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Read more about: Bertie Ahern Resigns, Bertiegate, Blogging, Cartoons, Corruption, Green Ink, Satire, Scandal, Tribunals
And now what are we we going to do?
It was the net wat done it
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but it will smell awful
Blogs may have helped bring him down but now that Bertie no longer cares what people think about him I suspect one blog/site (p.ie) will be next in the bacon slicer.
Can anybody give me one real world example of how blogs helped bring down Bertie?
i have to say Joe, both my own post and possibly greens cartoon were tongue in cheek. Harris suggested that the internet played a role in the ‘nastiness’ that brought bertie down - a point i think is erroneous. we did no more or less to respond to him and his statements than other media and even if we did have some magic effect here - the blame for this mess lies at aherns feet not ours/media’s
@joe and Cian: What struck me was that blogs were specifically mentioned at all. There’s been a lot of casting about for scapegoats, Harris et al seem to have settled on da meeja, and by extension blogs, and are talking up that factor. Personally if I’m contributing to the wobbles of pompous ministers, senators and commentators (whatever the fuck they are) I’m more than happy to keep calling the emotionally precarious fruit container a cunt. But as for directly affecting the course of politics in Ireland, it hasn’t happened. That said, the amount of public body IPs that we get as traffic suggests that if your phonecalls don’t get through, then a certain amount of online vitriol might.
@flyer: I doubt it.