Are ye web or print or what? Is oft a question asked by the man down the pub. It’s quite simple really. Once we get all our printed copies filtered out along our analog grape vine of distro fairies, we start sticking them up on line. Once that’s all churned out – we finally fling the PDF’s up for viewing on Issuu. And Chirst, they are clocking up some serious … Read More
Moving On With Stuff.
Britain’s leading gadget mag, Stuff, is dropping the ‘bikini cover’ for tech oriented material. It admits readers are uncomfortable with the image of tech as a lads’ preserve and it’s time to move on. The magazine first decided to drop the women from its covers back in 2013, and since then has been carrying out focus groups and research. Stuff’s focus groups and trial covers found that sales went up … Read More
Ambush 2004 Video.
Remember earlier in the week we highlighted how it was a decade since anti-war protests greeted George Bush at Shannon Airport? Well, a missing video put out under the banner of Indymedia.ie at the time has just materialised online. Age had wiped the dance block, seizure of the armoured personal carriers and the trad session abusing the pigs clear from our memory. Thanks to Polly Genic for the hard drive salvaging.
Give Her A Damn Reward.
Penalty points, GSOC, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, whistleblowing, taped conversations. These topics are all the rage. Barry Creed wonders why no one is talking about Gemma O’Doherty? Most will know that the former Garda Commissioner described the actions of the whistleblowers as “disgusting”. We know that the whistleblowers came forward with information that hundreds of people had penalty points removed from their licences. But what if the Garda Commissioner Martin … Read More
Going Nuts In Brazil
While Brazil were being helped by the referee to an opening night victory the country’s police made a statement in front of the world’s press cameras. The video above captures the moments when an unarmed protestor was taken by multiple police who seemed to parade him in front of a line of photographers and TV press before pepper-spraying his eyes at point blank range. Shades of the NYPD’s Anthony Bologna and … Read More
#meEJit: Is Disability Really A Fate Worse Than Death?
Why do media portrayals of disability always have such a terrible ring of finality about them? Sinead O’Donnell picks up on some recent heavy handed stereotyping and looks at the damage done. Nell McCafferty featured on the March 29th broadcast of The Saturday Night show. While discussing her 70th birthday, she commented as follows: “What I dread is some ghastly disease, or something that will leave me disabled or dependent”, … Read More
#meEjit: A Journalist’s Guide To Catholic Apologism.
Paul Doyle lines up the usual suspects that attempt to give cover to Church crimes and skewers them as rightous cretins infesting our media. During the recent European Elections the Catholic Democrats’ Theresa Heaney stood dead-eyed and Dana-esque on Vincent Browne; a relic of antiquity on whom the irony of having a hard-on for chastity is lost. Today, most people reject Heaney’s ilk, their views and the horrendous human toll those views have … Read More
Where Are They Now?
Spotted on someone’s gaff wall. A great poster that nails how are lives are being fed to the banking behemoth. Apologies for the shit phone shot. No one in the rabble bunker was able to recall properly the existence of a paper called The Irish Gutter Press. A certain Andrew Edgar stepped forward and described it as follows: Short -lived (?) “comedy/satire” rag, based outta somewhere in Munsterland, iirc, and … Read More
Citizens Of Water World
Oireachtas Retort takes a look at the people employed to sell you your own water. Remember Citizens, ‘Water Is Free. I Pay For My Water’. Back in January, three years after the Troika’s arrival, the Irish media collectively decided to start caring about water. To their credit, they waited for legislation to pass before asking any awkward questions. Two weeks earlier, on the day Irish Water became law, the … Read More
Checkity Check Yo Self.
Harry Browne, Author of The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power) gives us the low down on defamation, libel & the almighty power of the litigious. Libel is scary. As professional reporters, editors, presenters and producers, libel haunts us. In our every working moment, and in all too much leisure-time too, lurks the fear that we’ve said or suggested something, or we’re about to say or suggest something, … Read More