Media fails to cover itself in glory

THERE can be only one reason why Terry Prone wrote a piece explaining what the media did during the presidential election, and that is she knows that the ‘fourth estate’ did not cover itself in glory.

It was far from neutral, and in the case of one paper that holds a significant chunk of overall circulation, it was downright biased, not in its effort to get across the reasons why a particular candidate should be favoured, but by focusing on thwarting one candidate, accusing him of every evil under the sun.

That paper, and its ownership, was aghast at the notion that a member of Sinn Féin would have the audacity to go before the people in a democratic process and seek high office, and was mortified at the prospect that the Irish people might elect such a candidate.