Hypocritical minister should focus on supporting lone parents today
Cyberspace, Failing Media, and the Hoax of the ‘Holocaust of Tuam’. Cannon, paid by the taxpayer as minister for the diaspora and international development, expressed his deep disappointment that “a seat of learning as respected as the University of Notre Dame would host such an event”. “The primary aim of every professional journalist should be to report truthfully on events and in this context Mr Waters should do a little more research and also reflect on the courageous testimony of so many of Tuam’s survivors,” he scolded.
He had a particular issue with the word “hoax”, it seems. Waters, by contrast, had a particular issue with the word “holocaust”. That might be because he is sticking with the facts as a “professional journalist”, not firing off media-friendly soundbites like a loose Cannon.
