Requiring Army Deployment? Was her Editor Drunk too?

national | summit mobilisations | feature

Tuesday February 10, 2004 19:18

by IMC Ireland Editorial

Sozzled Scribe Scribbles Scurrilous Screed!!!!!!

wombles

Discussions about the role of corporate media usually end up being esoteric analyses of the subtle misdirection and bias exposed by Chomsky and Hermann. Sometimes though the corporate media just lets it all hang out and tells such huge porkies that it's hard to believe. Perhaps the most "skilled" example of the art of complete and utter lies that has sullied our eyes is the work of "journalist" Deirdre Tynan and her editors and publishers at Ireland on Sunday.

Presenting herself in the article as an intrepid undercover journalist, and in the pub as an angst-ridden victim of greed, the sodden scribe managed to scribble together a "story" which would be laughable were it not published in a periodical which claims to report fact. This blatant lying is part of a larger trend of vilification of anarchists and other activists by the corporate media in the run-up to the EU Summit in Dublin.

Detailed rebuttals of the patent falsehoods told by this Grub Street hack have been contributed by our reader-writers including a very detailed account by the Workers Solidarity Movement, and a personal report by one of the interviewees (whose gentle suggestion of ethical standards was dismissed as being "from the sixties").

But we shouldn't be so surprised because Ireland on Sunday belongs to the same group of newspapers that published scandalous stories about the badly beaten and tortured media activists at the Genoa Social Forum in 2001.

It has been suggested that Deirdre Tynan and Priscilla Lynch may have an incomplete control over the work published under their name and that the editor-in-chief (Martin Clarke) is associated with a high turnover in staff who find the workplace ethically distateful. However, their names are on the piece and they bear responsibility for it.

Links:
W.O.M.B.L.E.S.
Mayday invitation
Urban75 discussion
From the original newswire article (byline Luther McBlisset)

Ireland on Sunday: Commentary on Front Page and Feature by Deirdre Tynan.

The Wombles - for those who have ever met them are a good humoured disorganised bunch who must be the most villified bunch of protesters in UK. There are about 12 of them. They wanted to bring Ya Basta Style tactics to the UK after Prague but never managed to get any kind of critical mass going. They identify with Zapatistas and a search of Urban75.com [or other websites would quickly reveal this].

Now just because they may travel to Dublin for mayday they are being made to sound like an invading army.

Because of this and a load of unsubstantiated bullshit the paper says 11,000 + of the army are on standby for the celebrations on mayday.

This article will be fun to deconstruct. more analysis and the juicy bits typed in to follow.