RTE Misery Porn

mike65

RTE and their hard luck stories eh? From if you listen from 7 am to God Knows When O'Clock you can be certain that you will hear a least one poor sod (and usually several) being wrung dry for the twitching curtain entertainment of the RTE 1 audience. Of course you can say these people invite the attention - after all they phone Joe at their own volition and they could refuse to speak to Paddy and his dog outside the heath office/dole office/jail but the subjects are sufficiently desperate to speak into a mic even though it serves no practical purpose other than to fill airtime on the cheap and RTE know that which is why O'Gorman is sent out to get material for the Today show.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mike65 wrote: »

RTE and their hard luck stories eh? From if you listen from 7 am to God Knows When O'Clock you can be certain that you will hear a least one poor sod (and usually several) being wrung dry for the twitting curtain entertainment of the RTE 1 audience. Of course you can say these people invite the attention - after all they phone Joe at their own volition and they could refuse to speak to Paddy and his dog outside the heath office/dole office/jail but the subjects are sufficiently desperate to speak into a mic even though it serves no practical purpose other than to fill airtime on the cheap and RTE know that which is why O'Gorman is sent out to get material for the Today show.

It's because it takes the focus off themselves and their own responsibilities and failures and allows them to project the blame onto someone else.

Loving the phrase "misery porn" though

jr22

.....and to drag it all out for as long as possible, the story always starts off with a 10 fecking minutes blah, blah, blah set-up for the misery climax

"Everything was great, we had great jobs, new house, lovely family....." until the inevitable cancer/ car crash/ repossession/ child with a disease the HSE has never heard of/ bankruptcy/ murder/ rape/ kidnap/ bombing etc....

Tubridy/ Miriam O'Callaghan/ Kathryn f*cking Thomas telling them they know knows it must be hard for them to talk about this and proceeding to ask the most tabloid questions you could think of.

"Now, you've said your son's tumour was as big as a melon. What, if you don't mind me asking did he look like when they removed his eye/ brain/ arse? Were you worried you mightn't love him anymore?"

mike65

That made me laugh out loud, so true, Miriam just loves a cosy domestic horror story, but with a bit of redemption/hope to leaven the misery at the end.

NIMAN

The Late Late Show can't seem to do a single show now without a good dose of MP.

shockwave

Dont forget the gleeful reporting of every fraction of a percent rise or fall in house prices.