Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Julien Mercille:

If one does not want a viewpoint to be brought to the table, one way is not to talk about it. So there was not too much reporting about that. There was some. Again,The Economistis another good example of my point that it is not about left, right, progressive, or conservative. The Economist is a conservative magazine, but it was serious. It did its job and it provided good information. Every few months there was a follow-up on the bubble, not only in Ireland but elsewhere. That is serious business reporting.