Denis O'Brien, Vincent Browne, Moriarty, Media and Libel - What a Mix

[culmore]

how come everyone is interested in ownership of media now when O Brien has controll and it was never mentioned when O Reilly was in control. ??????????????????????

[Stanley 2]

how come everyone is interested in ownership of media now when O Brien has controll and it was never mentioned when O Reilly was in control. ??????????????????????

Was O'Reilly the subject of a prolonged Tribunal ?

[ang]

how come everyone is interested in ownership of media now when O Brien has controll and it was never mentioned when O Reilly was in control. ??????????????????????

Vincent explains - Why I think O'Brien is not a fit person to control INM -

Although in my reply to Denis O’Brien’s first letter to me, I made specific reference to the treatment of Sam Smyth and cited this as a reason why Denis O’Brien should not be allowed control INM, he made no response to this in his replying letter.

Denis O’Brien has said he does not control INM. However, given his interference in editorial matters in INM, in contradiction of the principles he himself has enunciated, even aside from the findings of the Moriarty tribunal against him, I do not believe Denis O’Brien is a fit person to be allowed control the country’s second most powerful media enterprise.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...322198397.html

[C. Flower]

how come everyone is interested in ownership of media now when O Brien has controll and it was never mentioned when O Reilly was in control. ??????????????????????

One of the reasons I set up this site was the political agenda-setting by media owned by people like O'Reilly and O'Brien.

O'Brien may be more overt, but the spectrum of views published by their newspapers and radio stations is extremely narrow.

The internet is obviously much more open to a wide variety of views.

[Dr. FIVE]

how come everyone is interested in ownership of media now when O Brien has controll and it was never mentioned when O Reilly was in control. ??????????????????????

O'Reilly never owned as much as O'Brien

[Apjp]

Especially as a large % of the rest are on Dinny's payroll

Does nobody remember that woman on VB who said 'Im a journalist on an average wage and cannot afford to stand up to corporates'. The evening herald writer. If Irish journlaists want to get anywhere they'd have to head abroad or find certain 'niche' sites like the journal or donegal daily. Broadsheet.ie is a good one

[PaddyJoe]

The broadsheet.ie piece that Vincent Browne refers to is here:

Leslie Buckley (right) was appointed as Denis O’Brien’s representative to the board of Independent News and Media (INM) in 2009.

The following correspondence took place during the final stages of the Moriarty Tribunal. Journalist Sam Smyth was covering proceedings for The Irish Independent. Gavin O’Reilly (left) was CEO of INM at the time.

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/04/27/...king-for-this/

[Dr. FIVE]

Add anglo to the mix

http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/20...d-to-suppress/

[PaddyJoe]

Add anglo to the mix

http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/20...d-to-suppress/

Extraordinary interview. James Osborne is basically saying that he was shafted because he refused to play ball when O'Brien demanded that the Tom Lyons piece on his Anglo borrowing be spiked.

[C. Flower]

Extraordinary interview. James Osborne is basically saying that he was shafted because he refused to play ball when O'Brien demanded that the Tom Lyons piece on his Anglo borrowing be spiked.

I wonder if Denis O'Brien is solvent.

He seems to owe a fortune.

[Sam Lord]

So Osborne got the heaveho from O'Brien because he wouldn't intervene in Editorial decisions on his behalf. And the authority claims that there is no issue here?

One has to agree with the conclusion of Namawinelake:

The nine members of the Authority are Bob Collins (Chairperson), Larry Bass, Paula Downey, Professor Colum Kenny, Michelle Mc Shortall, Dr Maria Moloney, Michael Moriarty, Siobhán Ní Ghadhra and John Waters.

It is high time that the Authority was summoned before an Oireachtas committee – presumably the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications – to justify itself.

[Dr. FIVE]

Would love to see O'Reilly's phone log to Talbot Street over the years lest we forget

[C. Flower]

Would love to see O'Reilly's phone log to Talbot Street over the years lest we forget

Good point.

And it is not so much what the Independent has left out under O'Reilly that was the problem - it was the endless and relentless vacuous and establishment-fawning garbage they left in.

[Dr. FIVE]

Yeah, still though. At the moment we have Quinn, Anglo, O'Brien, INM, this gov and the last all engaged a protected battle. Still a lot of knifing in the back to go and there is bound to be collateral damage for someone which can only be a good thing for us.

[C. Flower]

Yeah, still though. At the moment we have Quinn, Anglo, O'Brien, INM, this gov and the last all engaged a protected battle. Still a lot of knifing in the back to go and there is bound to be collateral damage for someone which can only be a good thing for us.

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