Art, media, opinion and ideas
Richard Delevan highlights a story from the Sunday Business Post yesterday- Estate Agents accused of supplying false sales pricesIt reports that the Irish Time's Property Editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote to Estate Agents who were suppling her with sale prices when the numbers being given were be sufficiently fantastic to embaress her journalistic mores.
When you're too slothful to flesh your thoughts out, why not just print the headlines? Irish Times prints photo of Saddam's Corpse- On Weekend Review front pageThey either are running with it or they're not. If they want to run it, its the main image of the week and should be on the Front Page. If they don't think that's suitable, they shouldn't run it at all.
This weekend there was a little bit of interest in the Paper Round from the Irish Times. Shane Hegarty had a piece on the back page of the Weekend Review section. For those without an Ireland.
Irish Times Business This Week, 10th Nov 2006 Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. A break down for the Business This Week supplement to Friday's Irish Times. I will say that the quality of the actual journalism articles is markedly high.
Irish Times, Friday 10th November Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. The Raw Notes for the Home News, and Business supplement are now available here.
Following on from my post earlier this week, FG's Environment spokesman told Adam Maguire that given the facts I'd outlined he believes that the Taoiseach had mislead the Dail. Duh.
For people looking for an introduction to one of the most pernicious aspects of Data Retention, The Midnight Court has posted what it promises will be the introduction to a series of essays on the consequences of Data Retention in law.
The Irish Times has an leader article today on Data Retention. A small extract:Perhaps because such legislation deals with electronic data, and the surveillance happens unseen in the background, it has not provoked significant public debate.
Some time ago, Karlin Lillington of the Irish Times linked to details of a secret Council of Ministers questionnaire. This was drawn up in advance of any data retention legislation being in place, in November 2002. It is interesting in its entirety, but I'd particularly draw people's attention to question 5 and the Irish Government's answer.
Piaras Kelly thinksIt isn’t hard to think why some people hold blogs in such disdain given the fact that there’s all this chatter about the phrase ‘Web 2. 0?, but in terms of some of the biggest stories which have been in the news recently such as the Afghan hunger strikers in St Patricks Cathedral, Irish bloggers have been relatively silent.
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