Varadkar, Martin & Ryan walking off a stage together to avoid a journalist. Is this acceptable?
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It has nothing to do with asking questions I disagree with, and I don’t agree that most people viewing won’t have heard of that particular journalist, nor do I think the politicians in question can be criticised for being rude and dismissive given the way that particular journalist acts like he’s reporting for the school newspaper and this is his moment… every, single, fcuking, time!
I couldn’t think of a word to describe it but the behaviour is best described as ‘sealioning’:
The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness while making relentless demands for answers and evidence (while often ignoring or sidestepping any evidence the target has already presented), under the guise of "just trying to have a debate", so that when the target is eventually provoked into an angry response, the sealioner can act as the aggrieved party, and the target presented as closed-minded and unreasonable. It has been described as "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Their refusal to entertain him is exactly how democracy works - he maintains the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the press and so on, and everyone else maintains the right not to have to entertain his shìt! Basic democracy in action, or this, if you prefer? Gets the same message across:
It’s not an embarrassment at all, Scallan simply got shown the door, and I don’t imagine he feels one bit embarrassed about it. It’s a victory for Gript as far as they’re concerned, because they get to flood the likes of X with inane crap like this:
Now imagine that coming at you and tell me you wouldn’t be hacked off to the point where you wish he would just fcuk off already, but you can’t say that because you know it’s exactly what they want. Gript are simply a timesink with no journalistic integrity, values or ethics. It’s for this reason they can produce the absolute scour they do, because it’s the kind of monotonous drivel their audience wants to see, and hear, and read about and share with as many people as possible.
I don’t think any politician will be at all embarrassed by the behaviour of the politicians in question in that clip, far more likely I’d imagine they will take a lead from their leaders and simply ignore the distraction in the room vying not for their attention, or even hoping to ask a genuine question, or express any kind of concern… but simply hoping to capture a moment that they can share on all their socials 😒
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