Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I think that poster was to be honest.
Lol. Do you not get that Sorolla was being sarcastic? Then you follow-on with a hand wringing response where you were basically talking to yourself.
Scandalous the amount of money being paid to these people!
Joe Duffy on over 300K!
I was listening to him today on the radio talking about RT & he appeared
to be more in defense of RT than being critical of him! Eventually turned it off!
Talk about impartial reporting! If these people can find employment in other
fields well leave them go & good luck to them. Bon voyage!!!
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A quarter of a million a year and all she did was copy and paste Byrne's statement from this morning...
I now keep seeing "I received no additional fees" everywhere - legal speak to cover arses. Lying without lying.
My god, you need to get checked out yourself, your head has got too big for your body.
Head to the G.P. tomorrow and get yourself checked out. Your sarcasm detector is clearly fukked.
In the years to come when we are ALL paying the 'media charge ', the days off that storm in a teacup over the TV licence misappropriations may come back to haunt.
RTE income - circa 50% from advertising despite limitations
TV license - also used to part fund commercial station
Don't really blame tubridy for this, he named his price and rte met it, his 1st statement was ill advised so the 2nd one went down like a lead balloon. Hope he has a good pension, he's brown bread at rte anyway, career done.
The management at rte sanctioned this, their needs to be a root and branch culture change at rte, or just strip it down and keep the news and current affairs parts.
Shocking
Ok but that doesn't give him the right to take money that wasn't his own.
Yes you can blame Rte for doing that and giving it to him but he surely knew that if he was caught especially when his salary figure was published publicly he be in big trouble. It just wouldn't sit right for me if that happened and I was in the public domain and not declaring that I was receiving an extra €70,000 a year onto the my normal generous salary that RTE were paying me.
Usually all these things of corruption come out sooner or later. There's no going back now Ryan, you are finished and your character has gone rock bottom.
Sweet Jesus.
I wouldn't be surprised if he legally changed his name to that.
The media charge is coming regardless - it's a matter of time. What's up for grabs is how much it will be, how it will be levied and who will get it. It is almost certainly going to be broader than the current situation and print type media will be looking to get a slice of it. It seems it will be based on broadband connections as well.
What's also not certain is will RTE in its current guise still exist. I think we are a single revelation away from a major restructuring of RTE, with the splitting of entertainment away from news and current affairs. If the investigations find more secret payments to others then RTE is toast.
A revamped rte consisting of only news and current affairs fully funded from the license fee is a possibility. A new company for entertainment etc could then be set up and it would need to compete for the balance of license monies which would be open to all comers for public service projects. The unions out in rte might need to be careful with what they wish for.
The current model of funding is unsustainable and it will be replaced. It's a matter of when and what that money will be used for. If mass non license paying is what is needed for implementing total reform, then that's what will need to happen. I don't think the current situation with the size of the top ten salaries is compatible politically with license reform.
1st one done. Absolutely no punches being pulled, with Messrs Dunphy & Sheahan calling it as they see it.
Saving the 2nd one for the morning.
Why only 4 available to RTE? And if that's the case why were gt appointed by the audit committee to do the current investigation?
I don't get what you are on about regarding PR
I'm sorry now but this is getting a little too serious for an Oireachtas Committee. CAB should be asked to investigate this.
I would never lister/watch Tubridy or Miriam O'C. I detest both. If I watch RTE it's for sport. If I listen to RTE then it's for John Creedon.
The rest is drivel.
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So is Tubridy now saying that the agent didn't tell him who was now paying it? It is unbelievable. Truely unbelievable.
The argument that RTE is a default listen for most people is spurious, individual presenters and journalists do have a fan base individuals choose who they listen to, for example, I will listen to Andera Gilligan on Newstalk but if its click bate I turn back to RTE. I very rarely listen to Pat Kenny even though he's a very good presenter I dislike his arrogance and his bias, if RTE was a default listen no one would ever listen to Matt Cooper.
What do we have here then
Yes. And they still haven't said what exactly happened even though this was identified in March.
So, just in case, I'm not getting this.
RTE faked sponsor payments, with an advertising credit, in order to provide tax payer's money to their "talent". They just got someone else to sign the cheque. Money was laundered through "sponsors" so "talent" could keep getting tax-payer money. There was never a pay cut, they faked it.
They faked the pay cuts to the tax payer so they could continue to lobby for a greater license fee from the tax payers and funding from government (the tax payer)?
To implosions in one week.
I detest paying the TV Licence as I don’t watch any TV or listen to any radio (I’ve no ideological beef with RTE and am wholly ambivalent about the careers of its presenters), but on a practical level, wholesale non-payment of the Licence will hasten the introduction of the oft-mooted “household media charge” to replace it. And if Revenue get the gig to collect it rather than An Post, there’ll be no escaping it.
I’m not saying you should pay it, but doing so as a form of protest will be short lived if it’s in any way successful.
Thank you!
16.5% of households are breaking the law so. I can only see that figure rising.
The one that Miriam uses.
RTE is the national broadcaster. It is entrusted by the state to provide radio and tv programs. Their is an inbuilt loyalty to the station whereby they don't need to pay presenters exorbitant amounts of money to do programs. As has been given as an example Sean O'Rourke actually built on the radio audience Pat Kenny had before he left for Newstalk.
RTE has p*ssed away millions on overpaying mediocre broadcasters on the red herring of them been irreplaceable and market rates. Every dope who sanctioned these wages needs to be held to account. That's our money they have burned on absolutely on mediocrity. No presenter should be allowed to earn more than 260k which amounts to 5k per week.
No employee at RTE should earn more than 300k. Anyone who works at RTE in a management capacity, going forward, will do so knowing that they will be required to answer for their actions and that resignations will not be an out for them to escape accountability. If found guilty of malpractice their pensions will be rendered null and void and any lumps sums given on retirement will be open to being clawed back.
I refuse to believe that RTE couldn't hire better broadcasters than Tubridy, O'Callaghan, Duffy and D'Arcy even offering less money. We are being shortchanged on honesty and output. We are a wonderful country. For a small pool of people we have some talent. We can do better.
Well first off do you have family working there? If answer is "Yes" just turn up at Reception.
FYI
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41004182.html
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