Media criteria for being a suitable Presidential candidate

steelcityblues

After observing the coverage for the last month, I think it is pretty clear that the following set of criteria will help your chances of favourable coverage:

1. Do not speak ill of the Bailout measures

2. Be in the main pro-EU,and don't speak ill of Germany/France

3. Don't actually talk in depth about Constitutional issues, which might further educate the public.

4. Don't criticise State outlets, or potential cutbacks.

5. Preferably don't come from the North

6. Highlight the US as a 'good friend'

7. Don't call yourself a republican, or express a desire for a 32 county State.

8. Be 'spiritual', but not religious - especially not Catholic.

9. Avoid strong opinions on tetchy subjects like abortion, emigration, immigration, etc.

10. Preferably use broad, vague words, like 'dynamism', 'energy' and 'vision', in every speech.

That should win you the support of the media, and possibly the election.

Red Right Hand

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Wolfe Tone

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jimmycrackcorm

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anymore

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Cavehill Red

Oh, look it's another whiny Republican 'the meeja's picking on pore ole Marty' thread.

steelcityblues

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Oh, look it's another whiny Republican 'the meeja's picking on pore ole Marty' thread.

Let's keep silent like good ole sheep, because those in power would never deceive us. :rolleyes:

They are not only anti-MMcG either.

Cavehill Red

steelcityblues wrote: »

Let's keep silent like good ole sheep, because those in power would never deceive us. :rolleyes:

You mean like DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER McGuinness and his hilarious 'I'm not a provo' claims?

steelcityblues

Cavehill Red wrote: »

You mean like DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER McGuinness and his hilarious 'I'm not a provo' claims?

He's not anymore.

What are your own views on the media coverage, or did you arrive here solely out of pure boredom?

Cavehill Red

steelcityblues wrote: »

He's not anymore.

What are your own views on the media coverage, or did you arrive here solely out of pure boredom?

I think they've been very balanced on the whole, though Michael D tends to get an easy ride in general and they ran with the smear campaign on Norris far beyond its sell-by date.

I'm here because I'm conducting some research on the online antics of Sinn Fein in the presidential election.

steelcityblues

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I think they've been very balanced on the whole, though Michael D tends to get an easy ride in general and they ran with the smear campaign on Norris far beyond its sell-by date.

I'm here because I'm conducting some research on the online antics of Sinn Fein in the presidential election.

Posting their opinions is considered 'online antics', in your world?

anymore

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I think they've been very balanced on the whole, though Michael D tends to get an easy ride in general and they ran with the smear campaign on Norris far beyond its sell-by date.

I'm here because I'm conducting some research on the online antics of Sinn Fein in the presidential election.

Norris smear campaign ?????:)

Cavehill Red

anymore wrote: »

Norris smear campaign ?????:)

Yes, the attempt to link homosexuality with child abuse is a clear smear campaign.

Cavehill Red

steelcityblues wrote: »

Posting their opinions is considered 'online antics', in your world?

My world is the same world as everyone else's.
In my world, I see Sinn Fein mobilising an extremely interesting (though likely not so effective) online campaign in which they send supporters out into the online environment (bulletin boards like this one, blogs, online polls, etc) to whine horrendously about McGuinness receiving alleged unfair treatment at the hands of the media, and to pose as non-SF voters claiming to have been persuaded by his persecution/arguments into voting for him, in the hope that by talking up a middle class swing to McGuinness, they can actually bring it into being.
There are parallels here with the Israeli megaphone software used by Zionists during the last war with Hezbollah, and also an interesting false flag dimension, which I find intriguing.
SF's performance in the last general election demonstrated for them that they've reached a glass ceiling in the Republic, and they now know they require a game-changing scenario to move beyond that in future, in the context of a rejuvenated (and likely rebranded) Fianna Fail by the time of the next local elections.
The move of the big names (Adams, McGuinness) into the Southern political arena is part of trying to change the game, and the intention is to seek to persuade that Sinn Fein is not a protest party, not a Marxist party, not linked to terrorism, votable in other words by the middle classes.
This phase of the strategy appears to be a false flag manouevre conducted primarily online, since they seem to have decided that the media cannot be persuaded by McGuinness's candidacy.

steelcityblues

If it is relevant to you, i'm not a member of SF, or any political party at any time.

I will give McGuinness a preference (maybe not #1), mainly due to the fact that he is one candidate where the old establishment media has been at him like an unleashed dog from day one.

The same media who told us the boomtime was here to stay, that Lisbon would provide jobs, that Brian Lenihan was an innocent statesman who did the best the could.

I don't care for them and their drivel any more, -and neither do a lot of ordinary, honest Irish people - which is why his candidacy can't be all that bad.

I used to vote for John Gormley, btw. Obviously, not the best choice.

Cavehill Red

steelcityblues wrote: »

If it is relevant to you, i'm not a member of SF, or any political party at any time.

What's relevant to my research is that you're keen to tell me that you're not a SF member. Whether you are or not isn't quite so important.

steelcityblues wrote: »

I will give McGuinness a preference (maybe not #1), mainly due to the fact that he is one candidate where the old establishment media has been at him like an unleashed dog from day one.

This sort of thing is very relevant too - the conjunction of voting for McGuinness, not being a SF member/voter and blaming the media for allegedly treating him unfairly. That's the exact party strategic paradigm I'm examining.

steelcityblues wrote: »

The same media who told us the boomtime was here to stay, that Lisbon would provide jobs, that Brian Lenihan was an innocent statesman who did the best the could.

Actually, all of that blather came from the establishment political parties.

steelcityblues wrote: »

I don't care for them and their drivel any more, -and neither do a lot of ordinary, honest Irish people - which is why his candidacy can't be all that bad.

Let's parse this logic - McGuinness can't be a bad candidate because the media have been wrong in the past while reporting political developments? Come again?

steelcityblues wrote: »

I used to vote for John Gormley, btw. Obviously, not the best choice.

Maybe not!

steelcityblues

Wish you no harm, but that you can't take my comments at face value and think that I might be an online troll, is disappointing.

I certainly don't limit my posts to this forum, like any typical poster.

Cavehill Red

I haven't suggested you were a troll at all.
I'm not suggesting either that the SF supporters and members conducting this campaign are trolling either (though others might interpret it as such, especially when they poses as non-SF supporters.)
Obviously, there will be some people who match this paradigm who are not SF supporters, who do believe the rhetoric that McGuinness has been unfairly treated (despite evidence that both Norris and Dana at least have had worse media treatment), and who are simply keen to share their interest in voting for McGuinness with the wider world in the online environment.
What I'm suggesting is that such people are very much in the minority of those who appear to be doing all of those things, and yet are in fact false flag SF supporters working a party strategy.
I don't know you personally, and while I'd love to take what you're saying at face value, I'm sure you accept why, in the context of the research I'm conducting, I'm not really able to do so entirely.

steelcityblues

I don't 'get' this research, to be perfectly honest.

But, do it if it pleases you.

Cavehill Red

steelcityblues wrote: »

I don't 'get' this research, to be perfectly honest.

Sinn Fein has effectively adopted a covert electioneering strategy. It's a first in Ireland to my knowledge, and I think it's an intriguing area to examine.

steelcityblues wrote: »

But, do it if it pleases you.

Thanks, I will. I didn't need your permission, though!

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