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By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:48:28 +0000

Thanks lads.

@Longman I see your point, and I appreciate what Tubridy might have been trying to do. But he ended up just sounding silly to me. I realise I have a vested interest in this, but I still think Tubridy could have been more even handed in his approach.

@Gamma yes and no… he assumes all his listeners are afraid of the internet when most of them are on Facebook or Bebo at the very least.

@Bock agreed.

@Gerard Stewart is hilarious as ever… though Twitter is an exceptional thing for some applications, especially radio – IMHO

By: Stochastic Geometry

Stochastic Geometry — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:26:32 +0000

Blogging for Tubridy……

One of the first questions any non-blogger asks about blogging when talking about it with a blogger is usually “why do you do it?”.Ryan Tubridy’s show this morning (yes, I was a bit late out the door ) was somewhat different (as com…

By: Gerard Cunningham

Gerard Cunningham — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:49:47 +0000

This seems apt.

http://www.bivingsreport.com/2009/the-jon-stewart-show-explains-twitter/

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:44:35 +0000

Tubrity occupies the bubble world of entertainment. Like many many politicians, he vastly underestimates the common sense and cop-on of the people who inhabit this nation (outside of election time in a boom period!). Therefore you get what you hear.
Go back and listen to Tubrity in the first week he took over from The Marian Finucan show at 9AM. He has come on a long way since so give him credit where possible!

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:43:32 +0000

The most revealing moment came when Tubridy implied that people who didn’t study journalism at university are unqualified to hold an opinion.

I suspect this is a widespread conceit among the inhabitants of the Dublin media-bubble.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:27:10 +0000

I seem to recall Tubridy being very, very dismissive about bloggers about a year ago. I got the impression he was being criticised on blogs and didn’t like it, therefore bloggers were jumped up good-for-nothin’s.

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:45:05 +0000

It’s a basic of being a TV or radio host; be as ignorant [non-pejorative] as many of your listeners will be to a topic. You have to appeal to the mass public and the mass public really don’t know a lot about blogging (proven by some of the basic comments and questions from listeners that were read out). That said, there was a definite air of defiance in Tubridy’s stance on the subject matter. He appears like a man shy of internet media because of being burn’t once too often with direct nasty attacks on his public and private persona.

By: Longman Oz

Longman Oz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:51:03 +0000

I did not hear the show, but the same criticism is made elsewhere. However, to play devil’s advocate, was Tubridy not asking the questions that his less computer literate audience might find helpful to have asked?

In my experience, one of the real problems with specialists (especiallly technology based ones) is that they consistently fail to appreciate the level of understanding of their audience that they are speaking to. A good interviewer will have a much keener sense for who his audience is and therefore try to bridge the gap.

I know plenty of peers who would have no more than a loose grasp of social media beyond Facebook, Bebo, etc., never mind those for whom computers are an alien territory altogether. Accordingly, while their popularity is spreading, I would be far from proclaiming their ubiquity within the public consciousness just yet and especially within the sub-set who regularly dials into Radio 1 in the morning.