In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, Rupert Murdock wannabe and Eircom head honcho Tony O’Reilly had this to say in the middle of whining about how blogs are dangerous for the newspaper business:
“It is a sunrise industry,” said O’Reilly. “Newspapers are tactile, hugely cheap, reliable, go with a cup of coffee. You can trust newspaper writers. Can you trust a blogger?” O’Reilly said that the newspaper industry would also challenge the rise of the internet as an advertising medium. A whole range of goods would not be congenial to be advertised “on a PC”, he said.
You can trust newspaper writers? In which parallel universe does he live? You couldn’t trust half of them as far as you can throw them. Look at the type of utterly biased shite you see in the likes of the Sun (Not one of Anto’s rags, admittedly. But then, there is the Sunday Independent). Most of the papers are pushing some kind of political agenda, most likely the one preferred by the people with the money behind them.