Media pushing for Kenny and Fine Gael?

Blowfish

dlofnep wrote: »

You lack faith in the strength Ireland has at the bargaining table, and yet - all public commentators disagree with you.

They also disagree completely with Sinn Fein. What McWilliams etc. are talking about is defaulting solely on bank debt and not on sovereign debt. Because of the deficit, getting rid of the IMF/EU deal will pretty much guarantee sovereign default.

Jackovarian

http://www.breakingnews.ie/election/news/new-poll-confirms-fine-gael-lead-493808.html

They ran a story last night saying the same thing, but now they're sure apparently.

The reason I started this thread, and I actually forgot once I started ranting a bit, was to draw up the coincidence between this and the lisbon 2 campaign.

Almost all media publications were pro lisbon. I wasn't looking for an Anti Lisbon stance, but rather a neutral objective opinion.

Its the same sickening scenario again. I dont care if the media are just jumping on the "who's popular" bandwagon.
Would an objective, impartial opinion be too much to ask for?

finnvalley

It seems highly likely that there is indeed a media bias towards Fine Gael, otherwise surely some of them would've copped on that Fine Gael's recent leadership debacle, or to quote Michael Noonan, was 'a stroke' to make Enda Kenny look like a strong leader. Bad enough as Fianna Fail are, at least when Michéal Martin opposed Brian Cowen, it was immediately apparent that his leadership bid was genuine. Fine Gael on the other hand are a party who one day had no confidence in their leader, the next, he was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and the people who so vehemently opposed his leadership quickly fell into rank.

Maybe despite his lack of personality and communication skills, the man does deserve to be Taoiseach...he certainly fooled the nation on that one!

nesf

dlofnep wrote: »

The Mirror is certainly behind Fine Gael. Their articles are riddled with bias. So much for the media playing an nonpartisan role in politics.

Only RTE are required to be unbiased. The newspapers can be as biased as they like, and in fact it's difficult to find a newspaper in this country without some bias towards a particular political stance (if not a party per se). The better newspapers are the ones that are open about what their bias is, e.g. the Economist which makes no bones about being decidedly centrist with a heavy favouring towards free trade. You might not agree with how the Economist analyses things but you can't be under any illusions that it espouses a completely neutral viewpoint if you pay attention.