The Last Word

Flange/Flanders · 26-02-2021 9:31pm

EverythingGood wrote: »

Kimmage works for the Indo though, not the Times

But he was doing it in solidarity with Times journalists. I couldnt see him being invited back tho

technocrat · 09-03-2021 5:45pm

Two days in row the Royals are leading story at 4.30, honestly who gives a flying fcuk!!

Can't believe the huge interest Irish media have on this story, it certaintly shouldn't be getting a top billing on a drivetime show when more pressing matters are on the agenda.

NIMAN · 09-03-2021 6:22pm

technocrat wrote: »

Two days in row the Royals are leading story at 4.30, honestly who gives a flying fcuk!!

Can't believe the huge interest Irish media have on this story, it certaintly shouldn't be getting a top billing on a drivetime show when more pressing matters are on the agenda.

To be fair, the viewing figures would disagree. Its had massive figures in the UK and even Ireland. All of LiveLine was given over to it too.

I'm like yourself, no interest in them, attention seeking multi-millionaires looking for people's sympathy as they mope around in their $12,000,000 mansion and sign a $100,000,000 Netflix deal. But in this social media world, it is big news.

technocrat · 09-03-2021 7:35pm

NIMAN wrote: »

To be fair, the viewing figures would disagree. Its had massive figures in the UK and even Ireland. All of LiveLine was given over to it too.

I'm like yourself, no interest in them, attention seeking multi-millionaires looking for people's sympathy as they mope around in their $12,000,000 mansion and sign a $100,000,000 Netflix deal. But in this social media world, it is big news.

Yea i get what your saying, but its more of soap opera story then anything serious with foundation.

The couple have player a blinder milking it for as publicity as possible.
Getting a $6m payday and % of the advertising revenues!

marno21 · 09-03-2021 8:03pm

The Royals is better than listening to Sam McConkey and Gerry Killeen telling us we're trapped in a permanent pandemic lockdown unless we follow their zero Covid plan.

jay0109 · 09-03-2021 10:21pm

This eve's music slot got very political. Jordan Peterson got a mention and was described as 'a very dangerous man' which went unchallenged

09-03-2021 10:53pm

let me guess, Gannon or Roe went on a rant about the Mumford and sons guy

NIMAN · 09-03-2021 10:58pm

jay0109 wrote: »

This eve's music slot got very political. Jordan Peterson got a mention and was described as 'a very dangerous man' which went unchallenged

I have lost all respect for Cooper, I wouldn't expect him to challenge anything said on the show, unless it's Cal Thomas.

Even the fool Joe Duffy challenged a few folk today on the LiveLive, telling them to catch themselves on. Perhaps Cooper could learn a thing or two from him!

JoeA3 · 09-03-2021 11:17pm

I caught a bit of the music segment this evening too. John Caddell makes for very uncomfortable listening and Cooper himself is clearly uncomfortable with having him on.

pjohnson · 09-03-2021 11:53pm

JoeA3 wrote: »

I caught a bit of the music segment this evening too. John Caddell makes for very uncomfortable listening and Cooper himself is clearly uncomfortable with having him on.

Caddell is probably the worst music contributor unless its an 80's re-release.

ButtersSuki · 10-03-2021 12:14am

Adam Teeny Munchies wrote: »

let me guess, Gannon or Roe went on a rant about the Mumford and sons guy

Surely Roe is keeping a low profile at the moment?

statto25 · 10-03-2021 10:35am

Caddell sounds like he is happy to take a paychecque while causing as much trouble as possible for the 10 mins

NIMAN · 10-03-2021 10:50am

statto25 wrote: »

Caddell sounds like he is happy to take a paychecque while causing as much trouble as possible for the 10 mins

He is employed by the company anyway, he is a content director!

statto25 · 10-03-2021 10:58am

NIMAN wrote: »

He is employed by the company anyway, he is a content director!

Id forgotten that!

jay0109 · 10-03-2021 1:50pm

Adam Teeny Munchies wrote: »

let me guess, Gannon or Roe went on a rant about the Mumford and sons guy

No neither of them. It was the regular music contributor...can't think of her name and can't find it either

statto25 · 10-03-2021 1:57pm

jay0109 wrote: »

No neither of them. It was the regular music contributor...can't think of her name and can't find it either

Dee Reddy

NIMAN · 10-03-2021 7:04pm

Opel is the perfect sponsor for the show these days.

Tries to pretend its a premium German product, but its really not that good, bit inferior.

EverythingGood · 12-03-2021 9:28pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Surely Roe is keeping a low profile at the moment?

Seems to be the case. Middle class white man bashing kinda won't wash from her now...

padd b1975 · 13-03-2021 9:39am

EverythingGood wrote: »

Seems to be the case. Middle class white man bashing kinda won't wash from her now...

#ibelieveher.

dastardly00 · 25-03-2021 6:49pm

Glad I'm watching the TV series Line of Duty so that I knew what CHIS meant when that Garda just said it a few minutes ago :pac:

31-03-2021 5:18pm

'Look "Ciarán" just shut up. I'm better than you'

This is not The Hard Shoulder

NIMAN · 14-04-2021 1:56pm

I see TLW had a complaint upheld against it, when some contributor claimed JK Rowling was transphobic.

Wonder who it was who made that statement?

Interesting to see the line in the article that says the comment wasn't challenged by the presenter. Sure that's his form these days.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/bai-uphold-complaint-againsttoday-fm-over-guests-claim-jk-rowling-is-transphobic-40312460.html

Tork · 14-04-2021 2:16pm

That line leapt out at me too. I suppose it'd be too much of a stretch to think this might give Matt Cooper a long overdue boot up the backside. I really don't know what has happened to him. Is he overstretched with work? Is he afraid to offend his production team or the Twitter mob? Or have his journalistic instincts become blunted?

NIMAN · 14-04-2021 2:26pm

I read on the other thread it was Roe McDermott.

No surprise.

BPKS · 14-04-2021 2:59pm

Tork wrote: »

That line leapt out at me too. I suppose it'd be too much of a stretch to think this might give Matt Cooper a long overdue boot up the backside. I really don't know what has happened to him. Is he overstretched with work? Is he afraid to offend his production team or the Twitter mob? Or have his journalistic instincts become blunted?

Nail on head I would think.

Group think. Production teams on Today FM and Newstalk dominated by left leaning, SJW types.

And afraid of saying anything that may annoy the Twitter mob in case it led to less Opinion pieces, TV appearances, book deals etc.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 14-04-2021 4:41pm

Agreed as well. He's scared of the Twitter tribe. I've been listening and reading to Matt for years, he always leaned centre-right. I suspect he disagrees with loads of this woke nonsense but has been beaten back by the mob. It takes a brave person to fully stand up to it all the time in media circles, you're risking your career and becoming a social pariah (in leftie media circles, not the genral public obviously)

NIMAN · 14-04-2021 5:52pm

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »

Agreed as well. He's scared of the Twitter tribe. I've been listening and reading to Matt for years, he always leaned centre-right. I suspect he disagrees with loads of this woke nonsense but has been beaten back by the mob. It takes a brave person to fully stand up to it all the time in media circles, you're risking your career and becoming a social pariah (in leftie media circles, not the genral public obviously)

That's a shame, if people are not being true to themselves as a journalist, simply as they feel others wouldn't agree with them, and it could possibly harm their career. Whatever happened to standing up for your beliefs?

It's easy to be one of the woke crowd who agrees with all the nonsense out there at present, as you'll find no-one is brave enough to challenge you any more. The brave ones are the ones who are true to themselves and their beliefs.

But I guess if I had Matts job, I too might pretend to be someone I'm not to simply stay on the gravy train.

Tork · 14-04-2021 5:56pm

Look what happened to George Hook. Whether you agree or not with what he said, he was hounded from his radio show by the Twitterati.

marno21 · 31-05-2021 10:33pm

Denis O'Brien had a conference call with Communicorp employees on his last day of involvement with the group today, where he instructed the Irish Times ban to be lifted.

https://www.independent.ie/business/denis-obrien-marks-last-day-as-owner-of-radio-brands-by-telling-staff-its-time-to-lift-irish-times-ban-40489447.html

DrSerious3 · 01-06-2021 7:37pm

Two months since anyone posted here, I wonder have many of the regular listeners tuned out?

NIMAN · 01-06-2021 7:52pm

Listened today, first time in a while.

It's still very repetitive imo.
Also hate the way MC tells you multiple times who a contributor is, and their job title, and who they work for.

Probably won't be tuning in for another few weeks.

01-06-2021 8:49pm

DrSerious3 wrote: »

Two months since anyone posted here, I wonder have many of the regular listeners tuned out?

I have a personal theory, that Today FM is a workplace radio station. I have only ever heard Today FM when sitting in a waiting room, or when someone was in our office to replace carpets. Don't ask me to explain, I cannot.

We have often heard the expression "hairdresser radio" on this forum, well Today FM is "tradesman radio". I don't know anyone who listens to it in the evening. Why would you? I would say a great majority of the population is totally ignorant of Matt Cooper's radio programme. I include myself in that cohort.

NIMAN · 02-06-2021 9:07am

Ironically, it is a decent station in the evening.

Butson · 02-06-2021 10:17am

NIMAN wrote: »

Ironically, it is a decent station in the evening.

Yeah, Ed Smith plays great tunes in the evening after 7. No waffle talk.

The Last Word has really gone to the dogs. Cooper sounds either disinterested, or completely afraid to challenge the new PC World order.

Far easier to just snigger at Boris, Cummings, Trump etc.

siblers · 02-06-2021 12:01pm

NIMAN wrote: »

I read on the other thread it was Roe McDermott.

No surprise.

Why she's on the show is beyond me. Almost as insufferable as her brother

NIMAN · 02-06-2021 3:03pm

siblers wrote: »

Why she's on the show is beyond me. Almost as insufferable as her brother

Careful.:D

There was a contributor on recently, another Eoghan McDermott, and I noticed Matt was calling him Eoghan Tomas McDermott.

The guy probably insists on that now, so he's not confused with the other one.

robo · 02-06-2021 3:57pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Careful.:D

There was a contributor on recently, another Eoghan McDermott, and I noticed Matt was calling him Eoghan Tomas McDermott.

The guy probably insists on that now, so he's not confused with the other one.

I might be wrong but for as long as I've heard him (mainly on the Friday 4.30pm weekly chat slot) - he has always been E Thomas McD

02-06-2021 4:14pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Ironically, it is a decent station in the evening.

Must give it a listen this evening.

I like Matt Cooper on the TV, I'm surprised he never moved to Newstalk or a station with a reputation for political news.

Jayesdiem · 02-06-2021 11:59pm

DrSerious3 wrote: »

Two months since anyone posted here, I wonder have many of the regular listeners tuned out?

A long time ago for me. The lockdown cheerleading became insufferable. Harder, longer, stricter. Ireland and its media bloody LOVE being locked down.

PhoneMain · 03-06-2021 12:14pm

robo wrote: »

I might be wrong but for as long as I've heard him (mainly on the Friday 4.30pm weekly chat slot) - he has always been E Thomas McD

I think you're wrong, I think he has always been Eoghan McDermott because I used get confused. He is occasionally on Ireland AM also

vince · 03-06-2021 11:57pm

I wonder will the new owners ditch The last word.

nc6000 · 04-06-2021 12:01am

I hardly ever listen to the show anymore, can't explain why exactly but I just don't. That six at six thing where he almost interviews the newsreader is really annoying.

tomglsn · 04-06-2021 7:42am

nc6000 wrote: »

I hardly ever listen to the show anymore, can't explain why exactly but I just don't. That six at six thing where he almost interviews the newsreader is really annoying.

It is like he is talking to a child about how their day in school went. Unlistenable. Why not just read the news instead of this?

NIMAN · 04-06-2021 1:23pm

nc6000 wrote: »

I hardly ever listen to the show anymore, can't explain why exactly but I just don't. That six at six thing where he almost interviews the newsreader is really annoying.

And even worse, he does it twice. At 5 and then at 6.

I'm shocked a supposedly intelligent journo or presenter like MC is happy to do this. It is cringeworthy. But he must have no say, and has to go along with it. It's obviously to try to make the news sound off the cuff and relaxed, but it's anything but.

PhoneMain · 04-06-2021 1:29pm

NIMAN wrote: »

And even worse, he does it twice. At 5 and then at 6.

I'm shocked a supposedly intelligent journo or presenter like MC is happy to do this. It is cringeworthy. But he must have no say, and has to go along with it. It's obviously to try to make the news sound off the cuff and relaxed, but it's anything but.

Its not just the news, it's the sports as well. There's one sports reader who starts every sentence with "yeah Matt". As in:
Cooper: Tell us about the teams for the weekend
Sports reader: Yeah Matt, theres 2 changes.......

Absolutely melts my head. And for the most part I like TLW, there's just so many things that are beginning to grate on me now

BrentMused · 04-06-2021 3:23pm

I like the show and it would be my go-to on the commute home in the evening, but for the last few months it's basically a repeat every single day and I'm finding myself moving the dial more and more.

The same topics, the same contributors.

You can bet your life that you'll have some selection of the below on:

- "Monaghan based GP" Illona Duffy
- Anthony Staines
- Kingston Mills
- Sam McConkey
- Adrian Cummins
- Daniel McConnell
- Donal O'Keeffe (Licensed Vinters Association)

You can add in another 2 or 3 of the regulars and that will form the show.

Every. Single. Day.

NIMAN · 04-06-2021 8:02pm

I have always wondered how much actual interview or debate time there is daily.

Once you take out the repeating news, repeating sport, repeating weather, repeating traffic. Adverts, competitions, etc.

It is becoming a hard listen now.

Tork · 05-06-2021 1:32am

The feeling I get from TLW these days is that they're all just treading water and keeping things ticking over for now. What sort of budget does the show have these days, I wonder? It could get interesting once the new owners start to put their stamp on the schedule. My feeling is that they've kept TLW on the air in order to satisfy the BAI requirements about news/current affairs content. It's not that long ago that the weekend morning schedules had heavier programmes in the schedule but all those are gone. Keeping the Last Word in the schedule keeps the BAI dogs off their back. It wouldn't surprise me if that pre-recorded 8-9am Sunday morning Irish music show exists for much the same reason.

Mad_maxx · 08-06-2021 7:53pm

i listened to the piece on podcast this evening so perhaps it was from a few days ago ? but he was talking to Miguel Delaney about the England team and the " taking of the knee "

Cooper could not have been more biased in discussing the issue , nothing only unquestionable adherence to the gesture was enough for the WOKE supremo Matt

absolute wally of a man

NIMAN · 08-06-2021 7:59pm

Tuned in a bit tonight, did I hear new jingles?

The Last Word

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