Tom Lyons On Newstalk
If the station’s staff are indeed ‘angry’, as has been suggested, Fintan O’Toole is probably not the focus of their dissatisfaction
Just as the controversy around George Hook and Newstalk had died away, the radio station’s parent Communicorp goes and reignites it all again. The damaging controversy appeared to be done and dusted, but somehow it has returned.
The Denis O’Brien-owned radio station group’s decision to ban all Irish Times journalists on foot of critical comments by columnist Fintan O’Toole is a worrying development in Irish media.
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