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Rte's political stance

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  • #2
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    This was the OP:
    Rte's political stance
    It's been said recently rte has been a mouthpiece for the current government and gone easy on them

    Previously rte have been accused of being run by lefties

    So which is it?

    Or is it a scitzo bowing operation or, the sign of a good broadcaster???????

    for all those interested.

    I'm not sure who said that RTE was a mouthpiece for the govt. OP, would you care to name them.
    Anyway, I think the govt. of the day will always accuse the national broadcaster of being against them, it's the same with the BBC in the UK.

    Ray Burke as Minister for Communications felt that RTE was very anti-FF. He went on to issue radio licences to private operators.

    That they're leftwing trots is the usual charge against producers in RTE. I think things have changed, the world and RTE in turn.

    Here's how the RTE Board (formerly called RTE Authority) looks now. Are they all government lackies or leftwing pinkos.
    http://www.rte.ie/about/authority.html


  • #3
    Slideshowbob
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Slideshowbob


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056024148

    Just check out the seventh and ninth posts in this thread for some who think rte has an ff agenda


  • #4
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,497 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Slideshowbob wrote: »
    Please see this link for context: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056025248
    Context of what? You haven't said anything!

    Not your ornery onager



  • #5
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    They're the mouthpiece of the government. Currently that means FF and the Greens. If they're voted out next time, RTE will support whoever gets in after them.


  • #6
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    imme wrote: »
    Ray Burke as Minister for Communications felt that RTE was very anti-FF. He went on to issue radio licences to private operators.

    It wasn't just about the licencing of new TV and Radio stations but also back handers he received and pressures that he put on RTÉ at the time, he was also Minister for Justice at the time (late 1980s early 1990s). Having to resign due to corruption in Bertie Ahearn's first government (late 1990s). Did he serve time?
    Here's how the RTE Board (formerly called RTE Authority) looks now. Are they all government lackies or leftwing pinkos.
    http://www.rte.ie/about/authority.html

    The Board of RTÉ is not the RTÉ Authority the RTÉ Authority is now part of The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland http://www.bai.ie/about_authority.html And surely Government lackies and left wing pinkos end up giving balance to such boards.

    I believe that both boards have members recommended to them by the All-party Dail committees.

    Personally I believe that all media have their self-interests at heart and that there is little difference between the political parties and the media often back them, I am not a fan of editorials that tell who you should vote for. The media should not be there to take sides or to be the opposition. The opposition IMO remain badly organised in an era when they should be completely destroying FF. The problem with much journalism is the current way of coping and pasting press releases and knowing little about the subject. The amount of press releases that I have seen just rehashed in the media is phenomenal.


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