Over the next week, Irish media coverage will ramp up in advance of Micheál Martin’s trip to Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day. There will be speculation about whether the Taoiseach can emerge unscathed from his second Oval Office encounter with Donald T... See more
Last Thursday, Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive of Netflix, the most powerful force in global entertainment, was walking into the White House for a meeting when his phone delivered some big news news. The Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) board had declared Par... See more
At any given point in the news cycle, a couple of dominant subjects appear unavoidable for a couple of weeks. Some of this is down to hard news, but much of it is pre-planned: a big movie release; a sporting event; a political landmark. This is the stuff ... See more
Saturday’s abrupt announcement that Will Lewis was stepping down as publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post acted as a bookend to a week in which the troubled newspaper itself became a major news story. In the United States, reaction to the l... See more
In 1984, a group of musicians and artists associated with the Slovenian post-punk group Laibach formed NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), a collective dedicated to dismantling totalitarian kitsch by over-identifying with it. NSK fused fascist and Yugoslav stat... See more
