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An archive of our interviews.
In media exile - Part 2
(added Monday April 21, 2008)
In Part 1 of this interview Joe MacAnthony discussed the sometimes overpowering influence of owners on news organisations and how this at times impacted his own work. In this second part of his interview he discusses the differences as he sees them between the Irish and Canadian news media.
In media exile - Part 1
(added Tuesday April 15, 2008)
Above all, perhaps, the story underlines what journalism must continue to combat: censorship, state secrecy and the unwarranted power of an influential few." [Stephen Dodd writing in 2003 in the Sunday Independent, one of only a handful of mainstream articles on the issue]
Scribes of the Empire
(added Tuesday January 22, 2008)
Dahr Jamail's story began in early 2003 when working as a mountain guide on Denali , the highest mountain peak in North America. As the drum beat for war raged Jamail became infuriated by how he saw the corporate media cooperating with the Bush administration.
Embedded with power – Part 2
(added Friday December 21, 2007)
In Part 1 of this interview Pepe Escobar discussed the way in which Hugo Chavez is portrayed in the mainstream media. In this second part of his interview he discusses the context of the corporate media more generally and some of the factors which lead to its fatal inability to reflect either reality or truth in the cases of Iraq and Iran.
Embedded with power – Part 1
(added Friday December 21, 2007)
Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian born journalist and writer. He has reported from many different countries and conflicts over his career so far, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, the US and China. He is a contributor to The Real News Network, a non-profit news and documentary network financed by its members; leaving it free from the pressures imposed by advertising,
Confronting Power - Part 2
(added Monday November 12, 2007)
In the first part of our interview with Frank Connolly he detailed the response of the Irish news media to what has come to be known as ‘Bertiegate’. The following, second part of the interview discusses more general issues of media reporting and the inherent constraints imposed by the corporate, advertising dependent, structure of mainstream outlets.
Confronting Power - Part 1
(added Monday November 12, 2007)
We recently interviewed Frank Connolly, one of Ireland’s few investigative journalists, discussing issues of corruption, the exploitation of Ireland’s natural resources and the mainstream Irish media’s performance on these issues.
The Corporate Media - Part 2
(added Wednesday May 30, 2007)
In the first part of our interview with Fintan O’Toole, he traced his career in journalism and the major influences on it, while locating those factors within the wider context of developments that have propelled our news media into its current form and function. Below, in the second part of the interview, O’Toole gives an in-depth assessment of the editorial ethos of mainstream news reporting – with reference to The Irish Times in particular.
The Corporate Media - Part 1
(added Tuesday May 29, 2007)
Earlier this year we spoke at length to leading writer, columnist and Assistant Editor at The Irish Times, Fintan O'Toole. O’Toole recently returned from China from where he reported on many facets of life within the emerging capitalist heavyweight, describing both its beauty spots and open sores...
On the Media, Anti-Americanism and Disparity
(added Thursday May 3, 2007)
Professor Noam Chomsky has been voted the world’s leading public intellectual and is probably the most famous critic of US foreign policy alive. His books have been recommended by everyone from revolutionary Latin American leaders to school teachers. And he argues his point of view with an eloquence and rationality that makes it difficult to reconcile the inhospitable reception he often receives in the mainstream corporate media.
The Media, Inside Out
(added Tuesday February 20, 2007)
Eddie Holt is both a journalist and lecturer in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. He has offered insight and blunt realism to Irish readers over the last decade and more through his weekly columns in The Irish Times - injecting much needed truth into the mainstream body of Irish journalism – a profession ever more consumed by dominant media myths.
Understanding the media
(added Tuesday January 23, 2007)
In October 2006, we visited Mark Garavan, spokesperson for the Shell to Sea campaign, at his home near Castlebar in County Mayo, Ireland. For over six years Shell to Sea have been objecting to plans for a gas refinery and its associated pipeline in Bellanaboy, the town land designated as the location for the refinery.
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