Henry McCarthy (from Ireland, but now living in England) lays out his case that Ireland is in the grips of "modern mullahs" who "eschew the bell, book, and candle and exorcise instead with the laptop. Through the media they have refashioned Ireland into a dreary place of conformity and self-censorship."
I'm not too sure that this phenomenon is only two years old (as Mr. McCarthy states), but I agree that it's amazing how much conformity there is here. I remember being surprised by the extent of media conformity in 1986, when I first came here as a student.
