Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Julien Mercille:

It does not work like that in real life. It is not that a director calls a journalist or editor and states he or she had better do it like that. Perhaps this happens sometimes, I do not know. It is an institutional analysis. If an institution's board of directors is filled with people with affiliations to the banking sector and other sectors one can really see it will influence their decisions in the same way as if it were filled with 12 Marxists.

You could probably say that a newspaper could be Marxist in orientation and nobody would ever even question that. Again, just to remain at that is not enough because it is an interpretation, but when you look at the coverage that matches those interests, then you can see they made the decisions on orientating the broad guidelines of the media content.

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