Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Most people need help with this.
There needs to be a template letter and there needs to be a link for people to easily access their local ministers contact details.
What’s the vibe on Twitter about this scandal ?
Is there any kind of figure head, out there, leading the charge and educating people on how to make their voice heard ?
If he returns in September, his listenership will be through the roof - for 20/30 minutes. Those who are disgusted with him, myself included, will tune in for his first show to see how he handles his return, but will listen no more. He's a busted flush.
They would be wasting their time; all current political parties are fully committed to the conventional concept of public service broadcasting. If you want that sort of radical change in broadcasting policy you need to start voting for political parties with a completely different ideology.
They brought back the Den during Dee Forbes reign, and it didn't do very well or last very long.
I say bring back Bosco. And give Ryan the job of Bosco.
Fury and protestations.
Being cynical, political parties are fully committed to what gets them votes. RTE isn't public service broadcasting. It is a gombeen Frankensteinian hybrid of public service broadcasting and commerical broadcasting. It had a monopoly for the first few decades of its existence but growing competition in the market, at first from Pirate Radio and then from cable TV and satellite TV, showed how unsuitable its business model was for the late 20th century. With the advent of Internet access and streaming services, RTE's business model came under more threat.
People like Tubridy belong in the RTE monopoly model of the 1960s and early 1970s. He's an overpaid mediocrity. RTE management isn't really much better. All this is down to an extremely skewed broadcasting market in Ireland with RTE being a licence fee funded broadcaster dominating the market simply because it is licence fee funded and commercial broadcasters are not.
Don't think that there are any parties who would like a free market in broadcasting.
Regards...jmcc
Another person not naturally gifted in the ways of self awareness.
The odious cretin is using the oldest PR manipulation trick in the book by phrasing this press release not as an ask but a statement. "looking forward to rebuilding trust" presents his comeback as a fait acomplis rather than as a question for the listener to consider.
I hope people see through it.
The elites do look after themselves don't they? It's all just one big boys, and girls, club at the top isn't it? Looking down and laughing at Joe Public.
Depressing, but all too true, unfortunately.
Leo is not a very good barometer at all. That should not need to be explained why whether you are a supporter of him or not.
There’s no doubt in my mind that the ground is being prepared, on many fronts, for a return of the Toyman to radio in some on air capacity.
Oh dear! Looks like some feelings have been hurt in RTE.
I think it is already a done deal.
It appears the new boss values the Toyman, so he'll be back soon.
Someone should tell the Indo he’s not on the payroll. He sends an invoice in like any other contract and gets paid.
Imagine having the nerve to saunter in, past 200 people who took pay cuts, many of whom were told there was no money for maternity leave, and no money to contribute towards employees pensions, no money for remote controls for televisions, faulty equipment to edit news reports, no money for camera crews, many of whom often had to resort to DIY editing on the fly in order to get a piece they believed in on air at a set deadline...
And he thinks he can just walk back in, no questions asked, and with full 'confidence' restored?
I've walked past a group of people who were none too keen on me, for reasons that were frivolous and normal disagreements. (Nothing illegal or morally questionable, mind). Imagine trying to walk past 200+ people who genuinely can't stand you- you'd have to be so deluded as to think the world literally revolved around you.
I'm expecting a press release about Ryan which, in accordance with the general rule of announcing bad news, will be around 4pm tomorrow, Friday.
Once that happens, the LÉ RTÉ will slip its moorings and sail off into irrelevancy, leaving us landlubbers wondering whether it sank, or simply disappeared over the horizon. There will, of course, be a hefty bill for clearing up the pollution in Montrose Harbour
Cut price Tubs. 200k wont even butter the bread in Monkstown.
For 200k, they need to get more value out of him than 5h on radio a week. They could commission a new horror film, and make him the star. Something about a Toyman, like a crap willy wonka who lures kids in with prokises of toys and fun. He then proceeds to bore them to death with tales of JFK, american politics, or late-stage cancer. Could make a series of it, a rag-tag bunch of misfits band together (scooby-doo likel to save the country from the feared toyman, with each episode detailing their attempts to capture the tall and slender toyman. "And he'd have gotten away with it too, if it werent for those pesky kids" etc..
And what about the standard ‘ and how did you feel after that ‘ question
I had to laugh yesterday morning when listening to Radio 1 Morning Ireland about the GT Report. They said nobody in RTE was available to go on the radio show and take questions on it.
What a statement. Probably got top advice on ‘ If I should reply to the GR report and what should I say was what combination of words should I use’
another big clock up by RT in my opinion
in the statement he ACTUALLY ADMITS that he has lost the confidence and trust of his colleagues and listeners and is looking forward to the rebuilding of it.
I thought that it was the RTE board/ADM that lost that and not RT - did GT not say that he had no hand, act or part in the whole debacle ?
In my opinion GT could not comment on the fact that RT , apparently, ‘went along ‘ with the incorrect reporting of his actual salary for years. IMO he was morally obliged to correct the error - given the
articular circumstancesat the time re austerity/ salary reductions right across the board
I could be wrong but maybe RT meant that he will assist RTE in rebuilding the confidence and thrust that it has lost with staff and listeners!!!!!!!!!
Tubs is coming back on about 180k a year starting 6 months from now. You can feel the RTE statement is coming soon.
I’m no fan of Terry Prone, but she gave an interesting commentary just there on Morning Ireland. She said Tubridy does not need to do the Rhinestone Cowboy act “getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know”, his fan base will uncritically think he’s brilliant irrespective of what he says or does; by the same token the people who dislike him will not be converted into bring his fans. She emphasised that he needs to now work very hard on the floating opinions, those who need to be convinced he’s contrite and of value to the station, otherwise basically he’s wasting his time making noises.
So when exactly did NKM take over editorial duties at the Indo? The parade of RT-friendly articles in it over the last few days is, shall we say, noticeable.
RTE now seeking clarification on Tubridy's statement according to the RTE website.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0817/1400184-rte-tubridy/
Maybe a short career break might do him good? He could work on his latest book, maybe go see South America, take some time to recharge the batteries. Then come back after Christmas fighting fit and rearing to go.
Don't worry, if he gets back into RTE, a year from now he'll be making the travel shows or doing a tour of Irish America and RTE will bump his salary back up again.
The less than 200k figure is a Trojan horse to get him back in there and on the gravy train. Three years from now he'll probably be back presenting the LLS.
Once he's back in good luck getting him out.
Looks like he's talked his way into trouble again, the flaming narcissist.
Rearing to go where? And when he comes back he might have a chat with his RT Show colleagues
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