Print was democratising in enabling mass communication, but the transition from TV to the internet has made the public vulnerable to manipulation, says J Bradford DeLong

In 1776, Thomas Paine who was one of the founding fathers of the United States stated: “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace.”

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who died aged 62.

RICHARD DOWLING (Irish Examiner, February 13) makes a common and fundamental error in equating the Irish republican movement solely with Sinn Féin.