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RTEs lunchtime news is sinking....throw 'em a liveline!

  • 13-03-2012 1:35pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Its all going horribly wrong.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Who is she?

    She is not great in fairness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,048 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Who is she?

    She is not great in fairness

    Roisín Duffy - been around a long time, usually does the serious news hour weekend lunchtimes. She's usually very good, but not having a good day today :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Roisín Duffy - been around a long time, usually does the serious news hour weekend lunchtimes. She's usually very good, but not having a good day today :D


    or yesterday. embarrassing listening to her defending RTE Tweet affair.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭GSF


    As the early retirees have left, it amazing the number of RTE staffers that have suddenly been drafted in to read the news. Begs the question as to what they were doing before?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    It's amazing the number of RTE staff who have tried to defend the indefensible regarding tweetgate.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    ootbitb wrote: »
    or yesterday. embarrassing listening to her defending RTE Tweet affair.

    was she the one that got very defensive and said "we" in relation to RTE instead of seperating herself and the institution from the issue ?

    i only heard that clip as someone buggered up the business section on RTE.IE and linked that peice by accident to one on leo varadkar saying the gov wernt backing the sale of AL to jetblue that i was trying to find.

    yeah bit of a disaster today.

    you could practically hear the "tic tock" of the seconds as they dragged by to all that silence.

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Was it on Panorama (Richard Dimbleby) where one line went down live and then the other line went down....cue nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Who is she?

    She is not great in fairness

    hear hear

    the wan who does 'what it says in the papers' lacks the necessary wit of John S. Doyle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    BrianD wrote: »
    It's amazing the number of RTE staff who have tried to defend the indefensible regarding tweetgate.

    it did however expose a liar, who could have been our president ergo pat the plank performed a public service.


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


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    it did however expose a liar, who could have been our president ergo pat the plank performed a public service.
    I agree! Except that it's not his job. The whole thing smells at this stage, including Labour's there is nothing to see move on attitude.
    As to the newsreader, I also agree, she is terrible! The show sounded like a transition year project.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    GSF wrote: »
    As the early retirees have left, it amazing the number of RTE staffers that have suddenly been drafted in to read the news. Begs the question as to what they were doing before?

    Is O'Rourke gone ? :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,990 ✭✭✭squonk


    Was just thinking the same thing. It'd be a shame if he was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    If he had retired Im sure it would be in the papers etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    I'd say he's off golfing.

    Tell me something

    Is it ROSH SHEEN Duffy OR ROW SHEEN Duffy

    To me it should be ROW SHEEN but alas RTE/She herself calls it ROSH SHEEN ?

    She is quite rubbish on this programme too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭denishurley


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I'd say he's off golfing.

    Tell me something

    Is it ROSH SHEEN Duffy OR ROW SHEEN Duffy

    To me it should be ROW SHEEN but alas RTE/She herself calls it ROSH SHEEN ?

    She is quite rubbish on this programme too

    Surely it's up to a person as to how his or her own name should be pronounced?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I'd say he's off golfing.

    Tell me something

    Is it ROSH SHEEN Duffy OR ROW SHEEN Duffy

    To me it should be ROW SHEEN but alas RTE/She herself calls it ROSH SHEEN ?

    She is quite rubbish on this programme too

    terrible dronal pronunciation ......... painful to listen to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Park Royal


    Actually enjoyed her diction......

    and her news delivery......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Surely it's up to a person as to how his or her own name should be pronounced?


    Why answer a question with a question?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I'd say he's off golfing.

    Tell me something

    Is it ROSH SHEEN Duffy OR ROW SHEEN Duffy

    To me it should be ROW SHEEN but alas RTE/She herself calls it ROSH SHEEN ?

    She is quite rubbish on this programme too

    Rosh een must be the RTE way of pronouncing it. she might think it sounds posh and the original pronunciation bogger like.some folk just cannot tolerate a Gaelic name. Maybe she should change it to Rosaleen.

    not only do people in this country have the unusual habit of translating names or trying to angliscise them, but they also meddle with the pronunciation.
    just like in Dublin Sorcha tends to be pronounced as Sore sha.

    maybe they will move on to Deirdre being pronounced as Dear dree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    my friend wrote: »
    terrible dronal pronunciation ......... painful to listen to.

    maybe she should try to be herself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Lapin wrote: »
    Is O'Rourke gone ? :(

    Please say it isn't so... :(

    though I haven't tuned in much recently.... at least his pic is still on the RTE streaming thingy! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 citymedia


    Hang on a minute. What's tweetgate?

    point me to some tweets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    citymedia wrote: »
    Hang on a minute. What's tweetgate?

    point me to some tweets.

    Did you miss the whole "Seán Gallagher/Frontline/Presidential Debate/Bogus Tweet" story? It was quite popular...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 citymedia


    Bard wrote: »
    Did you miss the whole "Seán Gallagher/Frontline/Presidential Debate/Bogus Tweet" story? It was quite popular...

    I heard a little something about it, but to be honest most of these so-called controversies that come out of political debates are total non-stories and should be treated with the utter contempt they deserve.

    And technically, there's no such thing as a bogus tweet. Tweets can be misattributed on twitter, I've seen it happen many times, usually when a tweet is sent directly to more than one address. If a tweet appeared on an account, it's not bogus. And since the only way to send tweets is to be logged on to an account, there's no such thing as a bogus tweet.

    But apart from all that, what actually happened?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭JoeGil


    Hi Rosheen my name is Joe but I pronounce it Mick. Probably like yourself I've noticed it confuses a lot of people. Maybe we could make a deal to get back to calling it as it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Where was Sean O'Rourke? Quality presenter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Cardinal Richelieu


    BX 19 wrote: »
    Where was Sean O'Rourke? Quality presenter.

    I think he gets allowed holidays every now and then, there was some mention at the start of the week that he was on holidays this week. I thought it was quite clever that Pat Kenny decided to go on holidays the week RTE had to broadcast the Twittergate grovel to the public.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    citymedia wrote: »
    I heard a little something about it, but to be honest most of these so-called controversies that come out of political debates are total non-stories and should be treated with the utter contempt they deserve.

    While it's certainly a subjective issue, I'd hardly have called it a 'non story' myself, all things considered. This WAS a controversy which had wide reaching implications and will set an important precedent.

    It may have mostly passed you by but it was the biggest news story of the time and it's going to have considerable impact on Irish media in general.
    And technically, there's no such thing as a bogus tweet. Tweets can be misattributed on twitter, I've seen it happen many times, usually when a tweet is sent directly to more than one address. If a tweet appeared on an account, it's not bogus. And since the only way to send tweets is to be logged on to an account, there's no such thing as a bogus tweet.

    Er, sorry... but that's bull****.

    The tweet came from a BOGUS ACCOUNT - i.e.: an account that purported to belong to someone whom it didn't come from... therefore anything it offered as the 'official' opinion of who it says it represents (Sinn Féin's press office in this case) IS bogus.

    So the tweet in question - which said that SF were going to hold a press conference the next day to make a certain revelation about Seán Gallagher - WAS bogus.
    But apart from all that, what actually happened?

    If you're going to debate something, at least read up on it... I'm sure you can put "tweetgate" or "Sean Gallagher" into the search box on news sites such as thejournal.ie and find out for yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Cardinal Richelieu


    Bard wrote: »
    While it's certainly a subjective issue, I'd hardly have called it a 'non story' myself, all things considered. This WAS a controversy which had wide reaching implications and will set an important precedent.

    It may have mostly passed you by but it was the biggest news story of the time and it's going to have considerable impact on Irish media in general.



    Er, sorry... but that's bull****.

    The tweet came from a BOGUS ACCOUNT - i.e.: an account that purported to belong to someone whom it didn't come from... therefore anything it offered as the 'official' opinion of who it says it represents (Sinn Féin's press office in this case) IS bogus.


    So the tweet in question - which said that SF were going to hold a press conference the next day to make a certain revelation about Seán Gallagher - WAS bogus.



    If you're going to debate something, at least read up on it... I'm sure you can put "tweetgate" or "Sean Gallagher" into the search box on news sites such as thejournal.ie and find out for yourself.

    Can twitter not trace who created this account?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Anyone else notice a lot of mistakes on RTE TV and radio lately,dropped lines wrong clips shown on Six one news etc

    Maybe its just me:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Nothing unusual about that Sept, tbh.,although kudos to the Morning Ireland team whom, it seems have finally and after years of practice, mastered the noble art of reading a clock correctly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    That's down to the absence of Aine Lawlor.

    and yes its a rare day when RTE radio news gets through a broadcast without a technical SNAFU


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    europa11 wrote: »
    Nothing unusual about that Sept, tbh.,although kudos to the Morning Ireland team whom, it seems have finally and after years of practice, mastered the noble art of reading a clock correctly.

    Has Cathal MacCoille learnt how not to nose-whistle directly into the microphone yet? :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    telekon wrote: »
    Has Cathal MacCoille learnt how not to nose-whistle directly into the microphone yet? :mad:

    He probably considers it his party-piece at this stage ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,386 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    Rosh een must be the RTE way of pronouncing it. she might think it sounds posh and the original pronunciation bogger like.some folk just cannot tolerate a Gaelic name. Maybe she should change it to Rosaleen.

    not only do people in this country have the unusual habit of translating names or trying to angliscise them, but they also meddle with the pronunciation.
    just like in Dublin Sorcha tends to be pronounced as Sore sha.

    maybe they will move on to Deirdre being pronounced as Dear dree.

    AFAIK Rosh-een is a Donegal thing...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    just like there iplayer watching the news on it and it goes back to the start can not get nothing right rte


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Can twitter not trace who created this account?

    Unlikely in the extreme.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭chasmcb


    patwicklow wrote: »
    just like there iplayer watching the news on it and it goes back to the start can not get nothing right rte

    You'd fit right in so!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Jasus its all going a bit Pete Tong again, hardly a day goes by without some rogue audio


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