Maybe we could collect pics of all the interviewers who got their 20 minutes with Tony at the weekend. First up it’s Matt Cooper
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Scraping the barrel
August 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM
While #Fag-gate starts to rumble (it’s still August unfortunately) some political correspondents are clearly desperate for news to joke about it. It is a joke right? Niamh Lyons is a political correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail – wishful tweeting? It’s not the usual political correspondent tweet (no they’re not all devoid of humour but […]
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‘Mr. Drumm, It’s Charlie Bird from RTE, Can I talk to you?’
April 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments · Irish Media, Michael Lynn, MSM
Update: Video is at the end of this post Have a look here – at 22.54 minutes in and watch Anne Doyle calmly introduce the TV News moment so far for 2010. Charlie Bird is back viewers … back with a bang. After over a year of isolation and loneliness as RTE’s Washington correspondent, Charlie […]
Tags:Anglo Irish Bank·Anne Doyle·Cape Cod·Charlie Bird·David Drumm·George Lee·Republic of Ireland
Form an orderly queue there
February 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media
Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly. It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned […]
Segue, monochrome, walk towards camera, soundbite
January 30th, 2010 · 15 Comments · MSM
Charlie Brooker is must see television at the moment with Newswipe on BBC 4. This segment makes for some uncomfortable viewing for many TV newsrooms in the US, UK and Ireland. (Things I want RTE to stop doing? Putting pol corrs outside Government Buildings when there is nobody there; Putting two different correspondents outside different […]