Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 May 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach
9:00 am
Mr. Martin Fraser:
What I and my colleague who carried out this report wanted to find out was how did those pictures get in those newspapers. The quote is there, on page 11, on the editors:
All were adamant that decisions regarding the choice of photos and commentators were made locally by themselves and were not the subject of any outside influence.The editor of the National title [which I take to be the Sunday World] also confirmed that their choice of photos and commentators was entirely an editorial choice within the newspaper.
I have to believe them when they say that. It was a very bad effort if only three or four newspapers did the thing anyway if someone else was doing it. I just have to believe what they said.
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