RTE's bias towards FF

Nail,Hammer, Head.

Joe duffy supports finna fail, are you serious? I'd say rte are just giving the fg leader debate such great publicity is because they are the biggest party in Ireland (lol).

I would say fear is a more apt word. They are scared about pushing the government too hard with any really tough questions as the Government control their budgets. Just take a look at MoC's interview of Brian Cowen last week on Primetime. It was so soft that getting Miriam to cover Brian Cowen in Marshmallows would have been more difficult for him.

Now imagine a real interviewer like Jeremy Paxman interviewing Cowen. He would have made mincemeat of our failed Taoiseach.

RTE and most other main stream media outlets in Ireland are no more that propaganda machines for the government!

The government can do anything they like..even stuff in violation with the constitution...but the media are not interested.

No..the media is interested in the moaning of lifeline where Joe Duffy is always out for a public lynching of a company or a person...whatever floats Joe Duffy's boat.

A dictatorship is what Ireland actually is with its current hilarious political circus and the complete lack of any form of opposition.
No wonder the national ombudsman has called Ireland a non-constitunional state. The government can do as they like and no citizen or organisation has any democratic rights to stand up to whatever decisions the government makes to cover up their faillures and to assure their continued reign. That's all the government is interested in at the moment.. Remain in power at all cost...all cost! And RTE is helping them do so.

Its gas the way some presenters fall over them selves when it comes to interviewing the gov ministers etc. yet when FG had a bit on an internal struggle this wk the media went to town. complete blew the whole thing up and made it a way bigger issue than it was. why? to distract from the fact that there was a no confidence vote against cowen this week. I mean really!

what I hate most about the Live Line show is that people come on to complain about something that happened them. lets just say Mick said johnny crashed into his car. well joe would pipe up and say "Mick, you cant say johnny crashed into your car, its not confirmed, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, its your word against his" bull crap etc.
he tries to be so bloody PC instead of just going for the truth. and those guys will never bring on a TD at the same time as a listener for fear that the listener will actually give them a piece of their mind.

and dont get me started on how easy RTE have been on the greens. bunch of cowards are too afraid to pull out of gov. yet whenever i have seen a green party minister on RTE they go easy on them.

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gandalf wrote: »

Now imagine a real interviewer like Jeremy Paxman interviewing Cowen. He would have made mincemeat of our failed Taoiseach.

Not quite Paxman and not quite Cowen, but close enough:



Watch and learn, RTÉ.

As I've said before, people's views as to whom RTE is biased often tells more about the people with the views than the station with the bias.

Having said that, I could do without this Mr Fluffy attitude towards questioning elected representatives, especially government ministers, that appears endemic in RTE. Who mentioned Today Tonight as something we should aspire to again at the very least? DeepBlue. You're right. Wrapping TDs, Ministers and Taoisigh up in bubble wrap and being thankful they deign to give your show the time of day is a waste of prime time broadcasting. Irish current affairs shows should be more about verbal blows than the simulated oral that appears to be regarded as acceptable by our national broadcaster.

Fuhrer wrote: »

Banning people from answering a direct question with "Can I just make this point" would be a nice start.

I'm just waiting for one of them to discover the "That's not the question. The real question is..." answer. If that happens, I'll be tempted to vote for whoever promises to bring the gun back into Irish politics (or at least a commitment to arm audience members of The Frontline - it would make the show a must-see as opposed to something I'm generally content to have you guys tell me about).

Off-topic side-note of course:)

conorhal wrote: »

I don't think there is a bias. Just a lazy media corp that follow the 'if it bleeds it leads' byline. Why follow a confidence vote with a foregone conclusion that ammouts to little more than political handbagging when there's blood on the walls down the corridor!
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Like they did with FG members they could have dragged every FFer in front of a camera and pressed them on whether they'd vote confidence in incompetence. Where were the post-vote headline stories that 'FF condone Cowens carelessness' ? The media let them off big time, hopefully the opposition will get back to the business of quizzing the government on their failures and providing an alternative for the electorate to vote for.

Mrmoe wrote: »

The reason the FG vote of confidence got more attention was because it was not a forgone conclusion..

That's an excellent point.

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

:eek:

Don't worry, I'm being facetious. It'd make for some great telly for the first show though.

Mrmoe wrote: »

I don't think this is a good example of bias. The reason the FG vote of confidence got more attention was because it was not a forgone conclusion. The FG vote is realistically a run off for the next Taoiseach or Tanaiste and that is why it was more important to cover in more detail. Other examples would be examples of incompetence in questioning rather than bias towards a particular party or other.

The vote might have been a foregone conclusion, but they could have a lot more discussion about the fact that 3 imminent financial experts laid a lot fo the blame for the currnet mess at the government leaders door.

Also noticable how little attention the appearance of dukes and the Anglo gang at the Dáil committee on Finance received in the media.
They basically refsued to answer why or how a former risk manager from AIB was appointed to Anglo.
They also admitted that 22 odd billion was down the drain.
Their arrogance was astounding to watch and my estimation of dukes has gone down drastically as IMHO he is now a very well paid lackie of this government.

One of the few people to take this story up was Shane Ross who is on the committee.
Did anyone else ?

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Not to mention how he reminds the nation, almost on a daily basis, about how he was educated in Trinity, and how he was involved in radical protests and other such cliches when he was there. This is the same guy that cuts off (and down) anyone who might express a radical opinion on his oh so radical show. The guy is just a sycophant imo.

He is another RTE inbred at this stage.

He wasn't quick enough to cut off someone commenting on mr cullen's appointees/friends