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The Irish media hysteria
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Matt Cooper is like a really bad film that crosses over into unintentional Comedy
I now only listen to the first 10 minutes of his show to see just how hilarious he's going to get
Today's literal first 10 seconds:
"On today's Last Word;
Will we now not be allowed to holiday in even Ireland this year? And later; is there a more horrendous Wave 4 still to come?"
:pac:
He then loses it with a listener who texts in criticizing his opening story about "domestic holidays possibly now in jeopardy as well"
Awful man. Awful broadcasting
Question: is the UK still getting bombarded with "news" like this? I don't watch Sky News but I'm presuming even they have moved onto more positive vaccination stories0 -
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Via the main thread
Re: McDonkey
Look at this shambolic laundry list of things he got wrong
He said, and I quote, that Covid was going to be "the Spanish flu, mixed up with the Irish civil war, which was 100 years ago, mixed up with the 1929 stock market crash". He went on to say, and again I quote: "I estimate there could be between 80 and 120,000 deaths.".
In the same interview, he stated: "Our best case scenario we’ve passed. My median scenario is that we’d have a 20 per cent attack rate and 20,000 deaths".
He then went on to say: "Worst case scenario is potentially up to an 80 per cent attack rate — that’s four million and again the two per cent death rate which could even be three or four per cent"
(That's him up to 160,000 deaths now).
Other McDonkey predictions include a 10pm curfew (October) under Level Six restrictions of our Five Level system, and then went onto predict Level Ten restrictions.
He is a catastrophist who has completely lost the run of himself.
"catastrophist" is one word to call him
Another - and I only use this for the "special" people in the world, is "cúnt"
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Probably fair to say that the bulk of listeners to RTE , Newstalk and mainstream media are middle aged conservative ( Ordinary ) people. The sort of people who will do their best to observe all the rules and regulations imposed on them in these difficult times. AND YET this same group are hammered all day with warnings , advertisements and threats about what to do and not to do . Theres a particularly annoying radio add where a lady with an " im afraid of everything " tone reminds us that " were all in this together ". The last time I heard this same " afraid " voice she was ordering her husband the unfortunate Jim to get down off the flat roof and get a professional to mend it .
Starts in the morning with that dose Tubridy who seems to think somebody nominated him to lead everyone to the promised land .( In between advertising the late late show and mentioning the Kennedy family ) Claire Byrne is guaranteed to have at least one doom and gloom segment while Joe Duffy would have the skin washed off your hands. Darcey is almost as bad with the hand washing while persuing a one man anti alcohol campaign . At the same time of course he will mention by way of being broad minded how he went mad and had one small glass of wine on Saturday night.
This constant hammering of the compliant reminds me of an old tradition in rural Ireland called " The mission ". This was where all the loyal catholic flock were frog marched to church every evening for a week . While there they were subjected to preaching and berating . Roared and bawled at about the evil lives they were living , sins of the flesh and all the fornication they were committing . This was all administered by a travelling preacher / priest and certain orders provided the gun slingers for this speciality, i recall that the redemptorists were particularly harsh .
What I am attempting to say in a long winded way is that this constant stream of negativity is almost as bad as the disease itself .
Oh and before you ask the reason I listen to mainstream media is habit I suppose although on a daily basis I say " never again"
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blackvalley wrote: »Probably fair to say that the bulk of listeners to RTE , Newstalk and mainstream media are middle aged conservative ( Ordinary ) people. The sort of people who will do their best to observe all the rules and regulations imposed on them in these difficult times. AND YET this same group are hammered all day with warnings , advertisements and threats about what to do and not to do . Theres a particularly annoying radio add where a lady with an " im afraid of everything " tone reminds us that " were all in this together ". The last time I heard this same " afraid " voice she was ordering her husband the unfortunate Jim to get down off the flat roof and get a professional to mend it .
Starts in the morning with that dose Tubridy who seems to think somebody nominated him to lead everyone to the promised land .( In between advertising the late late show and mentioning the Kennedy family ) Claire Byrne is guaranteed to have at least one doom and gloom segment while Joe Duffy would have the skin washed off your hands. Darcey is almost as bad with the hand washing while persuing a one man anti alcohol campaign . At the same time of course he will mention by way of being broad minded how he went mad and had one small glass of wine on Saturday night.
This constant hammering of the compliant reminds me of an old tradition in rural Ireland called " The mission ". This was where all the loyal catholic flock were frog marched to church every evening for a week . While there they were subjected to preaching and berating . Roared and bawled at about the evil lives they were living , sins of the flesh and all the fornication they were committing . This was all administered by a travelling preacher / priest and certain orders provided the gun slingers for this speciality, i recall that the redemptorists were particularly harsh .
What I am attempting to say in a long winded way is that this constant stream of negativity is almost as bad as the disease itself .
Oh and before you ask the reason I listen to mainstream media is habit I suppose although on a daily basis I say " never again"
The word 'conservative' seems to have changed meaning or taken on bizarre connotations.
It used to be associated with holding on to a way of life. Unless we regard bureaucracy and 'what the government says' as our way of life, then most people are not conservative at all.
On the contrary they're accepting of radical, permanent changes - sometimes rapid change on a daily basis - in conformance to the superstructure of authority composed of government, officials and media.0
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