More Journalistic Sensationalist Bullshit...........

[Declan]

They gloat in damning Irish society and Irish people. They are almost solely responsible for our self loathing attitude

As the largest selling newspapers in the country they must be reflecting something though Zapatista. Surely it's their readers who are responsible as well.

I haven't bought any of their titles in about 7/8 years and unless circulation numbers drop they'll continue to peddle their bullshit.

[Zapatista]

Not necessarily Declan. The media is a very powerful tool. It can be a form of control. If you control the information you control the people. After all knowledge is power and if you can control the knowledge people have on certain subjects you can control them on the same subjects. The Independent are guilty of gross misuse of power.

[Declan]

Not necessarily Declan. The media is a very powerful tool. It can be a form of control. If you control the information you control the people. After all knowledge is power and if you can control the knowledge people have on certain subjects you can control them on the same subjects. The Independent are guilty of gross misuse of power.

Very Orwellian Zapatista and has certain merits vis -a vis the indo group and the govt but I still think there is a individual responsibility on citizens to inform themselves. Seem to remember Gorbachev saying something to Reagan along the lines of that when he was in the states in the early 90s and couldn't believe the "free" press/media and comparing it to Pravda/Izvestia from the old USSR - Basically said they achieved the same aims but the Yanks wrapped it up in the old "independent" media shite.   

[Zapatista]

True. Point taken

[rosnarun]

Sir Tony O Reilly who obviously is disappointed that he was not born in Britain

actually reilly does consider himself to be born in britian as he was born during the 'Free state ' ERA thay why he is allowed to use the 'SIR' bit unlike bono and geldof what just go by the name of sell out wankers