Colin Sheridan: Expertly operating the machinery of influence

When YouTube journalist Caolan Robertson returned to Ireland recently to cover the Aughinish Alumina controversy, he did so fully equipped with the tools of modern attention.

The story was presented as an urgent revelation. A moral contradiction. Evidence that something important was being ignored. 

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