The Free State press and media
Illucid prose,jargon middle class language, headlines that are informed by bores and penny-a-liners, completely unscientific and backward and primitive ideaisation..... ....we say to these people,you are not telling anything but lies to the reading eyes on the surface... The truth of the matter is not dishonest journalists no matter how facile and misleading the prose.... The problem is that you are part of the group of apologists for a country whose people are well known for stupidity and ignorance and you are by virtue of a meagre education and impoverished training in places such as TCD and UCD the blind leading the blind. I say as an accomplished public intellectual the ruling class does not need your apolgia. Your country is in a state of quiet desperation,caught between the English behemoth and US encroachments on the very basis of your society.... My advice to Southern penmen and broadcasters is,"Put down your pen and switch of your microphone and computer. You are not suff...