FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

No ER feeling left out , its like watching 3 children fighting over a candy bar .

The paper of record seem to have the same issue:

Fianna Fáil backbenchers rise up, but Taoiseach is not in their crosshairs - for now – The Irish Times

RTE the same

The FF backbench meeting that Martin cannot ignore (rte.ie)

I suspect there's still a little bitterness towards da examiner , the paper that broke the story over a certain Golf outing and some other Juicy stories.

I'm intrigued at the concern about "Unnamed Sources" it's as if its something new in Journalism. I seem to recall un named sources helped break some of the biggest news stories ever, around the word . Indeed whistle Blowers in a sense are initially "Unnamed Sources" and now thankfully get certain protections.

Indeed the concept of "Unnamed Sources" not confined to Journalism, they are the main source of convenient leaks in Politics, Some refer to them as "Leaky Leakers", some refer to them has "Spokespersons ", some refer to them as "Senior Sources", Many refer to them has exorbitantly paid "Special Advisors" and my word this and the previous government have plenty of them.

Indeed ER getting a lot of flake over the extraordinary amount he has and the cost of them , not withstanding one particular appointment which has raised quite a few Eyebrows. I'm actually amazed there's not more uproar over the entire Special Advisors scandal, it's outrageous.

But of course the Main Source of Convenient Sources of information is the Impressive FG communications and SM Unit, we know very little of its make up but certainly see it in action almost Daily, most notably on that dastardly Twitter and of course in media circles under the Guise of "Unnmaed Sources" 😏

Nothing at all new about "Unnamed Sources " I'm afraid .

Was that the Joint Winner of Journalist of the Year 😏, I heard she had left , didn't realise it was to go to the Times which will predictably become another unreliable source of information 😁

Expense abuse tends to be across the political divide and there are complete chancers everywhere. Just shaming the government side for some cheap point scoring ignores this. TBH we shouldn't even need to be talking about this and a robust system that eliminates all potential abuse is in everyone's interest.

Isn't she along with another journalist, Alison Morris, suing the most famous anonymous account holder of all - Eoghan Harris ?

Ssssssssh, you can't say that 😂😂😂

Also dubious about where the Examiner get stuff but really just silly season stories. The alleged crisis of conscience in all three parties seems to be the aim of a lot of this so-called political coverage, when they are really just internal gripes. The Greens need to remember that without the cover of the other two parties they wouldn't be getting these policies enacted in the first place.

Lately, far too many poor journalism pieces and it is the dog days of summer where little happens and stories are little more than clickbait. I'd also like to see a bit more than "a source told me". Might as well be a man with two pints!

Well, they ran a COVID story recently which was misleading, completely wrong and pure clickbait because it had a COVID headline. That's shoddy journalism and this one is not a lot better. Not everything is like that but definitely a downward trajectory.

I think they have very mixed standards and yes I agree they have produced some good stuff but some utter dross as well. In the need to attract clicks it's unsurprising.

Any data on these claims BA?

I know you won't produce any, but it's important to challenge these assassination attempts.