Tiger Woods situation report rte six one and 9oclock news

amovingstatue

I'm dumbfounded. The national television broadcaster's prime time news slots reporting on the tiger woods story.
If it was the slow news season maybe, but during the time when a serious cutback budget is imminent, and when the latest revelations about the church are being dealt with, this news item about an american who is obsessed with a ridiculous sport devised as a passtime (my opinion admittedly it means a lot more to many deluded fools) who it transpires likes to play around off the course as well.

We've followed the US with every other aspect of society - health, state finances, regulation etc so maybe it is appropriate, is it?

ejmaztec

amovingstatue wrote: »

I'm dumbfounded. The national television broadcaster's prime time news slots reporting on the tiger woods story.
If it was the slow news season maybe, but during the time when a serious cutback budget is imminent, and when the latest revelations about the church are being dealt with, this news item about an american who is obsessed with a ridiculous sport devised as a passtime (my opinion admittedly it means a lot more to many deluded fools) who it transpires likes to play around off the course as well.

We've followed the US with every other aspect of society - health, state finances, regulation etc so maybe it is appropriate, is it?

I'd rather watch news items about Tiger Woods than read whining, misery filled posts anyday.:p

petes

Someone in the public spotlight appears on the news. Shocking.

Shane10

ya its in the news to much. this is his own business, i couldnt give a fiddlers if he cheated.

Mossy Monk

At what stage did they report on it. The start of the news, middle or at the end?

Aidric

Mossy Monk wrote: »

At what stage did they report on it. The start of the news, middle or at the end?

They had a report at each juncture. On the lead in to the third and final one Sharon Ni Bheolain stood up from the desk and discarded her chiffon blouse to reveal a handwritten message across her chest "I'll have your babies Tiger".
Some might say its further evidence of the dumbing down of our current affairs output but I was left feeling satisfied.

amovingstatue

Aidric wrote: »

They had a report at each juncture. On the lead in to the third and final one Sharon Ni Bheolain stood up from the desk and discarded her chiffon blouse to reveal a handwritten message across her chest "I'll have your babies Tiger".
Some might say its further evidence of the dumbing down of our current affairs output but I was left feeling satisfied.

I'll admit it - I'm getting a good, clear, mental picture of that alright, but there is a place for that type of programming as well and it isn't the state broadcaster's main news programmes either.

Mossy Monk wrote: »

At what stage did they report on it. The start of the news, middle or at the end?

it was in the first segment of the six one news

Shane10 wrote: »

ya its in the news to much. this is his own business, i couldnt give a fiddlers if he cheated.

neither could I, but whoever decides what's to be reported nationwide seems to think it merits reporting

Insurgent wrote: »

Someone in the public spotlight appears on the news. Shocking.

the "public spotlight", hmmm. This spotlight must be focusing on a lot of things and for very short periods of time so.

ejmaztec wrote: »

I'd rather watch news items about Tiger Woods than read whining, misery filled posts anyday.

I actually empathize completely with you on this and apologise for the whiney misery

cashback

Sky News will always be worse. Breaking news bar at the bottom of the screen yesterday was 'Blanche from Coronation St has died'. I was in Heuston station where they have a Sky News service on the big screen and the only story was 'Blanche'.
OK, it's sad that this old woman (circa 75) has passed away but it really should be one of those '...and finally' stories.

Mossy Monk

amovingstatue wrote: »

it was in the first segment of the six one news

If they must report it then it should be shoved to the back of the queue.

amovingstatue

I actually have no problem with the like of sky news reporting on this. They are the tv channel equivalent of a tabloid newspaper.
The big difference between sky news and rte reporting it is that sky news is a free to air dedicated news channel who are going to report any old ****e provided it's selatious or horrific - the horribly molested and mutilated cat stuck up a tree story type thing.

RTE, funded in part involuntarily by our annual license fee payment, is our state broadcaster and is responsible for reporting national and international news. They have a limited allocation of time devoted to news as it stands.

As I say if it was slow news time and the item was located at the end like the funny news story they tend to have to lighten the load of the kind of misery and whinery that there is in the news and in my postings then that would be fair enough.

InReality

It was really ridicolous watching it on sky though. "breaking news - tiger woods in car crash" .. i kept re-reading it thinking i had mis-read it somehow and that the shouldn't breaking news contain something important ?

Yakult

This is the crap that should be in "Now" magazine, not the bloody news.