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I think the parody of Una Mullally in the Phoenix is pushing it a bit (she's not major league, even if she does write 75% of the fluff in the Turbine), but I spotted this, about celebrities:

http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2010/sep/05/una-mullally-the-world-of-celebrity-is-a-lively-co/

Green Party senator Dan Boyle is another more subtle manipulator. He's a pretty good example of someone who purposefully goes out of his way to bleat sarcastically on Twitter in a strange attention-seeking mode that doesn't seem to serve any other purpose than to vent his own grumblings.

Of course, the great Boyle had a different perspective:

On the Irish media’s take on green issues, he said: “Some media go beyond whether your policies are valid, or whether you are competent, and go straight to abuse.” He said this made him look at new ways to communicate, such as social media like Twitter and Facebook, on which he has a presence.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0906/1224278287623.html

Whatevever about the justifiable dislike of the pompous Green, unelected twat, clearly what's missing from this analysis is Mullally's own reaching out to Twitter for material. Constantly. So months after the Gerry Ryan furore (a classic example of celeb agent-placed stories btw- including his estranaged wife and daughter) we still have no social media guidelines coming out from the major newspapers about how their staff operate on Twitter, Facebook, and the rest.