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This Is All News Between Christmas And New Year

Posted on 30/12/2011 by Simon McGarr
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Why Budget Coverage Is Bad News

Posted on 06/12/2011 by Simon McGarr
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The past few years have seen the budget loom up out of the news calendar, casting its shadow over the news weeks before it actually arrives. It occurred to me that these acres of newsprint can be explained by two … Continue reading →

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The Journalistic Standards of Newstalk

Posted on 15/11/2011 by Simon McGarr
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Denis O’Brien has an opinion piece in today’s Irish Times defending himself (and by extension his journalists) against the charge that he “despises” journalism. He cites, as evidence of his support for quality journalism, the fact that he has spent … Continue reading →

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Free the News: 2nd Email to RTE re News Footage Agreement

Posted on 14/04/2011 by Simon McGarr
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On the 7th April, I sent an email to the Director General of RTE about a proposal to allow National Newspaper of Ireland websites access to the News footage of the National Broadcaster. Following a reply today from the Head … Continue reading →

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Irish Journalists- Can We Trust You?

Posted on 15/11/2010 by Simon McGarr
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UPDATE: Well, that took less time to answer then I expected. The next five days are going to see a lot of things happening all at once. One of those things will be the making and breaking of news organisations’ … Continue reading →

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Meaning, memory and the Irish media

Posted on 05/10/2010 by Simon McGarr
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*Notes from a beach.* News media want things to be new. They feel inhibited from reporting things unless they have a ‘news hook’, whether or not the information would be of value. Because of this focus on the new, memory … Continue reading →

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Your Country Your Call: SIPO and I exchange further letters

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Simon McGarr
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An Smaoineamh Mor Ltd here acknowledge that (a) they will be seeking “legislative, administrative or procedural change” and (b) that they will be engaged with “representatives from key government departments” to effect this change. They also acknowledge that the money donated will be used to fund this implementation of policy change. Continue reading →

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My Liveblogged Year 1.5: Clearly, GoogleTV has never watched TV

Posted on 25/05/2010 by Simon McGarr
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GoogleTV as currently imagined wants to help us watch more TV. What it needs to do is abandon its internet-bred idea that the content is what is valuable about television. What is valuable about television is precisely that it is a mass medium. The internet is vast, but it isn’t broadcast. Continue reading →

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Your Country, Your Call: The SIPO Question

Posted on 20/05/2010 by Simon McGarr
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Some questions have been answered. Some have been met with a blunt refusal to answer. But the most interesting thing to have emerged from those responses is how they lead to much larger questions in their turn. Let’s take a stroll around some of those issues. Continue reading →

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Hey, you! Yes, you. I need to see you in my Newspaper.

Posted on 17/03/2010 by Simon McGarr
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Everything is lost. Newspapers are doomed. You’ve read it on the Internet. You’ve heard it on the TV. You can even read it in the papers (for the moment). If you weren’t listening carefully, you might even say you’d heard … Continue reading →

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