The gap between life in Ireland and its portrayal in dominant print and broadcast media is not a discreet one: the presidential election and the neutrality discourse are only some of most recent examples of this disconnect.
The task the media picks up, further widening the gap, is not to interpret the world, but to manufacture consent for its change. In this discussion, hosted by The Ditch, Eman Mohammad and Harry Browne join Eoghan McNeill to map out the Irish media space, points of resistance and conformity in the discourse that actively hides class and imperialist underpinnings of domestic and foreign affairs.
