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RTÉ Bias V Irish Media Bias

Elmo · 2016-09-30 16:12:40

Is RTÉ Bias more or less apparent than their commercial rivals. Clearly RTÉ are in the position of being a publicly funded and public service broadcaster but does other Irish media news sources reflect RTÉ's bias or does RTÉ reflect general Irish media bias? I notice that for example if any protest occurs RTÉ bias is…

30-09-2016 4:12pm

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Is RTÉ Bias more or less apparent than their commercial rivals.

Clearly RTÉ are in the position of being a publicly funded and public service broadcaster but does other Irish media news sources reflect RTÉ's bias or does RTÉ reflect general Irish media bias?

I notice that for example if any protest occurs RTÉ bias is called in to question. RTÉ will have a 30 minute news show dissected into the number of minutes it gave to a protest. Generally such protest take place at the Weekend and particularly for broadcast most commercial services reduce their news output, e.g. TV3 doesn't air an evening news at the weekend.

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