Media accused of misleading people on child rights

I AM very concerned that the Irish media generally appears to be misleading people in relation to the so-called children’s rights constitutional referendum which groups of a certain ideology have been seeking.

In some cases, it is clear that a particular newspaper or TV programme has an ideological agenda which conforms to that of the radical children’s rights lobby. In other cases, which are perhaps even more worrying, it seems those in the media are themselves misinformed or misled by the false assertions of the children’s rights lobby and so simply allow them freely to put forward their position without any questioning of the veracity or reasonableness of what they are saying, while failing to refute false assertions.

Journalism in Ireland has been in a deplorable state for a very long time, but this is an issue that is of very great importance to our society and the incompetence, negligence and, in some cases, ill intent of journalists may influence people to vote for an alteration of our constitution which would do no good and greatly damage the family, marriage and the rights and needs of children and parents.