Irish Examiner view: Media is not a prop for the powerful

Independent and objective media coverage is a cornerstone of democracy

Six-year-old Tiernan Power-Murphy with his mother Avril at their home in Bunmahon, Co Waterford. His family was told he might have to wait 10 years for dental treatment. Picture: Dan Linehan

The description which all observers favoured about Donald Trump’s very early days in the Oval Office was borrowed from American football.

He was “flooding the zone” with a whirlwind of activity to overwhelm and distract his opponents: which of today’s orders or directives, some of them possibly illegal, should they focus on?