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The Seanad Have A Big Problem With Boards.ie

  • 13-03-2012 6:03pm
    #1
    _Gawd_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭


    The cretin Marc MacSharry today said that boards.ie was "subverting the State" with their pesky free speech. Honestly, you couldn't make it up...Fianna Fail are FFinished!
    Can I.. Can I.. The main reason I wanted to make a point was to call for a debate on the media in general ah leader, similar to the themes that have been raised to do with the Presidential debate or whatever. But I think the problem eh nationally is we preside over a media that we constantly praise for their integrity but the reality is we don't have any reportage in this country what we have is not newspapers but viewspapers. We don't have a national broadcasters that reports news we have a national broadcaster who reports a complexion they wish to place on the facts that are promoted per day. And it doesn't matter who's in government frankly whether it's Fine Gael and Labour whether it's Fianna Fáil amd Sinn Fein.


    I do have a question I'm calling for a debate in the context of that eh I'm making a point. It's the same in eh we all want free speech when people are tweeting or texting or online where we have Boards.ie and Politics.ie, for me frankly that doesn't amount to free speech what it amounts to is leaglised subversion of the state. I think it's fundamentally wrong. What we need is somebody some media that reports that facts because as we often praise eh the people of this country for being amongst the most educated in the world and my god they're prepared to make their own decision based on the facts if presented not as presented by the editorial staff within RTE or whatever news media and finally can I say and this is a very worrying issue and I intend to raise it privately with the leader and all should be aware there's a very major news agency in this country in charge of quite a few regional newspapers who have instructed that there staff not to print any news releases from members of Seanad Eireann and I think that is something we need to address.


    Senator Marc McSharry in the Seanad during the Order of Business
    Senator Marc McSharry in the Seanad during the Order of Business


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Here

    And to be honest, calling a politician a cretin didn't help your cause one bit.


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