RTÉ to broadcast feature-length documentary on the life of Denis O'Brien

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

I don’t get this.

Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

They always give the government a hard time.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

Prime Time Investigates has uncovered a good few scandals alright, relatively few of them about politicians and more along the lines of National Irish Bank etc.

This is a "feature length" - doesn't sound like a disassembly of the man's character although I suppose we could be surprised.

As for RTÉ and your suggestion of a conspiracy - sorry, no. They are consistently poor to unacceptable in their role which is to be unbiased. Watch any Ryan Tubridy political interview and you will see what this means. Even on this morning's interview with Eoghan Murphy Dobson asked why the target for housing hadn't been met and flat out accepted the answer with no further questions - even when the minister basically said he didn't have the figures to hand (which is his job, we're talking about perhaps the single most important key performance indicator for his current role).

I have no agenda here, just calling out RTÉ for their history of halfhearted attempts to challenge politicians and their widely recognised poor level of programming with respect to the amount of money they are paid to create it.

Zebra3 wrote: »

He became wealthy by bribing a government minister.

And you're not all against him?

Doesn't mean his opinion that public services didn't function efficiently wasn't true.

Pity about the rest.