The Wide Angle - Karen Coleman

[simplyc73]

Originally Posted by Arthur Daley

Anybody who challenges the establishment like Coleman has gets brandished as a troublemaker. Maybe left wing, maybe loony, maybe both.

Much as my opinion of the wide angle has gone down recently, I would never consider Karen a loony

So Karen Coleman was just doing what she and the other presenters have been encouraged to do by the management.

There's something sad, but not surprising about this, not the comment, just the concept therein,though I imagine it's quite common even for people who like to see themselves as strong independently minded journalists. It wouldn't matter if so may print and broadcast journalists didn't give the impression that they have an appointed role to dispense the truth to all the rest of us who are (in their eyes anyway,) privillaged to be hearing/seeing/reading it.

RTE is overwhelmingly left wing and is overtly pro public sector

Don't know enough to know whether this is true but let's say it is, isn't it ironic that the people making the massive money in rte are not public servants, but people who have contracts with rte?!

[irish_bob]

fergus ( no child should have to make do with hand me down school uniforms ) finlay was on rte radio the other night , blathering about how if the xmas bonus is not reinstated , people will go hungary this christmas

the same idiot some weeks back talked of how some people on wellfare are facing starvation , YES , FACING STARVATION , did the RTE presenter , try and press him on this ludicrious statement , hardly , she sat back admiring the mans humanity

[Koloman]

Originally Posted by irish_bob

fergus ( no child should have to make do with hand me down school uniforms ) finlay was on rte radio the other night , blathering about how if the xmas bonus is not reinstated , people will go hungary this christmas

the same idiot some weeks back talked of how some people on wellfare are facing starvation , YES , FACING STARVATION , did the RTE presenter , try and press him on this ludicrious statement , hardly , she sat back admiring the mans humanity

I suppose they will have to watch their Sky TV and play their X box's on a empty stomach!

But seriously if he did say that then he should be ashamed! To say that people will go HUNGRY in Ireland if they do not get the Christmas bonus is ridiculous. It is after all a Christmas BONUS not a guaranteed payment.

[irish_bob]

Originally Posted by Koloman

I suppose they will have to watch their Sky TV and play their X box's on a empty stomach!

But seriously if he did say that then he should be ashamed! To say that people will go HUNGRY in Ireland if they do not get the Christmas bonus is ridiculous. It is after all a Christmas BONUS not a guaranteed payment.

his comments say more about the irish media and its left wing bias than anything else , while finlay is at least a gentleman , the national broadcaster regulary wheels out the odious university lecturer ciaran allen , this is a man who despite having never been elected to more than to sing at an xmas party , has the neck to call on the state to confiscate private wealth on a mass scale and to slap an 80% income tax rate on those who earn over 70 k per year , this bozo represents but a tiny fraction of irish opinion yet ive heard him on several radio stations this past few weeks and he is also a regular panelist on vincent brownes tv show , far left radical minority views are given a hugely disproportionate level of airtime in the irish media

[dRNk SAnTA]

I had Ciaran Allen in UCD and he is an intelligent guy and a good lecturer but he's about as socialist as they come. As you said, I don't think many people in Ireland would share his ideals but I think with the public sector unions being under the kosh recently he has found an audience for his extreme views.

I don't know if it's because of dissatisfaction with the current union leaders but his star seems to be rising anyway.

[Camelot]

Just caught ten mins of The Wide Angle this morning, with Karen going on & on about how she thinks 'Jedward' are just Grrrrrrrgreat > I kid you not! She thinks that Jedward are better then anything else on the X-Factor, and that its all a set-up & a farce anyway, but that Jedward are streets ahead of any other act on the show, but that last night was the first time she had ever watched it

Ah, bless .........................

[irish_bob]

Originally Posted by dRNk SAnTA

I had Ciaran Allen in UCD and he is an intelligent guy and a good lecturer but he's about as socialist as they come. As you said, I don't think many people in Ireland would share his ideals but I think with the public sector unions being under the kosh recently he has found an audience for his extreme views.

I don't know if it's because of dissatisfaction with the current union leaders but his star seems to be rising anyway.

i dont doubt for a second that he is intelligent , i have even less doubt that he was a good lecturer , anyone would that size of an ego and that self righteous would be right at home speaking from the pulpit

the majoity of public sector workers have no more in common with ciaran allen than the private sector do , guards , teachers , nurses all know that under allens style of governance , they would all take a massive pay cut , the only reason allen is defending high paid public servants ( nurses , guards , teachers ) is that those on the left see working for the state as being morally superior to those filthy capatilist pigs who toil in the market driven private sector

as for his star rising , again , i belive this is more to do with the left wing irish media pushing him