Hm. looks like i am going to have to bump my does anyone wanna play karate in the garage thread
Oh behave
Somebody getting 10 million euro for libel. Fucking wrong.
Nudey Fr Jack !!
What do the following words mean to you Crilly?
Jack.
Sleepwalking.
Bollock naked.
I asked Clarkey if he fancied a few handy hints tonight.
He responded with ‘a friend is cooking me dinner’.
I said it better be his new bird or else he was a disgrace.
He responded with ‘I’m a disgrace’.
Did you not hear?
Cooking night has officially been moved to Thursday as one of the girls now does spinning class on Tuesdays.
Farmer declaring himself unavailable for TFK football duty tonight but texting Clarkey to go for pints.
I arrived back up at 7pm. I cleared it with the gaffer earlier on. How did we get on?
Prediction;
15-0 victory.
If i’m correct it’s actually Clarkey who’s doing the cooking for his two female friends. His attempt at cottage pie was aborted last Tuesday week and he’s due to make amends tonight.
Anyone seen this yet?
[size=“2”]Serial ‘churnalism’ at Irish Times and Irish Independent[/size]
A study carried out in Dublin City University shows that the Irish print media depends heavily on public relations material for its daily news content. By Joe Galvin
The study, carried out by postgraduate students in 2010, found that between 11.6% and 21% of newspaper stories across eight major daily publications were mainly or entirely generated by public relations material, and that between 32% and 50% of all stories contained elements of public relations material. The worst offender was the Irish Times (21% of stories comprising all or mainly public relations material) with the Evening Herald scoring best (11.6% comprising all or mainly public relations material).
The other newspapers examined were the Daily Mirror (12%), the Irish Examiner (16%), the Daily Mail (13%) and the Irish Sun (13.6%). All the figures for the Irish Independent are currently unavailable, but the students found that 46% of all stories in the Independent contained public relations material - a figure which is broadly in line with the other newspapers.
The figures confirm that newspapers are struggling to find content to fill their pages each day. In an era where journalists are often expected to write up to ten stories a day, the temptation to lift information from wire sources such as Reuters or directly from press releases has become too great.
Nick Davies wrote in Flat Earth News - a critique of modern journalism - that newspapers were awash with what he called “churnalism” which involved “journalists who are no longer out gathering news but who are reduced to passive processors of whatever material comes their way, churning out stories, whether real event or PR artifice, important or trivial, true or false”.
Davies focussed largely on British journalism, but this study shows that the Irish news media are also riddled with PR - and it is very easy to find. Take, for example, this story in the Irish Independent yesterday (18 November 2010). There is little news value, and the ‘news’ is entirely generated through PR artifice. This story has no problem making it into the pages of our largest newspaper, at a time when our country is in the throes of its most severe crisis since independence.
But this is just one obvious example of hundreds throughout our news media on any given day. There is no question that the critical independence of our media is under severe threat, and as the money grows increasingly tight the tide of churnalism will grow ever more difficult to stem. Journalist have no time to check facts, no time to corroborate evidence and, often, no time to even leave their desks. This is not journalism, and as one of the leading influences in the country, this can lead to serious problems.
Take, for example, the fact that our newspapers comprehensively failed to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy during the boom. There are many reasons why (including protecting revenue from property advertising), but the decision to opt for the profitability of quick-fix journalism instead of exerting resources on investigation and in-depth reporting is undoubtedly a major factor. Our news media failed to be sufficiently critical during the boom years. The cost of this failure is now all too clear.
The lesson? Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.
Irish Times
40% appear to have PR
21% all/mainly PR
Daily Mirror
32% appear to have PR
12% all/mainly PR
Irish Examiner
50% appear to have PR
16% all/mainly
Irish Independent
46% appear to have PR
Daily Mail
33.2% appear to have PR
12.9% all/mainly
Irish Sun
38% appear
13.6% all/mainly
Evening Herald
43% appear to have PR
11.6% all/mainly
Incorrect. Cottage pie night was further postponed, however a male friend cooked for myself and two female friends (not the same female friends mentioned above).
I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Ye are a shower of cunts.
What did he cook Clarkey?
Spag Bol. It was nice.
Ah Jesus - this gets worse.
ClarkeyCat is going for a Chinese in his male friend’s house now. He’s phoned for a collection so he’ll pick it up on his way and then they’ll tuck in together.
whens the coming out party bando?
Saw this lazy son of a bitch sitting in the passenger seat of a car at a petrol station recently while his wife/partner struggled with putting air into the tyres of the vehicle. Boy did I want to take a wheel brace to that bastard. Just sitting there staring into space the fucker.
Maybe he was a paraplegic?