Vote No Campaign on O'Connell Street

heyjude wrote: »

So an RTE discussion on the Lisbon Treaty that has a FF representative, a FG representative, a Labour representative and another guest who is undecided, is about even in terms of balance ???? Interesting, so 3 members of the YES campaign and one undecided is balanced!!!

What program are you talking about? This week on RTE there was a Q&A program on Monday night, and a Primetime special last night, both of which had equal numbers from each side. On Newstalk yesterday at lunchtime, Declan Ganly and Dermot Ahern were on together. Last week (Thursday, I think) on Matt Cooper, there was a debate between all the main players, with equal numbers on each side (4x4). On Monday morning, Pat Kenny had a debate with equal numbers form either side.

I'll admit that on Monday and Tuesday of this week, Brian Cowan got a half-hour to himself on both Matt Cooper and George Hook. But hey, he's the taoiseach, so that's hardly a surprise (unfair, some might say, but unsurprising all the same). But on Monday, their was a London economics professor on Newstalk, all on his own, with his own weird interpretation of the treaty, which was very biased towards the 'No' camp. And a few weeks ago you had that wierdo Jim Corr on Matt Cooper, all on his own, with his crazy 'No' views.

And the 'No' camp were campaigning a month earlier than the 'Yes' camp, all on their own. Declan Ganly was on Newstalk around the middle of April with his all-out tax declarations (which he has since reduced down to a statement of enhanced co-operation). On his own, with no-one to rebut his comments. Coir were on a few weeks later, again with no-one against them.

Also, this week you had the three presenters of Morning AM announcing that they were voting No... that was hardly fair, now was it.

That's a bit rambly, but in my own listening/viewing experience of the last two months, I definitely haven't seen the bias that you're talking about. The media isn't just RTE.