Diarmuid Doyle on Picturegate in today’s Sunday Tribune.
The problem is that the people doing the managing on his [Cowen's] behalf are doing a poor job. Anybody with even the basic knowledge of modern communications, of how a small story can be propelled around the world by a combination of blogs, social networking sites, YouTube and talk radio would have said nothing after RTÉ did its piece on Monday night. By contacting Cathal Goan, and making it briefly seem as though we were all living in Zimbabwe, O’Neachtain gave legs to a story that would probably have gone away. This was a small challenge, and O’Neachtain made a mess of it. It’s no wonder the government is finding it difficult to explain the big stuff.
Lots of coverage in Tribune today including Una Mulally on role of internet in the continuation of the story, a lead article by Ken Foxe providing a chronology of events, some quotes of the week, a column by Kevin Rafter, and an editorial and even a radio review of Ray Darcy’s show and other coverage this week.
Off out for dinner and I’m going to actively not think of y-fronts for one evening this week 
You’re thinking of y-fronts right now.
It has nothing to do with the quality of the debate or the paintings either, as John Waters has argued. It’s about the freedom to express yourself, even if it is just by having the brass neck to hang a cartoon among the august portraits of the National Gallery. And it’s about the freedom of the national broadcaster to choose whatever form it wishes to report the story. As the writer of an Irish entry into the Eurovision song contest, Waters must surely understand that good taste and talent have nothing to do with this.
Magic.
Una Mullally write that it was ‘traditional media that broke the story’. Where?
Ó Neachtain, a former commandant in the Defence Forces,
is this what influenced the press spokesman, does he think cowen is commander in chief?
the story was up on indymedia before the sunday tribune, but they hid it because it was ‘unsubstantiated’
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@Allan – Feck Off!!
Nice article by Diarmuid Doyle. Pity he thought the town was Nenagh though, when in fact it was Tipperary, but that’s only a small quibble.
Well, it mightn’t be that small if you lived in Tipperary where the attacks happened, but you know the Dublin-based media. One generic non-Dublin town is much the same as any other generic non-Dublin town. We’re just a crowd of generic culchies down here. Ireland Land.
ah but it was on today fm first