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Some day an enterprising tech journalist may write a history of spam, from it’s earliest days to the present. Though primarily identified with e-mail, spam is an imperialist substance, and has also colonised message boards, chat rooms, blogs and, more recently, Skype. In the public imagination though, the classic form remains the e-mail.
Reporting on legal cases is a specialist skill. It requires the journalist to be at least familiar with the procedures of how a case is heard and what the steps are along the way. Sometimes, a journalist will be sent out to report on a court case without sufficient experience or training to interpret what they see or hear for their readers.
I think the front page of the Sunday Tribune is of interest.
Copernicus of the Midnight Court recently described Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City as “stomach-churningly unsurprising". I concur with the stomach-churning descrition, but, perhaps due to naivety on my part, I managed to be surprised now and then by just how badly organised the American (or "coalition", if you will) occupation of Iraq turned out to be.
Though I didn’t mention it in my 2006 music of the year post (I hadn’t yet heard it), an album from last year that I currently can’t get enough of is Ry Cooder’s Chavez Ravine. A concept album of sorts, it tells the story of the eponymous neighbourhood, a thriving latino community in 1940’s and 1950’s Los Angeles.
The Minister for Justice is sometimes accused of not being able to control himself. Here, in the midst of a Seanad Debate, he veers off topic in order to unburden himself on the question of the press, in general, and Fintan O'Toole and Vincent Brown in particular. Special note: Spot Martin Mansergh trying to staunch the flow, and failing.
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I was on Ryan Tubridy's radio programme this morning, exuding the bonhomie of a man with 4 hours of sleep under his belt. The topic of discussion was VoteTube. If you missed it for some reason, you'll find it 30ish minutes in to this RealPlayer Stream.
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