Irish media and Shannon

The treatment of the current Shannon fiasco by the Irish media is typical. The usual commentators in the private papers do what their masters have told them to do: worship the so-called 'free market' (funny how there is no complaint in the Business sections when the US and European central banks interfere in the financial markets to rescue the banks that caused the current financial disaster by making loans they knew could not be repaid). But the best example of the stupidity and lies in the Irish media is the way they frame the story. The problem in Shannon is the utter failure of the Regional development policies of the Irish government. Aer Lingus dumping Shannon is a symptom of a problem not a root cause. But of course the media zoom in on the micro details of what a particular company is doing and completely ignore the big picture. Last Sunday RTÉ had a huge interview with an Aer Lingus executive: but no interviews with the Minister of Transport!!! That's the way RTÉ covers every disaster: focus on some petty detail. It's like trying to understand world war two by following one platoon in the German army. By definition the Irish government policy to develop the West is an attempt to correct a market failure. Market failures cannot be understood or corrected by looking at one tiny element of the overall market.
But of course it suits the free market ideologues in the Irish media to ask the wrong questions; that way there is no danger of upsetting the status quo.