Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

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Okay. There is the analysis he quotes but from Dr. Murphy's own engagement with undergraduates on campus and so forth, is that reflected from his engagement with young people? This is going to sound very outdated but when I was doing my journalism degree, you could walk into campus and buy The Irish Times for a discounted price of 50p. There was a genuine need to go to buy a newspaper to be updated. I ask about undergraduates today being worried about the type of news they are getting, and questioning it more so. There is the famous tagline of the Irish Independent: "Before you make up your mind, open it". Does Dr. Murphy get the sense from young students that they are actually questioning where their news sources are coming from?