Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I can turn to Mr. Godfrey in respect of that and that challenge he and his organisation faces, when we look at the recent writers' newsworthy report, to be positive about it, people still have an interest in news. Things change. I am old school so when I see a readership of 3% for newspapers and 33% for online it depresses me but that is the reality. The fundamentals of good journalism do not change whether you read it online or in a newspaper. What is depressing is when you drill down in some of the figures and you look at the 18 to 24-year-old bracket and 41% of that bracket saying they discover their news on social media. That is worrying as these platforms have deprioritised news. To go back to Dr. Culloty's point, how are we going to address that balance and address those statistics showing clearly the platforms' ability for the spread of disinformation?