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THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Sales Office in Dublin is to close today following a decline in demand for hard copies of official publications.
The office on Molesworth Street has seen a major drop off in sales in recent years with Office of Public Works Minister Brian Hayes noting that the “nature of publishing has changed dramatically in recent years” when he announced the closure earlier in the month.
Sales revenue fell by over 50 per cent since 2008 with many sales of publications now coming through the OPW call centre and mail order services. The closure will save some €300,000 annually.
In years gone by everything from Dáil and Seanad debates to tribunal and special reports were available from the shop.
But its closure today will now deny photographers the chance to snap people queuing outside the office on the day that a major report is published such as when the Flood Tribunal issued its report in 2002:
All pics: Photocall Ireland
Have you any memories of the government bookshop? Did you ever queue for the latest tribunal report or have you ever come across some odd publications in there?
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Wilders really has captured that whole ‘evil Bond villain’ thing with his appearance . . . He’ll be stroking a pussy next.
@Blind Faith: As long as he doesn’t grab one he will be ok:)
Even if he does grab one he’ll be okay, apparently.
He looks more like Harry Enfield
Not sure bout that but looks like he waxes his eyebrows
Far right or just right…. why does everything opposite the left have to be extreme or far. Is it not the left having riots and censoring free speech?
Interestingly there is a marked increase in the amount and popularity of fake news directed toward liberal audiences.
Blatantly fabricated stories, articles featuring deceitful and hyperbolic headlines, viral memes that have a very tenuous connection to the truth and poorly sourced articles that use inaccurate visuals to draw readers. (COUGH)
e.g.
The story about Melania Trump selling jewellery on the White House website and a story about a boy handcuffed at an airport due to Trump’s immigration ban which went viral. The actual photograph was from 2015 and involved a story from in Kentucky involving sheriff’s deputies handcuffing young students with learning disabilities:
The end result :
more polarization, more segregation and stronger echo chambers.
Fasten your seatbelts.
Interesting to you maybe,not to anybody else!
@OpenBorders:
You probably believed the stories.
You have no evidence to support that,but I know for a fact that you believe in fairytales about sky wizards!
@OpenBorders:
Allah be with you.
May the power of Christ compel thee!
God speed you out of your sepulchre.
OpenBorders, how do you know what everyone else is or isn’t interested in?
@Alex Falcone: an increase perhaps but still a long way to go before even getting within a smidgeon of the nonsense from the Conservative or whatever the right of centre side likes to be called. Sensationalism is taking over all sides and the truth is the first victim.
@Aaron Griffin:
Aaron.
Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/ is the most important rumour debunking site currently. Brooke Binkowski, the managing editor recently remarked that there is a huge surge in Fake News coming from the left.
‘The Rise of Progressive ‘Fake News’
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/viva-la-resistance-content/515532/
Seems the left have decided to fight fire with fire.
Alex, isn’t that the site you always mock when Francis uses it to prove you wrong? Also, let’s not forget the biggest and most heinous fake news story so far, pizzagate.
@Dave O Keeffe:
Francis?
Yesh Pizzagate was an absurd concoction without a doubt. I certainly did not believe it.
@Alex Falcone: Funny that all the fake news comes from the right and is aimed at the right, pizzagate, spiritcooking, Trump is qualified, etc. The tin foil hats are all right wing conspiracy nut jobs and are easily manipulated by fear and misinformation as many of them, due to their low level of education, don’t know how to research facts..
@Philip Gerard:
The same rural voters who voted for Obama last time. No one questioned their academic status then. They only made up only 17 percent of the electorate and generally vote Republican anyway.
‘Low level of education?’
Another false narrative. White men went 63 percent for Trump versus 31 percent for Clinton, and white women went 53-43 percent. Among college-educated whites, only 39 percent of men and 51 percent of women voted for Clinton.
In exit polls of 23 states from the primaries, all showed a higher median income for Trump supporters than the national average, around $70,000.
A Gallup study from August 2016 debunked the myth that uneducated voters voted for Trump and proved that on average,they do not have lower incomes than other Americans, nor are they more likely to be unemployed.
44 percent of Trump supporters have college degrees, according to exit polls.
Republican voters are generally wealthier than Democrat voters.
But you keep believing that false narrative if it makes you somehow feel superior. But don’t be surprised when reality bursts that bubble and lays bare the shallow smug persona lurking behind it.
@Alex Falcone: Nothing you said countered what I said – fake news comes from the right wing and is aimed at uneducated whites. GOP voters are more likely to believe in sky fairies and that climate change is a hoax. Fact is, the poorest and lowest educated states in the US are all red. GOP states get far more federal handouts than Democratic states. The wealthiest and those with the highest levels of education are all blue, Alaska being an anomaly due to it’s tiny population and it’s vast oil fields. You can’t counter that regardless of what your dopey polls say.
What was that Alex ? Can’t hear a thing with the noise of the goose-stepping.
The marked increase you talk about is quantified how and by whom? The greatest volume of real “fake news” (if you understand) still emanates from self-defined alt-right sources.
Alex, I’m afraid your statistics on “educated” voters are not as clear as they should be. Why are you using Clinton’s numbers to prove a point about Trump? Are the percentages you’ve given for college educated whites out of the total number eligible to vote or of those that voted? Why have you completely ignored black voters in your answer? (insert republican black vote suppression joke here) and finally how did a Gallup study from August tell who voted for Trump in November? Also, by study did you mean poll?
As for the rest of my questions?
The reason so many “Far-Right” are rising right now is because they actually “listen” to their own people. They listen to their hopes, fears, concerns and stand up for them and are not afraid to speak their minds for “fear of offending” or “not being politically correct”.
If Liberals and and Leftists are genuinely baffled as to why they’re losing and the Conservatives and Right-wing groups are in the rapid increase, then simply “look in the mirror”.
@OpenBorders: Right now, he actually has the same popularity as Obama did when he left office.
Ironically people are offended by him because he’s doing “exactly” what he said he would do.
Also a higher percentage of young teenagers identify as republican and many Liberals are leaving the left in favour of Libertarian parties.
Here’s an interesting video on the subject by “Dave Rubin”, a former member of “The Young Turks”. Entitled “Why I Left the Left”. https://youtu.be/hiVQ8vrGA_8
So they listened to the people and decided that they’d make up fake allegations about their opponents? When exactly did the people ask for that?
We’re not far away from Law that outlaws ‘unverifiable’ facts and the sooner the better. You can’t just make up a fact, the consequences are too serious for the human race. Take a chance and be prepared to prove it in the new court of truth in matters of public interest that needs to be set up in every country or else face prison.
@The_Techno_Mage: uhm no. Just like all politicians they use and abuse the fears, hopes and struggles of the people.
It would have to be quick. Some of these stories end with a guy going to a crowded place with three guns to investigate
Fake news? Unverifiable facts? It was a bad Photoshop picture of a political opponent, something only verifiable idiots would believe. Wilders team didn’t the night tweeting opinion polls with the nationalists increasing the vote as the right wings websites started making this a news item. Apart from Rotterdam, the Netherlands will still vote with the main parties for a coalition. The biggest problem for wilders is that the PVC are becoming isolationists and will not be part of the winning coalition, despite any increase in seats (see SF).
Gulliver, so if I photoshop security footage to make it look like you robbed someone it’ll be the Gardaí that are to blame for you either ndong up with a ridiculously harsh suspended sentence?
*Ending
I expect there are those who will believe him and that the exposure of the editing is in it self a ploy by those against him to discredit him.Which is inclined to make one think if the news we see and hear is subject to the same process by those in a position to ‘get away with it’,so to speak.CNN,ABC,FOX….all have their agendas,all have at one point or another deliberately misled viewers by the way they presented news stories.RTE has done it and so to have so many of the tabloids.Is there any real news source anymore? Reuters was once the place to go for the truth,now that time has sadly passed.News is not news anymore so it would seem.
NPR isn’t bad. All American news though.
@Alan Ball: Joe rogan is a good podcast, Stefan molyneax too sometimes. Your right though, what can you trust for ‘news’ nowadays.
I think you need to stand up your claim with some specific examples. There is no ploy to discredit Wilders – if he photo shopped a political opponent into a picture to portray him as something he is not then it is Wilders who is discredited.
Baireid, I’m a massive fan of Joe Rogan but I’d hardly call it news.
Are you seriously comparing RTÉ to this crap? This is disgusting and makes me feel he is power mad and will do anything to get it and he doesn’t have enough wit or argument to get people to vote for him in meaningful way other than to try to frighten them. Sad.
The far right don’t do truth. The far right does the opposite of truth.
The public are thankfully waking up to the alt right populists. They have no answers, just the same tactic of spreading hate and fear towards the alternatives. You see it from the commenters here, completely unwilling to praise Trump/Farage/Le Pen/Wilders/Milo, always focusing on the message of being critical towards the media which portray them, spreading hatred towards liberals and Muslims and challenging the notions of reliability and stability of establishment candidates with very shaky assertions based on their alternative facts.
@Rochelle: First rule of fascism – discredit the press.
@Rochelle: You might find Islam is doing a damn good job of alienating people, driving trucks into crowds of innocent men women and children going about their daily business is just the latest of a long line of different ways to kill innocents by Muslims.
So why wouldn’t people be fearful of allowing hordes more people of this crude faith to invade your country almost completely unvetted, if one out of every hudred is radicalised that is one too many, and its no coincidence that its only Islam that people fear as all other faiths don’t carry out wholesale slaughter of innocents from the adopted country that was good enough to give them the opportunity for a better life!.
@William Boyd: “Islam is doing a damn good job of alienating people, driving trucks into crowds of innocent men women and children going about their daily business is just the latest of a long line of different ways to kill innocents by Muslims.” I suppose the 26000 or so bombs the Americans dropped last year all killed bona-fide ‘terrorists’?
Anyway, your narrative above demonstrates that this fearfulness you mention can only thrive in an atmosphere where rational thought and a bit of perspective are absent, and finally where reality gets so blurred that people will actually make the following claims: “… allowing hordes more people of this crude faith to invade your country almost completely unvetted, … all other faiths don’t carry out wholesale slaughter of innocents from the adopted country …” None of which is actually happening you fool . . .
I see a fake news picture in Ireland too .. it shows the picture of an Irish politician with an honest bone in his body .. has to be photoshopped too
He’s looks the spit of Harry Enfield.
It is no surprise that the far right and the extreme right use manipulative and dishonest techniques. It’s how they function.
Harry Enfield should stick to the comedy
When did Harry Enfield do comedy?
Orange skin, wavey hair transplant and a suit. All parts of the uniform for a populist/fascist politician these days.
Mainstream media has long given way to fake news.
Fake news is not news you don’t like
Mainstream Media were using a clever form of fake news for a long time. They simply filtered their stories to produce a bias. It worked for a while until the public copped on to it. Now fake news is more direct, the public do their own filtering. I use MSM to get the events news (a storm or a wedding or the first salmon caught) I reject the opinions by journalists and anti Trump . Farage whinging. I only buy a paper where there is an article I want to read.
I bought this weeks Meath Chronicle to read where Regina Doherty TD accused North East Pylon Pressure Group of politicization because they endorsed Fianna Fail
It’s not fake news Islam intends to install sharia law in holland
He looks like christopher walken in a view to a kill
He looks like an old Harry Enfield character
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