Results 3,681-3,700 of 15,555 for speaker:Eoghan Murphy
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Are there ways we can protect both journalism as a profession and the public from negative commercial interests in the media?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank both witnesses for attending. I wish to ask Mr. Vaughan about the written opening statement he gave to the committee. He mentions that in specific cases editorial positions remained consistent, even when significant advertising clients objected to articles concerning them and threatened to withdraw their business. How would that have come about? Would an advertiser have made...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Vaughan mentions specific cases, and few and far between. In his recollection it would have been through a reporter saying they had written a story and an advertiser had complained to the reporter about the story.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: So that could come from either a reporter or the commercial manager?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I am not talking about whether a company might not be happy with the position, left or right of the page, or they did not get enough hits or sales, but where an advertiser has an actual problem with an editorial in the newspaper, and that view would have been conveyed to the witnesses on a couple of occasions at least.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: As an editor, was it ever conveyed to Mr. Vaughan by someone more senior in the newspaper?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Would the witness have thought it would have had a chilling effect?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Has the witness ever felt, in terms of his own practice, that it had any chilling effect on how he might proceed on a subject on any subsequent occasion?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When it comes to publishing the newspaper each day and deciding the page layout, does Mr. Vaughan decide the position of adverts?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I am just looking at an example from Sunday, 4 April 2004, supplied by the witness. There is a front page and the headline is "Mortgage holders at risk as debt soars". Directly below there is an advert for an interior design company offering a 15% discount.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: So it is an unfortunate coincidence.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The Irish Examinerbrand is respected and trusted. It cannot carry just any advertising but must be conscious of what any message a total page might convey to someone. Is that considered when the witness goes to print? Does he look at a headline and an advert and worry about giving a mixed message to the public?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: It is a bit because I am talking about the overall impression the newspaper might give. At the end of the day, it is still a newspaper. It is a vehicle for presenting news, not for selling things. I am interested to know that the editorial takes primary position if such a conflict arises.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: It would not be a question of moving a story to suit an advertisement. If someone had booked a space on the bottom right hand corner of the front page, a great position that costs a lot of money-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Was that because the advertising did not fit with the editorial?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman and both witnesses. I want confirmation of something that has arisen from earlier questioning. Was Mr. O'Regan ever contacted by a senior Government member or representative to complain about an article or series of articles that were carried in his newspaper?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Has he ever received a formal complaint from someone with significant business interests in the Irish economy?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: For an article or a series of articles?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: What about a complaint from a major shareholder in the newspaper?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: A view was expressed here yesterday that editors are hired or chosen because they have a similarity of viewpoint with the owner. In this case there is a shareholding but there are majority shareholders. Can Mr. O'Regan tell me a bit about how he was hired? Does he think he was hired because he shared a similar viewpoint with a majority shareholder?