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Movies transform into media events
‘Transformers’ came out ten years ago this month. It’s not exactly a milestone event in the history of film, but it has left its mark. For those who have not seen it, it is a highly kinetic science-fiction action movie featuring a war between rival races of shape-changing robots, with Earth as their main battlefield. […]
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Movies transform into media events
Transformers is typical: a critic-panned superhero blockbuster sequel of furiously-paced and incomprehensible ‘chaos cinema’: without any content
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More than averagely trusting
Reuters Digital News Report shows 46% in Ireland trust most of the news most of the time and 28% trust social media
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Technology neutralises our neutrality
Margaretta D’Arcy found herself jailed in January 2014 on the back of a protest she mounted at Shannon Airport in 2012. What was she protesting about? US troop aircraft using Shannon as a stopover on their journey to the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan among other things. D’Arcy is a rare stalewart against the steady […]
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Time for more Times
Launching a new newspaper is a tricky proposition at the best of times, but in the middle of historic declines in print circulation, as titles struggle to manage the transition to digital first publication, it seems downright bloody-minded. Yet that’s what News UK’s Dublin outlet has decided to do, with a daily print product following […]
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Reality as mad as TV
‘24’ and ‘Homeland’ predicted a a female President and more or less Obama, but not Trump whose world seems to feature in Designated Survivor
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Charting the Charleton Tribunal
The tribunal looking into Garda disclosures is in the hands of a well-rounded and experienced judge who dislikes lies, and judicial reviews of tribunals