Media

Last weekend the 'inaugural' meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative picked its way through the pieces from an acrimonious and inconclusive United Nations summit. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan took the time to address a jam-packed session of the conference and reviewed progress, or the lack of it, following the UN's consideration of proposals to reform that institution. That he did so is proof of the pulling power of former US President Bill Clinton.

MEDIA: Just as computers have revolutionised most other communication, they and the companies that drive them are about to enable free phone calls to anywhere in the world. Conor Brady reports

With low unemployment and Ireland's "Celtic Tiger," it took me only two months to find a permanent job in Dublin. What's more, the temp assignments that sustained me until then were far more pleasant than any I found in New York. That includes my five-month stint at ABC-Disney in Manhattan which, glamorous as it sounds, translated as 21 weeks and three days of insults and temper tantrums at the hands of two spoiled producers of children's programming. Magic kingdom indeed.

The purchase of the Leinster Leader Group and Local Press Ltd by Johnston Press has made it the largest owner of regional and local newspapers on the island of Ireland, with 40 titles.
By Emma Browne

The Irish version of the Daily Mail, which is to be launched next year, will be edited by British journalist Ted Verity and Irish journalist Paul Drury.

Pure Mule RTÉ 1, Tuesdays, 9.30pm
Victim 0001 RTÉ2, Sunday 8pm
United by 9/11 Sky One, Sunday 9pm
The Death of Celebrity Channel 4,
Sunday 9pm

Leo Enright was doing his science spot on Morning Ireland during last week's British Association's Festival of Science at Trinity College. On Friday morning his piece was on nanotechnology. "People think,'Oh nano, I understand that, it's amazing what you can squeeze onto a microchip nowadays.'" And then he yelled, building up our confidence, like. "That is NOT what we are talking about here!"

Last weekend's Sunday Business Post poll set the scene nicely for this week's Fine Gael parliamentary party ...

Some words and headlines  recently used in the media, were provocative, sensationalist and for effect.

The French are ditching traditional papers, such as Le Monde and Figaro, in favour of easy-to-read free-sheets. The Irish mainstream press will have to make sute the same doesn't happen here.