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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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Shell, Broadhaven Bay and the Failure of News

Posted on 12/10/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Belmullet Originally uploaded by Conor Lawless During August of this year I wrote a blizzard of letters for clients of McGarr Solicitors who were worried about their crab fishing pots. As it turned out, they had good reason to be … Continue reading →

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Links from my talk at Podcamp Ireland

Posted on 27/09/2008 by Simon McGarr
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I’m in Kilkenny today, at Podcamp Ireland. It is a very diverse group of people- more demographically spread than any other gathering I’ve been to. I was talking about using the PaperRound methodology to teach media literacy, and broader critical … Continue reading →

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Papers Now Apparently Just Printing Any Old Crap

Posted on 25/09/2008 by Fergal Crehan
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Back in November 2006, when we undertook our first Paper Round analysis, one of the very first stories I read was a front-pager, in a “quality” daily, which purported to alert the nation to the problem of employee fraud but … Continue reading →

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Newspapers and the Price of Respect

Posted on 29/05/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Co. Meath, 1 day after the Lisbon Treaty passes, we presume Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp As Cian on Irishelection pointed out, the Irish Independent yesterday printed a story on the odder anti-Lisbon material available. This story hung on the inclusion … Continue reading →

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Journalists and The Web, a Contrast

Posted on 14/05/2008 by Fergal Crehan
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Yesterday, Feargal Keane reported on RTE Radio 1′s Drivetime that the Lisbon Refendum Commission were spending large amounts of money on advertising on Facebook and Bebo. Keane described the journalistic reaction to this at the press conference as one of … Continue reading →

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The Irish Times Property Supplement: Not just advertising, but knowingly false advertising

Posted on 28/04/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Richard Delevan highlights a story from the Sunday Business Post yesterday- Estate Agents accused of supplying false sales prices It reports that the Irish Time’s Property Editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote to Estate Agents who were suppling her with sale prices … Continue reading →

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Interview re the Paper Round

Posted on 18/04/2008 by Simon McGarr
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If you’d like to know what on earth possessed us to do the Paper Round review of newspapers, you can now read an interview with me, Fergal and Copernicus on the Irish Left Review. The other two guys have excellent … Continue reading →

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People of Russia: I am not a spammer

Posted on 09/04/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Around midnight last night I started to recieve a series of bounced Mail Undelivered messages from lots and lot of email addresses in Russia. This was odd, because I didn’t email anyone in Russia. It turns out that my main … Continue reading →

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The Curious Case of the Missing Paper Round

Posted on 07/03/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Last week I noticed something peculiar- The Paper Round’s raw coverage (which was presented in the form of a wiki to allow for interested parties to add their views) had vanished. If I go to the Paper Round front page … Continue reading →

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