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Who is the most respected journalist in Ireland today?

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  • #32
    augustus gloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭augustus gloop


    paul williams....HA! he is as see through as the thugs he writes about. Pure red top sensationalism at its best. I wouldnt wipe my bum with his articles.

    vincent never avoids the hard questions and has to be admired for that.

    aslo, away from sport Eamon Dunphy, esp when he was on today fm before matt cooper was brilliant, always fantastically well versed in his daily guests, always came across as a very astute professional.


  • #33
    bullpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭bullpost


    The problem with his journalism and world view is it shows a complete lack of insight into human nature. Its like writing an article advocating world peace , very laudable idea but naive.
    RayM wrote: »
    Vincent Browne. He wrote a great piece this week, criticising the media's bizarre obsession with the Michaela McAreavey murder trial.


  • #34
    SMASH THE UNIONS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭SMASH THE UNIONS


    I'll tell you who I don't like...that weasel Carol Coleman. Banned from the Whitehouse and the cause of a diplomatic rift between Ireland and the USA. The Irish embassy even complained about her and now unsurprisingly her carreer is in the gutter. Call it schadenfreude but I'm delighted. I'll always remember her for announcing how she wanted to "slap President Bush" during an interview. Unprofessional, over-emotional, whingefest. Good riddance to bad rubbish.


  • #35
    clappyhappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    As already said really like Matt Cooper. Charlie Weston is also fairly informative. Like Vincent browne, but can't take him seriously on his show, keep seeing Mario Rosenstock.


  • #36
    RuailleBuaille
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭RuailleBuaille


    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    I'll tell you who I don't like...that weasel Carol Coleman. Banned from the Whitehouse and the cause of a diplomatic rift between Ireland and the USA. The Irish embassy even complained about her and now unsurprisingly her carreer is in the gutter. Call it schadenfreude but I'm delighted. I'll always remember her for announcing how she wanted to "slap President Bush" during an interview. Unprofessional, over-emotional, whingefest. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

    I liked her for all the reasons you just said. And 'diplomatic rift' might be a slight exaggeration imo.


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  • #37
    Tupamaros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Tupamaros


    Wow, Paul Williams and Joe Duffy mentioned in this thread :o Williams' articles are poorly written, sensationalist hogwash. Crime 'journalists' of his ilk are generally terrible, nudging and winking about unverifiable conjecture. Williams' appearances on television are like pantomime. Also, his 'award-nominated' (can't recall if it won anything) documentary on Shell2Sea was a pro-corporate hatchet job of the worst sort, pure arse-gravy.

    As for Duffy, how is he even a journalist? He's a right-wing (and as noted) religious zealot who pursues his own political agenda, while appealing to the lowest common denominator. He tries to portray himself as on the level of the ordinary person, while on ridiculous money and engaging in the worst sort of sophistry, usually against any sort of progressive person on his show. He's a relic of old Catholic Ireland.

    How anyone could even consider these jokers, who defer to power at all times, to someone like Vincent Browne, who not only scares our political establishment but has greatly enhanced the breadth of political debate in this country, is beyond me.


  • #38
    annascott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Kevin Myers...













    Anna Scott has left the building...


  • #39
    bee_keeper
    Site Banned Posts: 222 ✭✭bee_keeper


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    What current Irish journalist do you have most respect for?

    Few have covered themselves in glory in recent years and many have glibly accepted the status quo without asking big questions of where Irish society is going.

    In my opinion, for all his many faults, and pre madonna interviewing style Vincent Browne is a journalist of integrity and intelligence and challenges much of the accepted wisdom of Irish society in 2012.

    What journalist do you admire/respect and why?

    i like vincent browne insofar as he has no stars in his eyes for powerfull people , on the contary , he delights in showing contempt for them but the man is a far left idealogue and without an ounce of balance when it comes to matters of economics

    ireland is not well stocked with quality journalists , i cant think of any that stand out


  • #40
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    fintan o toole followed by matt cooper


  • #41
    bee_keeper
    Site Banned Posts: 222 ✭✭bee_keeper


    CommanderC wrote: »
    Sorry- which journalist are you talking about here ?

    I don't know if Joe Duffy is actually a journalist but I would rate him as top when it comes to asking the 'big'questions' and allowing those who otherwise would not be heard, to have a voice.

    He also seems to have a zero tolerance for bull****ers which I admire greatly.

    joe duffy has zero tollerance for bull****ers :eek:

    this post deserves its own awards

    the first anual irony awards of excellence


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  • #42
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Ken Early.


  • #43
    bee_keeper
    Site Banned Posts: 222 ✭✭bee_keeper


    kingtiger wrote: »
    Duffy is a religious zealot who pushes his own agenda and refuses to budge from his point of view even when he is completely wrong, cant stand the fcuker

    JD is not a zealot , he is inherently populist of the bertie aherne school of life


  • #44
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    David me kirktric,
    David adams,
    Vincent brown,
    Keven myers,
    Eamon dunphy,












    Amanda brunker :-)


  • #45
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Why is Joe Duffy on this thread?

    The man who didn't care about headshops when they were in the inner city but as soon as they hit leafy Clontarf he gave whole shows to it. Just won't do, not in a nice area like that
    The man has power and his campaign whipped up a storm

    Yet he'll chat to Joe's little people, the salt of the earth Dubs who sell smuggled cigarettes from market stalls and sure aren't they only putting food on their table and struggling to earn some coin.
    The smuggled stock from Eastern Europe are da illegals and the dodgy knock-offs from China are da illegal illegals

    No harm, honest working folk unlike those who run headshops

    And when RTÉ turn to Dublin local radio anyway



    Back ontopic, Matt Cooper is the best


  • #46
    SMASH THE UNIONS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭SMASH THE UNIONS


    RuailleBuaille wrote: »
    I liked her for all the reasons you just said. And 'diplomatic rift' might be a slight exaggeration imo.

    You liked her because she let her own emotions get in the way of professionalism and announced she wanted to slap a foreign head of state?

    She didn't know how to conduct an interview. Only to ramble on and soapbox to stroke her own ego.


  • #47
    RayM
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    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    You liked her because she let her own emotions get in the way of professionalism and announced she wanted to slap a foreign head of state?

    She didn't know how to conduct an interview. Only to ramble on and soapbox to stroke her own ego.

    She asked Bush the kind of questions that people more cerebral and less right-wing than you (i.e. the vast majority of people) wanted him to answer. When he attempted to dodge those questions and did that imbecilic smirk thing that usually worked for him in those awkward situations, she continued pressing him for an answer. Nothing wrong with that.


  • #48
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Kevin Myers when he is speaking up for the indigenous Irish people.


  • #49
    sbsquarepants
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    bee_keeper wrote: »
    joe duffy has zero tollerance for bull****ers :eek:

    this post deserves its own awards

    the first anual irony awards of excellence

    I got a good laugh out of that one too!:)


  • #50
    SMASH THE UNIONS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭SMASH THE UNIONS


    RayM wrote: »
    She asked Bush the kind of questions that people more cerebral and less right-wing than you (i.e. the vast majority of people) wanted him to answer. When he attempted to dodge those questions and did that imbecilic smirk thing that usually worked for him in those awkward situations, she continued pressing him for an answer. Nothing wrong with that.

    Then why did the US embassy make an official complaint?
    Why did Bush personally bring this up with Bertie at a sunsequent meeting?
    Why did the Irish embassy even make a complaint to RTÉ?
    Why does Carol Coleman have no carreer now?


  • #51
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I would have put VB up there, but after hearing him being interviewed by George Hook about the Wallace debacle... oh dearie, he's just as bad as most of them.

    Matt's the man.


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  • #52
    SafeSurfer
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    Matt Cooper is very likeable on the radio but I sometimes find him a bit lightweight. His colum in The Sunday Times is often very wide of the mark too.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #53
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Tupamaros wrote: »
    Wow, Paul Williams and Joe Duffy mentioned in this thread :o Williams' articles are poorly written, sensationalist hogwash. Crime 'journalists' of his ilk are generally terrible, nudging and winking about unverifiable conjecture.


    Giving stupid monikers to scumbags since 1992.

    Paul "The Bollix" Williams


  • #54
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Matt Cooper is very likeable on the radio but I sometimes find him a bit lightweight. His colum in The Sunday Times is often very wide of the mark too.

    He's getting more populist and tabloid on the radio show as well, his recent stance calling for widespread mortgage debt forgiveness being a case in point.


  • #55
    newcavanman
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    Agricola wrote: »
    Vincent Browne - calls a spade a spade, doesnt prostrate to the so called elites in society, champions the plight of the less well off, and scares the shít out of the Taoiseach of this country. Badass.
    Yes its so easy to " champion the plight of the less well off" when you are living in Dalkey . Exactly how many businesses that he was running went bust? And as to his ' Frankenstein of Politics ' , Mick wallace ? Oh yes we have a lot to thank Vincent Browne for !!


  • #56
    Chuck Stone
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    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    I'll tell you who I don't like...that weasel Carol Coleman. Banned from the Whitehouse and the cause of a diplomatic rift between Ireland and the USA. The Irish embassy even complained about her and now unsurprisingly her carreer is in the gutter. Call it schadenfreude but I'm delighted. I'll always remember her for announcing how she wanted to "slap President Bush" during an interview. Unprofessional, over-emotional, whingefest. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

    What kind of upside-down and back-to-front reality do you live in?

    You're upset that a man at the head of a cabal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people gets bitch slapped by a journalist?

    **** him and everyone who ever had anything to do with him.


  • #57
    DublinWriter
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    Although not as prolific as she used to be, Nell McCafferty is really in a class of her own.


  • #58
    Hesh's Umpire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    Eamon Dunphy is hardly a "journalist"?

    Niamh Horan, Barry Egan and Roy Curtis must be the top 3. :D


  • #59
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    newcavanman wrote: »
    Yes its so easy to " champion the plight of the less well off" when you are living in Dalkey . Exactly how many businesses that he was running went bust? And as to his ' Frankenstein of Politics ' , Mick wallace ? Oh yes we have a lot to thank Vincent Browne for !!

    The fact that he lost his shirt trying to publish magazines that were not driven by rabid pro business sentiment or controlled by Sir Anthony or News Corp is a plus in my book.

    Also he was forced to sell his house to the best of my knowledge.

    I'm unaware of his stance on Mick Wallace but I enjoy when he points out the hypocrisy of some the stances taken by the most vocal critics of many wrongdoers.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #60
    Benny_Cake
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    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    Then why did the US embassy make an official complaint?

    Because they were used to a compliant media which had been cowed into submission after the 9/11 attacks. Anyway, they can complain all they want, it shouldn't affect how a journalist does her job.
    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    Why did Bush personally bring this up with Bertie at a sunsequent meeting?

    He's an idiot, is the short answer. See above, not used to being forced to answer the difficult questions.
    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    Why did the Irish embassy even make a complaint to RTÉ?

    No idea, but they shouldn't have. Do you think governments should interfere with press freedom?
    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    Why does Carol Coleman have no carreer now?

    As I said on the other thread you raised this on (before you called Carol Coleman a bitch and ran off), she is freelancing in the United States now, where she lives, and has written two books. She has a career.


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  • #61
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Back on topic, I'd have more time for Vincent Browne and Gene Kerrigan than most. To be honest, most younger journalists are so worried about their livelihoods now that it is difficult for them to step out of line.

    The worst would be the entire staff of the Sunday Independent (bar Kerrigan), and Stephen Collins of the Irish Times. For the chief political correspondent of the "paper of record", he comes across as a hack of the worst sort - effectively advancing whatever line the government of the day wants to get across. His contempt for the opinion of anyone who isn't a political insider is apparent too.


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