Irish Examiner twists facts about Archiseek

damien

Paul Clerkin tells the real story about the Examiner Coverage of Archiseek

In total, of all the comments made apparently by users criticising the elderly, about 2 stand - one of which is definitely out of order, the other is a very general observation about objecting if a church was planned. The remaining quotes would seem to be either falsified, misrepresented and/or misquoted.

In a subsequent piece on Friday, 8 July, the Examiner ran a headline "Website pulls section over anti-elderly comments". I have not pulled it, it like so many threads before it, has simply dropped off the front page.

They also stated today, that "A representative of the website was unavailable for comment yesterday". I have not been contacted for comment at all.

Certainly a lesson to be learned here for those operating websites and blogs and the liberties journalists can take when reporting "facts". Shame that the Examiner is stooping to this level. I wonder will an apology be published over this?

Be handy for those with blogs to point to this story and comment on it to keep people focused on it. Nobody can allow this kind of shíte to happen again and again.

KnowItAll

The media is always twisting facts. I must say though that it's disgraceful for people to be complaining about the elderly.

Usually these days nothing can be said about minorities (especially the truth) unless the minorities are the elderly or travellers.

flogen

what do you mean nothing can be said about minorities?

KnowItAll

flogen wrote:

what do you mean nothing can be said about minorities?

I mean the truth...