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This and earlier costing scandals (bicycle shed etc.) have something shocking in common. They would appear to have dispensed with conventional experienced professional Project Management incl. ordinary Engineering Planning and Control.
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To be clear, I 100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL
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Good rec. Thank you.
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The hurricane prompted examples like the one that rural dwellers be financed to live entirely off-grid & the one that gas cylinders be impounded in Dublin and redistributed in the West & the one that overseas electricity repair crews that came to help should have arrived before the damage occurred.
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This is problematic. At a very basic level it is clear that many people do not grasp the difference between government and THE Government and also that some are inclined to bizarre perspectives. Public service would demand that these be addressed but in deference to the Frame it does not happen.
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An upshot is that no matter how mistaken, uninformed or downright bizarre their views/demands, “ordinary people” are not taken to task. They are patronised, accepted and supported as sensible and wise in contrast to politicians who are presented as up to no good.
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The Minister to be grilled may change but the audience gets essentially the same interview over and over again.
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Now, RTE’s editorial policy is to frame all public problems as Govt. failure and then to grill Ministers. It’s been going on so long that contrary to the intended anti-establishment impression, it’s playing to the gallery and limiting discussion.
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So, it may be rare but it can be done; if a citizen is talking nonsense or making questionable demands of the state, a programme presenter or journalist can decide to tackle them.
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Here the suggestion is govt. aid for citizens to go off grid! While Journalists - esp. RTE - frame all problems as ministerial failure, suggestions of "ordinary people" are treated reverentially - even a suggestion on Liveline that the govt. sieze gas bottles in Dublin for distribution in the west.
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Vittorio, Long before post-truth became a thing professional journalism had a, let's say, complicated relationship with truth. Truth was never an overriding concern and usually subservient to news values - impartiality and the likes.
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Oh for goodness sake, Paschal, you might at least mention that fomenting uproar in the Dáil could be expected from a party whose leader won't so much as use the name of the state.
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Perhaps the penny has finally dropped among the previously naive that the name refers to the brutal practice of kneecapping.
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Wed. Cormac ÓhEadhra + Thurs. Gavin Jennings suggests editorial policy. PD's party founded as Prov. SF Jan 11th 1970; ditching the word "provisional" doesn't change that. He pushes his myth by casually saying that SF had their best election in 100yrs. Letting him make the claim is participation.
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(Grounds for Formal Complaint are very limited and certainly do not oblige a broadcaster to reflect on and explain controversial editorial decisions.) @drivetime.bsky.social
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The reality is that his party was founded on Jan 11th 1970 as Provisional Sinn Féin and dropping the word “provisional” does not alter that fact. Today Cormac Ó hEadhra ignored PD’s claim. /...
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Need some numbers here.
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Wow! Is this the prosopagnosia literacy link?
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That was extraordinary but it was ordinary for the speaker and over severeal years now what would have been shameful is expressed openly without expectation of contradiction It's normalisation but probably within family or close group.
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An extraordinary read. I have a copy. She was a Dubliner, by the way.
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This is a very old problem. Let's be clear, anyone who elevates truth above impartiality parts company with journalism.
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The article and headline should have emphased that Finland's teaching of media literacy lies within a wider project: trying to create an old fashioned republic of participative citizens.