Ainle Ó Cairealláin

That was the initial thing.

Now, when I look back over the last few years, especially considering what has been happening in Palestine and the impact that the global media has had on people's perception about what's happening in Palestine.

the sort of manufactured consent that's been just ongoing in terms of the West allowing the occupation of Palestine to continue and to keep on kind of like progressing and escalating without any kind of serious intervention over the years and then from the beginning of the genocide how that was portrayed in the media that we're mostly exposed to

is the big motivating factor now for um for rebel matters because a lot of the time we're talking to people who are presenting really valuable perspective but it's a perspective that isn't always heard in the kind of traditional media because a lot of the time doesn't suit the western narrative about what's happening in palestine if we're talking about that issue just specifically but um yeah so down to the question i suppose they are kind of connected

Yeah.

And actually one thing just sprang to mind, one of the highlights of the trip to Cuba was we went to see this poster gallery in Havana.

There's two fellows who have got this extensive collection of posters going back to the 60s, the original prints.

From the 60s right up until they actually produced one a couple of weeks ago.

Wow.

Against the blockade that's happening in Cuba.

I called in to the poster gallery and one of the guys was just like flicking through the posters, like a couple of hundred posters going through them.

And it's like you can sort of, it's a historical record of all of the things that were...

kind of happening with regards to the political situation in Cuba, but also the artistic scene, like the movies and so on, like movie posters from the 70s and 80s.

It was really fascinating.

And that kind of brings me back to the newspaper days in Belfast where things were made and printed and they were in hard copy.

And today, we've lost a lot of that.

And a lot of the stuff now that we're exposed to is digital.

And it's also...

at the kind of whim of the algorithm and whoever controls the algorithm I mean that's way beyond my level of comprehension like how the algorithm works but to go back to the question whenever we were in Cuba the things that I was seeing on my feed it changed dramatically because for however reason

The phone knew that I was in Cuba and a lot of the stuff that was coming up was, of course, it was in the English language, which is, first of all, unusual because not many people in Cuba speak English, mostly Spanish.