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High Noon with George Hook.

kneemos

A full ten minutes to get to the Muslims,and now it's Rugby.Not much has changed.

Sounds in good form anyway.

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PeterTheNinth

Just in case Tesco get too comfortable up there on the moral high ground..

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/27/tesco-and-serious-office-within-days-of-deal-over-accounting

The Serious Fraud Office and Tesco are within days of announcing a settlement that could mean Britain’s biggest supermarket chain will pay a multimillion-pound fine over an accounting scandal.

Under the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), Tesco would pay a penalty that could be well over £100m and agree to other conditions in return for avoiding formal prosecution for overstating its profits.

As was said above, are these really the people we want to be looking for to set the moral standards for society?

Stephen Hawkins football boots

This is disgraceful

TCDStudent1

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

I hope Ciara Kelly in particular is taking a long hard look in the mirror this morning. Her role in this has been particularly shameful. With "friends" like her, who needs enemies.

What did she do?

PeterTheNinth

swine wrote: »

Hook suspended pending investigation. The non-story rolls on. http://www.thejournal.ie/george-hook-gone-newstalk-3594057-Sep2017/

I hope Ciara Kelly in particular is taking a long hard look in the mirror this morning. Her role in this has been particularly shameful. With "friends" like her, who needs enemies.

Does this mean that Dil is back... And Ruth Coppinger ... oh ffs.

applehunter

ah here!

Conservative

WTF!

They suspend him after 4 days.. Is Tesco our moral compass now?

Disgusting.

swine

Hook suspended pending investigation. The non-story rolls on.

http://www.thejournal.ie/george-hook-gone-newstalk-3594057-Sep2017/

The Specialist

Dil is not going to do Victim Village in protest this weekend.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/victim-blaming-is-unacceptable-newstalk-host-wont-broadcast-show-in-protest-at-george-hook-comments-36133430.html

The 3 people that listen to it will be devastated I'm sure.

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Kassandra Limited Eraser wrote: »

While George is never one for tact, you can't say that he was wrong in his premis.

Going to a strangers room the first time you meet them is nothing but stupid.
Yes, let's not blame the victim of rape (or any crime) but her actions put her in a dangerous position for which she needs to take responsibility.

Dill is gone...that's so SAD ( said in Fr Ted sarcastic tone)
I'll miss George if he goes, a ton of common sense is a world that is pc mad.

It's not stupid, it has higher risk but it's far from stupid.
99.99% of people are not sick monsters so it's far from stupid.

Beechwoodspark

That dil statement/mini autobiography is just an attempt to crowbar her way into the controversy.

It's disgusting how the likes of her and donohue are piling in to attempt to bully Hook off the air.

Vorenus400

Kassandra Limited Eraser wrote: »

While George is never one for tact, you can't say that he was wrong in his premis.

Going to a strangers room the first time you meet them is nothing but stupid.
Yes, let's not blame the victim of rape (or any crime) but her actions put her in a dangerous position for which she needs to take responsibility.

Dill is gone...that's so SAD ( said in Fr Ted sarcastic tone)
I'll miss George if he goes, a ton of common sense is a world that is pc mad.

George Hook said George Hook was wrong. People need to accept his apology and move on. This is doing George further damage. By constant reinterpreting of his words, the whole shebang is being dragged out. No wonder more sponsors are getting nervous

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While George is never one for tact, you can't say that he was wrong in his premis.

Going to a strangers room the first time you meet them is nothing but stupid.
Yes, let's not blame the victim of rape (or any crime) but her actions put her in a dangerous position for which she needs to take responsibility.

Dill is gone...that's so SAD ( said in Fr Ted sarcastic tone)
I'll miss George if he goes, a ton of common sense is a world that is pc mad.

PeterTheNinth

RayM wrote: »

Maybe this is all part of their plan, and they're on the verge of announcing huge sponsorship deals with manufacturers of gout medication, Viagra and denture adhesive.

Maybe so, Ray. The last schedule that they gave us certainly looked like they were trying to burn the station to the ground.

PeterTheNinth

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

Jaysus, I wish Tesco would be half as quick to sponsor a food programme for the homeless living on the streets and in hotels.

Maybe Tesco's priority should be publishing a proper set of accounts instead of jumping on the liberal bandwagon.

I'm sure their staff could tell you a lot about their high moral standards.

quintana76

This is a J'accuse situation. I hate the fact that it is about Hook. Don't like him most of the time. Especially since he went to lunchtime.
Despite that he has unwillingly become an undeserved symbol of media freedom.
At this moment it appears he has ridden the wave.

If he were to get fired what signal would it send to the (liberal) fascists?
Push further and harder and you will clear the decks of alternative opinions.
Then we live in a wonderland that goes where? What is the next issue? And the one after that?

Calhoun

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

Jaysus, I wish Tesco would be half as quick to sponsor a food programme for the homeless living on the streets and in hotels.

This is the same tesco that apologies to an LGBT enforcer in the UK police force because they had a sign up in one of their stores that said Female hygiene products.

Lady Chatterton

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Tesco pulls advertising

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/tesco-pulls-advertising-for-george-hook-show-over-remarks-1.3221652

Jaysus, I wish Tesco would be half as quick to sponsor a food programme for the homeless living on the streets and in hotels.

foxtrot101

Tesco pulls advertising

“Our advertising package includes spots during a variety of shows distributed across the station,” a spokesperson for the retailer said.

“We confirm that we have restricted the airing of our adverts around this particular show in the short term, although we keep this under review.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/tesco-pulls-advertising-for-george-hook-show-over-remarks-1.3221652

RayM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

If this keeps up Newstalk might actually have a schedule that people want to listen to it by the end of next week.

Maybe this is all part of their plan, and they're on the verge of announcing huge sponsorship deals with manufacturers of gout medication, Viagra and denture adhesive.

Calhoun

I think it will start with newstalk and move to other stations if allowed to influence station policy at all. Coppinger was having a subtle go at RTE earlier today it was only that she was being interviewed by them that she held back.

Apparently meritocracy is toxic masculinity and its unfair to say that no women chair newstalk because most of their current presenting stock cant bring in the audiences.

Lady Chatterton

Royal Legend wrote: »

darcy was asking should george get the sack

what a sanctimonious ***** maybe we should ask RTE why our licence fee is paying his over inflated wages

I thought a lot of Niamh Ní Dhomhnaill today.

Ray D'arcy put her on the spot by asking her if George should be sacked and to be fair to her, as a rape survivor/victim she could have joined the witch hunt but she didn't.

Niamh was very measured and fair, she replied by saying she didn't have an opinion on the matter.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9%5F21233866%5F19148%5F14%2D09%2D2017%5F

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redlead wrote: »

I'll be absolutely sickened if management give into this bullying. The whole thing is media driven. The impression you get from every article and radio discussion is that the nation is outraged. This is a complete misrepresentation of the general public's actual opinion on the matter.

Well on the news they said up to 20 members of the stations own workers have also signed a letter asking for Hook to be taken off the air.

delaad

DeadHand wrote: »

Ah yes, how good it is to go through your day without having to confront anything so upsetting as a different opinion.

You mean you like being back in the 1950's!?

Stephen Hawkins football boots

Sorry for the cliche but I will be turning the dial off newstalk if George is sacked

delaad

quintana76 wrote: »

See what RTE did by bringing on Quinn with Coppinger. It is obvious that in certain circles (RTE, IT) Quinn is portrayed as far right, (mainly because he speaks up for the RC Church).

It was a subtle (not so subtle) attempt to equate opponents of the witch hunt against Hook with being right wing.

It is media manipulation of opinion to their own ends. There are many others they could have brought on who did not have the same reputation thrust on to them by the media.

Why are you ashamed of being right-wing?

redlead

Del.Monte wrote: »

George is still on air but the heat is on.

I'll be absolutely sickened if management give into this bullying. The whole thing is media driven. The impression you get from every article and radio discussion is that the nation is outraged. This is a complete misrepresentation of the general public's actual opinion on the matter.

NoviGlitzko

First time posting. I think the way George Hook is being treated is absolutely ridiculous but not surprising. Yeah he made an huge error in what he was trying to say and he should've had more cop on, but the witch hunt after him and to remove him from his job is unfair. Challenge the opinion and move on.

Del.Monte

George is still on air but the heat is on.

Wesser

Is George off the air at the moment or not?

I cannot bear dil!!! I cannot bear her yabberi g on about babies and lesbianism and cloth nappies and home schooling
But most if all I can't bear the sound of her voice it's just so wierd!!!

hullaballoo

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