Midweek Tonight, 24/11

Buford T Justice

I was watching midweek tonight, and wanted to see what their take on this whole thing is. Personally, my interest is because Eddie hobbs is on, and I like his way of thinking. I find him very straight, and he doesn't speak in riddles.

Anyway, I wasn't 7 minutes into the show before they went to an outside broadcast from Grafton Street where their reporter Ciara Doherty was interviewing an IT professional who no longer had a job, but was speaking like an economist. She then interpreted his speech as a lot of 'anger, obviously'. All he did was re-iterate the rhetoric that was on Prime time. Seemingly that was anger.

Next was a 4th year college student who was finishing studies this year in teaching. She mentioned the new fees, and the difficulty in affording them, but basically said that she would be looking at emigration due to the fact that there would be no positions available within the Public Sector in the next while.

Ciara's summation of this interview was that you would have to believe the possibility of student protests!

WTF? How did she manage to draw that from the two sentences she was told? I got the impression that the show was totally biased and had no interest in having any sort of balance about the current situation.

I like Eddie Hobbs. He talks a lot of sense in times of confusion, and imo has the ability to spell things out clearly, unlike our present incumbents. So far he was the only one who has mentioned calling bluff on the CP agreement, and finds it hard to swallow when the union chiefs come out about the lowest earners in society, when all they give a toss about is their middle income earners and their annual subscription fees.

Now, I like Vincent Browne, even for all his ranting as he gives em stick, but asks the tough Questions. RTE have on many occasions been accused of being a state funded propaganda organisation, which I generally believe. However, tonight I believe that TV3 went further out of its way to paint a more biased picture than RTE did. Prime Time didn't even have FF on the panel for a line of defense, and they generally do.

I'm a bit aghast at TV3 on this. They are an independent station, unlike RTE, and I would have expected better.


Is it just me, or did anyone else notice this?

Yitzhak Rabin

Fingers McGee wrote: »

I was watching midweek tonight, and wanted to see what their take on this whole thing is. Personally, my interest is because Eddie hobbs is on, and I like his way of thinking. I find him very straight, and he doesn't speak in riddles.

Anyway, I wasn't 7 minutes into the show before they went to an outside broadcast from Grafton Street where their reporter Ciara Doherty was interviewing an IT professional who no longer had a job, but was speaking like an economist. She then interpreted his speech as a lot of 'anger, obviously'. All he did was re-iterate the rhetoric that was on Prime time. Seemingly that was anger.

Next was a 4th year college student who was finishing studies this year in teaching. She mentioned the new fees, and the difficulty in affording them, but basically said that she would be looking at emigration due to the fact that there would be no positions available within the Public Sector in the next while.

Ciara's summation of this interview was that you would have to believe the possibility of student protests!

WTF? How did she manage to draw that from the two sentences she was told? I got the impression that the show was totally biased and had no interest in having any sort of balance about the current situation.

I like Eddie Hobbs. He talks a lot of sense in times of confusion, and imo has the ability to spell things out clearly, unlike our present incumbents. So far he was the only one who has mentioned calling bluff on the CP agreement, and finds it hard to swallow when the union chiefs come out about the lowest earners in society, when all they give a toss about is their middle income earners and their annual subscription fees.

Now, I like Vincent Browne, even for all his ranting as he gives em stick, but asks the tough Questions. RTE have on many occasions been accused of being a state funded propaganda organisation, which I generally believe. However, tonight I believe that TV3 went further out of its way to paint a more biased picture than RTE did. Prime Time didn't even have FF on the panel for a line of defense, and they generally do.

I'm a bit aghast at TV3 on this. They are an independent station, unlike RTE, and I would have expected better.


Is it just me, or did anyone else notice this?

He has zero credibility in my eyes after watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riFSbr-TgTg

nesf

TV3 is just crap tbh. Tonight with Vincent Browne is just a one man ranting platform, watchable sure, but some of the crap on it last night where basic maths was being ****ed up by people trying to calculate how much would be owed by the Irish taxpayer was disgraceful.

Buford T Justice

yekahs wrote: »

He has zero credibility in my eyes after watching this:

Fair point. I'm not saying I always agree with his flavor of advice, but I agree with his explanation of things. His opinion is irrespective, it's his explanations that I warrant.

nesf wrote: »

TV3 is just crap tbh. Tonight with Vincent Browne is just a one man ranting platform, watchable sure, but some of the crap on it last night where basic maths was being ****ed up by people trying to calculate how much would be owed by the Irish taxpayer was disgraceful.

True. However, I would have expected better from an independent station. Silly me for getting my hopes up.

the groutch

Yes we should all take advice from the face of Brendan Investments, who was persuading us all to invest in property in 2007

oscarBravo

Moved from Politics.