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While this is great news for the Journal.ie and to a lesser extent the Irish Times, it is a pretty damning indictment of all the other Irish media outlets that a political party is producing more compelling / interesting / shareable / whatever media than they are.

This whole Internet thing ain’t new any more. Print is still dying, starkly illustrated today by the announcement of the shuttering of the UK Independent’s print editions.

What’s of greater concern is that journalism is supposed to provide a filtering and educational service for the reader. Examining and questioning the claims of those in positions of power, not accepting and publishing press releases. That certainly isn’t going to happen if people are getting their information direct from the Fine Gael press office.