tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post8398265529185367921..comments2024-03-28T04:50:14.406+00:00Comments on TPQ: Direct Action Against JournalismAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-79786026809655657212015-05-18T17:11:16.948+01:002015-05-18T17:11:16.948+01:00They have been the medium for a lot of negative th...They have been the medium for a lot of negative things. There is always contestation going on within them. Bloody Sunday and Hillsborough counternarratives also featured on papers and ultimately helped to overcome the official narrative. The case against the state in both instances was fought in the pages of the press and elsewhere.<br /><br />There are more political columnists than ever AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-70159673957645003312015-05-18T16:53:13.138+01:002015-05-18T16:53:13.138+01:00AM, I dont claim everything in newspapers is rubbi...AM, I dont claim everything in newspapers is rubbish, I trust people would see through that. OK you learned alot about the Republican struggle, how does that measure up against them being the medium of the smears against the Bloody Sunday victims? The Hillsborough victims smears? The Iraq war lies? I dont think you can have one without the other, so we are confronted with a choice.<br />Another DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-55677000157930252492015-05-18T16:36:10.321+01:002015-05-18T16:36:10.321+01:00We learned quite a bit from reading newspapers abo...We learned quite a bit from reading newspapers about the direction the republican struggle was going in, more that we would ever have learned from reading the AP/RN. One reason I suppose for the leadership not wanting us to read certain papers. If our only source of information in those days was AP/RN and the Andersonstown News how much would we have known? Newspapers for all their flaws are AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-28445486329759761312015-05-18T16:22:19.747+01:002015-05-18T16:22:19.747+01:00AM, instead of measuring it by numbers of people b...AM, instead of measuring it by numbers of people being allowed their say, id measure it by what increases the amount of truth. (How novel and unmeasurable you may sigh!)<br />I think Newspapers and the media in general are bad for society, certainly in there current incarnation, which I honestly believe is to obscure the important truths, things that would shake power, with froth and half-truths DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78699513353652241202015-05-18T15:22:26.382+01:002015-05-18T15:22:26.382+01:00Dáithí I had guessed your original comment was som...Dáithí I had guessed your original comment was somewhat tongue in cheek ... as was my response.<br />None the less freedom of expression is a central tenet of democracy. Attempts to shout down an opponent or attempts to curtail the free dispersal of information no matter how biased it might seem are aberrations of that very principle of free expression. <br /><br />I hold with my original point Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90576599842998045422015-05-18T14:15:06.321+01:002015-05-18T14:15:06.321+01:00While it is essential to support the free flow of ...While it is essential to support the free flow of information and in particular those who garner and deliver such,it is because of such people,s superb efforts that those in power make sure that we have to endure the endless reams of crap from those whose job it is to spread dis-information,those few who try to deliver the truth are heavily outnumbered by the muckspreaders a quick look the size martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814904389826171437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-72971158734478771102015-05-18T13:40:36.158+01:002015-05-18T13:40:36.158+01:00As for revolutionaries - one of the most unappeali...As for revolutionaries - one of the most unappealing specimens imaginable. Revolutionaries are for the most part concerned about revolutionaries rather than revolution. I am most definitely not a revolutionary. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-37608513064600020402015-05-18T13:38:29.942+01:002015-05-18T13:38:29.942+01:00I know you were not advocating attacking them Dait...I know you were not advocating attacking them DaithiD.<br /><br />It is not about counting sheep or acquiescing in majoritarian principles. The majoritarian strand is a necessary attribute of democracy but not the only one. The alternative to allowing more people their say is to allow fewer people their say. How that would work better I don't know. <br /><br />Free speech is only such when AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6276191289025754332015-05-18T13:37:45.934+01:002015-05-18T13:37:45.934+01:00Henry, if by nuanced you mean so crippled by the p...Henry, if by nuanced you mean so crippled by the possibilities of inference you end up forgetting what you were considering in the first the place (naturally unlike your good self), id rather keep on my simplistic track.DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-21353917883571828572015-05-18T13:29:43.933+01:002015-05-18T13:29:43.933+01:00Ouch! I was only semi-serious.
But can you not te...Ouch! I was only semi-serious.<br /><br />But can you not tell right from wrong without counting the sheep AM? If the oppressed Sunnni's are calling out for Sharia Law in under ISIS, are you telling me that its somehow legitimate because of majoritarian factors? Or is the last liberal left there, decrying the murderers still right in his majority of one?<br /><br />My point about Newspapers (DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-15628387940649887022015-05-18T13:20:56.726+01:002015-05-18T13:20:56.726+01:00Dáithí if you live long enough you might find your...Dáithí if you live long enough you might find yourself maturing into a more nuanced thinker too :)Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-84888222640090726562015-05-18T13:02:57.717+01:002015-05-18T13:02:57.717+01:00Like the type of intervention against Charlie Hebd...Like the type of intervention against Charlie Hebdo? AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-55259691876607797772015-05-18T10:39:09.203+01:002015-05-18T10:39:09.203+01:00Jesus,Are you sure you used to be a revolutionary ...Jesus,Are you sure you used to be a revolutionary Anthony? <br />The role of Newspapers is to keep information from the people, we need more mob intercessions, not less.DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-16623948073641947072015-05-18T10:23:45.900+01:002015-05-18T10:23:45.900+01:00Henry Joy,
first laugh of the day. Always like so...Henry Joy,<br /><br />first laugh of the day. Always like something to smile about on Monday mornings. Mob was the term that jumped to my own mind.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-82998957594663543522015-05-18T09:56:46.808+01:002015-05-18T09:56:46.808+01:00Well stated AM.
When a group of individuals who h...Well stated AM.<br /><br />When a group of individuals who have the <i>'thought'</i> that says 'I'm right' come together and take unmediated action then we have a mob.<br /><br />On such occasions responsible journalists and commentators ought courageously call out their loutish behaviour. Responsible and ethical reporters are worthy of moral support by responsible and Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.com