Is RTE the doomiest and gloomiest TV/Radio station on the planet?

vicwatson

I mean, headline news every single day - ECB this, Bond Markets that, etc etc etc.

I imagine, by far, the majority of people don't want to hear this doom and gloom every single hour, every single news bulletin it's headline news.

Most people haven't a clue or don't care about Italy's inability to raise money on the bond market etc etc etc etc They want to get on with their lives, keep the head down etc.

RTE are so singled vision. They are turning everyone into an amateur economist.

Pathethic

Minstrel27

It kind of is important news seeing as the Euro is in trouble and we share the same currency as Italy. Maybe Xposé on TV3 might be up your street.

vicwatson

It kind of is important news seeing as the Euro is in trouble and we share the same currency as Italy

It's not only the euro crisis, RTE have been wittering on about recession etc etc etc for the last 4 years, have they no imagination and at least put this stuff second or third in the list, it's NOT of interest to the majority of people and I think I'm not the only one who is fed up listening to the same drivvle day after day.

Never saw Expose on TV3 - good is it?

telekon

vicwatson wrote: »

I mean, headline news every single day - ECB this, Bond Markets that, etc etc etc.

I imagine, by far, the majority of people don't want to hear this doom and gloom every single hour, every single news bulletin it's headline news.

Most people haven't a clue or don't care about Italy's inability to raise money on the bond market etc etc etc etc They want to get on with their lives, keep the head down etc.

RTE are so singled vision. They are turning everyone into an amateur economist.

Pathethic

This isn't a bad thing. We can now keep a closer eye on the shower in government and the decisions they make regarding the economy.

The Irish public's Laissez Faire attitude during the Celtic Tiger years was half the reason that crook Bertie and his inept party got away with destroying the country. :mad:

vicwatson

This isn't a bad thing. We can now keep a closer eye on the shower in government and the decisions they make regarding the economy.

The Irish public's Laissez Faire attitude during the Celtic Tiger years was half the reason that crook Bertie and his inept party got away with destroying the country.

What? like things have changed, how are we different now for monitoring our politicians or how or country is run vs say 5-10 years ago, there is no difference?

It's a bad thing as we have more than half of Ireland going around thinking they know it all about economics when clearly they don't.

It's a bad thing that RTE keep shovelling the same aul sh1te at us the people who pay for them to exist. There is more news in the world than purely economic news, yes economic news is important but not 24/7 headline news.

fryup

ah sure, haven't you got the angelus to cheer you up

Minstrel27

vicwatson wrote: »

Never saw Expose on TV3 - good is it?

You seem to be into fluffy non news items so maybe you will enjoy all of their celebrity gossip.

Aiel

Were'nt Rte brought before an Oireachtas Committee last year or the year before for being so negative,cynical etc?It wasnt just for their part in "talking up the recession" which they claimed they had a duty to do etc but it was also about intentionally not reporting on what can be described as "good" news stories which other Broadcasters were reporting on.Since they went before that committee you will now notice that the very last news item on the Six One news is a fluffy,bright,happy news story to leave your last thought about world affairs as a good one and to forget the previous hours news stories crammed full of negativism etc.

Long Room Hubba

I take your point, but I wish RTE had been a bit gloomier during the boom years. Their constant presentation of increases in house prices as "good news" was a terrible dereliction of duty. It was never good news for people who wanted to buy a house, and at turned out to be largely bad news for the country too.

Like all journalists, their vision is limited by their class and culture. They should try harder to rise above that, but I really don't see many good news stories that they are neglecting.

r3nu4l

I know this is about television but news is also on the radio too I'm a BBC Radio 4 listener n my commute to work and have to say that BBC R4 is also very interested in the Euro crisis and not in a gloating 'we're not a part of it' way either. Every day it's news about Italy, bond markets and only yesterday on the programme 'PM' we had loads of time devoted to examination of Italian te(ch)knocrats and Bond market instability as well as French troubles.

The fact is it is news and the results will have an effect on all of us. If RTÉ didn't cover it you'd be asking why they are ignoring the most important economic news and giving out about the fact that they still haven't learned from the collapse of the 'Celtic Tiger'.

I'm not the greatest fan of RTÉ but in this case they are at least doing the right thing.

vicwatson

The fact is it is news and the results will have an effect on all of us. If RTÉ didn't cover it you'd be asking why they are ignoring the most important economic news and giving out about the fact that they still haven't learned from the collapse of the 'Celtic Tiger'.

I'm not the greatest fan of RTÉ but in this case they are at least doing the right thing.

See my post -

It's a bad thing that RTE keep shovelling the same aul sh1te at us the people who pay for them to exist. There is more news in the world than purely economic news, yes economic news is important but not 24/7 headline news.

Just sayin'

mikom

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Maybe Xposé on TV3 might be up your street.

I prefer network 2's "The social" when I require a spoonful of shite.
Licence funded shite is so much more filling I find.

Andrew33

Nope! SKY News are the true purveyors of doom. gloom, disaster, crisis TV. Nothing is too small for SKY News to turn into a "World threatening" crisis.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say, we'd be well out of this recession and on the pigs bag if SKY News didn't exist.

goose2005

Aiel wrote: »

Were'nt Rte brought before an Oireachtas Committee last year or the year before for being so negative,cynical etc?It wasnt just for their part in "talking up the recession" which they claimed they had a duty to do etc but it was also about intentionally not reporting on what can be described as "good" news stories which other Broadcasters were reporting on.Since they went before that committee you will now notice that the very last news item on the Six One news is a fluffy,bright,happy news story to leave your last thought about world affairs as a good one and to forget the previous hours news stories crammed full of negativism etc.

RTE also ignored much bad news e.g. the IMF's arrival got more coverage abroad than it did at home.

Also, the phrase "doom and gloom" is stupid, I'm sick of people using it.

Go Harvey Go

telekon wrote: »

The Irish public's Laissez Faire attitude during the Celtic Tiger years was half the reason that crook Bertie and his inept party got away with destroying the country. :mad:

As someone who was born in London but has lived in Ireland for the last ten years, I wholeheartedly agree.

Riskymove

you obviously do not listen to Newstalk

apparantly even their owner had to ask them to stop being so gloomy:pac:

Richard Dower

Sky News is worse.

mikom

Are false accusations of rape classed as doom and gloom........

fryup

nationwide > arts & crafts:rolleyes:

capital D > arts & crafts:rolleyes:

ear to the ground > arts & crafts:rolleyes:

they have arts & crafts coming out of they're a*se