Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Who decides what's news?

Today in Dublin on four occasions people asked me for money.

It would seem there are more and more people begging in the Irish capital.

Not a word these days about the bond holders hovering as vultures over the skies of the still free PIGS.

Why is that? Who determines these things? Who decides what will be news?

Though Interesting to see how a call from Guido Westerwelle could make Hungary think again about its planned law on curtailing freedom of the press. Something positive about EU but would they have listened to Micheál Martin?

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