KOS: @Irishtimes is no longer the paper of record. We’re not standing on a pedestal, the audience relationship is more sophisticated #MFC12
— David Cochrane (@davidcochrane) May 15, 2012
Pedestal.
No.
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@broadsheet.ie harassing Irish times offices now, very loud and annoying twitter.com/DonalORathaill…
— Donal O’Rathaille (@DonalORathaille) April 11, 2012
What on earth is going on?
On Friday, reader ‘Simon’ sent us news, which we posted, of a new pair of Nike runners called Black & Tan (above). The Irish Times picked up the story and an Old media/New Media viral thing happened (culminating in this madness). There was no credit for ‘Simon’ or us.
Which happened to be entirely cool as this is the interwebs.
We mention this as we have just got an email from the ‘editor’s office’ of the Irish Times asking us to remove an Irish Times photo (of the journalist Alison O’Riordan in front of a half-empty Tiger-era Dublin apartment block) we used a a number of times without permission in 2010.
But the chap also asked us (quite sternly) to remove about a dozen of the amusing variations of the photo, known to you and us as ‘memes’.
Memes such as these. And this. Much like the ones the Irish Times was heralding as satirical gold a few short months ago.
Swoosh.
Just do IT.
Etc.
Thanks James Stratford
You gotta love the Freedom of Information Act. 1. It’s not free. 2. They don’t give you much information. Exhibit A: twitter.com/SiCarswell/sta…
— Simon Carswell (@SiCarswell) March 7, 2012
Thanks Conor Farnan
No change for Ireland against France #FRAIRL RK TB KE GD AT JS CM; CH RB MR DOC POC SF SOB JH; SC TC DR POM ER ROG FMCF
— Irish Rugby (@irfurugby) February 29, 2012
About time too.
Better typo (fixed now).
By Mark Tighe in today’s Sunday Times (behind paywall):
RTE’s most-used “external correspondents”:
Harry McGee (Irish Times) €25,165
Michael O’Regan (Irish Times) €15,785
Fionnan Sheahan (Irish Independent) €13,800
Pat Leahy (Sunday Business Post) €10,260
Marie-Louise O’Donnell (FG senator) €9,784
Shane Coleman (formerly Sunday Tribune) €8,560
Noel Whelan (Irish Times) €6,240
Terry Prone (The Communications Clinic) €5,210
Michael Clifford (Sunday Times) €4,765
Justine McCarthy (Sunday Times) €2,860
Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times) €2,740
Pól Ó Conghaile (freelance travel writer) €2,705
Brendan Keenan (Irish Independent) €2,675
Paul O’Brien (Irish Examiner) €2,645
Stephen Collins (Irish Times) €2,533
Mary Minihan (Irish Times) €2,515
Catherine Halloran (The Irish Star) €1,945
Figures are the amount paid to pundits by RTE from 2009-2011. the “average contributor fee” was €25-€150. Terry Prone and Marie-Louise O’Donnell are the only non-journalists on the list.
And €54,978 (45.7%) of the €120,187 total went to six Irish Times journalists.
Cosy.
“The payments aren’t the biggest issue, it’s the frequency with which some organisations and journalists are used. Does regional spread, gender balance and a variety of views come into it when selecting these journalists? Or are we getting a concentration of views around the value system of one or two particular media outlets? I’m very interested in the criteria of selection.”
Eamon Ó Cuív, Fianna Fail’s communications spokesman