"Opinion, libel and vulgar abuse in new media" a "threat to humanity" says Chairman of Irish Examiner and Sunday Business Post

Brilliant!

Newspapers and people who can influence newspapers don't like the interwebz.

Agenda is being pushed, cant have people knowing whats really going on can we!

New Media indeed, why dont they come right out and say it, its p.ie that is a threat to humanity!

Ooh, threat to humanity! Beats Quinn's mere "threat to media".

I know the Sunday Independent's website is bad, but 'threat to humanity' is pushing it...

Quick, to the lifeboats!

Also, speaking of unverifiable, where is Stephen King nowadays?

Disappointed to see no 'who is this f#ckin cnut w#nker anyway and why's he allowed to talk sh)te like this' comments yet.

Well, there's one now.

Are you sure that article isn't copyright protected? This might be an elaborate ruse being used to give someone an opportunity to go to the courts and apply to have P.ie shut down!

Here's my question. Is it right that we should relyon something as fickle as advertising revenue tosupport something as important as good information?

Keep your hand out of my pocket Mr. Crosbie. There will be no public subsidy for your paper.

I blame the Indo/Sindo.....they drove me to use p.ie!!

If I am reading him right he is in effect calling for the State to subsidise the Examiner, Times and Indo to prevent total chaos erupting in civil society if they fail, as they will in the present environment! WTF?

He's in the media. He uses hyperbole to make his point seem stronger.

Nothing new there.

To butcher the words of John Stuart Mill: journalism is the permanent possibility of sensationalism.

There is obviously an agenda being pushed now by the 'establishment' and their whores in the traditional media.

It's a contemptible agenda which should be fought vigorously...

It's all about power and control for the 'establishment'. It's all about money for the traditional media and business.

And it's all dressed up in a nicely wrapped charade feigning concern for copyright and libel and all the other despicable bullsh!t they can think of.

If this agenda gains traction they will all deserve one almighty backlash.

there was a skit in a Matt Groening cartoon about newspapers in the future from a 1960's perspective, the line went "want to know what happened in China yesterday? read our newspaper updated 3 times per day....

Dinosaurs wondering where their dinner is gone is more like it.

hmmm.

lets see.

who's been the bigger threat to this country over the last couple of decades.

the internet.

or "civil" society which.

. stood over kids being raped by clergymen.

. stood over successive taoiseach trousering massive amounts of unnaccountable money.

. stood over a ponzi scheme that bankrupted the country, actually scratch that aided and abbeted said ponzi scheme.

. stood over medical practioners butchering people and colluding in experimentation of still borne childern with major pharamacutical companies.

. stood over a legal profession stuffed with criminals robbing their client BLIND.

ALL this stuff is discussed on the net.

"civil" society didnt want to TALK about it, not investigate, not demand accountabliity, fecking TALK about it when it mattered.

and they have the cheek to lambast US ?

It may not be the gentile talking shop the print media is but by god at least we have the balls to call a spade a spade when it matters,

and not 10yrs down the road like they do.

Originally Posted by Maction

I blame the Indo/Sindo.....they drove me to use p.ie!!

Well, not even the Indo can be all bad.

If newspapers are so worried about the internet then they can stop publishing them online, and we can see what happens.

Feck that.

So nobody actually read the speech then.