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News at One pomposity!

  • 14-06-2011 12:42pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭


    Seriously is anyone listening to these last few minutes? You'd swear Brian Lenihan had cured cancer and climate change.


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  • #2
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Sickening stuff


  • #3
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,847 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    With all the talk of greek, I expected David Norris to flounce onto the airwaves.:cool:


  • #4
    miketv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭miketv


    Yeah I thought it had run its course over the weekend, Its still heading the news almost a week on.


  • #5
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    I thought there was only one Grinch in the world, and that he only came out at Christmas.


  • #6
    steelcityblues
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    More proof that State broadcasters are propaganda outlets, behind the benign image.


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  • #7
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    FF may be gone from office but RTE still knows who really runs the show.


  • #8
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,932 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    What went on today was outrageous.I couldn't believe my ears with the crap John Waters was coming out with,that was bad enough.Then Sean O'Rourke read out a poem in Irish.
    Am I missing something here? RIP and all that but this coverage is disproportionate.


  • #9
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,922 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    FF may be gone from office but RTE still knows who really runs the show.

    Ah so FF are still in charge? Thanks for that.


  • #10
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Within RTE, FF still run the show.


  • #11
    Derryleigh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Derryleigh


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    FF may be gone from office but RTE still knows who really runs the show.


    How would someone with 23,000 posts on this site have a clue about anything else going on in the world!!! Holy Mariah!, 23,000, thats 23 thousand posts!


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  • #12
    Derryleigh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Derryleigh


    mike65 wrote: »
    Seriously is anyone listening to these last few minutes? You'd swear Brian Lenihan had cured cancer and climate change.


    Hold on a bell,..............65,000 posts. How sore are your fingers??
    Do you get out often?


  • #13
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    A quality contribution.


  • #14
    Derryleigh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Derryleigh


    mike65 wrote: »
    A quality contribution.


    You mean your own suggestion relating to a dead man was quality?

    Back into your dark little bunker with the few cans of Dutch gold there now. Good man,


  • #15
    furiousox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,151 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Anyhoo, back on topic.....

    I thought Waters' eulogy today was sickening.
    Maudlin f'ing drivel.
    Even Brian Lenihan would have been embarrassed by it.

    CPL 593H



  • #16
    JonathanAnon
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    Yeah I thought it was way over the top.. News At One is meant to tell us the news dispassionately, those poems at the end were just embarrassing..


  • #17
    PaulieBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭PaulieBoy


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Yeah I thought it was way over the top.. News At One is meant to tell us the news dispassionately, those poems at the end were just embarrassing..
    I found it hard enough to put up with the first poem, but no, they had to do more... totally over the top.


  • #18
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    furiousox wrote: »
    Anyhoo, back on topic.....

    I thought Waters' eulogy today was sickening.
    Maudlin f'ing drivel.
    Even Brian Lenihan would have been embarrassed by it.

    Waters should be locked into a room and played a looped recording of that drivel until he curls up into a ball and shivers with shame.


  • #19
    furiousox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,151 ✭✭✭furiousox


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE_K7eM2wl8

    CPL 593H



  • #20
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,922 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Within RTE, FF still run the show.

    Really??? And of course you can back this up???


  • #21
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Who appointed the current DG and board of RTE? FF of course


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  • #22
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    mike65 wrote: »
    You'd swear Brian Lenihan had cured cancer
    Very clever choice of hyperbole. :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #23
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    True and I didn't even think about that angle, so it was unintended. Still he won't care but he'd probably been uncomfortable at such a carry-on in his name. Sean O'Rourke nearly sounded sorry for himself.


  • #24
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,435 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/06/14/rte-radios-coverage-of-brian-lenihans-death/


  • #25
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Yeah I thought it was way over the top.. News At One is meant to tell us the news dispassionately, those poems at the end were just embarrassing..

    Bang on the money, well said

    By all means mention his passing talk to colleagues and friends but no poems please.

    But then again with FF lackey Sean O'Rourke at the helm it was no surprise:cool:


  • #26
    Wester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭Wester


    For all that I disagreed with his policies and the ruination they have brought to the country, I can't help but think that on a personal basis, Brian Lenihan was a modest man. So why RTE felt the need to go ott on the News at One is beyond me, I don't think Brian Lenihan would have approved at all. Of course, John Waters is an egomaniac who would do anything to get on the airwaves but I had respect for Sean O'Rourke until yesterday. The News at One should be exactly that, the News, not puff pieces.


  • #27
    decies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭decies


    He was a modest man who fought the battle well, but his career and overall contribution to Irish politics was short and sweet certainly not garret Fitzgerald like. RIP


  • #28
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    decies wrote: »
    He was a modest man who fought the battle well, but his career and overall contribution to Irish politics was short and sweet certainly not garret Fitzgerald like. RIP
    Never saw anything great economically about Garrets political career.I think Brian did his best but his decisions were a disaster for his country and this over the top stuff would have embarrased him and an excuse for some of these idiots to say i knew Brian and look how clever i am because i know greek to.thats the trouble with irish journalism,they think they should be part of the story and if they are not they will crowbar their way in to it anyway a la Sunday Independant.


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