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glenfieldman · 25-09-2019 03:22PM

NIMAN wrote: »

He's right. They are.

I find them very shouty too:eek:

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 25-09-2019 03:23PM

he's the definition of a music snob. he can sound a bit too angry sometimes, not the light stuff you want on a music slot

CatFromHue · 25-09-2019 09:09PM

The way he used to treat Nadine O'Reagan was terrible, and yeah he's a complete my music is better than your music so you're stupid type person.

JoeA3 · 25-09-2019 11:06PM

Yeah he's hard to listen to, an intimidating sort, you'd be afraid to disagree with his "taste" for fear he'd be sneering down at you from his high horse.

The contributors to that show are broadly awful, barring very odd exceptions. Decent regulars that come to mind are Cal Thomas and the guy who does the motoring slot, Mike Sheridan - he has a nice manner about him.

ButtersSuki · 26-09-2019 10:22AM

A very worrying development coming on the back of the now 2year+ Irish Times ban:

https://twitter.com/TheCurrency_/status/1176886951800115202?s=20

Here's the offending topic, a great read.
https://www.thecurrency.news/articles/757/leveraging-full-surrender-the-real-story-of-why-the-quinn-family-dropped-their-epic-legal-battle

Congrats and best wishes to Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe.

BPKS · 26-09-2019 10:28AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

A very worrying development coming on the back of the now 2year+ Irish Times ban:

https://twitter.com/TheCurrency_/status/1176886951800115202?s=20

Here's the offending topic, a great read.
https://www.thecurrency.news/articles/757/leveraging-full-surrender-the-real-story-of-why-the-quinn-family-dropped-their-epic-legal-battle

Congrats and best wishes to Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe.

I was only half listening in the car yesterday but I thought I heard Matt give The Currency a plug on the show shortly after it started yesterday.

He mentioned some story or other and that it appeared on a new, subscription news website so I assume that was it.

Might lead to Matt getting a hosing down from the boss.

BPKS · 26-09-2019 10:30AM

CatFromHue wrote: »

The way he used to treat Nadine O'Reagan was terrible, and yeah he's a complete my music is better than your music so you're stupid type person.

Ye are talking about John (not sure of the spelling) Cladell? Did I hear somewhere that he is the person who is over the music content on Today FM?

Ursus Horribilis · 26-09-2019 11:06AM

If the BAI had any balls, they'd take action regarding Communicorp's bans on entire news outlets. Maybe the time has come for all journalists to refuse to go onto the stations.

JoeA3 · 26-09-2019 12:31PM

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

If the BAI had any balls, they'd take action regarding Communicorp's bans on entire news outlets. Maybe the time has come for all journalists to refuse to go onto the stations.

I think most of them have, unless you count the likes of Jennifer Gannon or journal.ie hacks as "journalists".

robo · 26-09-2019 01:47PM

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

If the BAI had any balls, they'd take action regarding Communicorp's bans on entire news outlets. Maybe the time has come for all journalists to refuse to go onto the stations.

Agree - its disgraceful. Matt was mentioning this new start up over the past few months ad said several times that he would have Ian or Tom in to talk about it at the launch. Surely this ban on top of the Irish Times ban is pulling on Matt's journalistic strings and he shoul stand up to this carry on - shouldn't he be allowed to have on who he and the team should want, unless its a legal matter (ie someone on telling us how we can hack accounts or steal etc) The number of journalists that TLW can call on is now narrowing. Imagine if a broadcaster said that someone from the Irish Catholic newspaper (or whatever David Quinn and IONA write for) - they would be ructions saying they were silencing the church etc, why should Communicorp be allowed to "silence" (on their programmes) some of the best investigative journalists?

Rant over

26-09-2019 02:31PM

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

If the BAI had any balls, they'd take action regarding Communicorp's bans on entire news outlets. Maybe the time has come for all journalists to refuse to go onto the stations.

What is the NUJ there for, if not circumstances like this? If I were a journalist and affected by this and was paying union fees I'd be asking myself what's the point?

Ursus Horribilis · 26-09-2019 02:39PM

True.
Are many journalists members of the NUJ?

ButtersSuki · 26-09-2019 04:09PM

JoeA3 wrote: »

I think most of them have, unless you count the likes of Jennifer Gannon or journal.ie hacks as "journalists".

No, I certainly don't and I don't know of anyone who does. It's because of bans like these that we get the likes of Jennifer Gannon.

Ursus Horribilis · 26-09-2019 04:44PM

She's quick to moralise about others. She freelances for the Irish Times, doesn't she? So the people whose work is printed alongside hers are banned but she's happy to take the money.

26-09-2019 06:11PM

BPKS wrote: »

Ye are talking about John (not sure of the spelling) Cladell? Did I hear somewhere that he is the person who is over the music content on Today FM?

lol, if hes cribbing about someone else taste in music and he then puts the same ten awful songs every hour between 7-7

26-09-2019 06:22PM

JoeA3 wrote: »

I think most of them have, unless you count the likes of Jennifer Gannon or journal.ie hacks as "journalists".

i think these contributing journalists (and i use that word loosely - glorified bloggers more apt) are looking to boost their own profile and are glad to as if the Times werent barred they wouldnt even get a whiff of time on it - and probably like a wrestling character they exaggerate their personality - Gannon and McDermott cannot be that miserable/pc in their real life

26-09-2019 06:23PM

Adam Teeny Munchies wrote: »

lol, if hes cribbing about someone else taste in music and he then puts the same ten awful songs every hour between 7-7

Are ye talking about the reviewer who sounds like an affected Éamon de Valera? Used to do music reviews on NT breakfast? Tedious kinda guy. What's his name?

Ursus Horribilis · 26-09-2019 07:22PM

I've no idea who that was but it's not John Cadell

CatFromHue · 26-09-2019 11:27PM

I like Brian LLoyd and Dee Molumby.

They can review a film while touching on any other issue regarding the film without making the whole review about that issue.

Roe McDermott goes the other way where her reviews can be more about that other issue than reviewing the film itself.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 27-09-2019 12:00AM

CatFromHue wrote: »

I like Brian LLoyd and Dee Molumby.

They can review a film while touching on any other issue regarding the film without making the whole review about that issue.

Roe McDermott goes the other way where her reviews can be more about that other issue than reviewing the film itself.

When all you have is a hammer, everything soon starts to look like a nail.

robo · 27-09-2019 08:25AM

I saw last night that Matt tweeted a picture of an autobiography that he wrote...on Jamie Heaslip! Definitely not on my reading list.
But how will that interview go when Matt interviews Jamie about his book - eh so I wrote it and I know everything that's PR good about you - tell us about the real Jamie :rolleyes:

ButtersSuki · 27-09-2019 09:49AM

robo wrote: »

I saw last night that Matt tweeted a picture of an autobiography that he wrote...on Jamie Heaslip! Definitely not on my reading list.
But how will that interview go when Matt interviews Jamie about his book - eh so I wrote it and I know everything that's PR good about you - tell us about the real Jamie :rolleyes:

I'm going to the launch of that actually on the 16th of next month so I'll report back.

ButtersSuki · 27-09-2019 09:54AM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

When all you have is a hammer, everything soon starts to look like a nail.

How dare you! I see what you're doing there. The hammer is a phallic symbol and the nail is a metaphor for vagina. You as an evil man are outwardly projecting your violent rape fantasies, and it's so entrenched in you at this stage it's a reflex action typical of the far right patriarchy who seek to subject women to sexual submission for fear of being emasculated and stood up to by strong female role models such as Laura from Love Island........etc. etc.

27-09-2019 04:58PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

When all you have is a hammer, everything soon starts to look like a nail.

Very Zen....

27-09-2019 05:00PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

How dare you! I see what you're doing there. The hammer is a phallic symbol and the nail is a metaphor for vagina. You as an evil man are outwardly projecting your violent rape fantasies, and it's so entrenched in you at this stage it's a reflex action typical of the far right patriarchy who seek to subject women to sexual submission for fear of being emasculated and stood up to by strong female role models such as Laura from Love Island........etc. etc.

Blimey, I must lead such a cloistered life! I didn't see that coming!

Akabusi · 27-09-2019 05:42PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

When all you have is a hammer, everything soon starts to look like a nail.

I'm remembering this one

27-09-2019 05:44PM

Listening now, to that eejit opining on the West Wing (a series I really like) makes me fume. Jed Bartlett was the epitome of what a President should be. The fact that it's fiction isn't important. It's about aspiration, hope, longing for better. When we lose the want to make things better, we are goosed

ButtersSuki · 27-09-2019 06:45PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Blimey, I must lead such a cloistered life! I didn't see that coming!

For more of this, check out the works of Jennifer Gannon and Roe McDermott. Stay woke, bloke.

NIMAN · 02-11-2019 03:19AM

Ironic that TLW is sponsored by Opel.

Low quality masquerading as premium fare!

Akabusi · 05-11-2019 12:30PM

NIMAN wrote: »

Ironic that TLW is sponsored by Opel.

Low quality masquerading as premium fare!

It was good radio for a long time, however the decline has been long and steady. Cooper doesn't seem to care anymore and to me he is just free wheeling at this stage, he consistently lets guests spout rubbish unchallenged and as for the horse manure that is the 5 at 5 or 6 at 6 segments - how he goes along with that is beyond me.

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