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Requiring Army Deployment? Was her Editor Drunk too?

category national | summit mobilisations | feature author Tuesday February 10, 2004 19:18author by IMC Ireland Editorial Report this post to the editors

Sozzled Scribe Scribbles Scurrilous Screed!!!!!!

wombles

Discussions about the role of corporate media usually end up being esoteric analyses of the subtle misdirection and bias exposed by Chomsky and Hermann. Sometimes though the corporate media just lets it all hang out and tells such huge porkies that it's hard to believe. Perhaps the most "skilled" example of the art of complete and utter lies that has sullied our eyes is the work of "journalist" Deirdre Tynan and her editors and publishers at Ireland on Sunday.

Presenting herself in the article as an intrepid undercover journalist, and in the pub as an angst-ridden victim of greed, the sodden scribe managed to scribble together a "story" which would be laughable were it not published in a periodical which claims to report fact. This blatant lying is part of a larger trend of vilification of anarchists and other activists by the corporate media in the run-up to the EU Summit in Dublin.

Detailed rebuttals of the patent falsehoods told by this Grub Street hack have been contributed by our reader-writers including a very detailed account by the Workers Solidarity Movement, and a personal report by one of the interviewees (whose gentle suggestion of ethical standards was dismissed as being "from the sixties").

But we shouldn't be so surprised because Ireland on Sunday belongs to the same group of newspapers that published scandalous stories about the badly beaten and tortured media activists at the Genoa Social Forum in 2001.

It has been suggested that Deirdre Tynan and Priscilla Lynch may have an incomplete control over the work published under their name and that the editor-in-chief (Martin Clarke) is associated with a high turnover in staff who find the workplace ethically distateful. However, their names are on the piece and they bear responsibility for it.


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From the original newswire article (byline Luther McBlisset)

Ireland on Sunday: Commentary on Front Page and Feature by Deirdre Tynan.

The Wombles - for those who have ever met them are a good humoured disorganised bunch who must be the most villified bunch of protesters in UK. There are about 12 of them. They wanted to bring Ya Basta Style tactics to the UK after Prague but never managed to get any kind of critical mass going. They identify with Zapatistas and a search of Urban75.com [or other websites would quickly reveal this].

Now just because they may travel to Dublin for mayday they are being made to sound like an invading army.

Because of this and a load of unsubstantiated bullshit the paper says 11,000 + of the army are on standby for the celebrations on mayday.

This article will be fun to deconstruct. more analysis and the juicy bits typed in to follow.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Above the Headline     slurring my words    Mon Feb 09, 2004 23:22 
   Obedient Citizens make a Happy City!     Obedient Citizen    Mon Feb 09, 2004 23:58 
   can u post article     a womble    Tue Feb 10, 2004 02:09 
   Oh Yes loads and loads of ye Wombles. (and everyone worth points points points!)     ipsiphi (an elf)    Tue Feb 10, 2004 13:20 
   nutters     W    Tue Feb 10, 2004 13:38 
   dear womble     moomin    Tue Feb 10, 2004 13:51 
   IoS     Rag    Tue Feb 10, 2004 14:02 
   That journalist is also on Irish Anarchism     Joe    Tue Feb 10, 2004 14:08 
   EU anarchos ate my hamster......     Sad Hack    Tue Feb 10, 2004 14:18 
 10   oh well someone will have to worry about the big headache pills then.     elf    Tue Feb 10, 2004 16:02 
 11   Deirdre Tynan - queen of alternative news, supporter of anarchist politics.     bluekingfisher    Tue Feb 10, 2004 16:06 
 12   what what did her response mean     pc    Tue Feb 10, 2004 16:14 
 13   Looks like our front page hit the right note     Joe    Tue Feb 10, 2004 16:19 
 14   lame arse     pc    Tue Feb 10, 2004 16:20 
 15   wow     from scotland    Tue Feb 10, 2004 17:08 
 16   Anarchist response just published     badman    Tue Feb 10, 2004 17:09 
 17   journos     jeff    Tue Feb 10, 2004 18:04 
 18   Urban 75     GGer    Tue Feb 10, 2004 18:29 
 19   .     .    Tue Feb 10, 2004 20:45 
 20   A bedtime story for Deirdre and Priscilla!     IMC genoa    Tue Feb 10, 2004 21:22 
 21   editors etc     little mai    Tue Feb 10, 2004 22:09 
 22   Kind of flattered     Kind of Flattered    Wed Feb 11, 2004 13:52 
 23   I lost 3 years myself     Chekov    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:29 
 24   Ah - Cheks     DG    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:34 
 25   If only...     Grey Blocker    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:37 
 26   Hate to admit it, but     Chekov    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:39 
 27   We infiltrate worldwide network of government and capital..     antrophe    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:56 
 28   IOS and Anarchy     babybromley    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:56 
 29   Maturity     Grey Blocker    Wed Feb 11, 2004 16:58 
 30   Black Bloc     Watcher    Wed Feb 11, 2004 17:06 
 31   tintin aka watcher     Pup off    Wed Feb 11, 2004 17:17 
 32   Bad day on the technical side...imc daleks....bllltzzz...bltzzz.....delete delete...     antrophe    Wed Feb 11, 2004 17:41 
 33   It was the subeditors wot done it     Barry Long    Wed Feb 11, 2004 21:28 
 34   Activists we don't want in Dublin     Phuq Hedd    Wed Feb 11, 2004 21:56 
 35   Blame the middle management     ec (middle management)    Wed Feb 11, 2004 23:40 
 36   WEF in Warsaw: radical anarchist street fighters?     Poland in EU from 1 May 2004    Thu Feb 12, 2004 02:48 
 37   Deirdre Tynan     Shane OCurry    Thu Feb 12, 2004 16:09 
 38   Dodging responsibility     Badman    Thu Feb 12, 2004 16:12 
 39   ...     silo    Thu Feb 12, 2004 16:58 
 40   WOMBLES & media     tomsk    Fri Feb 13, 2004 03:04 
 41   Media Justice: Media for All the People     redjade    Fri Feb 13, 2004 13:28 
 42   Don't talk to the media.....     R Isible    Fri Feb 13, 2004 21:18 
 43   The Myth of The Mass Media     antrophe    Wed Feb 18, 2004 01:36 
 44   Ur An Idiot Buster (Comma needed?)     Acton Bell    Thu Feb 19, 2004 17:17 
 45   Even an idiot can see through that acton bell     Idiot-activist    Thu Feb 19, 2004 17:37 
 46   I like "lighter notes".     iosaf    Thu Feb 19, 2004 23:48 
 47   EU anarchos ate my hamster??     Viva Che    Mon Apr 19, 2004 20:17 


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