york wrote:
Eschatologist wrote:
Culture and Opinion pieces in newspapers are not supposed to be objective.Does nobody understand how to read a newspaper any more?
I wasn't commenting on Culture and Opinion pieces - I was making an observation on the paper generally (which would include IT editorial opinion pieces, since editorial opinion can be expected to drive editorial decision making).
The recent abortion referendum coverage would be a good example of slanted journalism. The IT has a liberal secularizing agenda and it's coverage is skewed in that direction. Like, you didn't have to hold your breath long before predictable photos of rosary bead-wielding ancients stood alongside pert-breasted young women in tight fitting pro-choice tee-shirts began adorning referendum coverage in the IT.

Ah right. Well, maybe the rosary bead crowd need to show a bit of cleavage to get their message across.
I don't think the IT is particularly "liberal", but it depends where you're coming from.
http://www.socialistworkeronline.net/na ... -unt-nibh/"But this doesn’t deter Ms Cretin [Creighton] and her Dejavu crew. What they lack in real policies they make up for in spin, PR and empty metaphors. And some of the media, like the Irish Times, lend a helping hand, describing her as ‘the luminous woman in white’."
Lovely. So from a Trot perspective the Irish Times is a deeply conservative (small 'c') pro-establishment rag. There's no pleasing some people, eh?
Is the IT left or right of public opinion? I'm not sure. The reporting of the housing crisis, something which has become a defining cause for Ireland's depleted left wing, has been extremely muted. There's no campaigning there, but people are taking to the streets over it. Nor on the "health crisis", patients on trolleys and all that. The tabloids are where the action is on those issues.
Abortion and gay marriage? Well, the coverage was fairly progressive but that just matches the outcome of the voting, so they were fairly bang on there, and I don't think the IT is important enough to have moved the dial.
What did they have to say about economics in the noughties? Nothing of any consequence, it was all property porn ad revenue.
Going back a bit further...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoint ... 89691.htmlQuote:
The Irish Times took a similarly antagonistic view of those who took part in the Rising. On May 1, before the start of the executions, it advised the authorities to deploy the “surgeon’s knife” to remove the “malignant growth” which had corrupted the body of Ireland: “The rapine and bloodshed of the past week must be finished with a severity which will make any repetition of them impossible for generations to come.” On May 10, it rejected calls for an end to the executions, defending [military governor] John Maxwell, and writing that the Rising leaders were “…able and educated men who appreciated thoroughly the nature of their enterprise and the consequences of defeat”.
So maybe what sets the agenda in the IT is simply whatever the government of the day wants it to be, plus or minus a bit.