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The Wall Street Journal has an article today about the referendum. To the reporter’s credit, he avoids the usual style of foreign reporting — asking taxi-drivers on the way in from the airport to the 5-star hotel — and goes to Carlow and Laois to get the viewpoint of farmers. Declan Ganley and Ulick McEvaddy are mentioned briefly, and not in the context of the controversy around links between their corporate and political operations. Worth a read.
I read the WSJ piece you’re referring to. As a frequent reader of the Journal, NY Times and Washington Post (as well as Le Monde, which is in many ways similar), I find that their coverage on all political matters is vastly superior to the kind of thing we are used to over here. So, when you mention the piece ‘avoids the usual style of foreign reporting’, I fear ‘usual’ in this sense refers to the Charlie Byrd school of foreign whatever we’ve somehow allowed to flourish.
I’m new to this website. I have to say I’m very impressed. Way better than the prattle you find on Politics.ie and all those other awful boards. Keep it up.
I think the standard I had in mind was Tom Friedman (who should be classed I know as opinion writer than reporter) but he is stereotype of the airport/taxi/hotel school of overseas reporting. I agree that the Irish media could have some well-spent time looking at how other (non-UK) newspapers do things.
Yes, of course, there are plenty of Friedmans out there. Perhaps because I lived in the States for quite some time, I’m a bit partizan. I’m inclined to notice the achievements of the better writers and completely ignore those of lesser calibre…
I’ve just been skimming ‘Both Worlds’. You have a new reader.