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Dunphy quits Newstalk due to 'Interference'...

  • 30-10-2011 12:24pm
    #1
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Could get interesting!
    Dunphy, who made no bones about his displeasure at the sacking of Sam Smyth from sister station Today FM a few weeks ago, has claimed that Newstalk “is a very inhospitable place for journalists to work in”.
    Dunphy doesn’t explicitly mention Denis O’Brien, whose Communicorp Group own both Newstalk and Today FM, but he does offer some insight into the regime there.

    http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/eamon-dunphy-quits-newstalk-over-interference-0017226-1


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  • #2
    Brain Stroking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭Brain Stroking


    There is a cancer endemic in radio broadcasting Bill and it's threatening to eat the beautiful entertainment medium that i love


  • #3
    Treasure Jealous Grapevine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭ Treasure Jealous Grapevine


    Good old Joe.ie, the standard by which we measure journalistic integrity for over 18 months now.


  • #4
    Claasman
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Claasman


    'its a disgrace joe'


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Both Dunph and Sam Smyth are clearing their desks at Communicorp Towers today, Denis O'Brien wants a nice compliant staff.


  • #6
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I'll do the job for a year for a quarter of the salary.


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  • #7
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    mike65 wrote: »
    Both Dunph and Sam Smyth are clearing their desks at Communicorp Towers today, Denis O'Brien wants a nice compliant staff.
    And Today FM CEO gone to RTE.


  • #8
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    But he is on air now


  • #9
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Hootanany wrote: »
    But he is on air now
    Finishing up soon though.


  • #10
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Dunphy resigns from radio show shocker!


  • #11
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Its not the 1st time Dunphy and Newstalk have come to blows. I remember go on a rant on his Breakfast show after Newstalk introduced 'charges' to their txts. He didnt last much longer after that.


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  • #12
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Translated into: Newstalk tell Dunphy to stop acting like the over opinionated drunk guy at the bar.

    Dunphy, true to his drunk guy at the bar persona. Throws his toys out of the pram when put in his place.


  • #13
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Translated into: Newstalk tell Dunphy to stop acting like the over opinionated drunk guy at the bar.

    Dunphy, true to his drunk guy at the bar persona. Throws his toys out of the pram when put in his place.
    Don't know about that - it's not supposed to be a nice place. I know that first-hand.


  • #14
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    mike65 wrote: »
    Both Dunph and Sam Smyth are clearing their desks at Communicorp Towers today, Denis O'Brien wants a nice compliant staff.

    Which makes O'Brien no different to his lordship in Independent Newspapers, Sir Anthony O'Reilly. If there's any doubt about O'Reilly look at the number of hired hands the (still) O'Reilly controlled Independent Newspapers have recruited in recent times to launch attacks on O'Brien, O'Reilly's competitor for control of Independent Newspapers, in the pages of O'Reilly's newspapers.


  • #15
    invinciblePRSTV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭invinciblePRSTV


    Let's recall Denis O' Brien commandeering a Newstalk lunchtime show a few budgets ago to deliver a one hour sermon to the nation on why the Government of the day should be supported. If this were Cuba or Venezuela, we'd have Castro or Chavez controlling the media, but here in Ireland we let a handful of media moguls do the job for us instead.


    Banana republic.


  • #16
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,244 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    He was asked to take a 50% pay cut - that's why he's leaving! In the times this morning


  • #17
    A Primal Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    Dunphy went on a great rant saying that Denis O'Brien controls the government, etc. I'm sure he's been waiting to do that for ages and we'd all love to rant against our boss when we leave!


  • #18
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    Dunphy went on a great rant saying that Denis O'Brien controls the government, etc. I'm sure he's been waiting to do that for ages and we'd all love to rant against our boss when we leave!

    Was this just now? Would the clip be on Newstalk's website already?


  • #19
    Determined
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Determined


    Not yet,was brilliant though!


  • #20
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    leahyl wrote: »
    He was asked to take a 50% pay cut - that's why he's leaving! In the times this morning

    When though? was this after he stood up for Sam Smyth? Just another way of forcing him out rather than sacking him by the big don O'Brien perhaps.


  • #21
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    I trust his arguments here. If O'Brien is the story and the story can't be told because O'Brien controls the airwaves, then dunphy is a hero - whatever else you think of him - to leave a high salary. There are only so many outlets in the country. He may not get another job.

    What laws can we pass to stop this? Divorce ownership from editorial interference? You can hire the editor,but you can't tell him what to do? Would that work?

    Restrict any one person to one paper, or radio stations. Only allow consortiums to own papers, or radio stations - so it is not one person but many who are represented in the views of the station?


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  • #22
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    woodoo wrote: »
    When though? was this after he stood up for Sam Smyth? Just another way of forcing him out rather than sacking him by the big don O'Brien perhaps.

    Yeah, and it sounds like a "planted" story. If his listenership is holding up why would he have to take a 50% pay cut.


  • #23
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Yahew wrote: »
    I trust his arguments here. If O'Brien is the story and the story can't be told because O'Brien controls the airwaves, then dunphy is a hero - whatever else you think of him - to leave a high salary. There are only so many outlets in the country. He may not get another job.

    Dunphy's no daw. You can bet he was in touch with Independent Newspapers beforehand and they agreed to reward him very nicely in the event of leaving in such a publicly humiliating style for O'Brien. Dunphy's is the latest blow in the O'Reilly v. O'Brien war for dominance of, first, Independent Newspapers and then dominance of the Irish media.


  • #24
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Yahew wrote: »
    What laws can we pass to stop this? Divorce ownership from editorial interference? You can hire the editor,but you can't tell him what to do? Would that work?

    I don't think that would work, simply because if the owner agrees to pay the editor enough and give him enough perks, the editor will jump when the owner, who has the power to sack, says so. That could be something like the editor calling for Irish government intervention to save Waterford Crystal, and getting his journalists to write articles with such a demand, without mentioning that the beneficiary of such state handouts would be no less than the owner of the media group proposing it. Yes, I am talking about Aengus Fanning (editor) and one Anthony O'Reilly (dominant shareholder of Independent Newspapers and the holding company of Waterford Crystal, Fitzwilton).

    It could, and did, also happen when the owner of the same newspaper group wanted to buy a company named Eircom. All business journalists were instructed to focus on attacking Eircom and undermining its share price. When it was sufficiently low, guess who came in and bought Eircom? Yes, a group led by one Sir Anthony O'Reilly, the said dominant shareholder in Independent Newspapers.

    Neither O'Reilly nor O'Brien, both of whom are tax exiles from our state, are ethically fit to be in dominant positions in any section of the Irish media. This is the unvarnished truth of the matter.


  • #25
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Neither O'Reilly nor O'Brien, both of whom are tax exiles from our state, are ethically fit to be in dominant positions in any section of the Irish media. This is the unvarnished truth of the matter.

    I agree. Any other ideas how we stop this.


  • #26
    IHeartChemistry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭IHeartChemistry


    I can see listening figures rising after he quits. Never liked him. Always got the impression he was a c*cky eejit. Always looks drunk as well.


  • #27
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Translated into: Newstalk tell Dunphy to stop acting like the over opinionated drunk guy at the bar.

    Dunphy, true to his drunk guy at the bar persona. Throws his toys out of the pram when put in his place.

    They surely knew what they were getting when they initially employed him, so they can't use that as an excuse.


  • #28
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Dionysus wrote: »

    It could, and did, also happen when the owner of the same newspaper group wanted to buy a company named Eircom. All business journalists were instructed to focus on attacking Eircom and undermining its share price. When it was sufficiently low, guess who came in and bought Eircom? Yes, a group led by one Sir Anthony O'Reilly, the said dominant shareholder in Independent Newspapers.

    Dionysus can you provide any proof as to the veracity of the above?


  • #29
    mongoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭mongoman


    If you employ Dunphy you will get his opinion, whether you like it or not. So surely they can't be getting rid of him for being too mouthy.


  • #30
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Moved from After Hours.


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  • #31
    Andrew33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    TODAY FM should be renamed to YESTERDAY FM, seriously in decline. with the exception of Paul McClune's show I have pretty much completely stopped listening to the station.


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