Did you see this guy’s video on the news?
He was as mad as a bag of spanners. A fruit. A complete nutcase.
I’ve been listening to the coverage since waking up this morning. Every station has it, on radio and tv. The world is shocked and horrified by the mass killings at [...]
I’ve just watched Pat Kenny interviewing Bill O’Reilly, and I have to admit it isn’t really clear to me what just happened. Was that the finest piece of satire ever to appear on Irish television, or the worst example of scum-sucking obsequious arse-licking you’ve seen in your life?
Who’s Bill O’Reilly? Well, Bill [...]
The media behaved disgracefully towards poor Tania Corcoran, who died giving birth to twins as did one of the babies. There was absolutely no reason to report that Tania was a member of the Gardai. It was irrelevant. There was no justification for printing headlines like Cop dies giving birth. Jesus, [...]
What about the good old Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, huh? Now there’s a fearless watchdog working to keep Ireland a better place, wouldn’t you think?
I was especially taken by the BCI’s latest spectacular, where they banned an ad from the charity, Trócaire.
You might have seen it. It’s about the appalling treatment of women [...]
Oh, they’re all there. Fústar and Grandad, Skinner, Sweary, Twenty and Mulley.
The whole lot of them, all there together in the Irish Times. And how comfortable they look, lounging around on page 17, in their dinner jackets and cocktail dresses, all positively exuding fin-de-siècle languor and ennui. It’s great. For once, [...]
Did I hear that right on the news?
Did they really say that the guy convicted of money laundering had the cash in a box of washing powder?
Please tell me they said that.
I nearly forgot to mention this little episode, consumed as I was with the Croke Park thing at the weekend. On Sunday morning before we headed off to Mulligan’s, Wrinkly Paddy produced a full greasy fried breakfast for me.
There ya go, Bock. Line the stomach. Set you up for [...]
Tonight I was listening to Newstalk when a report came on about the latest executions in Iraq.
The report said that the Iraqis had hanged two men, and had accidentally decapitated one of them in the process. Then it went on:
Journalists watched a video showing the execution of Saddam’s half-brother and the former head [...]
Wrinkly Paddy points out that a small fire in a large apartment block merited headline news on our national broadcaster, RTE.
Parochial?
Ah, go on, then. Yeah!
That Ipswich thing has to be disturbing, don’t you think? Murders of five girls by a sad, disturbed fucker. Or even two sad, disturbed fuckers.
Is there a stipulation in the contracts of reporters that they can’t have any education?
I love the reporting by Sky News. Giving you the facts as they emerge. [...]
