The RTE news gives equal weight to each side of a story instead of reporting facts

Duff Man Jr.

Today on the 6 o'clock news a reporter held up a steak which cost €12. He said the beef factories (or supermarkets) claim that farmers are getting 63% of the €12 whereas farmers claim they are getting less than 20%.
Surely it's pretty easy to get a definite figure, report that and call whichever side out on their BS?

A few weeks ago when the Hong Kong protests started getting really nasty they said there were thousands of pro-chinese people protesting for an end to the violence. Maybe i'm cynical but it seemed extremely obvious this was chinese government propaganda they were reporting as fact.

Say what you want about wasting money on ridiculous wages but it's like they're not even trying to report news.

Wear a suit, adopt a clipped accent and stage a glossy production. Sure us muck savages down the country will eat up anything you say.

RTÉ are hopelessly deluded.

Jellybaby1

Duff Man Jr. wrote: »

.....Surely it's pretty easy to get a definite figure, report that and call whichever side out on their BS?

Hubby and I said exactly the same thing when we saw that news report.

odyssey06

I don't really understand the figures, even this one from The Journal isn't that helpful.

https://www.thejournal.ie/how-low-are-beef-prices-in-ireland-4757545-Aug2019/
The current steer base price for beef is €3.45 per kilogram.
For consumers at the moment, Irish sirloin steak is priced from €9.75 per kilogram in Tesco.
In Supervalu, the same cut is priced from €11.01 per kilogram.

But not all beef is Sirloin... some cuts will be priced higher and some will be priced lower.

SEPT 23 1989

Don’t think they would be protesting if they were getting 63%

kneemos

RTE News were never good at reporting actual facts.

They quite often send reporters around the country just to end up basically repeating what the newsreader has just said.

Mad_maxx

Direct provision could do with the other side of the story