Blurred Keys

A round-up of news, comment and other info from news sites blogs, and message boards etc…

‘Irish Times’ readership up 1,000 a day, JNRS shows
State of our union as Village magazine closes
Minister criticises media’s coverage of parole decisions
Big increase in newspaper recycling
Irish media now more Eurosceptic, warns EC report
Changing media landscape in Ireland between 2002-2008 and its implications for public opinion about the EU (PDF)
Celtic Media goes freesheet as local newspapers slump
Job cuts loom at regional paper
Star on the rise but ‘market in for tough time’ 
TV3 to invest €10m in Irish-made programmes 
Media world: Silly season’s order of merit 
Taoiseach to scrap his ‘Big Brother’ media monitoring unit
INM show of strength
Video Content On Irish Media Websites

A round-up of news, comment and other info from news sites blogs, and message boards etc…

Cardinal challenges the media’s ‘dominant’ secular view
Sunday World top of the pops as it avoids musical marketing
Ireland’s papers defy downward trends
JNLR July 07-June 08 Survey results issued (PDF)
ABC IofI report (PDF, link replaced when new report released)
Tom Dunne to Newstalk
Today FM to preserve Pet Sounds
Ray of sunshine
Muzu makes music pa
Media world: Too Late Late for Pat Kenny?
RTE promises ’spectacular’ first Late Late Show despite Kenny’s delay in signing up
Lung cancer under reported in Irish media - report
Sunday Times to launch monthly Irish edition of Style magazine
South Ossetian man angered by Irish media coverage
MediaBite Email Re: The €11m ‘gas bill’
Media ought to beware groups bearing surveys
Belfast Telegraph relaunched website sees huge traffic spike
Myers and Nigerians
RTE Television unveils new season
Sponsors fail to check in to Failte Towers
The Big Switch over
BCI National Conference Asks ‘Does the Medium Matter?’
O’Brien group told January DTT launch is a ‘fantasy’
Digital terrestrial TV available from autumn next year
Adverts rate alert for Channel 6
TV3 to buy Channel 6 for €10m
Is RTE Radio 1 being dumbed down?
Mandy and the Irish Media

An over due update to our post in early February - Independent News & Media are now trying to outsource Dublin sub-editing and layout jobs to RE&D.

Sub-editing staff at IN&M are apparently reluctance to move to the new company, according to the Sunday Business Post who quotes a source saying the people who move will be paid ‘‘above-market rates’’ (but less then IN&M pays them now).

The same newspaper says that RE&D was set up by two former IN&M employees and is based at Hanover Quay in the south Dublin Docklands.

NUJ members "expressed serious concern", and the Irish Times also quoted (paid sub reqd) NUJ Irish secretary "Séamus Mr Dooley" saying "We are looking for more specific information about what is on
offer and we will be looking for agreement in principle for NUJ
recognition in any new operation".

Meanwhile, Roy Greenslade is reporting how IN&M are pushing the same outsourcing at their New Zealand arm APN News & Media. And, with help from Adam Maguire, Greenslade is also talking about the Irish story.

UPDATE: Read more on this at pressgazette.co.uk

Maybe, like us, you missed some of these…

• Eire.fm (vie tcal.net) hosts the direct links to audio feeds of most licensed radio station in Ireland.
• Mediabite.org is apparently Ireland’s answer to medialens.org, more at mediaforum.ie
• For anybody with their head in the sand for the last week, RTE.ie was re-launched - adammamaguire.com has a review of it here.
• Cearta.ie has a look at the Sinnott v Carlow Nationalist privicy case (vie mediaforum.ie), the blog is written by Eoin O’Dell a Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin.
• The Irish Blog Awards have said the number of sites nominated
  is causing them problems "The sheer number of blogs that have been
  nominated is overwhelming and quite unexpected. What this means is that
  on average there have been 100 nominations per category. There is no
  way there can be a voting form with 2000 options".
• Maybe you even missed our list of Irish journalists who blog?

It was only June when Blurred Keys was redefined as an Irish media blog. Previously this blog was for publishing my mix ranting and photographs, it just happens a lot of my ranting were about the media.

Here’s Blurred Keys’ year (by date)…

1. LINK: ‘Google falls at first moral hurdle’
2. Irish Times lurching to the right, as usual
3. Dublin riot round up
4. Dublin riot: Security and reactions
5. Western People & the otter blunder
6. “Well, who gives a damn about the prophets of Tesco?”
7. Bebo phenomenon restricted to Ireland – Google Trends
8. Sindo’s Harris versus the Village (…and the Phoenix, just to get them all in)
9. Redefining to reflect content – this is now a ‘media blog’
10. 
    RTE makes and keeps "personalities"
11. Kushnir to sue over Lawlor crash reporting
12. Haughey: the web reactions round up
13. RTE testing mobile digital signal
14. UK media bloging mad? But what about Ireland?
15. More on print and the web
16. Irish Times should blog about moving!
17. Blogorrah.com - the start of empire building with “very few overheads”
18. Regional newspapers’ pension wind up plan unjustified, says Labour Court
19. Browne on crime journalism & Guerin
20. Privacy bill "a step too far", "a threat to press freedom", "not the solution"
21. When is it a war?
22. Irish Daily Mail down 28,000 in 3 months
23. Irish privacy bill not on the bloging radar
24. MCD threatens Indo and board.ie over Oxegen music festival campsite claims
25. PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable continue to dominate Irish games charts
26. MEMO: "Not guilt" removes “criminal act”
27. MCD on damage control?
28. Gamesindustry.biz editor points to confusing reporting of new console war
29. Late Late Show in Lego (YouTube video)
30. Gatsby launch sports blog for Ireland
31. ‘A little information is a dangerous thing’
32. ‘A little information is…’ yes, again
33. Why Today FM are winning
34. ‘Old’ media ignoring stories, why never!…
35. Daily Ireland stops printing, cites lack of government funding and advertising
36. ‘Independent’ censorship underreported? Phoenix obsessed with Village?
37. Latest Irish newspaper circulation figures
38. Ireland on Sunday now Irish Mail on Sunday
39. BREAKING NEWS: Media "personalities" grown outside RTE shocker, says boffen
40. Tubridy "never heard" of Drudge; but RTE would love 3.5 billion hits in 12 months
41. OSCE questions Irish defamation bill
42. Irish manager to media: leave family alone
43. Right to protect Irish Times sources has precedent; rest is subjective conjecture
44. NME to launch Irish edition
45. ‘Irishmailonsunday.com’ redirects to competitor’s website, tribune.ie
46. The Irish Times building move
47. Irish NME: 8 pages; accepting local input
48. Irish Mail on Sunday cyber-squatting
49. Cleraun Media Conference this weekend
50. 
    A self regulatory Irish Press Council?
51. Metro Ireland’s rubber ducks
52. Metro ‘Duckgate’ resolved; no more quacks
53. Dublin’s Thinkhouse PR accused of spam; Google censors search listings?
54. If not ditch, put names to papers’ leaders
55. Claire Byrne released!
56. Mulley.net not censored says Google
57. Ireland top for press freedom, but…
58. Ireland’s press freedom ranking questioned
59. Sky News Ireland to "refocus" coverage
60. Dublin’s Phantom FM back on air today
61. The Irish Times’ Ireland.com success?
62. 
    Colbert talks YouTube, on YouTube
63. Sky gains 14,000 Irish subscribers
64. Irish media talking media
65. More on Irish newspapers blogging
66. How newsrooms really work
67. Tits on the cover of The Irish Times!
68. MEDIA ANALYSES: Late Late Show “insufferable arseholes” incident
69. Lower award in Irish Mirror - O’Brien case rejected by Supreme Court
70. Woods ‘bent on killing off Dubliner’ - staff
71. Dublin media conf. to run monthly forums
72. Round up: News features on the Irish media
73. Irish Press Council, Ombudsman revealed as defamation bill debated in the Seanad
74. EXCLUSIVE: Village.ie to relaunch today
75. Irish regional newspapers pensions update

Some of Blurred Keys in 2005…

1. Censorship in Ireland: banned publications
2. Conspiracy – papers on the web for free!
3. Illegal downloaders, but best customers?
4. New Guardian on Monday
5. Some (black) people loot, some (while)…

Ireland’s answer to Gawker.com, BlogOrrah.com, is told by a reader “don’t try to be Private Eye or Phoenix lads” – since April they’re ran four stories in the vain of “Still Not Dead Yet”.

In Fact, Ah talks of the nature of the following reaction "There will be much heated debate but most people will eventually settle in the ‘love him’ or ‘hate him’ camp, for there are no half-way houses where Haughey is concerned". But one of their readings wasn’t so in touch
with reaction - “You cannot help feeling, however, that there are a lot of people
sharpening knives in readiness for a veritable bloodbath that will happen after
Haughey’s body has been laid to rest”. Most never waited.

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‘Attack on Westland Row’ was moved to the top, followed by Google News, and Flickr - the rest are random – or in the order from planetoftheblogs.com, irishblogs.ie, and Google News. The media and the bloging world are mixed in the links. NOTE: Links are to sites to the left and right, up and down, what even and other, of this sites views…

Attack on Westland Row
Google News
Flickr
Quality of reporting on the Dublin riots
The Dublin riots from a PR perspective
Laterally Thinking about Yesterday’s Riots
Rioting in Dublin
The Dublin Riots, remixed
Fail to prepare? Prepare to fail
Nassau St / Trinity College
DUP position themselves to isolate Sinn Fein
The Riots and the consequences
Riots in Dublin
A disgrace to their country
The Irish Street (images)
RTE and the Riot
Welcome to Your Capital
Then Came the Looting [a near attack on a bloger]
McDowell says Gardai ‘were unprepared for Dublin riot’
Dublin ‘Love Ulster’ Riots on Flickr Photo Sharing!
El Blogador Poll: The Dublin Riots
LOVE ULSTER
Dublin Scumbags Suck
Video of Dublin Riots
Fume Veil
Images and Report from anti-Orange riot in Dublin earlier this afternoon (IMC)
Musings on yesterdays ‘Love Ulster’ riots
Quality, consumption and citizen journalism
Blogs step up to be counted
Thirteen charged over Dublin riot
Clashes in Dublin over loyalist march
Metroblog - The Dublin Riots…
Just another Day in Dublin
Stupid, stupid garda
Dublin City Riots
Tribalist clouds swamp Republican vision
Two Scenarios
Who Shamed Dublin?
Riots in Dublin
Protestors riot in Dublin over ‘Love Ulster’ parade 
40 arrests as Dublin in flames
Garda say they had no intelligence on riots
Sick of hearing about Charlie Bird
The Dublin Riots: Name And Shame
Riot aftermath (images)
Plan for failure
Love Ulster Parade Met With Hate
I predict a riot
Brilliant link collection from Slugger O’Toole
Some snaps from the ground
The Craic We Had The Day We Died For Ireland
Riots in Dublin
Love Ulster top tag on Flickr
Rerun the "Love Ulster" march
Anti-riot tech: how to put ‘em down
The Riot in Dublin
The Sundays on The Riot
Anti-riot tech: how to put ‘em down
Recap on the Dublin riots
‘Republican’ Riots?
Boggersphere’s first blogstorm
No Love In Dublin
"Republican" Sinn Féin 0 - 1 Loyalists (o.g.)
Quote of the Day

Why…
Jaysus, lads. You can’t be doing that
The Dublin Riot
Three of those arrested aren’t Irish
Todays Dublin Riots
Blogging the riots…
Never Been In A Riot
Must Continue to Consume
Enda’s Speech
Of course we’ll allow you march down a rubble filled street
Love Dublin
Lawless
A picture tells a thousand words…
Filth: The ‘Republican’ Attacks On An Garda Síochána Na hÉireann
Nationalists condemn Dublin rioters…
Mayhem in Dublin
Scumbag Central
Fuck.
I predict a riot… [Well, anyone with half a brain..]
Dublin Riots
My Eye Witness Report from Dublin!
Dublin Riots
They left their barstools to free Ireland!
No Love In Dublin
On the riots
Love Ulster march - now eff off back to Ulster
Marches and Protests
Rioting on O’Connell Street