tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post5648822243762893240..comments2024-03-20T05:46:39.773+00:00Comments on Irish Energy Blog: The End of the Traditional Media ?Irish Energy http://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-3826304512677867892016-11-17T13:15:04.917+00:002016-11-17T13:15:04.917+00:00The left/green media alliance have been whinging f...The left/green media alliance have been whinging for years about America's cold war with Russia. Now this same left/Green media alliance are whinging about Donald Trump opening dialogue with Russia. This same left/green media have been warning us that Arab oil producers may cut off our vital oil supplies, According to to-days Financial Times Saudi Arabia has warned the USA not to cut off its oil supplies. Google it or https://www.ft.com/content/c0ff2e20-ab49-11e6-ba7d-76378e4fef24 Lucky we did noit listen to themVal Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248166816744009791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-35437475683605596262016-11-14T11:37:02.118+00:002016-11-14T11:37:02.118+00:00Think of it like this. Paddy power bookmakers pa...Think of it like this. Paddy power bookmakers paid out over one million Euros on a Clinton win two weeks before election day. They admit media commentary helps assess betting odds. She lost. Pat Swords (A Dublin engineer) dragged Ireland and the UK through the Compliance Committee of the UNECE and won there. Yet he was never allowed on any Irish media outlet, because editors don't approve. I took a recent Judicial review case in the Irish High Court on a wind farm planning issue. It make the papers but when I finally won it got no mention in the papers. In fact no local paper like the Anglo Celt would publish it. This builds up frustration among consumers and voters who include a touch of revenge in their verdict at the news stalls or polling booth. <br /><br />I believe neither Irish or British mainstream Broadcast or Print media is capable of change. They have to be let wither away. About 15 years ago, there was an upsurge in new local newspapers in Ireland at County level, it all fizzled out, perhaps it was just a little to soon on the scene. We now have (if reports are correct|), the appointment as the Trump government's chief strategist, Steven Bannon who ran the on line newspaper Breithbart News, It is described on Wikipedia as "committed to the destruction of the old media guard". I hope a new revolution is the media does not swing to the left or right, but sticks to its proper purpose, to investigate, criticize, praise and report. Until that happens, a pillar of our freedom is missing. The vitriolic bile pumped out by Irish National Broadcaster RTE on hearing of Trump's victory is evidence of a sheltered media, paid for by force through the licence fee will be harder to break.Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248166816744009791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-91311946208281333962016-11-14T10:34:26.560+00:002016-11-14T10:34:26.560+00:00Traditional Kings and Queens ruled by consent, ter...Traditional Kings and Queens ruled by consent, terror or a combination of both. They all had their "face book page", "the printed word", except there was no independent comment allowed. Various types of democracies evolved leading to universal suffrage which was finally last achieved in Northern Ireland in 1971. Central to democratic freedom is the rule of law, and written or unwritten constitutions containing bills of rights are central to the basic law.<br />They all contain a provision guaranteeing the right of free personal expression, peaceful assembly and a free press. A free press is not a luxury of democratic freedom, its is an essential delegation of the investigative and analytical function of society to an industry charged with discovering and reporting the actions of government and the great and the good. This function can be done by any individual, but they don't have time to investigate or the means to get their findings published. <br /><br />In recent years, the free world has been hit by an undemocratic, liberal, socialist (sometimes communist) green upopic movement. Some is progressive and harmless but some is based on deluded, unscientific wishful thinking bordering on extreme hysteria about non existing problems and deluded remedies to solve these.<br /><br />It was for the media to identify, investigate and report on this movement and if it had done so, it might have curtailed the excesses of this unwelcome movement. When it failed to do so, it effectively forced people like me to do their job for them. Taking on someone else's job is hard work for little pay, but when the people realize the media neglected their duty, they will turn to other media outlets. A gulf develops between the mass sentiment and mass media and as the masses have votes, there can be only two categories of winners. 1) Social media and 2) Farage, Trump and LePenn. Television set are being dumped out and thousands of newspapers remain unsold. As one old fella in Kingscourt said to me recently, "I quit buying the Sunday Independent" "Its too political". Val Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248166816744009791noreply@blogger.com