Critics of the Media

godspal

I am doing a thesis on self-regulation in the Irish media, while I am finding it relatively easy to find regulators, I am finding it quite difficult to find critics of the media in Ireland. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
What I would like is individuals or groups who have critised or are criticising the media in Ireland?
Thanks.

kevin99

You will have a difficult time. Perhaps try some of the universities/colleges and lecturers of media studies/communications/journalism.

I presume you have interviewed the Press Council and the BCI? Both are top heavy with journalists and editors. Also look up the NUJ website and study their Code of Conduct.

You could try some of the barristers who have represented pirvate invidualas in libel cases against media outlets. Lay Library is a good place to start.

Maybe try some of the left leaning political parties/groups. Or track down Mr Declan Gantly of Libertas.

You could also interview Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin. His brother Seamus was a journalist, sports journalist, foreign correspondent with the Evening Herald, Irish Independent and Irish Times.

The new Hibernia group headed up by David Quinn, columnist with Irish Independent.
Or try Colm O'Gorman, the guy who heads up the Irish arm of Amnesty International. He was sexually abused as a kid when he lived in Wexford. I am sure he might have views on the way the media reported his own situation over the years.

monument

godspal wrote: »

I am doing a thesis on self-regulation in the Irish media, while I am finding it relatively easy to find regulators, I am finding it quite difficult to find critics of the media in Ireland. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
What I would like is individuals or groups who have critised or are criticising the media in Ireland?
Thanks.

What kind of groups / people are you looking for? I could list a few.

godspal

Groups who have been negatively affected by the Irish media and have made a complaint or are believed to have made a complaint against to the Press Commissions or the Broadcasting commission.

jdivision

Quinn group and paedophiles (not kidding about the second part in case the mods think i'm joking)

outandabout

"Critics of the media is too broad". Do you mean Media Analysts?

I'd recommend John Horgan, Press Ombudsman, Luke Gibbons (in DCU last time I heard) Dick O'Riordan (former editor Evening Press) for starters.