Ruairí Quinn attacks social media

[Asparagus]

Quinn says online media as accountable as traditional media - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 03, 2012

Ok! we are, as a society and an economy, hanging on by the memory of fingernails.

Our Minister for innovation wants to lead the chase for censuring the internet and now the minister for education and skills says this

"The internet is now one of two major threats to the media, especially and essentially newspapers. "


So the day after it was revealed (through social media) that the paper with the largest circulation and online presence in the country, fabricated a misleading account of a foreign nationals interaction with our social welfare system. An act that is arguably somewhere on the spectrum of hate crime. And with the Leveson inquiry still raking over the dead bones of children who's phones were tapped by traditional newspaper men. Our Minister for education says we need to hold social media to account.
In a country that is dependent on the ongoing investment of technical and social media firms.

This government, hellbent on some kind of mixed metaphor, is now flogging our one trick pony economy to death.

GOBDAWS

[ruserious]

[Boggle]

Quinn says online media as accountable as traditional media - The Irish Times - Fri, Feb 03, 2012

Ok! we are, as a society and an economy, hanging on by the memory of fingernails.

Our Minister for innovation wants to lead the chase for censuring the internet and now the minister for education and skills says this

"The internet is now one of two major threats to the media, especially and essentially newspapers. "


So the day after it was revealed (through social media) that the paper with the largest circulation and online presence in the country, fabricated a misleading account of a foreign nationals interaction with our social welfare system. An act that is arguably somewhere on the spectrum of hate crime. And with the Leveson inquiry still raking over the dead bones of children who's phones were tapped by traditional newspaper men. Our Minister for education says we need to hold social media to account.
In a country that is dependent on the ongoing investment of technical and social media firms.

This government, hellbent on some kind of mixed metaphor, is now flogging our one trick pony economy to death.

GOBDAWS

He says he'd be worried if traditional media collapsed under the threat of social media sites such as p.ie... no sh1t sherlock (heh heh), much easier to control what's written in traditional media and much easier to get away with spin as sites like this can dissect spin in a heartbeat.

[Expatriot]

Well in fairness in social media are to replace traditional media they would want to up their game. Aiming to match the slipping standards of some is not even good enough. Most social media is little more than a badly edited letters page at this stage.

[harshreality]

This is insane.
Has he nothing to say of the dodgy dealings of the print media in recent times?
Why do Labour have a death wish?

[Daisy Duke]

He should help ban the internet in Ireland while he's at it. Oh wait...

[dustin]

Looks like these people don't like the truth...

[Asparagus]

This is insane.
Has he nothing to say of the dodgy dealings of the print media in recent times?
Why do Labour have a death wish?

Part of the media’s job was to hold the most powerful in society to account but it must also “accept an appropriate level of accountability themselves”. Because the Defamation Act had removed huge financial risks for newspapers in printing apologies, he would like to see more printed where they were deserved.

“Where are the apologies? It’s inevitable the media make mistakes, the miracle is that they get so many things right under the time pressures in which they now have to operate. Why then, are there still so few admissions of mistakes . . . So few apologies by the media?

So the odd "sorry" would wipe the slate clean...

[Asparagus]

Looks like these people don't like the truth...

They don't like the consequences of democracy and free speech

[statsman]

Looks like these people don't like the truth...

Is that like 'Google 911 truth'? Only asking.