German think tank:The Irish 'No' Internet campaign outside usual control mechanisms

[NapperTandy]

www.german-foreign-policy.com

Loss of Control

The EU Commission has done research on the causes behind the stubborn Irish "No," through an analysis of the transformation in the Irish media landscape that had taken place since the last EU referendum in 2002. As the Commission was told during a briefing, EU-skeptical journals from Great Britain and Ireland have clearly gained influence, as has the conservative press of religious origin with its EU-critical tendency. But above all, erosion in the control over the media is taking place in two areas. On the one hand, public radio stations and television channels are losing more of their audience to smaller private stations that focus more on entertainment. At the same time, it is becoming clear that the internet offers information other than that provided by the ruling establishment. Accordingly, in the internet, a medium used mainly by young people, the "No" campaign could chalk up clear advantages over the established elite and break through the usual control mechanisms.

I'm quite shocked by the above I'm speechless!!

[chadmikeymicheals]

just goes to show how much our media is used to control us

the "No" campaign could chalk up clear advantages over the established elite and break through the usual control mechanisms.

[seenitallb4]

Control mechanisms....there....they said it.

[jokerman777]

Obama pushing through policys to control the internet will the same happen in europe if we vote yes
Bet your life it will

[Frankie Lee]

Obama pushing through policys to control the internet will the same happen in europe if we vote yes
Bet your life it will

It's happening already regardless

[st333ve]

"How dare they think on their own!!"

RTE has done a good job at controlling the mentality of the dumb people in the past.
However the internet cannot be controlled to the same extent and people will exercise free speech whether the Germans like it or not.

The free thinking Irish were a puzzle to Freud , probobly because of our unique ability to smell the B.S that Freud simply could not.

[evercloserunion]

Who are these guys and why is what they say of any significance?

[chadmikeymicheals]

the sad thing is that most people don't know things like this are going on, and if you try to tell them your brushed aside as a conspiracy theorist nut job.

[The Caped Cod]

Those pesky internet young people. Wouldn't you think they'd shut their holess and read the Times like their parents did. We're going to have to think of a whole new paridigm in media control to sort this one out.

[ibis]

Who are these guys and why is what they say of any significance?

They're related to LaRouche PAC, and are a bit like a German Open Europe - they're of "significance" because they've said "control mechanisms" and they're German (which is, like, European, right?). Plus, they mentioned the EU. So now everyone can get outraged.

Admittedly, they were the ones who used the words "control mechanisms", and they're eurosceptics/NWO heads, but the easily confused are easily confused.