Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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I apologise for not being able to attend the meeting room. I am just upstairs. I have some germs I did not want to share with everybody in the room. I am finding today's discussion absolutely fascinating.

My first question is for Dr. Godfrey. During the discussion earlier on the comparison between traditional media versus online media, he described how the influence of a media stream, for example, is perhaps not as prominent as that of opinion columns. Does he have data behind that statement? Is there a reason he considers it a valid claim? Depending on the audience, I would have thought people's feeds or streams are, in fact, much more influential. Will he elaborate on that particular point?