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Cheeky Newstalk :)

  • 22-08-2006 11:50am
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    r3nu4l
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    Just listening to an interview on Newstalk with Gay Mitchell MEP and someone from Sinn Féin. As the Sinn Féin guy began talking music suddenly started playing in the background with a singer singing the words "Come on, up the rebels" :D

    Cheeky ;) Someone will probably get there knuckles rapped or maybe it's his last day on the job :)


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  • #2
    nc6000
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    They were even cheekier this morning on the Breakfast Show with Ger Gilroy. Ian Paisley Jr was on moaning about how they should play God Save The Queen before Ireland play Italy in a rugby international in Ravenhill. When the piece finished Gilroy said that in the interests of fairness he thought they should play it on the show. They played the Sex Pistols version!! I thought that was quite funny and very cheeky.


  • #3
    DublinWriter
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    r3nu4l wrote:
    Just listening to an interview on Newstalk with Gay Mitchell MEP and someone from Sinn Féin. As the Sinn Féin guy began talking music suddenly started playing in the background with a singer singing the words "Come on, up the rebels" :D

    Cheeky ;) Someone will probably get there knuckles rapped or maybe it's his last day on the job :)
    Read the post I just made on Newstalk and subsitute presenters regarding this incident, and also my 'Gay, Gay...Gay!' thread in politics regarding same.


  • #4
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Read the posts and regardless of the politics involved (both of them were talking BS anyway!) I agree that the interview was conducted very poorly.

    What is it about presenters these days? Interviewees get a fairly easy time on most shows and are not really pushed hard. They are quite often let away with the most outrageous statements while the presenter just sits there and moves onto the next question.

    Has training gone out the window?

    Either way, I thought the music incident was funny, it reminded me of years ago when that young kid in Tallaght had his ears cut off in an attack, when Marion Finnucane had finished interviewing his mother about the attack RTE took a break for some music and played...Stuck in the Middle with you, the same song used during the "cutting off of ears" scene in the film Resevoir Dogs.

    In that case I didn't think it was funny at all, well maybe just a little, in a morbid way.


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