Comments on: Six random things about The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/ Just another irishtimes.com weblog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:59:02 +0000 By: Shane http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6717 Shane Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:12:21 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6717 Brock, You know what it's like in the Daily Planet? Well... Brock, You know what it’s like in the Daily Planet? Well…

]]> By: Brock Landers http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6713 Brock Landers Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:32:53 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6713 Shane, are the daily editorial meetings a forum for robust debate or are they merely a self congratulatory schmooze fest? I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the whole Kevin Myers/ B*stards debate blew up. Shane, are the daily editorial meetings a forum for robust debate or are they merely a self congratulatory schmooze fest?

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the whole Kevin Myers/ B*stards debate blew up.

]]> By: Sean http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6710 Sean Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:11:44 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6710 Hannah, that's what the John Waters column is all about... Hannah, that’s what the John Waters column is all about…

]]> By: Shane http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6705 Shane Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:13:07 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6705 Hannah - I could tell you about the initiation rights we all have to go through, but that would break the secret NUJ/Masons code. Ivor - Delightful. Cheers. Hannah - I could tell you about the initiation rights we all have to go through, but that would break the secret NUJ/Masons code.

Ivor - Delightful. Cheers.

]]> By: Ivor http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6703 Ivor Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:05:26 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6703 I was being shown around a newsroom once by a newspaperman and was finally shown the small section at the end of the room partitioned by a glass wall. He said that’s where the put together the evening sister paper - “We call it Big Brother – it’s full of young people with big ideas fighting and screaming and at the end of every week one c*** leaves”. I was being shown around a newsroom once by a newspaperman and was finally shown the small section at the end of the room partitioned by a glass wall. He said that’s where the put together the evening sister paper - “We call it Big Brother – it’s full of young people with big ideas fighting and screaming and at the end of every week one c*** leaves”.

]]> By: Hannah http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6701 Hannah Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:11:04 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/04/28/six-random-things-about-the-irish-times/#comment-6701 Boring. Tell us instead about all the bitching, backstabbing and jockeying that goes on ;-) Boring. Tell us instead about all the bitching, backstabbing and jockeying that goes on ;-)

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