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Grounds for a complaint regarding RTE's broadcast of the IMF press conference?

  • 21-11-2010 9:37pm
    #1
    HQvhs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Not a regular poster here at all.
    I'm just after watching RTE cut short Vincent Browne's questioning of Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan during the press conference tonight. Meanwhile, BBC News and Sky News continued to broadcast the remaining 2/3 minutes of the interview.

    I looked up RTE's complaints section and this is what it says:

    RTÉ is obliged under Section 39 (1) of the Broadcasting Act 2009 to ensure that

    (a) all news broadcast . is reported and presented in an objective and impartial manner and without any expression of the broadcaster's own views

    (b) the broadcast treatment of current affairs, including matters which are either of public controversy or the subject of current public debate is fair to all interests concerned and that the broadcast matter is presented in an objective and impartial manner and without any expression of his or her own views, except that should it prove impracticable in relation to a single broadcast to apply this paragraph, two or more related broadcasts may be considered as a whole, if the broadcasts are transmitted within a reasonable period of each other

    Now, in my opinion, RTE breached these obligations. By withholding information by way of cutting short the broadcast it introduced bias, and failed to air the event impartially. What is more, it would not have been impracticable to have continued to broadcast the remaining 2/3 minutes of the conference.

    Now, this may not be a huge deal considering the state of the country, but I think it is indicative of RTE's shoddy performance as a public service broadcaster, and I think it is worthy of complaint.

    What do you think?

    Also, if you agree, I encourage everyone to submit a complaint to:

    complaints@rte.ie
    Go here for how to make the complaint: http://www.rte.ie/about/complaints.html

    It takes 5 minutes!


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