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Email to RTÉ complaints

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    #62
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    I already sent a mail complaining. The only reason that conference should have been cut short on television is a technical breakdown. It was a ****ing joke and they can whistle for their ****ing licence if they pull **** like that.

    I'm the angriest I have been in years. I got punched in the face for no reason once, and I was still calmer than right now.
    Elmo wrote: »
    info@tv3.ie

    Dear TV3 news,

    Thank you for not interrupting coverage of X-Factor for that dreary press conference over on RTÉ One. I think I heard one of your presenters on there before it was quickly taken off the air, I turned back to TV3 patriotically to see what's happening with Mary Byrne.

    Kind regards,

    Avid Viewer.
    Nodster wrote: »
    I hope you didn't sign yourself off as boneyarsedbogman?

    anyroad, they acknowledged mine with

    Thank you for contacting complaints@rte.ie. Your e-mail will be responded to as soon as possible.

    RTÉ Corporate Communications

    Go raibh maith agat as ucht do theagmhála chuig complaints@rte.ie. Cuirfear freagra ort a thúisce agus is féidir linn.

    How long for the actual reply? should I put the kettle on?
    upandcumming wrote: »
    People that e-mail this are dicks.

    upandcumming banned for personal abuse.


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    #63
    flynnlives
    Registered Users Posts: 739 ✭✭✭flynnlives


    For me tonight's shambolic coverage of the Irish Gov. application for money from the ECB/IMF is the final straw.

    I first learnt about the press conference on BBC News, then on Sky News, was to be held at 8.15.
    I switched to RTE and also checked their website only to see nothing.
    Granted RTE are not a news channel but they at least could have put up a newsflash that a press conference was going to take place.

    Instead i had to learn about it from the foreign media.

    This is just a long litany of rubbish i have come accustomed to from RTE. They never ask proper questions. Week after week we are treated to lame interviews of politicians on primetime in which the interviewers like Miriam O'Callaghan never ask hard hitting questions and allow politicians to waffle on and on.
    The vast majority of it is pre-recorded also.

    Question and Answers was no better, the questions and topics for discussion where given to the politicians hours before the show. again allowing them time to learn off answers and waffle.

    We also have the completely biased situation were Ryan Tubridy, a known Fianna Fail supporter, gives easy interviews to gov. ministers and goes hell for leather into opposition TD's.
    Only recently we had a disgraceful interview in which Willie O Dea, a man who committed perjury, was allowed to waffle on about how he was the victim etc.
    Not once did Tubridy ask him about the court case, our how he attempted to ruin a political opponents good name. He just conveniently ignored it.
    Bertie and Cowen got easy interviews also.

    Kenny and Gilmore on the other hand got hard-hitting questions, talked over and generally were dismissed.

    The same bias occurs on Joe Duffy. Joe constantly defends the gov. and shouts down people or cuts them off.

    Both Duffy and Tubridy afaik are paid 600k and 400k respectively. How is this allowed.
    Pat Kenny earns 800k. Marian Finunican gets 500k for 4 hours on the radio a week!!
    She said in an interview recently, justifying her wage, that the rest of the week she listens to the radio and watches the telly as research!! FFS!

    We also see ridiculous bias in Brendan O'Connor. Note he also writes for the sunday Independent. He wrote an article in 2007 entitled "The smart, ballsy guys are buying up property". His show is also littered with gibes and slurs towards the opposition TD's. He also defended Bertie and Cowen over the Moriarty tribunal, even calling for it to be shut down.

    Ive always heard via friends and here that RTE is a closed shop. Its impossible to get a job there unless you are either someones son/daughter or know someone on high.


    IMO RTE should either be shut or completely reformed.
    It is clear now that it has become lazy and inefficient at performing its duty.
    Like our current politic establishment it needs a complete clean out.

    We pay the license fee. We pay their wages. We are therefore entitled, also legally, to unbiased news and programmes.

    It is now clear that RTE is so rife with cronyism, nepotism and in tonight's case, unprofessionalism, that it should be abolished.

    I also believe that the wider Irish paper media have been completely incompetent in their coverage. How are sitting TD's and Senators allowed to write opinion pieces in papers? It amounts to nothing more then a free party political broadcast. These imo should be made illegal.

    Enough is enough. RTE aren't fooling anybody anymore.


    Discuss...


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    #64
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    You're only realising this now?


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    #65
    flynnlives
    Registered Users Posts: 739 ✭✭✭flynnlives


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    You're only realising this now?

    Im calling for it to be reformed/abolished.
    Everyone is well aware of their bias.
    Its time something was actually done about it.


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    #66
    Dean820
    Registered Users Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Dean820


    Ah, could be worse.


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    #67
    the_rovers_one
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭the_rovers_one


    Go to America and look at their news stations. Then come back here and try and call RTE bias.

    All they need is a huge overhaul. Their not short on bloody money either so a launch of a News Channel might be worth a shot.


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    #68
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    not short on money

    lolllllllllllllllllllll


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    #69
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    I very rarely watch RTE and when I do, I quickly have to flick to another channel. Tonight's shambolic coverage being an example of this. It wasn't to long ago that Brian Dobson was coaching politicians in how to evade questions and not answer them. RTE are a bit like tits on a bull - totally useless.


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    #70
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    http://www.wheelspinninghamsterdead.com/image/archive/twobrians/00021-pravda.jpg


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    #71
    Dean820
    Registered Users Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Dean820


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    http://www.wheelspinninghamsterdead.com/image/archive/twobrians/00021-pravda.jpg

    Very talented drawer there.


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    #72
    ac02ire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭ac02ire


    one of the reasons i point blank refuse to pay for a tv licence (presenter wages and my lack of being the main reason)


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    #73
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Sell the fuckin' thing off.
    Lets see how it copes in the real world without its strap-on of a licence.


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    #74
    Mrmoe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    the_rovers_one wrote: »
    Go to America and look at their news stations. Then come back here and try and call RTE bias.

    All they need is a huge overhaul. Their not short on bloody money either so a launch of a News Channel might be worth a shot.

    Those news channels are not publicly funded except for NPR as far as I am aware and the GOP are looking to cut their funding due to their sacking of Juan Wiilliams as a result of bias at the network. They do hold their publicly funded bodies accountable much more so than here.


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    #75
    bc dub
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭bc dub


    it saddens me to read that knowing its all completely true, op. its no wonder education will be hit in the cuts, thick people who take heed of rte news are easier to control.


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    #76
    bonzos
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭bonzos


    I would not be surprised if Ryan Tub had Mammy ORourke on this morning telling us that we are in safe hands!


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    #77
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i'll email RTE alright

    over there lazy programming, Gaybo Laughs Back its just a rerun of the DvD they had for sale a few years back ffs!


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    #78
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭touts


    People should flood Pat Kenny with complaining texts. Number is 51551. If he doesn't comment on it then we will know that we now live in a censored dictatorship.


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    #79
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    123balltv wrote: »
    I always watch sky news dont like RTE
    they are professionals with news, weather etc Irish telly is crap everything Irish is going to be crap for years and years to come

    This is great. I'm going to print t-shirts with this on it. This is what being Irish is all about and I love it - BRING ON THE MISERY!


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    #80
    locomo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭locomo


    bonzos wrote: »
    I would not be surprised if Ryan Tub had Mammy ORourke on this morning telling us that we are in safe hands!

    lol this fianna fail republican creep Tubrity had the gall today to tell us how to behave - all right for him on 4 or 5 hundred grand a year of licence payers money. Question night on BBC the other night handled / summerised our economic problems better than RTE could in 100 years. Most people do not listen or watch RTE these days. Scrap RTE, save the Irish taxpayer hundreds of millions a year.


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    #81
    locomo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭locomo


    mikom wrote: »
    Sell the fuckin' thing off.
    Lets see how it copes in the real world without its strap-on of a licence.

    +1. I know a technician who works there and even he privately admits he is way overpaid for what he does + he is so lucky to have a job there.


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    #82
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    After Hours is the new Joe Duffy Forum on Boards.ie.


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    #83
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    After Hours is the new Joe Duffy Forum on Boards.ie.

    sure sure


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    #84
    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    orourkeda wrote: »
    sure sure

    Ye don't say, that's gas, no go on, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go on, sure....


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    #85
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    After Hours is the new Joe Duffy Forum on Boards.ie.

    SPEAKING AS A MOTHER JOE


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    #86
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Revolution9 wrote: »
    Hey we aren't speaking German, yet.
    Haddockman wrote: »
    We soon will be.

    No, we won't. Honestly, we will not be speaking German any time soon. Not unwillingly anyway.

    Comprende?


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    #87
    Buceph
    Registered Users Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    After Hours is the new Joe Duffy Forum on Boards.ie.

    I'm a wurker joe, it's about teh wurkers.


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    #88
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    out of curiousity how have TG4 been reporting this ?

    IIRC RTE provides the news service for them


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    #89
    Cat Melodeon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭Cat Melodeon


    Terry wrote: »
    No, we won't. Honestly, we will not be speaking German any time soon. Not unwillingly anyway.

    Comprende?

    Selbstverständlich.


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    #90
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    prinz wrote: »
    Ye don't say, that's gas, no go on, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go on, sure....

    stay there


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    #91
    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    orourkeda wrote: »
    stay there

    Ah no Joe, I can't stay on any longer, me bleedin' blood's boiled listenin' to that Joe comin' ourra dat fella ya have on, and the kettle's boiled too Joe... go on, good luck to ya Joe.


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