Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. Harry Browne:

I was just a foot soldier in the world of journalism. I would not necessarily have been in on discussions with senior politicians. One would know that certain politicians had a good relationship with the political editor, the editor or whatever, but mostly I would consider that to be normal institutional relationships - exactly what one would expect from institutions that are important parts of the functioning of an information system in a society. Yes, senior politicians care what is in the newspaper; that is good.