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You'll find journalists who don't like to be challenged are the one's who hate on Twitter and SM the most. Most of what happens on Twitter is reasonable comment. There is a branch of journalism that cannot bear to lose control of the narrative.
When you wish you had come up with the word. Brilliant. 😁
They would also be happy if you could only communicate via the letters page of a newspaper and not on their website.
Robert Watt's report on the Tony Holohan job fiasco reveals salary funds were not in place - Independent.ie
Robert Watt's report on the Tony Holohan job fiasco reveals salary funds were not in place
The report by Secretary General at the Department of Health Robert Watt to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will say that Dr Holohan's salary was going to be covered by research funding from a Department of Health quango, to be applied for by Trinity.
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Remember what Fine Gael said about quangos in the New Politics document?
"We will cut the number of quangos by at least 150."
"We will also require ministers to answer questions from TDs about the functioning of the key quangos in their area of responsibility."
"Fine Gael will also establish strict criteria for the creation of any new quangos and ensure that all such agencies are subject to “sunset clauses”."
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They failed miserably on that target. All lies.
But not before they set up the biggest superquango of all time - Irish Water!
Twitter is the pitchfork mob of today.
Generalising about this is not really helping and is just copperfastening the notion that some people hate losing control of the narrative.
Twitter has long been a hugely valuable resource which has issues with anonymous accounts and misuse by politicians and political parties.
If you excercise caution when reading the journalistic output here, Twitter shouldn't be that hard to navigate either
Well, the cap fits. Twitter is where the pitchfork mobs of today do their business.
I thought that was Cronyism? Or Hospital beds? Or ... This article from 2014...
And that activity bears no relation to the majority of tweets published here. Show us some if you believe 'pitchfork mob' type posts are being published here.
*Gets popcorn.
So you are not disputing the content of my post, that is great.
What is the relevance blanch? Twitter is many things, we know this.
Any comment on the issues the tweets linked have raised?
I have given my view on Twitter.
😁😁 You have.
Roderic O'Gorman tying himself in knots on News At One. Asked a hard question and the shutters came down..'Oh I'm not fully across the detail'.
Thats one way of describing a publicly accessible platform.
mob?
I am actually baffled by this statement, I was trying to work it out but no idea. Please explain
Those in or who support government, don't like a public platform they can't control. It means they can't control the narrative. So while they'll use it themselves, they'll slag it off as a medium because it allows discussion they don't like or that exposes them. Got it?
This is where you post the reply you've already written.
They failed on the quangos too. Utterly. Didn't even try.
‘Quango cull’: Audacious promises of 2011 amounted to little (irishtimes.com)
‘Quango cull’: Audacious promises of 2011 amounted to little
Reduction in number of State bodies compared to 2011 is 12-17, far from FG promise of 145.
In the run-up to the 2011 general election, a slew of Fine Gael and Labour spokespeople made the dramatic promise that they would slash the number of State agencies, commissions and bodies.
It would lead to hundreds of millions of euros in savings, the “synergies” (yes, that) would create efficiencies and these agencies would be far more accountable and transparent.
Fine Gael’s Reinventing Government was like that. When it actually attained power, it was met by a different reality.
The government also forgot to mention that 17 of the “actions” were of the previous Fianna Fáil government and most of them were complete at the time the plan was announced in late 2011.
The net effect of the quango cull has been, at best, a zero sum game.
Even though we all know that rogue states like Russia and China have weaponised it for their own ends? Sure, didn't you post some fake news some months back about Leo and the government jet? Yeap, yes you did!
Then again bots will be bots and tend to stick together.
No mark, I commented on the story as many others were too. I didn't publish the tweet about it.
Another lie from Mark.
And Leo was keen to 'weaponise' Twitter too and maybe still is doing it...keeping good company was he not?
Buying 'likes' from a bot farm, anonymous accounts, millions on PR...and everyone else is a bot. 😁
You engaged in a discussion that was fake, therefore your point above has been rendered false.
You do realise the people using the like of twitter/facebook/boards are in fact opposition supporters and they are trying to control the narrative, nothing to do with the government at all. As we seen here on boards with people creating multiple accounts to agree with themselves and change the narrative on all discussions. It is the same on the other platforms.
The people that "slag it off" have the ability to realise that platforms like twitter are not a real insight into the mindset of Ireland because one person with 20+ accounts will shout down the person who has 1 account and trying to have a decent conversation. This is fairly basic about media
Also no idea what the comment about "the great unwashed" was about? maybe you could explain
But but but Leo said something.....stock answer rolled out today anyway
But you said 'you posted fake news'.
I didn't, you lied and then accuse other of posting fake news.
I took part in a discussion (as you did) when nobody knew if the story was verified or not and I always referred to it as not being verified - as in...'if this story is true...' etc etc.
You lied mark...again.
*I note you didn't refer to the tweets brokenangel and blanch have gotten annoyed about but dragged up a story from ages ago to try and misrepresent. I wonder why that is?
Well why would you have to go to Russia and China to find somebody who desired to weaponise Twitter when you have a prime example here in Ireland?
Does the amount of 'thanks' or 'likes' an opinion gets, change your mind on things often? If the opinion is spin or not believable, would you take it as fact based on the volume of anonymous accounts that support it? I'd say no to both for myself.
So would you consider yourself an 'opposition supporter'?
All social media is peoples opinions unless coming from a verifiable source, generally a news outlet, who has a reputation to protect.
"You do realise the people using the like of twitter/facebook/boards are in fact opposition supporters and they are trying to control the narrative"
😂🤣 So what does that make you, Blanch and Marko for example? All on boards...
"The people that "slag it off" have the ability to realise that platforms like twitter are not a real insight into the mindset of Ireland because one person with 20+ accounts will shout down the person who has 1 account and trying to have a decent conversation. This is fairly basic about media"
Why do you think Leo wants to create so many fake accounts? Why do you think the facebook likes were bought? Why do you think Leo spends so much money on his spin machine?
Leo Leo Leo....the answer to everything is Leo.
