Irish Stupidity Regarding RTE's Fallout

Riamfada

This was on www.breakingnews.ie

"The national broadcaster later said it logged 30 calls from viewers who believed the disaster was actually happening."



But Environment Minister Dick Roche, who is spearheading a legal bid to shut down Sellafield, said Fallout cast a slur on Irish people for portraying them as barbaric.

“I was very sad. I thought it was a very poor programme,” he said tonight.

“It was bizarre. They were suggesting there would be riots on the streets of Dublin. We have a very sophisticated society here in Ireland.”I assume he dosnt remember the state of O'Connell Street 2 months ago

Ruu_Old

Uh huh, heres a thread relating to the programme, not saying that the person invovled was stupid but how they panicked and so on, what confusion it caused them.

seamus

Yeah, I read that. "We have a very sophisticated society". WTF? How can anyone claim that sections of any society wouldn't reduce themselves to animals in a disaster?

He also tried to liken the idea of a mass contamination of the Greater Leinster area to four explosive devices exploding in a much less populated city in the 70's. :rolleyes:
(His point being that people reacted well during the Dublin bombings. Apples and Oranges)

lostexpectation

but again it hardly showed anything of riots.... I presume he wasn't north America last summer either?

30 calls isn't very much, I wonder how much the Gardai/firebrigade got...

Irish Stupidity Regarding RTE's Fallout

I really don't know what this has got to with 'Irish stupidity' again I bet we check the What If programs that were the BBC we would get similar numbers of confused callers.

Irish stupidity is not just for the Irish! :P

lostexpectation

seamus wrote:

Yeah, I read that. "We have a very sophisticated society". WTF? How can anyone claim that sections of any society wouldn't reduce themselves to animals in a disaster?

What just like the police officer who blocked the road out of New orleans because black people might have had to walk through his neighbourhood... I know thats sickening!

Cianos

Grimes wrote:

We have a very sophisticated society here in Ireland.

no no I agree. I truly believe we would stand firm and take nuclear contamination like true gentlemen.

simu

It's all the stuff they put in the water... makes us sophistamicated and docile, so it does now.

DaSilva

Tbh I don't think you can call people stupid for believing this was real, if you happened to tune in at the wrong moment when they were doing a fake news broadcast it might be easy to be swept in, and start panicing and forget about checking other stations etc..

Shows like this go to lengths to make it seem real so to give a better feel, at the same time I think maybe it would be a good idea to have a banner at the bottom saying "Dramatization", even though this would at first glance seem to be a bit silly considering the effort the producers go too to make it look real, it doesn't take away the feeling of realism, since when I watched the show, I knew it was fake but I liked watching with a mind set of imaging in was actually happening.

Reason for this banner would not to spare peoples embarrasment, but mainly to save emergency centers 30 calls even if its not that much, and a few worried grannies.

I really have to stress though that you can't consider somebody stupid for believing this was real.

Conar

Who the hell rings a TV station when there's a nuclear disaster occuring anyway?

NEWS JUST IN....NUCLEAR DISASTER OCCURED....PEOPLE DIEING....COUNTRY IN CHAOS


"Jeez Pat, that sounds scarey. I'd better just ring RTE and see if they can tell me any more"


*&^***%$%

simu

Conar wrote:

Who the hell rings a TV station when there's a nuclear disaster occuring anyway?

NEWS JUST IN....NUCLEAR DISASTER OCCURED....PEOPLE DIEING....COUNTRY IN CHAOS


"Jeez Pat, that sounds scarey. I'd better just ring RTE and see if they can tell me any more"


*&^***%$%

Well, a lot of women of a certain age and disposition would be thinking "No future, no reputation to maintain... take me now, Pat!"

conky_05

this echoes of when the original 'war of the worlds' was broadcast on the radio ..... loadsa people thought the earth was actually under attack from little green men !!!

Jello

conky_05 wrote:

this echoes of when the original 'war of the worlds' was broadcast on the radio ..... loadsa people thought the earth was actually under attack from little green men !!!

Yeah...there was even a suicide case because of that...one guy got really worked up when he heard that and thought he was gonna die a horrible death at the hands of Marsians so he killed himself.

galactus

Jello wrote:

Yeah...there was even a suicide case because of that...one guy got really worked up when he heard that and thought he was gonna die a horrible death at the hands of Marsians so he killed himself.

That's an urban legend. People were freaked out though! More...

Pherekydes

What's the big problem?

You people got your Iodine pills, haven't you? Or cyanide pills. Hide under your stairs, you'll be fine...

And don't go to A&E. Too overcrowded. And stay away from O'Connell St.

Bring it up with your local Green Party representative.

Huggles

I came in last Friday night half way through teh late Late Show. I was flicking around and came to rest on what I thought was teh BBc News World channel it was teh exact same news readers and exact same news interface and had a huge flashing banner at the bottom of the page saying something like 'ireland in state of emergency, sellafield meltdown' for a split second I was thinking...jaysssis!

I can well understand older people recognising the newsreaders and thinking the same, why does that make hem stupid Irish people?

civdef

Considering the show wasn't on Friday......

Katykaboom

yeah that happened to my Mam aswell, all I heard was What the f**k coming from her room, and "OH THANK GOD", she tuned in on one of the news broadcasts.

Conar

TheGooner wrote:

I came in last Friday night half way through teh late Late Show. I was flicking around and came to rest on what I thought was teh BBc News World channel it was teh exact same news readers and exact same news interface and had a huge flashing banner at the bottom of the page saying something like 'ireland in state of emergency, sellafield meltdown' for a split second I was thinking...jaysssis!

I can well understand older people recognising the newsreaders and thinking the same, why does that make hem stupid Irish people?

I can understand a moment of being freaked out, but still I must go back my earlier point!
WHY would anyone ring a TV Station if they thought there was a state of national emergency?
I mean you'd need to go and look up the number and everything. Now they really are stupid people!

6ix

Katykaboom wrote:

yeah that happened to my Mam aswell, all I heard was What the f**k coming from her room, and "OH THANK GOD", she tuned in on one of the news broadcasts.

Well at least she had the common sense to check another news channel. The people I heard on Gerry Ryan were talking about how 'Yeah your man from RTE was talkin about it, and next thing the BBC were covering it, it was scary'.

What they failed to think about was why their TV was spontaneously changing channel.

Or, maybe they did think about it, and then decide that it must be the radioactivity.

Huggles

civdef wrote:

Considering the show wasn't on Friday......

Nooooooooo it wasn't but the preview of it was on the Late Late along with an interview with Adi Roche....

Relax!

Tha Gopher

Conar wrote:

Who the hell rings a TV station when there's a nuclear disaster occuring anyway?

Im sure theres people who in that situation would have the bag of essentials ready to leave Dublin in one hand, and the mobile in the other waffling to Joe Duffy or Adrian Kennedy about the bleedin Brits.

Virtually all the news scenes were presented as if they were going out live in the morning/afternoon.

Thought the programme was piss poor anyway. What happened in part 2? What state was Dublin left in? Was it full of moaning country folk complaining about the fukhin Dubs movin in?

simu

Why is this thread named the way it is, anyway? You'd get the same stupidity anywhere. ZOMGX - I feel so discriminated against!

jaggeh

mmm iodine it changes the color of my pee

Piste

My dad was watching it and knew full well it was a dramatization, but he called me saying "Elizabeth there's been an accident at Sellafield, Dublin Airport's now closed, come and see the news!" so I went down and saw just where they were showing riots and stuff and I panicked and ran up to the computer to ask people on the internet was it really happening (cos that's what I do in that situation :P) and everyone said it wasn't but the TV had me convinced...

My dad even went around blocking up doors and windows so we wouldn't be "contaminated".

I was well freaked out, but then I googled it to be sure and read about the Dramatization. And then I killed my father.

faceman

jaggeh wrote:

mmm iodine it changes the color of my pee

its also cures the runs. so if we do have a disaster, we wont have to worry about havin to take a poo poo for a few days anyway!

seamus

Piste wrote:

My dad was watching it and knew full well it was a dramatization, but he called me saying "Elizabeth there's been an accident at Sellafield, Dublin Airport's now closed, come and see the news!" so I went down and saw just where they were showing riots and stuff and I panicked and ran up to the computer to ask people on the internet was it really happening (cos that's what I do in that situation :P) and everyone said it wasn't but the TV had me convinced...

My dad even went around blocking up doors and windows so we wouldn't be "contaminated".

I was well freaked out, but then I googled it to be sure and read about the Dramatization. And then I killed my father.

I think I've said this before: Your Dad is a legend

mike65

I did'nt watch this drama, but as I understand it the depiction was supposed
to be live for much of the first episode and was the action in daylight or night?, as the programme went out at after 9 pm. So if it was light in Dublin on the telly but dark in REAL LIFE TM then people really are stoopid.



Mike.

simu

TV does not lie. Eyes do. o_O

Clare gunner

Beats me how anyone could freak out with this prog.All anyone had to do was switch over to BBC,ITN,SKY,CNN,etc etc,to confirm that this was genuine.All those stations would be chock full of this news.Or maybe noone noticed the Beeb,etc time was all at 10:40 AM,and this was shown at nine thirty at night.

New_Departure06

When I first saw an ad for Fallout I did wonder had something happened but then I realised otherwise but was a bit scary. I liked the programme. I think Dick is being a bit naive if he doesn't think this will happen if Sellafield goes up. It happens in all societies when they freak out. Desperate people will do desperate things.

Morf3h

it was a horrendous programme in my opinion. That acting was woeful and in no way would i have been convinced it was happening. Apart from the RTE logo on top of the "Sky News" broadcasts none of the newreaders were the same. All references rte news make to sky news have to be accompanied by a "courtesy of sky news" banner, which was not present. Although they did make a good effort, it was boring and melodramatic. The scene in the A&E with the dad "crying" was laughable and the woman on the bus trying to convince us she was terrified for her daughter and husband, might as well have been telling us she was worried about her clothes outside on the washing line at home getting wet.

ALSO there were breaks in the programme! end of part one..... how could that convince someone Ireland was in a state of emergency!? plus the credits at the end... some people are so gullible.

plz dont make any shows like that again rte