Media
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By Rónán Lynch. BrendanOConnorGuests-1 While Village can do serious analysis of serious talk radio, we can also get down with the celebrity stuff that people crave, openly or in secret. In this issue, we turn our attention to the Irish television talk show, and Brendan O’Connor’s Saturday Night Show in particular. O’Connor occupies a unique […]
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Mediatribe
By Rónán Lynch A vast amount of energy and effort has gone into development of a narrative in the Irish media that goes something like this: we all lost the run of ourselves a bit but now we’re getting back on track because we’ve shown restraint and embraced austerity. So there was cursing and gnashing […]
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Shuffling the hack
By Gerard Cunningham Autumn elevated Ian Kehoe to editorship at the Sunday Business Post, while his predecessor Cliff Taylor shifted back to his alma mater the, now stressed, Irish Times as managing editor where his return will no doubt bolster that paper’s institutional memory, battered by the impact of successive redundancy waves over the last […]
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political guests
political g uests. Tubridy also has his daily slot on 2FM, though he never seems quite as comfortable with celebrity culture as O’Connor
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Diversity delusion
Submissions on draft guidelines on media mergers now invited
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The oddness of pod
Quality podcasting is cheap, lucrative and effective
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By Ruth Cullen The Irish Times was once seen as the paper of record. But its coverage in some social areas like abortion shows it to be more engaged in agendism than journalism, less a paper of record than a paper of advocacy. Cynics, of course, would say with AJ Liebling, “freedom of the press […]