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Denis O'Brien
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Surely the Leveson inquiry shows why one person shouldn't have control of too big a chunk of different media. The problem is not who it is, it's who it might be in future. One of the very few sensible things Dev Óg has said in the past year was on Vincenzo Brown's show, when he said (something like) that we should legislate for the possibility of future situations, rather than just the current one. Meanwhile Pat Rabbitte says he's trying to extract the relevant bits from a package of legislation and get them through the Dáil (presumably before the INM AGM), and The Sunday Indo has come over all Red. Has anybody read "The Pickwick Papers"? Are we condemened to this kind of shite-hawkery forever?
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-- bigtom
15/05/12 at 16:43
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bigtom
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Posted : 15/05/12 at 16:51 |
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| By the way, Murdoch has said "If anybody wanted to know my position on anything, they have only had to read the editorial in The Sun". So any of you who ever worked on a building site knows how Mr. Murdoch feels about the European project. And so, The Sunday Times says that Ireland would have access to funding from the IMF and others if it voted down the Fiscal Compact. Fuckers are prepared to put a spoke in the wheels of anything, cause any sort of problems for citizens of any and all countries, because of their own personal agandas.
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tricky
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Posted : 16/05/12 at 11:54 |
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| you're not wrong BigTom. Not wrong at all.
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number10
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Posted : 16/05/12 at 13:26 |
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| It is a very big issue. One thing you can say for Denis O'Brien, though, is that he has continued to pump money into Newstalk despite huge losses.
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bigtom
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Posted : 16/05/12 at 14:52 |
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Oh, sure I know. He's also continued to pump money into INM while it loses money, so it's questionable that it's profit he's after in owning media. At the same time, though, he's just playing the game by the rules that exist. The bandwidth that came with the licence Digicel acquired is a national asset, as are the FM frequencies that are broadcast on, if there was any dodgy dealing in the Digicel deal then the big disgrace is with the Government. Big business does what it needs to do, it's for the Government of the day to ensure that the State's assets are protected.
The problem for us now is how do you regulate the media industry, without sitting the State's big arse on top of it and stifling everything. It's the most peculiar of beasts, the fourth estate. We don't want a situation where opinion and debate are stifled, yet we don't want too much of any one person or group's opinion. Gah.. you know what might be the answer? Robots! http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/the-robots- are-coming-oh-theyre-here/
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ttemme
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Posted : 16/05/12 at 16:08 |
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| up the robots. imagine a robot with denis o'brien's 'ead on him. not n'ce.
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