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Some of the arguments made in this satire piece by The Onion ring a bell.
Remind you of anything?

This is a story that was supposed to be published in The Irish Times way back when but for some reason or another it didn’t.
It relates to wikipedia edits made by someone in a Government department and was researched and written back when the joys of the WikiScanner was discovered by everyone.
To the best of [...]

After the revelation yesterday that it was most likely a complaint about balance, most likely to be interpreted as a de facto pulling of Crowne, by HSE. Today’s Sindo reports that Harney was also offered to the Saturday view in order to speak on the health service. Prof. Crowne was also due to be on [...]

Helen Shaw has an interesting insiders take(sub req) on the current Crown Affair (a title for a controversy that she seems to have taken directly from P.O’Neill’s excellent post on Irish Election because she says, rather sarcastically, ‘the blogosphere drums are beating with the so-called John Crown Affair’).
The bones of her argument are actually fair [...]

Its an interesting departure no doubt about it, the Labour conference at the weekend will be all teched up. The party are hoping to integrate the internet into their conference programme with the use of ustream, twitter, flickr, online question sessions etc. Most of the conference will be streamed on UStream including Eamon Gilmore’s conference [...]

Fine Gael’s Dr. James Reilly has demanded that RTÉ tell all about the decision to drop Dr. James Crown from last Friday’s Late Late Show which is shaping up to be the story of the week.
Crown is an outspoken critic of the Government’s cancer care policy and was stopped from appearing on the programme after [...]

Strange how the mind works. I saw this item on RTE’s website yesterday in which Dr. John Crown was quoted providing a detailed critique of the management of cancer services. It all seemed sensible and corresponded closely to what he said in the same day’s Irish Times (subs. req’d) but I did think: [...]

After watching Munster beat Wasps (fingers crossed), I will be on Culture Shock with Fionn Davenport on Newstalk 106-108 reviewing the Sunday Papers for The Lay of the Land. Catch it from somewhere after 8:30 tomorrow night.

We might be getting a C-Span type channel soon, hurrah say the junkies. Would it be worth it? Might help the citizenship side of things.

In my post on The Irish Times Gives Award to Itself Dav of mediabite.org, kindly left a link to a very interesting and wide-ranging interview that mediabite had with Fintan O’Toole this year. In relation to the post on the Property Developers series in the Irish Times its very informative on the symbiotic relationship between [...]

You may find it curious that at the moment the Irish Times is doing extensive coverage of Irish developers, those brave and assiduous men, and they are all men, who are bringing this country the type of shopping centres and office blocks that we could only have dreamed of when we sat watching Dallas in [...]

Journalists ordered to comply with Mahon

Questions and Answers is supposed to be our prime political debate show. Where the head politico’s come and debate the issues of the day and let the people see all sides of the argument before making their minds up on an issue. So what did we get in last nights issue. Q1: who should take [...]

It happens in many countries and it’s happened in Ireland before: the hopping between careers in political reporting and political spin. Poacher turned gamekeeper and all that. But surely an eyebrow to be raised at the news that the Political Editor of the Irish Independent, Gene McKenna, is to become Fianna Fail’s Director [...]

The new inside out is available for download, sorry for missing last week. This week the voice you hear is my own (go easy please). We are looking at Climate Change so hop over an have a look.

Today I read with increasing incredulity, the attempt being made by Prof. William Reville, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at one of our state-funded universities, UCC, to say that science and religion were not so different after all.
This is one of many attempts on this island to soften up the teaching of Science [...]