Vincent Browne on media's coverage of news

pog it

Well first off a disclosure. I think the programme is fab and I've my own VB loyalty card

Anyway just on last night's show that had Sam Smyth, Meabh Ruane and Margaret Ward I was disappointed but not shocked when they were all in agreement about how the mainstream newspapers cannot report on the serious risk/possibility of sovereign default until there is a human story behind it as until then their audience won't buy papers with this in it.

Do ye think this is true? And if so, then can we really blame the media for being so poor? And can we ever expect change?

veritable

pog it wrote: »

Well first off a disclosure. I think the programme is fab and I've my own VB loyalty card

Anyway just on last night's show that had Sam Smyth, Meabh Ruane and Margaret Ward I was disappointed but not shocked when they were all in agreement about how the mainstream newspapers cannot report on the serious risk/possibility of sovereign default until there is a human story behind it as until then their audience won't buy papers with this in it.

Do ye think this is true? And if so, then can we really blame the media for being so poor? And can we ever expect change?

It's a combination of general poor journalism standards worldwide (wikipedia copying inter alia), and the media pandering to people's emotions. The news should be reported as is but the media want to only report the news that they think their viewers/readers will be interested in.

coletti

To be fair, any media organisatino reporting it as it is runs the risk of the government attacking them full force with the whole panopoly of the government and its thousands of paid advisors.

Remember a previous taoiseach disgracefully suggested that anyone who criticised his government or the economic prospects should go and commit suicide.

Elmo

coletti wrote: »

Remember a previous taoiseach disgracefully suggested that anyone who criticised his government or the economic prospects should go and commit suicide.

Perhaps he meant you'd prob want to commit suicide if you knew what I knew! (I know that is very insensitive, sorry).

ongarboy

Interestingly, that suicide remark came up on Freefall programme on RTE1 on Monday night,which said Taoiseach regretted comments subsequently...still no excuse! I wasn't aware of when he originally said it but am appalled that he would/could even think of saying that...far far worse than the so called controversy of current taoiseach's interview performance on Morning Ireland this week.

sundaypapers

I haven't heard Vincent Browne reporting on the threat by Denis O'Brien to sue Sam Smyth personally either. He's no champion of transparency.

Elmo

sundaypapers wrote: »

I haven't heard Vincent Browne reporting on the threat by Denis O'Brien to sue Sam Smyth personally either. He's no champion of transparency.

Sam Smyth was standing in for VB during the summer. Dennis O'Brien seems to want to suppress news reports on Anglo Irish which he called a "frenzy" and "personality-driven".

Does Communicorp owe Anglo some money?

I agree to extent, I would like to see more positive news on the economy every now and then.

pog it

sundaypapers wrote: »

I haven't heard Vincent Browne reporting on the threat by Denis O'Brien to sue Sam Smyth personally either. He's no champion of transparency.

What's this about?

pog it

Elmo wrote: »

I agree to extent, I would like to see more positive news on the economy every now and then.

Me too Elmo. It's starting to feel like wave 2 of the recession and "this" being it for the forseeable future.

I'm lucky with a job at the moment but Ireland is turning into a rag of a country.

FF have a lot to answer for.

cursai

pog it wrote: »

What's this about?

In this section » Irish Times
COLM KEENA Public Affairs Correspondent

INDEPENDENT TD for Tipperary North Michael Lowry has threatened to sue journalist Sam Smyth over his coverage of the Moriarty tribunal.

Mr Lowry confirmed yesterday that solicitors have written to Smyth on his behalf calling on him to “set the record straight” in relation to comments he made on TV3 in June and an article he wrote in the Irish Independent in May.

Smyth was informed that if he failed to do so, Mr Lowry would issue proceedings against him. Mr Lowry’s threat is against Smyth personally and not against TV3 or the Irish Independent . It is unusual for a journalist to be sued without the media outlet in which his work appeared also being sued.

In July the businessman Denis O’Brien, the largest owner of media in the State, threatened to sue Smyth personally in relation to the same comments made on TV3 and in the May article in the Irish Independent . Smyth made his comments about the tribunal on the Vincent Browne programme on TV3.


The legal threats against Smyth arising from the Independent article are being handled by that organisation’s legal advisers.

TV3 has yet to tell Smyth whether it will indemnify him for any damages that might arise from his appearance on the Tonight with Vincent Browne show."

Elmo

Anyone else see the ads in the Sundays from Dennis O'Brien about the waste of money that the Morarity Tribunal is, I wonder how much it cost to take out a full ad like his???

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0927/1224279760768.html

I think he thinks he's Micheal O'Leary.

The tribunal has been examining the awarding of the second mobile phone licence to Mr O’Brien’s company, Esat Digifone, in 1996.

However this type of tactic from O'Brien isn't unusual since back in 1996 he took full ads out asking that the ESB not be given the 2nd Mobile Phone licence.