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Paying for Tubs, Miriam etc
Actually RTÉ is quite good value, though the water-tax debacle means it won’t be properly funded
Media
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Protestant abuse immunity
Catholic congregations are paying for Protestant abuse, though media are uninterested
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Facebook owns you
And the EU is facilitating its quest to get your bank information
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Communication techniques in politics (marketing and advertising) are becoming increasingly targeted. Online political marketing is now increasingly tailored for individual voters based on their political preferences, ideals, and values, fears even. So far, so relatively mundane. That is until, inevitably, someone comes along and finds out a way to manipulate all the mass data available […]
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The idea for a television licence decoupled from ownership of a television, proposed by Fine Gael as long ago as the 2011 election campaign as a “content tax” or “public broadcasting charge to apply to all households and applicable businesses, regardless of the device they use to access content” has undergone several iterations since, but […]
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No fat cheque for factcheck
In 2015, I moved to New York City from Dublin and passed much of the year paying maniacal attention to American news media. I fixated on a wide range of output, people, processes, and interaction between journalists. One difference was more immediately apparent to me than others. The arc bending towards justice as facilitated by […]
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Avoid the misnomer ‘fake news’
With trust in Irish media dropping to an all-time low of 29 percent, reputation is an asset, to be tended to as advertising declines.
