Email to RTÉ complaints

Sykk

Emailed it..

PS: I can't believe so many stupid people could post in one thread.

eddison

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

Quote:
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

No mate they were away from their desk lol!

TheZohanS

Dear X,

PFO

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

Kind Regards,

RTÉ Information

Dear RTÈ,

I, along with many thousands of the Licence paying public, am not satisfied that you covered yesterdays events fully, therefore I am docking your wages and will not be paying my TV licence this year.

When you realise that you function is to offer a Public Service to the people of Ireland and carry out this duty in an unbiased and honest manner I will reconsider.


Regards,

TheZohan

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Cianos

Dear X
Standard reply, nlah blah wasn't our fault stfu.

Lovingly,
RTE

The Press Conference WAS the news. What is the worth in cutting to analysis of an event as the event is happening? Rather than carrying out your responsibility as the national broadcaster in giving full coverage to one of the most important events in the history of the state, you claim that your own analysis of the event was more important even though the event had not yet unfolded? Completely ridiculous, unprofessional and stinking of bias.

Cianos

:mad:

Huzzah! I got my reply.

Dear Mr. Bogman
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 Sunday's events fully and appropriately.
Kind Regards,
RTÉ Information Team

CiaranMT

Got their standard reply as well :rolleyes:

coffee_cake

CiaranMT wrote: »

Got their standard reply as well :rolleyes:

Me too :rolleyes:

Mr Bloat

Me three :rolleyes:

DualFrontDiscs

+1

_feedback_

CiaranMT wrote: »

Got their standard reply as well :rolleyes:

bluewolf wrote: »

Me too :rolleyes:

Sure, didn't ye all send off the same email to them?! :eek:

coffee_cake

elviscostello wrote: »

Sure, didn't ye all send off the same email to them?! :eek:

yeah
the response itself is rolleyes though rather than the uniform nature

Mr Bloat

elviscostello wrote: »

Sure, didn't ye all send off the same email to them?! :eek:

Nah, I made up my own one but still got the copy/paste response.

It's strange how something of this magnitude wasn't picked up by any media. Finally the Irish people are standing up - sure it's just an email and sure it was just a copy and paste job for most, but it is a start.

Thank you to all who emailed but this shouldn't be the end- keep going.

AnonoBoy

How many people emailed?

If it's just people off this thread then it's not really something huge.

Personally I'm directing my ire at the politicians not at RTE.

steddyeddy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

How many people emailed?

If it's just people off this thread then it's not really something huge.

Personally I'm directing my ire at the politicians not at RTE.

loads of people in my class at college did also

Fluorescence

I got a reply from them today:

Dear Aoife,

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 Sunday's events fully and appropriately.

Kind Regards,

RTÉ Information Team

Load of crap or do they have a point?

SeaFields

standard reply just received.

Dear Seafields,

Go fcuk yourself - we are right,

Signed,
All powerful state broadcaster.

*I may have paraphrased the reply.

prinz

fluorescence wrote: »

Load of crap or do they have a point?

They have a point.

citizen_p

emmm 2000 of the same word for word complaint isnt exactly amzing. theyll think they've been trolled

Craebear

fluorescence wrote: »

I got a reply from them today:



Load of crap or do they have a point?

I got the exact same reply.

EDIT: Reading back, looks like we all did, oh well it was more than I expected tbh.

starbelgrade

Sykk wrote: »

Emailed it..

PS: I can't believe so many stupid people could post in one thread.

I presume you are counting yourself, seeing as you posted here too.

Poly

Just got confirmation from the BAI that my complaint has been lodged, RTE have 21 days to respond.
Anyone else ?

Wompa1

Poly wrote: »

Just got confirmation from the BAI that my complaint has been lodged, RTE have 21 days to respond.
Anyone else ?

Just got sent the form from somebody there. Filled it in and returned. How do they come out with the fact 40 people complained about last nights episode of bladdy blah when the process takes so long.

Sanjuro

Emailed them. Got the copy and paste reply that everyone else got. Emailed them back after that. Await next reply. Probably be waiting a long, long time.

Wompa1

Mousey- wrote: »

emmm 2000 of the same word for word complaint isnt exactly amzing. theyll think they've been trolled

Mine wasn't the same word for word. The complaint I submitted to the BAI was my own words.

The Volt

I got the same reply too

Poly

Sanjuro wrote: »

Emailed them. Got the copy and paste reply that everyone else got. Emailed them back after that. Await next reply. Probably be waiting a long, long time.

From the BAI?

SuperInfinity

I don't know guys, I neither agree nor disagree with the OP's assessment of the topic... so I wouldn't really complain about it.

I'm VERY surprised that this type of mass emailing, spamming, is being not only allowed but condoned by the mods. I'll be making a complaint to the head admin about it.

Snakeblood

SuperInfinity wrote: »

I don't know guys, I neither agree nor disagree with the OP's assessment of the topic... so I wouldn't really complain about it.

I'm VERY surprised that this type of mass emailing, spamming, is being not only allowed but condoned by the mods. I'll be making a complaint to the head admin about it.

You're right. We should all complain to the head admin!

Wompa1

SuperInfinity wrote: »

I don't know guys, I neither agree nor disagree with the OP's assessment of the topic... so I wouldn't really complain about it.

I'm VERY surprised that this type of mass emailing, spamming, is being not only allowed but condoned by the mods. I'll be making a complaint to the head admin about it.

What is wrong with it? It's not spamming. All the OP did was make a suggestion, it's up to people how they take it and what they do. Nobody is forcing people to e-mail.

E-mailing a complaint is a very fair minded approach to addressing a concern. It's good that somebody actually suggested a constructive way to react rather than the usual garbage on here of whinging and not doing anything.

I don't see what the MODs should be censoring here?