Excuse me whilst I have a tuppence inspired paper round moment!
The Irish Independent tells us today that Fine Gael’s Jim O’Leary is breaking new ground in webcasting his message for the under 35 age group and he’s paying some company money for it too! Should have gone to the Blogging the Election Conference Jim – we’d have saved you a lot of cash! It’s all very blue don’t you think?
Anyway back to the indo report (reg req.) on the matter.
A DUBLIN councillor has become the first politician to start webcasting his message in advance of the upcoming election.
Complete rubbish – Brody, Dominic and Thomas would say otherwise.
Jim O’Leary might be the first politician to press release about it though.
This moment was brought to you courtesy of my second ciggie of the day. By the way Simon has been busy with his camcorder and I’m glad to know someone else has a thing for Tommy’s Wonderland!
€5 gets you a microphone and a pair of headphones that work for about a fortnight.
But the mic just keeps on working, in a terrible quality sort of way.
Can’t say fairer than that.
Re: the Indo report- it just shows how Press Release driven the papers are. The journalists don’t see their role, in most cases, as anything beyond stenography.
Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Fluffy Links - December 19th 2006 // Dec 19, 2006 at 12:42
[...] Suzy fact-checks the latest copy and paste story from the Indo. [...]
And with the Sindo, fact-checking died long ago.