Executive planning to cut the ties that bind the NI press to government revenue spend?
One of the most obvious absences in the PSA’s Northern Irish sessions is a serious consideration of the precarious position the mainstream media finds itself in viz a viz the proverbial speaking of truth to power (as opposed to confidence building). And, as the The Detail notes that position, for print media at least, is just about to get even more precarious. Mr Robinson and McGuinness provide their own take on the link between cuts and the journalism of the …