Ivan Yates found himself answering questions about his former role as co-presenter on the Path to Power podcast, as if he’d been caught running a Russian disinformation cell rather than gossiping about politics on the internet. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/ he Irish Times
While most coverage of last week’s appearance by Ivan Yates before the Oireachtas media committee focused on the former Fine Gael minister’s robust defence of how he interprets potential conflicts of interest, there was more than that to chew over.
Yates found himself answering questions about his former role as co-presenter on the Path to Power podcast, as if he’d been caught running a Russian disinformation cell rather than gossiping about politics on the internet. He also pushed back against suggestions that podcasts needed more regulation.
Earlier, committee chair Alan Kelly had argued there was an “imbalance” in current proposals to amend broadcasting legislati
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