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OPINION:JUST BEFORE 8am on Monday last on RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Irelandthere was a promo for an item on “propaganda radio”, to be featured on the Ryan Tubridyprogramme. I didn’t hear that later programme but I am fairly certain the item was not a critique of RTÉ. But it could well have been, for RTÉ, like the rest of the media, is mostly caught in the role of a propagandist for an ideology that regards the prevailing market economy, with its massive inequalities of income, power and status, as immutable, writes VINCENT BROWNE

Far from the media holding the power nexus accountable, it is part of the power nexus itself and, by God, the media is playing its part magnificently in the debate on how to resolve our economic crisis.