Comments on: Agenda Setters - The silent McDowell majority speaks up http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/ Invisible people have invisible rights Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:12:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: the saint http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1144 the saint Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:27:49 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1144 i am not getting into the Frank Connolly affair again as i made my views clear before. In my opinion McDowell was right in what he did. Personnel Damien I do think a terrorist organisation and the leading cocaine producers in the world are a threat. But that is just me. On the subject of agendas i do think he dead right. I mean imagine what would have happened in the media if Michael McDowell had coume out with the comments Pat Rabbitee did about poles. There would be up roar. Calls for McDowell to be put up on Race hate charges Yet everything was fairly quiet. Why? because the majority of the media has an agenda and it is fairly pro-labour and anti- McDowell. i am not getting into the Frank Connolly affair again as i made my views clear before. In my opinion McDowell was right in what he did. Personnel Damien I do think a terrorist organisation and the leading cocaine producers in the world are a threat. But that is just me.

On the subject of agendas i do think he dead right. I mean imagine what would have happened in the media if Michael McDowell had coume out with the comments Pat Rabbitee did about poles. There would be up roar. Calls for McDowell to be put up on Race hate charges Yet everything was fairly quiet. Why? because the majority of the media has an agenda and it is fairly pro-labour and anti- McDowell.

]]> By: tomcosgrave http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1143 tomcosgrave Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:05:33 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1143 <em>it’s pretty clear that RTE program makers do have agendas.</em> As does Michael McDowell. And he has a small coterie of journalists willing to take whatever he tells them and publish it (the Frank Connolly affair being a recent example), Sam Smyth being the leader. McDowell is a hypocrite, in my humble opinion. it’s pretty clear that RTE program makers do have agendas.

As does Michael McDowell. And he has a small coterie of journalists willing to take whatever he tells them and publish it (the Frank Connolly affair being a recent example), Sam Smyth being the leader. McDowell is a hypocrite, in my humble opinion.

]]> By: John Collins http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1142 John Collins Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:33:37 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1142 why can't the media set agendas? sure, news reporting is supposed to be impartiall, but the media is much more than simple reporting - what about features, interviews etc. in the tech sector do you think the media should have waited for eircom and the government to start discussing broadband roll-out? why can’t the media set agendas? sure, news reporting is supposed to be impartiall, but the media is much more than simple reporting - what about features, interviews etc. in the tech sector do you think the media should have waited for eircom and the government to start discussing broadband roll-out?

]]> By: Damien http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1139 Damien Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:00:02 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1139 But he really can't bitch about the media yet leak stuff about Sinn Féin and anyone else he sees as a threat. Though as I have been hear saying, you can be a hypocrite and still be right. But he really can’t bitch about the media yet leak stuff about Sinn Féin and anyone else he sees as a threat. Though as I have been hear saying, you can be a hypocrite and still be right.

]]> By: Dave http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1137 Dave Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:54:28 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/10/agenda-setters-the-silent-mcdowell-majority-speaks-up/#comment-1137 In fairness what he's saying is correct. It's pretty clear that RTE program makers do have agendas. It's hardly the BBC in terms of lacking bias. He even said a `very small minority' in the speech I saw on TV. In fairness what he’s saying is correct. It’s pretty clear that RTE program makers do have agendas. It’s hardly the BBC in terms of lacking bias. He even said a `very small minority’ in the speech I saw on TV.

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