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		<title>New media vs old media&#8230; a phoney war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of Monday at the &#8216;Media Diversity; Why does it matter?&#8217; conference in Dublin. In general, the quality of contributions was pretty high: most impressive for me was John Lloyd&#8217;s perspective on the challenges facing media in the context of the UK hacking scandal and its changed role in the era of the internet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2012/02/09/new-media-vs-old-media-a-phony-war/</link>
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		<title>What are the implications of a new broadcast charge?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a version of the an article I wrote for the January 21st edition of The Irish Times, with the headline &#8216;Broadcast charge plan will have huge implications&#8217;.You can see the original here.
ON THURSDAY morning, Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte appeared on Morning Ireland to answer questions on the mooted replacement of the television [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2012/02/09/what-are-the-implications-of-a-new-broadcast-charge/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on 50 years of Irish TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a republished version of an article I wrote for the newspaper on January 7th, 2012, on the subject of RTE TV&#8217;s 50th anniversary, titled &#8216;A window on the nation or a mirror of our society?&#8217; You can read the original here.
IN THE history of Irish politics, only one electoral result can be unequivocally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2012/02/09/thoughts-on-50-years-of-irish-tv/</link>
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		<title>The irishtimes.com archive and Kate Fitzgerald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalism is a messy, imperfect trade. In the course of producing a daily newspaper or operating a news website, hundreds of decisions and judgment calls must be made every week. We try very hard to maintain the highest professional standards, to make the right call, to spot the potential pitfalls and to be fair to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/12/20/the-irishtimes-com-archive-and-kate-fitzgerald/</link>
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		<title>Do journalists understand what&#8217;s happening to newspapers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been an admirer of Declan Lynch, whose mordant observations on life, death, sport, telly, drink and the whole damn thing are an excellent excuse to keep buying the Sunday Independent.
However, his column yesterday depressed me, because it revealed again how even the smartest, wittiest, no-bullshit journalists are failing to get to grips with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/09/19/do-journalists-understand-whats-happening-to-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>You say Gaddafi, we say Gadafy, let&#8217;s call the whole thing off&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With bloody violence continuing in Libya today, it may seem trite to discuss the correct spelling of the name of that country&#8217;s dictator. But online readers of The Irish Times have become highly exercised by what they see as our &#8216;incorrect&#8217; spelling of Muammar Gadafy&#8217;s name.
&#8216;Gadafy appears on Libyan TV in show of control&#8217; read the headline of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/02/22/you-say-gaddafi-we-say-gadafy-lets-call-the-whole-thing-off/</link>
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		<title>Getting audiovisual content into irishtimes.com&#8217;s election coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that we&#8217;re using the election campaign as a testing ground for some new developments on irishtimes.com. As many of our users have pointed out, the site has been behind the curve when it comes to producing audiovisual content, along with exploring the full potential of social media tools such as Twitter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/02/15/getting-audiovisual-content-into-irishtimes-coms-election-coverage/</link>
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		<title>Who would play our political leaders in #GE11 &#8211; The Movie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all big Meryl Streep fans here in Tara St, so great excitement greeted today&#8217;s release of the first official portrait of Meryl as Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming adventure rom-com (it says here) The Iron Lady.

An uncanny likeness, we&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll agree. but it caused us to wonder: who might be the best casting choices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/02/08/who-would-play-our-political-leaders-in-ge11-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Song for Enda: &#8216;A chair is still a chair, even when there&#8217;s no-one sittin&#8217; there&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any excuse will do for a bit of Burt and Dusty around these parts, but the lyrics of &#8216;A House Is Not a Home&#8217; do seem particularly apposite to the TV3 debate. Maybe Vincent could give us a few bars&#8230; &#8216;A room is still a room, even when there&#8217;s nothing there but gloom.&#8217;
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		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/02/07/song-for-enda-a-chair-is-still-a-chair-even-when-theres-no-one-sittin-there/</link>
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		<title>New Candidatewatch platform launches today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It remains to be seen how much  &#8217;social&#8217; or &#8216;online&#8217; or &#8216;new media&#8217; or &#8216;digital channels&#8217; or whatever you&#8217;re having yourself will actually influence the outcome of General Election 2011. But there&#8217;s no doubt that the parties and individual candidates are paying a lot more attention to the tools offered by social media platforms such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/mechanicalturk/2011/02/04/new-candidatewatch-platform-launches-today/</link>
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