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This morning

This evening.

When it’s ‘welfare control measures’, silly.

Fiaro Myles writes:

And all it took was pointing out that, er, welfare fraud prevention did not in fact lead to €645m in savings last year.

Best guess it was more like €26m (see here, here, here and ah sher, since it was the source for the original article, here). Fair play to the IT  for correcting it, but I wonder why they got it wrong in the first place?

 

Earlier: Celebrating The New Informer Culture

A petition, uploaded in the last 24 hours, seeking justice for Kate Fitzgerald and, so far, signed by 127 people (many of them Irish Times’ readers) calling on ‘the paper of record’ to offer:

i) An appropriate clarification or apology [for the redaction of Kate’s article]

ii) A concrete commitment to help promote awareness and understanding of mental health issues, particularly in the workplace environment

Sign here

Previously

Conor Brady, former editor of The Irish Times, takes his turn wielding the sword of justice on behalf of Old Media.

Politicians like Quinn and Rabbitte are long enough on the road to recognise what is happening. They know that whatever flaws there may be in traditional news media, they discharge an essential function – and it is not yet clear that the new media can or will adequately replicate it.

 

To which Ewok likes to say, from underneath his hoodie: “They could hardly do any worse, bro.”

Future Must Be Secured For Serious News Media (Conor Brady, Irish Times)

Previously: New Technology Baffles Peeved Old Liberal

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKSAd3IPCA

Substitute teacher Economics editor Dan O’Brien heralds a new series on the “squeezed middle” starting in tomorrow’s paper.

Having urged you to purchase during the boom the paper of record now feels your pain.

“If you have purchased anything in the last 10 years you’re likely to be in negative equity.”

 

Cheers, Dan.