How Rupert Murdoch plans to save the newspaper industryPRESENT TENSE : FOR THE PAST week, we have been treated to the ignominious sight of an elderly man, his power on the wane, taking on forces he can neither fully comprehend nor control, desperate to stave off defeat one last time.
Discord over opera policy and Cork artsARTSCAPE : THE CURTAILED season that Opera Ireland opens tonight will bring to an end anannus horribilis for opera in Ireland,writes Michael Dervan . The contraction of operatic output in Ireland has been extreme. Opera Ireland’s winter season will feature just one full production, of Verdi’sMacbeth , plus two concert performances of Wagner’sRheingold .
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- Time to rediscover the lost art of the television debate
PRESENT TENSE: FEW INTELLECTUALS inspire such devotion as Noam Chomsky. Watching the esteemed MIT linguistics professor deliver a wide-ranging talk at the RDS last Monday, it was easy to understand why.
What Irish culture is worth - the figuresARTSCAPE: RECENTLY, THERE HAS been some sniping about the lack of hard information on the impact of culture economically (as opposed to its innate worth). Some off-the-wall figures have been thrown about, claiming that it has a massive economic importance and employs huge numbers of people, writesDEIRDRE FALVEY
TV & Radio »
Well executed absurdityTV REVIEW :The Frontline RTÉ1, Monday;University Challenge BBC2, Monday;The Execution of Gary Glitter Channel 4, Monday;Cérbh É? TG4, Sunday;Tarraingt Tarracóirí TG4, Sunday; TheLate Late Show , RTÉ1, Friday
Regressive girl talk, comic sisterly rivalry and the birth of the braRADIO REVIEW : WE NEED TO talk aboutGirl Talk (RTÉ Choice, Saturdays), presented by Evelyn O’Rourke. It’s an all-woman coffee klatch along the lines of TV3’sMidday , but without structure or a proper moderator, though it does have one of the same guests as the TV3 version.
