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Wednesday December 29, 2004 14:15 by Michael Hennigan - Finfacts.com
In a world of 24/7 news, there is often a failure to provide both useful information and to focus on significant issues. We in Ireland needn't look beyond our own front yard. According to the UK’s Guardian newspaper, free music in the form of cds, has a much greater impact on circulation than editorial innovation. However, the free cd will eventually have a sell-by-date as the music industry struggles to respond to the tide of free music on the web. |
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Jump To Comment: 1How about some stories doing analysis of the following:
The productivity of health care workers in Irish hospitals vs other countries.
The average length of stay of patients in hospital for various ailments vs other other countries. Maybe supplement it with the number of 'bed holders' vs number of patients on trollies as some kind of index for each hospital.
The percentage of doctors who wash their hands between examing patients in Irish hospitals (35%?) vs other countries (prob 100% in the U.S). But no! Superbugs are caused by lack of funding not bad medical practice.
The number of people who die or are injured in underpowed and unsafe cars because the goverment makes a safe car too expensive to drive, all in the name of preventing 'global warming' but in reality just another way of raising money.
The cost in money and time for someone to setup a small business in Ireland vs other counties. You know the small businesses that will be the major employers of the future. (disclosure: I am in fact an employee not a business owner)
That maybe global warming cuased by increased carbon dioxide may not cause imminent climat change. That there will in fact be no perceptable change in the Irish climate in our life times. Just look at the possibility instead of going with the more sensational story that every storm or sunny period is now a major climate change story.
and all the other stories that don't fit in with a cosy neo-liberal view of the country everyone in the Irish media likes to take. Vincent Brown being the archtype. Can anyone be surprised that the 'seventies will be socialist' approach of the Village magazine did not set the country alight.