Archive for July, 2007
The Tribune in trouble?
Monday, July 30th, 2007For most newspapers the loss of a comic strip or “funnies” writer would be inconsequential to its operations. However when said feature has been described by the newspaper’s editor as the reason why most people buy the paper it’s a different story.
As smugly recounted in The Irish Independent recently, Ross O’Carroll Kelly writer Paul Howard […]
TV3 Reporter Vs. Idiot
Saturday, July 28th, 2007This happened on the 13th of July on TV3 News, but a youtube clip of it has only come online in the last few days.
Jerome Hughes was doing a live report for the station after an inquest had ruled that Terence Wheelock had committed suicide; a verdict his family rejected.
Towards the end of the clip […]
What’s the point of facebook?
Friday, July 27th, 2007I tend to avoid using most “2.0″ web applications because I fail to see an advantage in doing so. Don’t get me wrong, some applications have been used particularly well by some people but that doesn’t mean that I can do much with them myself.
I knew very little about Facebook and was equally apathetic but […]
A modern media fable
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Not so long ago, in a place not too far from here there lived a conservative and very opinionated man named Master Osborn Stockdale.
Stockdale loved his country very much; so much so that he would regularly warn of its slow demise and impending destruction to anyone who cared to listen. “Society is coming to an […]
On Newstalk tonight (Culture Shock newspaper preview)
Saturday, July 21st, 2007I’ll be on Newstalk’s Culture Shock again tonight at around 8:45PM to preview the Sunday newspapers.
Be sure to tune in if you get the chance; It’s available on FM across most of Ireland (106-108FM), DAB on the East Coast of the country, online at newstalk.ie, on channel 210 on Sky Digital in Ireland or the […]
The Roma at the Roundabout
Saturday, July 21st, 2007The endless immigration debate has taken a unique twist in Ireland lately with the bizarre developments on the M50 in Ballymun.
For the last few months a group of over 50 (32 adults, 22 children) Roma have been camping on the roundabout of an extremely busy motorway and numerous NGOs are calling for the Government to […]
How Kevin Myers is the Bill O’Reilly of the Irish media
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I don’t read Kevin Myers’ columns; not anymore anyway. The simple reason is that they generally provoke a deep-rooted rage in me due to their ignorance, simplicity and disconnect with reality or rationality. To my mind, this reaction is exactly what Myers aims for and as such I increasingly suspect that not even he […]
This is Web 2.0
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007For those that don’t know, Bash.org is a site dedicated to the best and worst of online chatroom comments and conversations. It is a testament to both the quick-wit and the slow-stupidity which humanity is capable of.
This one fits into the former category and is worth remembering at all times:
[dsully] please describe web 2.0 to […]
Giving DAB a go
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Having headed to my local Homebase outlet for a cheap landline phone I spotted a Pure One DAB radio on the shelf for €38, around half the RRP according to Pure’s website.
I’d been planning on buying a cheap DAB device for the last while and €38 was by far the best price I’d seen on […]
Communicorp buys Emap’s Irish stations
Sunday, July 15th, 2007RTÉ.ie News is reporting that Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp has bought Emap’s Irish radio stations for €200m.
The three Emap stations are national station Today FM, Dublin’s FM104 and Donegal’s Highland Radio. Communicorp already owns Dublin’s Spin 103.8 and 98FM as well as quasi-national Newstalk 106-108.
With FM104 and 98FM being Dublin’s biggest local stations, it’s […]
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