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RTE's Apparent Fixation on Suffering

  • 07-09-2011 12:18am
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I was watching a show on RTE earlier this evening about the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dublin and a number of the patients there. Most are paralysed for life, some severely so. One child in the hospital has had recurrent cancer and brain lesions. :( It makes for humbling, sometimes inspiring and often depressing viewing.

    Now, it has struck me that RTE have a lot of shows on their schedule on illnesses, struggling against chronic illnesses, suffering and past abuse - programmes like Would You Believe? when families have children die young etc.

    Why so much of this type of programme content on RTE? Is it a hangover from our collective sense of Catholic guilt? A sense of charity and caring for those less fortunate? Or a need to be humbled at others' misfortunes? IMO you never see anywhere near the amount of these programmes on other TV channels.

    Any thoughts?


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  • #2
    Deathwish4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    Everybody loves grief.


  • #3
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Propaganda, now theres real hardship and suffering for ya, now get back down to the coal face whilst we rape ye in taxes to repay our EU/IMF masters whilst making Fianna Fail crony builders and developers filthy rick by socializing their debts.

    RTÉ - Just another tool of Government propaganda.


  • #4
    yerraya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭yerraya


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I was watching a show on RTE earlier this evening about the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dublin and a number of the patients there. Most are paralysed for life, some severely so. One child in the hospital has had recurrent cancer and brain lesions. :( It makes for humbling, sometimes inspiring and often depressing viewing.

    Now, it has struck me that RTE have a lot of shows on their schedule on illnesses, struggling against chronic illnesses, suffering and past abuse - programmes like Would You Believe? when families have children die young etc.

    Why so much of this type of programme content on RTE? Is it a hangover from our collective sense of Catholic guilt? A sense of charity and caring for those less fortunate? Or a need to be humbled at others' misfortunes? IMO you never see anywhere near the amount of these programmes on other TV channels.

    Any thoughts?

    TV3 Have also been at it of late


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