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Northern Ireland events being commented on by politicians

  • 13-06-2009 11:36am
    #1
    My name is URL
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    I was reading this - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090613/tuk-three-killed-in-plane-crash-f858358.html

    Why is it that whenever anything happens in NI, the first people to have a say on it are politicians?

    Am I the only one that notices this? It happens on UTV news all the time.. if there's a robbery or fire, there's always a local councilor ready to be seen condemning it

    gtfo


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  • #2
    phasers
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    If you watch the Northern Ireland news you'll realise that nowadays nothing really happens up there.

    The politicians have to be seen to be doing something... I once saw on UTV news a story about a shortage of poster paint in a primary school...


  • #3
    javaboy
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    phasers wrote: »
    If you watch the Northern Ireland news you'll realise that nowadays nothing really happens up there.

    The politicians have to be seen to be doing something... I once saw on UTV news a story about a shortage of poster paint in a primary school...

    +1. UTV has the most parochial news I've ever seen. So many "cat stuck in tree" type soft stories. I wonder if it stemmed from a deliberate attempt to lighten the news a bit back when the real news up North was death after death.


  • #4
    mike65
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    Its the nature of the place, NI is the size of County Cork, if there was say an virulent chicken pox outbreak in a Mitchelstown school some local counciler will be on the local radio to give his twopence worth. In NI they have whole tranches of "state" media to cover almost nothing of any interest so they fill it with low grade politicans opining about minor matters.

    Wales is nearly as bad.


  • #5
    McArmalite
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    javaboy wrote: »
    +1. UTV has the most parochial news I've ever seen. So many "cat stuck in tree" type soft stories. I wonder if it stemmed from a deliberate attempt to lighten the news a bit back when the real news up North was death after death.
    Yeah UTV news is the "cat stuck in tree" stuff. But to a point RTE can sometimes be the same. I remember when the Dundrum shopping centre was opening, you'd think it was an Irish moon landing it received that mush air coverage.


  • #6
    javaboy
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    McArmalite wrote: »
    Yeah UTV news is the "cat stuck in tree" stuff. But to a point RTE can sometimes be the same. I remember when the Dundrum shopping centre was opening, you'd think it was an Irish moon landing it received that mush air coverage.

    That was probably Nationwide was it? That whole program is just a glorified advertising slot.


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  • #7
    mike65
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    McArmalite wrote: »
    Yeah UTV news is the "cat stuck in tree" stuff. But to a point RTE can sometimes be the same. I remember when the Dundrum shopping centre was opening, you'd think it was an Irish moon landing it received that mush air coverage.

    That was driven by a different type of parochialism - namely all the Dub media whores and hacks and thier charge cards.


  • #8
    SoupyNorman
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    McArmalite wrote: »
    Yeah UTV news is the "cat stuck in tree" stuff. But to a point RTE can sometimes be the same. I remember when the Dundrum shopping centre was opening, you'd think it was an Irish moon landing it received that mush air coverage.


    Shopping centre opening > cat stuck up tree. RTE news is actually pretty decent.


  • #9
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    It's fcuking depressing to watch regardless of why they use that format. And it seems to me like a way of reinforcing an idea that NI politics is the be all and end all of everyday life in the provence


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
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    McArmalite wrote: »
    Yeah UTV news is the "cat stuck in tree" stuff. But to a point RTE can sometimes be the same. I remember when the Dundrum shopping centre was opening, you'd think it was an Irish moon landing it received that mush air coverage.

    Fianna Fail controls RTE and the developers of Dundrum fund Fianna Fail


  • #11
    McArmalite
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Fianna Fail controls RTE and the developers of Dundrum fund Fianna Fail
    Your probably on the ball their. Since FF was making all the appointments to RTE, the usual cronyism kicked in as pay back. But sure that's how this poor old bloddy country works.

    Their's Terry Prone ( who ?? the hell is Terry Prone many of you may well ask ). She's been invovled in RTE down the years but also runs a PR company for training politicians in handling the public, interviews etc A number of years ago she brought out a book called Get That Job, and guess what, she got a a glorified 20 minute advertising slot on the Late Late Show to promote it :rolleyes:. What a great little country, they sure look after each other.


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