- Dublin homicide rate
is not close to NYC
- Facts do not support
John Waters' views
"Comment is free, but facts are sacred" wrote Manchester Guardian editor CP Scott. It's not a surprise that many of those in the business of comment would disagree. Such as John Waters, pictured right, in the Irish Times.
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Newspaper viewed blackened out sections by holding documents up to a light source
Last week the Irish Times ran a story on the planned rail projects for Dublin, the story was based on Freedom of Information request made nearly two years ago.
While the request was filed a day after the transport plan 'Transport 21' was launched the Irish Times only received some of the documents the week before last, the newspaper says that every figure, particularly cost estimates, were blacked out.
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Independent News & Media is apparently Sir Tony O’Reilly's cash cow…
O’Reilly alone took €110m in payments from Independent Newspapers since 2000, while jobs are being cut and outsourced to make way for even more largesse - Village.ie
An over due update to our post in early February - Independent News & Media are now trying to outsource Dublin sub-editing and layout jobs to RE&D.
Sub-editing staff at IN&M are apparently reluctance to move to the new company, according to the Sunday Business Post who quotes a source saying the people who move will be paid ‘‘above-market rates’’ (but less then IN&M pays them now).
The same newspaper says that RE&D was set up by two former IN&M employees and is based at Hanover Quay in the south Dublin Docklands.
NUJ members "expressed serious concern", and the Irish Times also quoted (paid sub reqd) NUJ Irish secretary "Séamus Mr Dooley" saying "We are looking for more specific information about what is on offer and we will be looking for agreement in principle for NUJ recognition in any new operation".
Meanwhile, Roy Greenslade is reporting how IN&M are pushing the same outsourcing at their New Zealand arm APN News & Media. And, with help from Adam Maguire, Greenslade is also talking about the Irish story.
UPDATE: Read more on this at pressgazette.co.uk
The Irish political party Sinn Féin has blacklisted at least two newspapers in Ireland, according to claims made in the Sunday Tribune and the Irish edition of the Sunday Times yesterday.
Both newspapers say Sinn Féin are denying them access to candidates in the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly elections, and referred to each other. The action
is understood to be due to the two paper’s unfavourable reporting and comment
of the party.
The blacklisting news appeared as a note in the Sunday Tribune alongside an article on the Assembly elections by the paper’s Northern Editor, Suzanne Breen. While in the Sunday Times (Irish edition) the pseudonym column ‘Sue Denham’ complained about the party’s move.
The Tribune notes, “Sinn Féin's viewpoint is absent from this article because it was the only party which refused access to the Sunday Tribune. It said it would not make candidates in any constituency available for interview and it would not cooperate with the newspaper during the entire election campaign. It's an ironic position for a party which, for decades, complained of media bans and censorship. Sinn Féin is also refusing to cooperate with the Sunday Times”.
The fact that the Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has the gardaí investigating the media instead of the godfather of crime does not instil confidence.
- Stephen Raehe, Editor of the Evening Herald
(Apologies for
the delay in publishing this post)
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The Irish Times is reporting today that Julia Kushnir is settling her case with the Observer newspaper, and that such will be announced in the High Court in Dublin on Monday.
She has also taken libel action against the Sunday Independent, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday World and the Irish Sunday Mirror.
The full article can be read on eircom.net for free and without login or at Ireland.com where paid subscription applies.
RTÉ will broadcast parts of the Green Party’s annual conference this year, but the party is claiming the state broadcaster is biased as they say their leader, Trevor Sargent, is not invited to appear on the prominent ‘Late Late Show’ or ‘Tubridy Tonight’ television programs before the upcoming General Election.
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In Dublin, the High Court has awarded a family a total of €70,000 after it ruled their constitutional rights to privacy was breached by the State following police leaks to the media.
The Grays family had sued the State claiming that the gardaí had leaked information to a local newspaper that a convicted sex offender, their nephew James O'Donoghue, was staying in their house.
During the case the family, who had moved to Kerry from Dublin, said that they had been shunned by locals after newspaper reports in the Kerryman, the Star, and Examiner. They were forced to move back to Dublin.
The local newspaper, the Kerryman, broke the story in 1999. At the case, Conor Keane, the Kerryman's chief reporter at the time of publication, said his original source was an anonymous tip-off, but would not talk about whether he had talked to local gardaí, as he said, "As a journalist I have a duty to protect my sources". Keane now works for the Irish Examiner.
The Kerryman article did not name the family or the sex offender, or give their address. While it stated that the police were not commenting, it went on to say "Local gardaí are believed to be very anxious about the presence of the man and have taken the precaution of informing people living in the immediate vicinity".
Phyllis Gray was awarded €50,000,her husband Alan €15,000, and their son Francis €50,000.
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