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RTE Get it wrong again by a factor of 1000

  • 19-11-2012 11:30pm
    #1
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭


    50% of the time any RTE journalist at any time will mistake a million for a billion.
    I am watching RTE News Now, and the ticker tape is saying "British banking group Lloyds has taken a 90% loss on €1.83m of troubled Irish property loans it has sold to US group Apollo Global Management."
    I go to the RTE website and they are making the same mistake.
    They should sack every journalist in that office and employ monkeys instead.
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  • #2
    The Sparrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    I wasn't aware that monkeys knew the difference between millions and billions. I guess you do learn something new every day.


  • #3
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    The Sparrow wrote: »
    I wasn't aware that monkeys knew the difference between millions and billions. I guess you do learn something new every day.
    At least when the monkeys get it wrong, they can say, "But we're monkeys."
    You don't do sarcasm, do you Sparrow?


  • #4
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    They probably make similar mistakes with the salaries and TV licence fee as well, only in the other direction.:(


  • #5
    leggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    10000maniacs wrote: »
    They should sack every journalist in that office and employ monkeys instead.

    Your solution has flaws, to be fair. I'd prefer them to just fix the typo.


  • #6
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    To be fair to RTE, their source is probably PoNeill@TheTwitterMachine again.


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  • #7
    Biffo The Bare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Biffo The Bare


    Well its not the case that If you pay peanuts you get monkeys, because RTE journalists are well paid.
    It infuriates me when Marion Finucane does it every Sunday morning when she is reading the newspaper headlines at the start of her show, and then corrects herself. "€3 million, sorry excuse me please €3 billion". Fools.


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