Email to RTÉ complaints

mike65

Matt Cooper asked RTE to comment in person but they issued a statement instead which will be read out soon.

Mal-Adjusted

Nodster wrote: »

How long for the actual reply? should I put the kettle on?

I e-mailed a complaint when the idiots said that Ennis was in Limerick. it took about 3 days to get a reply. i was quite surprised because when i got the automatic reply, i thought that was that

mike65

This is the statement which is the standard reply to all complaints/queries on this matter

RTÉ ran comprehensive coverage of the events surrounding the Cabinet meeting of Sunday 21st November.The in-depth interview with the Minister for Finance on This Week on RTÉ Radio 1, providing confirmation that Ireland would be seeking a financial rescue package, set the afternoon news agenda. Detailed analysis of the story was provided on the Six One News which had an average audience of 636,000 and there was live coverage on RTÉ One of the Government press conference between 8.30 and 9.00pm. At 9.00pm we switched to an extended edition of the Nine O’Clock News and at 10.30pm there was an extended edition of The Week in Politics. Our online news service on rte.ie ran the full Government press conference which continued for just three minutes after we finished coverage on TV.

There has been a suggestion that we in some way censored Vincent Browne’s questioning of the Taoiseach for reasons of commercial rivalry with TV3. This is far from being the case. Our news special ran for half an hour and contained a number of questions from various journalists including our own, some international broadcasters and from TV3 both Ursula Halligan and Vincent Browne whose first four questions were broadcast before we returned briefly to studio for analysis and then went to the extended Nine O’Clock News. The News Special attracted an average audience of 364,000 compared to 35,000 for Sky News’ coverage of the same event.

RTÉ One, being a mixed channel and not a specialist News channel, has to serve audience needs other than News. That said, on a night of intense national drama, it was imperative that the Nine O’Clock news went to air on time for the huge audience (average 769,000) who switched to us to find out the latest developments. To mark the seriousness of the day’s events, The Week in Politics was brought forward to 10.30 pm, broadcast live and extended, and received an average audience figure of 359,000.
RTÉ News is satisfied that it covered yesterday’s events fully and appropriately.
Kind Regards,
RTÉ Information

mikom

The News Special attracted an average audience of 364,000 compared to 35,000 for Sky News’ coverage of the same event.

Here's a figure I just pulled out of my arse.

To mark the seriousness of the day’s events, The Week in Politics was brought forward to 10.30 pm, broadcast live and extended, and received an average audience figure of 359,000.
RTÉ News is satisfied that it covered yesterday’s events fully and appropriately.
Kind Regards,
RTÉ Information

Translation: If you don't like it, you can swivel.

Tazzer

Methinks Biffo and RTE went to the same school of "blamelessness".

th3 s1aught3r

RTE coverage of current affairs is generally fairly abismal. The fact that they are funded by the license payer as well as having advertising revenue gives them comfort that other stations do not have. They are overpaid and not up to it in many cases
I would much rather watch Vincent Browne on TV3 as he askes the tough questions. Hes not as good as Paxman on the BBC as Browne is always slightly unprepared but is much better than Brian Dobson imo

Between the OP of this thread and the original post itself by themadhair there are 257 thanks - I'm hoping that the people who have shown their thanks have also emailed RTÉ. If you have emailed, but haven't thanked please do so on my post here or on themadhair's post here.

We can then use that to gauge how many people have emailed RTÉ. And to show that this is not some post whoring exercise, the mods are more than welcome to delete the first post of this thread whenever they want.

Wompa1

mikom wrote: »

Here's a figure I just pulled out of my arse.






Translation: If you don't like it, you can swivel.

Hello Again,

"The News Special attracted an average audience of 364,000 compared to 35,000 for Sky News’ coverage of the same event."

I believe that figure and I would assume that viewership on Ireland main broadcaster would be much larger than that watching on Sky which makes the fact coverage was cut away even more unforgivable. The people paying their TV license fees are the same people that will be hugely effected by this news and RTE let the country down as they do very often. I will be making a complaint to the BCI as I don't feel my query was handled, I don't believe there was any rivarlry issues, rather poor coverage of a very important event in our nations history.

My spelling is atrocious as wrote it while playing a video game but the point is kind of clear...

Has this been picked up by any media at all? Would be very strange if nobody has.

Standard Toaster

RTÉ rejects criticism of coverage "never intended to censor Vincent Browne's questioning of Taoiseach" http://bit.ly/bl66yF

RTÉ rejects criticism of coverage

RONAN MCGREEVY
RTÉ has rejected criticism of its coverage of last night’s press conference at which details of Ireland’s application for a bailout were revealed.
The broadcaster insisted it never intended to censor Vincent Browne's questioning of Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the press conference.
Browne was subjecting the Taoiseach to a strong line of questioning when RTÉ returned to the studio.
In a statement issued by RTÉ News this evening, it said it was "far from being the case" that it cut off its live feed and returned to the studio because Browne works for a rival broadcaster TV3.
The statement said that it cut away after four "fairly similar questions" from Browne.
The station also cut away from the press conference because it was getting too close to the Nine O'Clock News, for which a huge audience was expected.
“RTÉ News is satisfied that it covered yesterday’s events fully and appropriately.”
There was criticism too of RTÉ's not broadcasting live the Green Party press conference which effectively pulled the plug on the Government.
RTÉ's Pat Kenny Show continued to broadcast an item with accordion player Liam O'Connor at the same time as the Green Party leader John Gormley called for a date to be set for a general election by the end of January.
RTÉ said it received "very little notice" of the press conference which was announced at short notice and it was not possible to arrange a live feed.
Dozens of viewers vented their anger on Twitter and RTÉ's Facebook page over both items, arguing that Sky News and the BBC covered both press conferences in greater detail.

"Dozens of viewers vented their anger on Twitter and RTÉ's Facebook page over both items, arguing that Sky News and the BBC covered both press conferences in greater detail."

Dozens?

So no mention of the 200+ people who emailed them complaining.

allanb49

Email i got from RTE

Dear Allan,

RTÉ ran comprehensive coverage of the events surrounding the Cabinet meeting of Sunday 21st November. The in-depth interview with the Minister for Finance on This Week on RTÉ Radio 1, providing confirmation that Ireland would be seeking a financial rescue package, set the afternoon news agenda. Detailed analysis of the story was provided on the Six One News which had an average audience of 636,000 and there was live coverage on RTÉ One of the Government press conference between 8.30 and 9.00pm. At 9.00pm we switched to an extended edition of the Nine O’Clock News and at 10.30pm there was an extended edition of The Week in Politics. Our online news service on rte.ie ran the full Government press conference which continued for just three minutes after we finished coverage on TV.

There has been a suggestion that we in some way censored Vincent Browne’s questioning of the Taoiseach for reasons of commercial rivalry with TV3. This is far from being the case. Our news special ran for half an hour and contained a number of questions from various journalists including our own, some international broadcasters and from TV3 both Ursula Halligan and Vincent Browne whose first four questions were broadcast before we returned briefly to studio for analysis and then went to the extended Nine O’Clock News. The News Special attracted an average audience of 364,000 compared to 35,000 for Sky News’ coverage of the same event.

RTÉ One, being a mixed channel and not a specialist News channel, has to serve audience needs other than News. That said, on a night of intense national drama, it was imperative that the Nine O’Clock news went to air on time for the huge audience (average 769,000) who switched to us to find out the latest developments. To mark the seriousness of the day’s events, The Week in Politics was brought forward to 10.30 pm, broadcast live and extended, and received an average audience figure of 359,000.

RTÉ News is satisfied that it covered yesterday’s events fully and appropriately.

Kind Regards,

RTÉ Information

Cookie_Monster

another quality reply from a state body to a complaint:

Dear C Monster Esq,

PFO

Kind regards
Some RTE stooge

Happyman42

RTÉ One, being a mixed channel and not a specialist News channel, has to serve audience needs other than News. That said, on a night of intense national drama, it was imperative that the Nine O’Clock news went to air on time for the huge audience (average 769,000) who switched to us to find out the latest developments

Perfectly reasonable and right thing for the National Broadcaster to do imo.

Dyr

Their facebuke page looks like its down :pac:

oceanclub

Anne Doyle and Davin-Power agreeing with each other that Cowen put in a "strong performance". Shameless.

P.

Donkey Oaty

Deleted User wrote: »

complaints@rte.ie

To whom it may concern

I can't be the only person who thought immediately thought...

it's The Late Late Show

...can I?

ascanbe

Happyman42 wrote: »

RTÉ One, being a mixed channel and not a specialist News channel, has to serve audience needs other than News. That said, on a night of intense national drama, it was imperative that the Nine O’Clock news went to air on time for the huge audience (average 769,000) who switched to us to find out the latest developments

Perfectly reasonable and right thing for the National Broadcaster to do imo.

Surely the best way to 'find out the latest developments', would be to have the opportunity to watch the press-conference, in its entirety, as it occured.
How does cutting away from live footage of what was bound to be the head-line story, in order to present the nation with the 'news', make any sense?
The press-conference was the 'news'.

eddison

Where do RTE get these people- these reporters? If I could call them that.
RTE are partially responsible for all that has happened. If they had of taken the Government to task, and exposed what was happening, we might have averted being made the butt of jokes across the EU, and owing 90 billion.

But RTE are soft, and employ people they know that do not have the backbone to do their job. They employ people like that because Fianna Fail are extremely vindictive, and down the line, they will 'get' RTE, and RTE know it lol!

So RTE keep their heads down in case they get shot at. M
Sadly more bricks in the wall.

Happyman42

ascanbe wrote: »

Surely the best way to 'find out the latest developments', would be to have the opportunity to watch the press-conference, in its entirety, as it occured.
How does cutting away from live footage of what was bound to be the head-line story, in order to present the nation with the 'news', make any sense?
The press-conference was the 'news'.

So how many full press conferences have you seen broadcast by any of the main tv stations? An editorial decision is always taken....always...to cut back to the studio for analysis. Feck sake lets be reasonable people!

Donkey Oaty

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

I can't be the only person who thought immediately thought...



...can I?

Anytime I write a formal letter that starts with "To Whom it May Concern" I always, without fail, mutter "This is the Late Late Show" to myself under my breath.

mfceiling

Happyman42 wrote: »

RTÉ One, being a mixed channel and not a specialist News channel, has to serve audience needs other than News. That said, on a night of intense national drama, it was imperative that the Nine O’Clock news went to air on time for the huge audience (average 769,000) who switched to us to find out the latest developments

Perfectly reasonable and right thing for the National Broadcaster to do imo.

Certainly was.........the whole of carrigstown found out that suzanne was beating 7 kinds of shíte out of damien


By the way i emailed rte as well

Dyr

Happyman42 wrote: »

So how many full press conferences have you seen broadcast by any of the main tv stations? An editorial decision is always taken....always...to cut back to the studio for analysis. Feck sake lets be reasonable people!

You better tell the BBC and sky news that they handled it all wrong so.

Mister men

oceanclub wrote: »

Anne Doyle and Davin-Power agreeing with each other that Cowen put in a "strong performance". Shameless.

P.

WTF. :pac: A strong performance. Where do they find these goons.

ascanbe

Happyman42 wrote: »

So how many full press conferences have you seen broadcast by any of the main tv stations? An editorial decision is always taken....always...to cut back to the studio for analysis. Feck sake lets be reasonable people!

This was a press-conference to announce one of the most important decisions in the history of this state; agruably the most important.
RTE is the state broadcaster; it recieves tax-payers money and has a public-service remit.
Do RTE really believe that they should cut to their 'analysis' as the event they are analysing continues to un-fold?
Wondering about this is in no way being unreasonable.

Happyman42

ascanbe wrote: »

This was a press-conference to announce one of the most important decisions in the history of this state; agruably the most important.

And they covered it.....then it digressed into a tired self-serving repetitive rant.

ascanbe wrote: »

RTE is the state broadcaster; it recieves tax-payers money and has a public-service remit.
Do RTE really believe that they should cut to their 'analysis' as the event they are analysing continues to un-fold?
Wondering about this is in no way being unreasonable.

Maybe it was a bad editorial decision (in my opinion it was right and professional) but this cry of Pro FF RTE is ridiculous. As I type Fintan O'Toole a known FF detractor is lambasting the government.

Dudess

Yeah, the FF representative isn't getting an easy time on The Frontline right now - not just courtesy of Fintan O'Toole, but also Pat Kenny.

Dudess

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah, the FF representative isn't getting an easy time on The Frontline right now - not just courtesy of Fintan O'Toole, but also Pat Kenny.

What was said?

squire23

Ah, this has to be the best one....

RTÉ said it received "very little notice" of the press conference [Greens] which was announced at short notice and it was not possible to arrange a live feed.

Via irishtimes.com

So everyone else managed to get there but not the State broadcastor... it must've clashed with coffee break god love them

sdanseo

starbelgrade wrote: »

When you are made a Mod you can tell posters what to do - until then, I will post whatever the fuck I like.

boneyarse was right, but that was a ****ing hilarious retort. :P:cool::pac: