Evening Herald

Tony · 21-09-2005 4:38pm #1

Full page article on satellite on page 12 of the evening herald today

Mossy Monk · 21-09-2005 4:43pm

anything interesting?

Tony · 21-09-2005 5:20pm

Mossy Monk wrote:

anything interesting?

Nothing new except he forgot to mention ITV 1 is not free yet and RTE is pay tv.

watty · 22-09-2005 9:51am

Fairly major flaws..

Washout · 22-09-2005 1:40pm

were those quotes from you Tony or is there another Tony working with you?

dmeehan · 22-09-2005 2:43pm

the journalist didnt seem to understand that most of the channels he mentioned on the new freesat system were already free. :rolleyes:

Tony · 22-09-2005 3:53pm

Washout wrote:

were those quotes from you Tony or is there another Tony working with you?

They were from me but not entirely accurate as he seems to give the impression that ITV 1 is free now

Tony · 22-09-2005 3:54pm

watty wrote:

Fairly major flaws..

such as Watty? dont keep us in suspense

Genghis · 22-09-2005 3:58pm

Don't believe anything you read in the Herald. The pits for lazy journalism, half-baked rumours and worse than all other tabloids for accuracy and credibility.

Tony · 22-09-2005 4:00pm

Genghis wrote:

Don't believe anything you read in the Herald. The pits for lazy journalism, half-baked rumours and worse than all other tabloids for accuracy and credibility.

Agreed, I asked the journo could I have a read before they published but he would not agree to this.

watty · 22-09-2005 5:01pm

Tony wrote:

such as Watty? dont keep us in suspense

Oh the usual hobby horse. How badly RTE spends the money I give them.

RTE think only people interested in Pay TV will have Satellite
They think it is just like Cable TV
They think Multichannel = PayTV

Thus by RTE logic it is no problem that you only get them in a Pay TV package on Digital.

I have the Email from them saying all this kind of stuff.

The 2nd major flaw is not mentioning that ITV1& ITV2 are not FTA yet.

I havn't read Herald in a long time. It's a Dublin paper? I recommended it to my daughter when she was flat hunting in Dublin.

Generally "Digital Ireland" issue in the paper I get once a week makes me wince as does the articles posted in Digital Spy from the Guardian from time to time.

Media does not report ANY tech stuff well, never mind Satellite.

And as for "Virus / Worm" reporting on Media I better not start, read http://www.vmyths.com/ for examples of madly unresearched media reporting of technology...

Tony · 22-09-2005 5:11pm

Yeah i did mention the RTE issue to him but I guess he deemed it not newsworthy

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