Media

"And sometimes the computer talks to this machine Hhere, the VT 90." Barry Cowan is recording a quick tour around the RTE Election Centre, a short piece to be used at the start of the election programme. By Fintan O'Toole

The last election campaign exposed some critical inadequacies on the part of the media, which led to an unnsatisfactory campaign and a confused decision on the part of the electorate. Arguably, the . media's performance contributed to the situation in which the Coalition Government unexpecteddly found themselves in a position whereby they were unable to impleement their election promises - the issue which ultimately led to the dissoolu tion of the Dail on January 27.  By Vincent Browne

A senior Irish politician invited Geraldine Kennnedy to his office for the traditional festive drink prior to Christmas. He quickly switched the conversation from politics to his declared longing for Ms. Kennedy, professing she alone, of the women he knew, had the intellect and the beauty which he found irresistible. He wanted to know when their affair would begin.  By J.J. O'Malloy

The advent of The Sunday Tribune promises a newspaper battle which can only be of benefit to the bored Sunday reader. Vincent Browne has more.

Article 40, section 1, sub-section one of the Constitution states:

The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality:

How Dublin's most celebrated editor brought his newspaper back from the dead twice: the politics, the rivalries and the drama of the Irish Times' survival.

The Sunday World published a libelous article on Patrick Cooney after the editor had been informed that the basis for the article was false.

THE SHARES AND control structures of The Irish Press Ltd. reveal the most brazen concentration of power in the hands of one individual known to the newspaper industry anywhere in the Western world. For although the de Valera family owns only a minority of the share holding in the company, the Articles of Association make it absoluutely impossible for any outside indiviidual or group of individuals to wrest any measure of control from it.

Muiris Mac Conghail and D. R. Lysaght remember David Thornley

Programmes

AT TEN O'CLOCK in the evening of Tuesday, June 6, RTE 2 will start its public life with an episode of an anodyne American series called The Streets of San Francisco. The hour of liberation for the single-channel areas is at hand. The denizens of Limerick and Galway should not be knitting garlands of roses for their liberators just yet though, because they'll only be getting an hour to an hour and a half's viewing a night from RTE 2 until November, when full evening broadcasting starts.