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.
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.
rolling boh wrote: » Have heard her on rte a few times over the last few years she has been on with Matt recently .
statto25 wrote: » Marian McKeown of the Last Word parish on with Claire Byrne this morning. Has she been on with Matt lately? Shes speaking about the Brittany Spears case in the states
Was listening to TLW on the way home yesterday. Absolute fluff piece about Generation Z young adults. Load of waffle, had to switch off after a few minutes. Telling them how tough they have it, how they're going to save the world. Every generation has it's own challanges and every generation had it's activists in their youth, they' werent as vocal about it with the lack of social media however! Really bad piece and it really shows how low in standards TLW has fallen. That sort of sh1te should have been on Spin 1038!
Haven't listened to Fat Cooper since about 2007
Talking about 9 11 tonight Marian on and of course had to get a bit in about the invasion of capital hill while Talking about the affect 9 11 had on the USA. No fan of Trump but no need to keep bringing him up at any opportunity .
Who was the Mick fella who was filling in for MC on the Last Word today?
Terrible radio presenter, his diction was shocking. He may well have known his stuff, but it always helps when you can understand what he's saying. Between his 'dems' and 'dats'.
And the 6 @ 6 reached new lows today. This guy and some terrible newsreader going head to head. It sounds like a poor student radio station.
Probably Mick Clifford, arguably the best print journalist around, not the clearest of speakers I would have to admit.
A hard listen for 2 and a half hours.
Thanks for that.
No point being the best journo if you are hard to listen to.
I think if MC ever leaves, Frank Greaney has that gig sown up.
If Cooper ever leaves, it will be because the owners have been given the green light by the BAI to drop the show. The only good thing I'll say about Cooper is that he's been doing that show for 18 years which is a great stint. His predecessor Eamon Dunphy jumped ship after only 5 years and during his 5 years hosting the show, he'd go missing for the entire 3 months of summer and take frequent sick days the rest of the year.
Didn't realise MC was there so long.
Yep, he took over from Dunphy the first Monday of January 2003
Would be interesting to listen back to his early shows and see how different the modern ones are.
Of course we are talking about a time when you could call someone elderly and not get scolded.
Here he is in 2010 getting stuck in to someone. Don't think he'd be so aggressive nowadays. The fight is gone from him.
He knows that if he gets stuck into somebody and says the wrong thing, the house of cards will fall on him. Like him or loathe him, George Hook got hounded from his radio show by the baying Twitter mob. Of course the very same thing'd happen to Cooper if he went against popular opinion. I also get the impression that he's surrounded by loads of "woke" colleagues on Today FM and it's easier to just go along with that than to fall out with them. With the huge workload he has, he can't afford to fall out with the people who support him in the workplace.
