Why do RTE keep sending their employees abroad and wasting taxpayers money?

vicwatson

Both Eileen Dunne AND Miriam O'Callaghan out in Rome today/tonight covering the Pope story along with goodness knows how many more RTE employees.

Dunne out in Brussels the other night for a 3 min interview with the taoiseach.

Ray Colgan out reporting from Jordan.

What a complete blatant waste of taxpayers money.

It's belt tightening time RTE - did you not know we were in a recession?

I won't comment on the €400.00 taxi fair you paid to get Michael Healy Rae back to Kerry last Saturday night :mad:

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Winning Streak had money left over from last week.

Agricola

Come on, do ya expect them to do a report on the Vatican from the corner of the newsroom in RTE? You HAVE to have Miriam backlit by the lights of St. Peter's Basilica, you just have to!

vicwatson

Agricola wrote: »

Come on, do ya expect them to do a report on the Vatican from the corner of the newsroom in RTE? You HAVE to have Miriam backlit by the lights of St. Peter's Basilica, you just have to!

Fake backdrop :pac:

Phill Ewinn

Wish they'd stay there

TeddyTedson

It's just how the news reporting is.
I don't think we can really blame RTÉ on this one.
It's a nice job, but someone has to do it I guess.

Paddy Cow

Because they can.

miller50841

Because they can and honestly you would do the same come on admit it.

vicwatson

I'm sure it's top price flights booking last minute too

admiralofthefleet

can they not just get them to stand on front of a green screen and matrix them into Rome?

Dunny

Aye, they should be reporting from The Holy Stone of Clonrichert, much more sacred setting

allthedoyles

Their job is to brief the public on issues of National importance ........So the trip is justified .

mike65

Even the BBC has a man (or woman) in Rome tonight.

Fromthetrees

I wish RTE just stuck to doing the news, current affairs and sh1te local shows with the odd bit of Irish trad thrown in.

Why in the name of suffering haysus are we threatened with jail if we don't help fund Fair ****ing City, Ryan Tubs and Miriam O being millionaires all the while getting in countless American shows as filler in between cooking shows.

**** off RTE.

vicwatson

allthedoyles wrote: »

Their job is to brief the public on issues of National importance ........So the trip is justified .

Brief us from home not Rome ! (and other places)

Annasopra

mike65 wrote: »

Even the BBC has a man (or woman) in Rome tonight.

Could RTE not have interviewed that person?

vicwatson

mango salsa wrote: »

Could RTE not have interviewed that person?

Eileen Dunne interviewed the Rome Correspondant from The Los Angeles Times (and he happened to be an english guy:p) on the Six One news tonight :eek:

Cee-Jay-Cee

Agricola wrote: »

Come on, do ya expect them to do a report on the Vatican from the corner of the newsroom in RTE?

Yes.

Gongoozler

I don't understand at all why reporters have to go to the scene for stories like this. like Brian O Donovan bein constantly outside the Dail,it's not any use that he's there instead of in studio.

Bad Santa

RTE are missing a trick.

They could easily have had a special Pay Ver View event of live action from Miriam's hotel room tonight.

Solair

Gongoozler wrote: »

I don't understand at all why reporters have to go to the scene for stories like this. like Brian O Donovan bein constantly outside the Dail,it's not any use that he's there instead of in studio.

You could also just read all your news in plain text without any images / sound at all.

catallus

I'd say RTE would get criticised if they didn't have correspondents abroad; they are a national broadcaster, they need to have people on the ground near internationally important events. Every country in the world does it.

Mardy Bum

vicwatson wrote: »

Brief us from home not Rome ! (and other places)

Yes who wants proper journalism now anyway. They should just source their info from various blogs wrote by hipsters who get some of their info from real journalists but make the other 80% of it up.

janeo80

I did think that tonight when I saw them all out in Rome, delighted to see others copped on as well! But there are a few arguments for it... what are the real advantages of having them in Rome? Does RTE lose its reputation or will the broadcast somehow be compromised by not doing it from Rome? I'm not sure I fully understand yet!

delthedriver

allthedoyles wrote: »

Their job is to brief the public on issues of National importance ........So the trip is justified .

Is that you Ann Doyle.?

Hardly an issue of National Importance.

Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

He is simply the head of a very corrupt and evil organisation.

Most people have turned their backs on The Church in Ireland, because like its Head Office , the Vatican, is also a corrupt and evil organisation.

Why are RTE wasting a whole heap of money on this? Beats me.

Cereal Number

I wish I was Healy Rae's taximan, i drive him to Clare and off the cliffs of moher

Cereal

delthedriver

Gosh, we the people of Kerry would be very disappointed if you done dish.

We would prefer to bring him in the shnow and shleet up the mountains and fire him off the top of Carrantouhil, the highesht mountain in the land.!

humbert

If they just sacked the pair of them they could afford to fly Rome to us.

sock puppet

delthedriver wrote: »

Is that you Ann Doyle.?

Hardly an issue of National Importance.

Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

He is simply the head of a very corrupt and evil organisation.

Most people have turned their backs on The Church in Ireland, because like its Head Office , the Vatican, is also a corrupt and evil organisation.

Why are RTE wasting a whole heap of money on this? Beats me.

I agree. The news should only report on things I care about.

delthedriver

humbert wrote: »

If they just sacked the pair of them they could afford to fly Rome to us.

They should be sacked anyway.
Neither are worth the salaries they are earning.
Guess the TV licence will go up again.

Lapin

Jesus Vic you really have a bee in the bonnet over this.

Its not that expensive in the scheme of things.

kneemos

sock puppet wrote: »

I agree. The news should only report on things I care about.

Don't mind them reporting on it but they completely lost the plot all day with wall to wall reporting on all they're news programmes,how many times or ways do you have to say the popes resigned.

Bloody*Mary

One could justify Eileen Dunne going as she does "the God Slot" on radio.

Miriam is a studio presenter so her presence is a little unusual.

RTE cannot just piggyback on other media feeds.

In my opinion nothing too alarming about their reportage of this event.

It's what TV stations and radio stations do.

Rasheed

The problem I have is with their salaries, not that they've been flown to Rome to report on the Pope retiring. As for some posters saying the country doesn't care and 'have turned its back in religion', nothing to do with the news report on it.

BBC news also done full coverage, hardly a catholic strong hold. There's a thread going on here in After Hours about the very issue so people are obviously interested. A Pope retiring hasn't happened since the 1400's, hardly an everyday topic.

I agree they needed to be flown to Rome but disagree completely on their salaries for doing it.

razorblunt

Not having to look at Miriam's leather handbag for a face is the reason I live in the UK. Catriona Shearer can read me the news anyday the big fla that she is.

I don't get these junkets either, how can they justify sending two people? More than likely a case of use the budget to get more next year.

Should have sent Aoengus anyway for the lolz.

dvpower

delthedriver wrote:

Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

It was the leading news story in most news outlets around the world. So, quite a lot of people, I'd say.

delthedriver

Do we need a state broadcaster anyway?

In this age of high speed communication and social media networking, I suspect RTE do not have the viewing figures for which we pay a licence fee.

Wall to wall coverage of the Pope's resignation is unnecessary in a multicultural, muti faith society. The majority of people do not give a stuff about the Pope.

Ireland is no longer holy Catholic Ireland, the fair maidens dancing at the crossroads are long gone, but RTE is still in cuckoo land.

hooradiation

delthedriver wrote: »

Wall to wall coverage of the Pope's resignation is unnecessary in a multicultural, muti faith society. The majority of people do not give a stuff about the Pope.

It's still news no matter how much to bleat to the contrary.
Stop your crying.

delthedriver

dvpower wrote: »

It was the leading news story in most news outlets around the world. So, quite a lot of people, I'd say.

It was simply a quiet day in the media. The Popes resignation was used as filler. A bit like horsemeat

dvpower

delthedriver wrote: »

In this age of high speed communication and social media networking, I suspect RTE do not have the viewing figures for which we pay a licence fee.

Why don't you look up the figures for RTE News and Current Affairs programming? I suspect you'd be surprised.

dvpower

delthedriver wrote: »

It was simply a quiet day in the media. The Popes resignation was used as filler. A bit like horsemeat

You're just trolling now

Valetta

vicwatson wrote: »

Both Eileen Dunne AND Miriam O'Callaghan out in Rome today/tonight covering the Pope story along with goodness knows how many more RTE employees.

Dunne out in Brussels the other night for a 3 min interview with the taoiseach.

Ray Colgan out reporting from Jordan.

What a complete blatant waste of taxpayers money.

It's belt tightening time RTE - did you not know we were in a recession?

I won't comment on the €400.00 taxi fair you paid to get Michael Healy Rae back to Kerry last Saturday night :mad:

We're not in a recession.

Thread fail.

Riskymove

delthedriver wrote: »

Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

......Why are RTE wasting a whole heap of money on this? Beats me.

ah i see, RTE should only cover events that you personally are interested in...

delthedriver

dvpower wrote: »

Why don't you look up the figures for RTE News and Current Affairs programming? I suspect you'd be surprised.

If you believe the figures That is great for you.:)

delthedriver

Why did RTEs main news anchor man Bryan Dobson not travel to Rome?:)

fishy fishy

why don't they fly them to north korea to talk about the explosion....oh I see.....its okay to talk about this story from the newsroom. :D

selective trips by rte

Mint Sauce

delthedriver wrote: »

Is that you Ann Doyle.?

Hardly an issue of National Importance.

Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

He is simply the head of a very corrupt and evil organisation.

Most people have turned their backs on The Church in Ireland, because like its Head Office , the Vatican, is also a corrupt and evil organisation.

Why are RTE wasting a whole heap of money on this? Beats me.

Does every thread on AHs have to be turned into a church bashing one. Now I'm not a particularly religious person, but I still respect peoples views and beliefs, and understand, that dispite the revelations within the church, that Catholicism is still the biggest religion in the country, and people are going to be interested in this event.

hooradiation

fishy fishy wrote: »

why don't they fly them to north korea to talk about the explosion....oh I see.....its okay to talk about this story from the newsroom. :D

selective trips by rte

This is sarcasm, right?

KungPao

Very often if there is some big news regarding a foreign country, they will have someone outside that country's embassy in Dublin, and talk about the story and maybe speak to somebody from it.

Don't see why they couldn't just plonk a journo outside some church here and talk to a priest or a higher-upper, and have some shots of Rome and Bento doing some religiousy stuff here and there.

Job done, and a hell of a lot cheaper.

vicwatson

Lapin wrote: »

Jesus Vic you really have a bee in the bonnet over this.

Its not that expensive in the scheme of things.

Sure do Lapin, hate to see my tax payments being unnecessarily WASTED, maybe you don't mind but it pisses me right off, don't you think we have had enough waste in this country already?

VampiricPadraig

Y'know how RTE can cut down on travelling and still report from these places...

Green Screen!

Chroma key in a pic of the Vatican, Korea, Monaghan and there you go. No one has to go anywhere!