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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: According to page 2 of the statement that Dr. Mercille has submitted to the committee today, Independent News and Media "is arguably the dominant media conglomerate in Ireland" and "just like other news organisations, its board has included numerous individuals linked with the corporate establishment". Dr. Mercille might expand on that idea by commenting on those people and the role they...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Having looked at the coverage and at the board, would Dr. Mercille's interpretation be that this can be matched? Is that what he is saying?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Dr. Mercille has spent time looking at coverage. He has cited the numbers of articles that were written by various people. Others of us have not done that. Is Dr. Mercille satisfied, having done that exercise, that there is a correlation between the profile of the boards of the main newspapers and the profile of their coverage of this issue?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Does Dr. Mercille think the journalists who did not write at all about what was going on - he suggested that they ignored it - contributed more to the crisis than those who denied the bubble? People in the latter group could be referred to as the deniers. Which group was more significant? Did they have an equal impact or a shared impact on what happened? The groups are quite different.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: In Dr. Mercille's experience and research, would he have spoken to people who offered evidence of journalists being subjected to strong or small interference from corporate types who were saying "that is not a great way to be going" or "actually, we do not want to use that story"? Did he experience any of that when he spoke to people?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank Dr. Mercille.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I ask Mr. Browne to forgive my voice as my throat is a bit dry. On page 2 of his statement, Mr. Browne talks about the print and broadcast media ignoring and marginalising scepticism about the property bubble and lending practices of financial institutions. Is he able to tell us a little bit more about that, because it is very specific and they are quite strong terms?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Just to be clear, is Mr. Browne saying in that period of time that we are discussing, that there was not enough of what he described as real journalism?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Indeed, Mr. Browne referred in his submission to, "Even if you worked in the niches where full-blown professionalism still held sway (the journalists who filled news pages and provided political coverage, for example)". Is Mr. Browne making a difference between the full-blown professionalism of those journalists and the sort of journalists who were writing on the property pages, or am I...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: When media organisations can point to examples where they published a so-called contrarian view, am I correct in understanding that this was not enough? If somebody came up with a contrarian view, would better journalism have pursued a more contrarian view or to see if the person was correct in what is put out there?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: As Mr. Browne was working as a journalist in that environment, what signal was sent out when two of the major newspapers bought property websites?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Browne mentioned "flak", or the insidious form of public relations, PR, influence. Will he draw that out? Many people listening and watching would not understand the relationship here, where the public relations person interacts between journalist and client. I have an understanding of it and I have experienced that flak. Perhaps it would be useful to explain that a little.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: In the witness's experience, was it the case that there were different levels of PR behaviour? For example, were some PR organisations or companies better at that kind of activity, were some less good and were some known for that activity? Is that not the case?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Browne told us the story in which he stated "maybe our employers, who shared the same gentleman's clubs with brokers, were happy with such an arrangement". Are such personal corporate connections relevant to people understanding the role of the media?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The editor might encounter it.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The people watching and listening may not be aware of that. Is the witness generalising or speaking from his own knowledge?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Is that effectively what happened?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The witness has been inside and outside as an academic and practitioner. How would he look back at that period and judge whether the media has served us well as members of the public in these matters?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I have two questions. The first relates to Mr. Browne's reference to some research, stating that a reputable transnational "scorecard" of journalism's coverage of the financial crisis found that in Ireland, most stories were episodic and short of analysis. Does he have anything further to add to that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: We talked a lot about property. Was there any influence by senior politicians exercised over newspapers, over journalists, during the time Mr. Browne has been working and observing?