{"id":373,"date":"2006-11-15T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/15\/evening-herald-news-10th-nov-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T17:48:29","slug":"evening-herald-news-10th-nov-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/evening-herald-news-10th-nov-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Herald, News 10th Nov 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A special guest posting by Copernicus of the Midnight Court<\/a>:
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\nPerhaps it isn\u2019t fair to expect too much of the Evening Herald, a paper one imagines is staffed almost entirely by very young, inexperienced persons whose purple box-design ties come handily packaged with their poly-mix shirts and who spend considerable portions of their household budgets on hair gel. And that\u2019s just the girls.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, forced intimacy with this organ over a period of several hours leads one to the sorry conclusion that it isn\u2019t fair to expect anything at all. I found it difficult at times to know exactly into which of Simon\u2019s categories some of the Herald\u2019s published items should go. The line between PR and advertorial is a fairly porous one in any event, but so it seems is the line between journalism and opinion. And not only in the Herald. In the end, I was pretty generous I think in describing as \u201cjournalism??? some of the stories I read, especially items like the urgent report of Des Bishop\u2019s pedestrian view that \u201csomething??? must be done about crime in Limerick Hell. Nevermind a manufactured \u201cnews??? item which the paper fabricated out of thin air, or Enda Kenny as they cite him on page 6. See wiki<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

If journalism is the task of inquiring into matters of public significance (and we may wonder elsewhere if a 19 year-old\u2019s sex-toy tantrum fits the bill) in an effort to provide a democracy\u2019s citizens with what most closely resembles the truth of a given set of circumstances, well there wasn\u2019t any on display.<\/p>\n

If, on the other hand, journalism is simply a matter of filling up a journal with press releases, sentencing reports, advertisements masquerading as urgent news and unquestioned opinions from the first, second and third estates, then all is well in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Evening Herald can wheeze along on a diet of salacious Garda leaks about the sex lives of murder victims, but once the mysterious brake on broadband roll-out is inevitably released, it is difficult to imagine people continuing to spend money to buy the advertising they can get free on the net (or, incidentally, from its little brother, Herald AM) just because it\u2019s bundled with a bit of ragged gossip and self-serving commercial or State-sponsored spin.
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