Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

By way of clarification, I take it Dr. Mercille is not implying that because The Irish Timesmight take a socially liberal point of view on an issue, its ownership is a better model and is not influenced. Is he making a correlation between the political viewpoints and then drawing the conclusion that, therefore, it does not have a negative influence on how it is edited?