Serious note to national newspaper editiors

[Darren Mac an Phríora]

I started the below thread in the Fine Gael forum today. I am going to merge it with this one. I look at the Fine Gael website occasionally and the press releases are of a good standard. BUT most of the time, I believe, they are not covered. Take for example Olwyn Enright. I haven't read any of hers in a while but I remember reading one of hers when she was Fine Gael's Education and Science spokesperson which was very articulate; true and to the point. But NO I don't believe it was covered. Michael Ring correctly called the 20 Year Plan for the Irish language launched recently a whitewash. AGAIN not covered. I presume more knowledgeable Fine Gael and Labour members can elaborate more. It is the case isn't it that good quality press releases which deserve to be covered in the national media are not being covered every day, yes??? Let us all give more good examples.

Shame on them!!!!!

Appallingly this story is not I believed covered in The Sunday Business Post and only gets a few sentences in The Sunday Tribune. It is covered in The Sunday Independent to be fair to them on page two but the story should be in the centre of the page on page two or three. I presume also that Labour would have sent out a press release on it also...??? That's the mainstream media, generally, for you at least on a Sunday seemingly....... The editors should learn by this big mistake. Otherwise I might have to start my own Sunday newspaper....

FG: 'No justification for pay cut U-turn'

"THE Government will be forced to defend the embarrassing climbdown over pay cuts for senior civil servants, which were revised days before Christmas and mean that the highest-paid staff will take a smaller cut than that announced in the Budget .
The opposition have blasted the row back, declaring it a victory for the "permanent government" at the expense of lower-paid workers, and said they wanted to hear the Government's explanation for caving in and for the way they "slipped it out" just days before Christmas.
Fine Gael's finance spokesman Richard Bruton accused the Government of underhanded tactics after the Department of Finance decided to reduce the severity of pay cuts for senior civil servants .
Speaking to the Sunday Independent, he said: "Pay cuts graded according to ability to pay was a key feature of the Budget. So the Government's decision to reduce the level of pay cuts at senior grades, on the basis that a separate bonus scheme was suspended some time ago, is underhand and unjustified.
"The Government should have been upfront about this proposal and announced it in the Dail, in order to subject it to proper scrutiny. Instead, Fianna Fail has tried to slip it out under cover of darkness.
"There is no justification for exempting senior civil servants from the pain that the rest of the public sector is being forced to bear.
"For a start, the Department of Finance is wrong to consider bonuses as part of core salaries."
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[Wakeupcall]

I make sure the crony Irish useless mainstream media don't get a penny of my money. Its all a big joke.

[MacO'velli]

Ah Darren, you're back, flounce finished?

[Roland The Gunslinger]

I make sure the crony Irish useless mainstream media don't get a penny of my money. Its all a big joke.

Nope its gone beyond a joke at this stage,its about time the people of this country got all Twisted Sister on their arses.

[Darren Mac an Phríora]

Ah Darren, you're back, flounce finished?

No interest in the topic no?

To answer the question, I am going to try out the site again for another while. I welcome the crack down on profanity on the site. HOWEVER it is a few years too late. Dave used to go to the party Ard Fheiseanna. The site was mainstream. Now though, the damage was let continue for too long. I may stay, I may not. I don't know. I think I will get onto Dave suggesting that the indymedia.ie policy wherby posts have to be on topic on the site otherwise they are deleted perhaps should also be on this site. Also there is at least one moderator on this site who is a complete tool. Something else to look at but, again, the damage has already been done.

Now do you have no interest in the topic, again? Please stay on topic. If you want to discuss me being on the site find a more appropriate thread.

[stripey cat]

Ah Darren, you're back, flounce finished?

Yeah what happened? I thought you said this place was too much for you, and there was a whole thread on it wasn't there?


Your walkout didn't last very long did it?

[liamfoley]

Nope its gone beyond a joke at this stage,its about time the people of this country got all Twisted Sister on their arses.

The general standard of Irish journalism is appalling. Where were our journalists when it came to the banking crisis and the property meltdown? They were, sadly, cheerleaders with their property supplements. This is but one example of hoe the general standard has declined (there are always exceptions but this thread is not about the exceptions). Could you ever imagine an Irish journo walking away with an award like the Pulitzer?

[Darren Mac an Phríora]

Yeah what happened? I thought you said this place was too much for you, and there was a whole thread on it wasn't there?


Your walkout didn't last very long did it?

Can you not read? I replied to his post two minutes before your post on the same matter.

[Ah Well]

No interest in the topic no?

To answer the question, I am going to try out the site again for another while. I welcome the crack down on profanity on the site. HOWEVER it is a few years too late. Dave used to go to the party Ard Fheiseanna. The site was mainstream. Now though, the damage was let continue for too long. I may stay, I may not. I don't know. I think I will get onto Dave suggesting that the indymedia.ie policy wherby posts have to be on topic on the site otherwise they are deleted perhaps should also be on this site. Also there is at least one moderator on this site who is a complete tool. Something else to look at but, again, the damage has already been done.

Now do you have no interest in the topic, again? Please stay on topic. If you want to discuss me being on the site find a more appropriate thread.

There's a prob there Darren ... viz being you are applying a subjective approach to an objective situation

[MacO'velli]

No interest in the topic no?

To answer the question, I am going to try out the site again for another while. I welcome the crack down on profanity on the site. HOWEVER it is a few years too late. Dave used to go to the party Ard Fheiseanna. The site was mainstream. Now though, the damage was let continue for too long. I may stay, I may not. I don't know. I think I will get onto Dave suggesting that the indymedia.ie policy wherby posts have to be on topic on the site otherwise they are deleted perhaps should also be on this site. Also there is at least one moderator on this site who is a complete tool. Something else to look at but, again, the damage has already been done.

Now do you have no interest in the topic, again? Please stay on topic. If you want to discuss me being on the site find a more appropriate thread.

I neither find FG press releases interesting, nor do i find this post interesting, i seem to share that opinion with the people it's addressed to.As to the above hissy, i find people with an over inflated sense of their own self importance mildly amusing