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Bertiegate - the Problem is the Media!

category national | arts and media | press release author Wednesday May 09, 2007 15:48author by Irish Political Review Group - Irish Political Review Group Report this post to the editors

As an exercise in representative government the current General Election campaign is a shambles. Instead of a debate about the future direction of government we have the second round of a controversy that should never have had a first round. If Taoiseach Bertie Ahern had any questions to answer about his personal financial arrangements fifteen years ago, the place for him to do so was and is before the Mahon Tribunal. Instead we have a distracting witchhunt against a politician with a long, well regarded record of service to the state.

Led by the Irish Times, the print and broadcast media have usurped the constitutional role of the Opposition in this controversy. This subversion of democracy has met with no protest from Fine Gael and Labour. Having little by way of an alternative political programme they have been content to trail sheepishly behind the media’s coattails. Democracy received a further blow when the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Sunday Business Post should be allowed to publish stories based on documents stolen from the Mahon Tribunal. In other words the Supreme Court has ruled that the media may break the law with impunity.

The consequences of that flawed judgement can be seen in the following extract. It is from an Irish Times editorial of Saturday May 5th:

'The Irish Times received a letter from the Mahon tribunal last evening “to request” this newspaper to “desist from publishing” reference to information obtained from the unauthorised disclosure of documents necessarily circulated to a number of parties. The request was made in “the interest of the constitutional rights of all individuals affected by such premature disclosure”.

This newspaper has investigated the Taoiseach’s finances because it has an equal constitutional duty to serve the public’s right to know about its leaders, especially during an election campaign. Are we now to be silenced?

This can’t but be an issue in the campaign. Whether it is a deciding issue or not in the general election remains to be seen.

Such an arrogant denial of a request from a judicial body might conceivably be justified if the security of the state were threatened by rampant corruption in the upper echelons of government. But the security of the state is under no such threat. As a letter writer pointed out the amount of money at issue is equal to the weekly wage of a Premiership football player. The matters at issue occurred thirteen years ago and the strong likelihood is that no impropriety took place. But in the judgement of the editor of the Irish Times these same matters are sufficiently important to justify undermining the Tribunal, destroying an individual’s reputation and disrupting the election campaign.'

A number of points need to be made against the Irish Times:

Firstly, trial by media, as a concept and a practice, is offensive to the basic principles of justice. It is like a court case without proper process, without a judge and with a peculiarly impressionable and inattentive jury. The stock in trade of the Irish media in one of its fits of morality—suggestive headlines, photographs of individuals having to endure the stress of misrepresentation, and innuendo—have been used with consummate skill against Bertie Ahern in this campaign. Against such a barrage no public reputation, however well earned, is safe.

Secondly, the scale of the problem of corruption in the Irish body politic has been greatly exaggerated. The Moriarity Tribunal was unable to instance a single political decision made in response to bribery. Certainly, businesses made political contributions in the hope of ingratiating themselves with the political establishment, but so what? Is that not an inevitable by-product of the economic system we live under?

During the seventies a particular problem emerged when windfall profits could be made from buying agricultural land that would later be zoned for housing development. At that time a journalist with a unique and impeccable record for investigative work, Joe McAnthony, succeeded in getting articles published in the Sunday Independent exposing political corruption associated with land speculation. McAnthony later lost his job and a contract he held with RTE was allowed to run out without his doing any work. When he applied to the Irish Times, perhaps the obvious home for a journalist of his talents, he was turned down; so he emigrated to Canada. The moral of the story is that if the Irish media had fulfilled its function by employing investigative journalists, the petty corruption that later became endemic in Dublin County Council might have been avoided.

Thirdly, some newspapers, especially the Irish Times, have no association with political parties, and the main party of government, Fianna Fail, has no association with a newspaper. This is a disastrous arrangement. All of the great political parties of Europe have associations with newspapers and all of the great newspapers of Europe have affiliations with major political parties. These associations and affiliations do not force newspapers editors to rigidly follow a party line. It simply means that most newspapers have a political orientation that informs their coverage of current affairs. Without some form of affiliation to a major political party, a newspaper has nothing to ground it in the political intercourse of its society.

In many ways Fianna Fail and the Irish Times represent two centres of power in contemporary Irish society; two contending worldviews. That one has no overt political affiliation and the other no media outlet is the nub of the problem of the Irish media.

Fourthly, the publication of leaked documents from the Tribunals should be rendered illegal through an Act of the Oireachtas. The Tribunals are being treated with contempt by media organisations. If these expensive judicial bodies are not to be afforded protection from media interference, they should be wound up.

In conclusion, the possibility that the campaign against the Taoiseach is based on a hidden agenda on the part of elements within the media cannot be discounted. It seems strange that ‘Bertiegate’ only became the subject of newspaper articles after Mr Ahern had made a commitment to revive the commemoration of the 1916 Rising, but we can only speculate about such matters.

Outside of election time there is little that members of the public can do about the threat to democracy that all of this poses. But we are not outside of election time! We advise anyone opposed to the witchhunt of the Taoiseach to vote Fianna Fail. Alternatively they should consider writing on their ballot papers an off-the-cuff comment made recently by a respondent to a radio vox pop: ‘THE MEDIA IS THE PROBLEM’.

Ends

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Record of servicing himself and those whose boots he frequently licks     Seán Ryan    Wed May 09, 2007 16:32 
   Nonsense article     13th Duke of Wybourne    Wed May 09, 2007 16:50 
   Fundamentally Mistaken     Chekov    Wed May 09, 2007 16:52 
   From Peking to Aubane to St. Lukes?     Slim Jim    Wed May 09, 2007 17:34 
   Irish Times     John    Wed May 09, 2007 20:20 
   Buddha Ahern?     Seán Ryan    Wed May 09, 2007 21:08 
   Happy.     John    Wed May 09, 2007 21:22 
   Reply to Checkov     Pro Dev    Wed May 09, 2007 21:30 
   Response     Chekov    Thu May 10, 2007 00:01 
 10   For John     CJ    Thu May 10, 2007 00:17 
 11   Happy?     Seán Ryan    Thu May 10, 2007 03:38 
 12   Happiness     John    Thu May 10, 2007 09:04 
 13   garbage.. minimise and deflect.     spendro    Thu May 10, 2007 09:55 
 14   Give it a rest son     John's mother    Thu May 10, 2007 10:15 
 15   Geraldine Kennedy     Miriam Cotton    Thu May 10, 2007 10:33 
 16   Irish Times     John    Thu May 10, 2007 10:58 
 17   John     Miriam Cotton    Thu May 10, 2007 11:13 
 18   John's Fantasy Land     Chekov    Thu May 10, 2007 12:24 
 19   Irish Times     John    Thu May 10, 2007 13:37 
 20   John     Jerry Cornelius    Thu May 10, 2007 13:46 
 21   Response     Chekov    Thu May 10, 2007 13:53 
 22   Irish Times     John    Thu May 10, 2007 14:17 
 23   John     Jerry Cornelius    Thu May 10, 2007 14:25 
 24   I read the news today - oh boy     Gotcha    Thu May 10, 2007 15:01 
 25   All papers should link with a party?     name    Thu May 10, 2007 15:40 
 26   Any reason why?     Slim Jim    Thu May 10, 2007 17:19 
 27   The Media is the Problem     John Martin    Thu May 10, 2007 20:13 
 28   Regarding political parties and newspapers     Spinning Quickly    Thu May 10, 2007 20:18 
 29   In response to Chekhov     Spinning Quickly    Thu May 10, 2007 20:34 
 30   I Rest My Case!     Eamonn de Paor    Thu May 10, 2007 22:53 
 31   Checkov's Fundamental Flaw     Pro Dev    Fri May 11, 2007 00:00 
 32   shysters     brabazon    Fri May 11, 2007 05:51 
 33   CJH     Bitter and Twisted    Fri May 11, 2007 13:45 
 34   Ray McSharry     P.K Lynch    Fri May 11, 2007 13:56 
 35   No whiff of corruption?     Miriam Cotton    Fri May 11, 2007 16:28 
 36   To "bitter and twisted" and "John"     John Martin    Fri May 11, 2007 16:39 
 37   Irish Times     John    Fri May 11, 2007 17:27 
 38   This stuff beggars belief     Chekov    Fri May 11, 2007 17:39 
 39   Bizarre is what bizarre does     Serge    Fri May 11, 2007 18:28 
 40   to john     chekov    Fri May 11, 2007 18:40 
 41   IPR     Miriam Cotton    Fri May 11, 2007 18:57 
 42   Fundamentally mistaken, fundamentally corrupt     Eamonn de Paor    Fri May 11, 2007 19:09 
 43   Motivation.     John    Fri May 11, 2007 19:55 
 44   Challenge to Chekov     John    Fri May 11, 2007 20:07 
 45   My shame, my shame     John's mother    Fri May 11, 2007 21:03 
 46   Is John genuinely ignorant or deliberately misleading?     R. Isible    Fri May 11, 2007 21:18 
 47   Propaganda     Seán Ryan    Fri May 11, 2007 21:24 
 48   We Support the Primacy of Politics     Pro Dev    Fri May 11, 2007 22:07 
 49   Graph.     John    Fri May 11, 2007 22:16 
 50   To John     John Martin    Fri May 11, 2007 22:44 
 51   Hoist by your own "logic"     R. Isible    Sat May 12, 2007 04:37 
 52   A picture that might help     Seán Ryan    Sat May 12, 2007 06:13 
 53   Get clued not screwed     Seán Ryan    Sat May 12, 2007 06:52 
 54   Its now 2007     John    Sat May 12, 2007 10:39 
 55   Young People.     John    Sat May 12, 2007 10:47 
 56   John, I'm sorry     R. Isible    Sat May 12, 2007 14:25 
 57   Time Series.     John    Sat May 12, 2007 15:03 
 58   I completely disbelieve you.     R. Isible    Sat May 12, 2007 15:15 
 59   Vague.     John    Sat May 12, 2007 15:51 
 60   "What kind of people are we??" (Madam, IT editorial)     Eamonn de Paor    Sat May 12, 2007 16:37 
 61   Eamonn     Seán Ryan    Sat May 12, 2007 17:59 
 62   The Left     John Martin    Sat May 12, 2007 18:26 
 63   blamehounds     Seán Ryan    Sat May 12, 2007 18:49 
 64   Seán     Eamonn    Sat May 12, 2007 18:53 
 65   Liar     Seán Ryan    Sat May 12, 2007 18:59 
 66   The Media is the Message     Fred Johnston    Sat May 12, 2007 19:15 
 67   Just admit your were wrong son, everyone else can see it     John's mother    Sat May 12, 2007 19:50 
 68   To Sean and Eamonn     John Martin    Sat May 12, 2007 20:12 
 69   Er..no.     yello    Sat May 12, 2007 20:19 
 70   John     Seán Ryan    Sat May 12, 2007 20:34 
 71   Response to Sean Ryan     Eamonn de Paor    Sat May 12, 2007 20:38 
 72   Eamonn de Paor and Yello     John Martin    Sun May 13, 2007 09:53 
 73   Are we living in the same country?     Miriam Cotton    Sun May 13, 2007 13:12 
 74   Made where     poster cost    Sun May 13, 2007 16:30 
 75   What is with Vincent Browne?     SBP Reader    Sun May 13, 2007 18:04 
 76   Alternative?     Seán Ryan    Sun May 13, 2007 21:20 
 77   Who or what does the Irish Times represent?     Eamonn de Paor    Sun May 13, 2007 22:26 
 78   To Miriam Cotton     John Martin    Mon May 14, 2007 08:58 
 79   To: SBP Reader, On the Media - Richard Boyd-Barrett     Bored SBP Reader    Mon May 14, 2007 11:40 
 80   John Martin     Miriam Cotton    Mon May 14, 2007 12:00 
 81   Way back in the day...     Slim Jim    Mon May 14, 2007 12:27 
 82   Vincent Browne, Jody Corocoran et al     SBP Reader    Mon May 14, 2007 12:41 
 83   Miriam Cotton     John Martin    Mon May 14, 2007 12:43 
 84   lt's face it     jasper    Mon May 14, 2007 12:44 
 85   John Martin     Miriam Cotton    Mon May 14, 2007 13:32 
 86   The truth always comes out the same     SBP Reader    Mon May 14, 2007 13:56 
 87   Miriam Cotton     John Martin    Mon May 14, 2007 19:53 
 88   Various     Miriam Cotton    Mon May 14, 2007 20:33 
 89   Miriam Cotton     John Martin    Tue May 15, 2007 09:20 
 90   IPR's questionable articles     spock's ears    Sun May 20, 2007 14:19 
 91   IPR worse than IT     yello    Sun May 20, 2007 17:31 
 92   Red Herrings     Eamonn de Paor    Mon May 21, 2007 20:47 
 93   Vincent Browne, Electioneer     SBP Reader    Mon May 21, 2007 20:55 
 94   IRP is far from irrelevant     spock's ears    Mon May 21, 2007 21:29 
 95   Red Herrings 2     Eamonn de Paor    Mon May 21, 2007 22:10 
 96   Red herrings     SBP Reader    Mon May 21, 2007 22:30 
 97   IT treated Bertie fairly     spock's ears    Mon May 21, 2007 22:57 
 98   Red Herrings 3     Eamonn de Paor    Tue May 22, 2007 09:52 
 99   Red Herrings-NOT!     Spock's ears    Tue May 22, 2007 10:45 
 100   Irish Times bias     John Martin    Tue May 22, 2007 11:14 
 101   Bertie's strange friends     yello    Tue May 22, 2007 11:17 
 102   Provence of accusations     spock's ears    Tue May 22, 2007 12:22 
 103   stuff     John Boy    Tue May 22, 2007 12:43 
 104   Taoiseach after next     SBP Reader    Tue May 22, 2007 12:59 
 105   but...     John Boy    Tue May 22, 2007 14:34 
 106   to the right     mm    Tue May 22, 2007 15:18 
 107   ...     John Boy    Tue May 22, 2007 15:21 
 108   just like Bertie     mm    Tue May 22, 2007 15:42 
 109   indeed     John Boy    Tue May 22, 2007 15:51 
 110   Bertie in trouble     Great Cthulhu    Tue May 22, 2007 17:35 
 111   The G.G's     Odds 50/1    Tue May 22, 2007 20:45 
 112   I prefer the odds to the mainstream media     SBP Reader    Tue May 22, 2007 22:58 
 113   Bertie triumphed....     Great Cthulhu    Sun May 27, 2007 17:24 
 114   West Brits??     billy idle    Sun May 27, 2007 19:32 
 115   Billy     Dagon    Sun May 27, 2007 19:38 
 116   Dagon     billy idle    Sun May 27, 2007 19:59 
 117   The problem is the media     John Martin    Mon May 28, 2007 11:07 
 118   Suggest away     Stuart    Mon May 28, 2007 11:40 
 119   To John     Zen-Tao    Mon May 28, 2007 19:56 
 120   To Zen-Tao     John Martin    Tue May 29, 2007 08:45 
 121   Homophobic attitudes     Proddy Gayboy    Tue May 29, 2007 09:19 
 122   Yes     Marlboro Man    Tue May 29, 2007 09:48 
 123   One last try     Miriam    Tue May 29, 2007 11:21 
 124   kiss     bj    Tue May 29, 2007 11:44 
 125   Nice to see the IT reads this column     SBP Reader    Tue May 29, 2007 12:53 
 126   just one more     bj    Tue May 29, 2007 13:03 
 127   Call a spade a spade     Watcher    Tue May 29, 2007 13:16 
 128   Peter Hain & Nuremberg     yello    Tue May 29, 2007 19:01 
 129   newspapers     great cthulhu    Tue May 29, 2007 19:32 
 130   IPR's Anglophobia     Zen-Tao    Wed May 30, 2007 00:21 
 131   I.T. and British influence     Eamonn de Paor    Wed May 30, 2007 11:10 
 132   To Miriam     John Martin    Wed May 30, 2007 11:33 
 133   tell the truth     bj    Wed May 30, 2007 14:04 
 134   More on the 'Journal of Record'     Jack Lane    Wed May 30, 2007 22:58 
 135   They're all agin me     bj    Thu May 31, 2007 00:11 
 136   More Nonsense     Spock's ears    Thu May 31, 2007 10:36 
 137   Spocks Ears     pat c    Thu May 31, 2007 10:47 
 138   to pat c     spock's ears    Thu May 31, 2007 11:27 
 139   The I.T. and the new Churchills & Bigglesworths     Eamonn de Paor    Thu May 31, 2007 13:51 
 140   ???     Miriam Cotton    Thu May 31, 2007 14:36 
 141   Also     Chekov    Thu May 31, 2007 15:00 
 142   Spocks Ears     pat c    Thu May 31, 2007 15:30 
 143   the polish people deserved so much better than they got.     wageslave    Thu May 31, 2007 16:00 
 144   Meanwhile, back in Realityland...     SBP Reader    Thu May 31, 2007 16:48 
 145   The role of the Irish Times     John Martin    Thu May 31, 2007 19:08 
 146   Brendan Clifford's "white niggers"     spock's ears    Thu May 31, 2007 20:06 
 147   I.T. & Churchillian propaganda     Eamonn de Paor    Thu May 31, 2007 22:36 
 148   There was nothing illegal in it!     SBP Reader    Thu May 31, 2007 22:54 
 149   To Eamonn     spock's ears    Thu May 31, 2007 23:43 
 150   "Anti_Irishness"     yello    Fri Jun 01, 2007 00:03 
 151   Totalitarian paedophiles!     Eamonn de Paor    Fri Jun 01, 2007 09:47 
 152   To Eamonn     Spock's ears    Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:03 
 153   Anti-Biggles     Eamonn de Paor    Fri Jun 01, 2007 13:35 
 154   IPR's influence     yello    Fri Jun 01, 2007 14:30 
 155   The Fatherland     Proddy Gayboy    Fri Jun 01, 2007 15:40 
 156   Don't Mention the E-Word     Eamonn de Paor    Fri Jun 01, 2007 15:52 
 157   P.S.     Eamonn de Paor    Fri Jun 01, 2007 16:08 
 158   The accusers of the IT have questions to answer     Spock's Ears    Fri Jun 01, 2007 16:41 
 159   P.P.S.     Eamonn de Paor    Fri Jun 01, 2007 18:24 
 160   A SUGGESTION RE THE IPR     Jack Lane    Fri Jun 01, 2007 18:52 
 161   WHO IS MAJOR MCDOWELL?     SEAN HORGAN    Fri Jun 01, 2007 19:15 
 162   Fatherland pickled herrings     SBP Reader    Fri Jun 01, 2007 19:46 
 163   The New Parish Priests     Eamonn de Paor    Fri Jun 01, 2007 21:19 
 164   To Mr. Lane     spock's ears    Fri Jun 01, 2007 22:19 
 165   P.S.     Spock's Ears    Fri Jun 01, 2007 22:22 
 166   Re_Englishing Us     yello    Fri Jun 01, 2007 22:40 
 167   WHO IS MAJOR McDOWELL     Jack Lane    Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:22 
 168   IPR critics and Sean Horgan     John Martin    Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:25 
 169   Aubane's unpopularity     Great Cthulhu    Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:52 
 170   Mediagate, the problem is Bertie     SBP Reader    Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:09 
 171   Chekhov Feeney in Village     John Martin    Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:44 
 172   Bias against the Mahon Tribunal?     Not Sure    Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:15 
 173   Everyone hates Douglas     Cat's-Outta-Debag    Wed Jun 27, 2007 22:52 
 174   The Quality of Lavatory Graffiti     David Alvey    Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:06 
 175   David Alvey     Miriam Cotton    Thu Jun 28, 2007 13:15 
 176   Well said Miriam!     An Observer    Thu Jun 28, 2007 15:45 
 177   To Mr. Alvey     yello    Thu Jun 28, 2007 18:37 
 178   this is the 28th anniversary of the stonewall riots & 30 years since the first English Gay lib laws     ribbid    Thu Jun 28, 2007 19:03 
 179   Miriam Cotton     John Martin    Thu Jun 28, 2007 19:31 
 180   Some questions for John     yello    Thu Jun 28, 2007 23:08 
 181   A former B&ICO member     yello    Thu Jun 28, 2007 23:32 
 182   "watch out for B&ICO/Aubane arsonists"     John Martin    Fri Jun 29, 2007 08:07 
 183   A response     yello    Fri Jun 29, 2007 16:40 
 184   Who are the IPR?     Frank Zappa    Fri Jun 29, 2007 17:32 
 185   I'd like some information....     Frank Zappa    Fri Jun 29, 2007 17:37 
 186   Frank Zappa and other lucky, lucky people     John Martin    Fri Jun 29, 2007 19:32 
 187   That Explains a lot     Peter O'Riordan    Fri Jun 29, 2007 21:40 
 188   'YELLO' AND MARTIN MANSERGH     Jack Lane    Sat Jun 30, 2007 13:51 
 189   The real name     Who    Sat Jun 30, 2007 17:00 
 190   One example     yello    Sat Jun 30, 2007 17:46 
 191   Martin Mansergh and the IPR     Jack Lane    Sat Jun 30, 2007 21:50 
 192   Eh?     Spinning Quickly    Mon Jul 16, 2007 19:53 
 193   The Media     A Cynic    Wed Aug 15, 2007 09:53 
 194   Jack Lane-Loyalist     A Cynic    Fri Sep 21, 2007 21:17 
 195   Where have all the "yellos" gone?     John Martin    Fri Oct 12, 2007 09:57 
 196   Jack Lane     Peter O'Riordan    Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:50 
 197   de Valera's legacy     John Martin    Fri Oct 12, 2007 17:38 
 198   John Martin     Peter O'Riordan    Sat Oct 13, 2007 09:36 
 199   Peter O' Riordain/Yello     John Martin    Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:05 
 200   Bunreacht was liberal     nonFF    Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:05 
 201   Also     nonFF    Sat Oct 13, 2007 13:04 
 202   Jack Lane     Peter O'Riordan    Sat Oct 13, 2007 17:11 
 203   Obsessive Delusional Elation, ODE.     Legal Eagle    Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:34 
 204   Peter O' Riordan/Yello/Grendel     John Martin    Mon Oct 15, 2007 09:36 
 205   Some questions...     Turps    Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:51 
 206   Turps     John Martin    Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:08 
 207   Fair enough some things     Turps    Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:52 
 208   Stooges of Empire.     Bronterre O'Brien    Mon Oct 15, 2007 16:25 
 209   Two Nations Theory     John Martin    Mon Oct 15, 2007 18:34 
 210   Empire loyalists     Bronterre O'Brien    Tue Oct 16, 2007 03:12 
 211   imperial triumph humph     Vicky    Tue Oct 16, 2007 07:34 
 212   Bronterre O' Brien     John Martin    Tue Oct 16, 2007 09:25 
 213   province or nation?     Turps    Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:55 
 214   Loyalty to the interests of the Anglo-Ameican ruling class.     Bronterre O'Brien    Tue Oct 16, 2007 16:15 
 215   Turps and Bronterre     John Martin    Tue Oct 16, 2007 16:59 
 216   Pacifism     Great Cthulhu    Tue Oct 16, 2007 19:42 
 217   Stalin and the Vatican     Turps    Tue Oct 16, 2007 23:45 
 218   Scotland, Stalin and the Vatican     John Martin    Wed Oct 17, 2007 17:13 
 219   moral power and marxist theory     Turps    Thu Oct 18, 2007 00:51 
 220   FOI act health bill is to be passed     Rita Cahill    Sat Dec 29, 2012 04:38 
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