Media

Meejit has been looking at some recent media mistakes and apologies.

Jerusha McCormack reports from China on beer, weather and Beijing Zoo, where the crowd isn't watching the animals.

Gerry Adams has been holding a series of private meetings with ordinary unionists in recent weeks. Here he writes for the first time about these meetings; about their anger, their willingness to talk and listen and their sense of abandonment by London

Roy Keane is a traitor he wears a traitors ha' He coulda stay in Sai-pan bu' he din't fancy da'

By almost any objective criteria, school league tables are a bad idea. They are not comparing like with like, they can quickly give a school a bad name, and they do not reflect on the real miracles going on every day in schools around the country. All the same, I – like most other people – love them.

In the fall-out of inaccurate media reportage of the circumstances surrounding the death of Liam Lawlor, the issue of a change in the law so that there is a right to one's good name after death is being discussed again. Conor Brady reports

Princess Margaret, 'a shrill, hectoring, snobbish drunk,' was not the only monstrosity on TV this week, writes Dermot Bolger

AA friend remembers hearing Gerry Ryan interview Adi Roche during her failed presidential campaign in 1997, during which Roche was asked to recount her first kiss for the listeners of his radio show. Not a polished media performer, she launched into an unconvincing, clichéd tale about her first date which petered out embarrassingly towards the end.

The media may replace the church as the "oppressive and arrogant force" it says religion once was, warns Bishop Willie Walsh. Journalists must be more successful at maintaining the value of their stock in the minds of the public they are there to serve, says Conor Brady

The media seem reluctant to probe medical and pharmaceutical stories.