Newstalk Megathread Nov 2022

The very sensible Conor Faugnan on the "controversial" ad now. Some over sensitive texters, the ad isn't about you ffs.

The Moncrieff Show isn't very Moncrieffy now that he is off. They're just having people text in Irish phrases now and reading them out. No context really, no insight, just reading stuff out. It's like some nonsense you'd get on a standard 2 songs +sh*t-talk show.

I don't see what Mairead Ronan is bringing really. It's like an extension of lunchtime live

it feels like I’ve been stuck at the school gates all day today

By god, they talk some rot on the Andrea Gilligan show. How does she put up with it, at least Joe Duffy is on a good salary.

One of today's topics was should a certain brand of paint (can't remember which one) reconsider the names of their paint colours as the current ones are offensive to animals. I kid you not. Mensa wouldn't get a look in with this lot.

Trying to compete with Joe or something is the only explanation for it. It's so dumbed down compared to the rest of the programming.

The topics are so random. They basically pick an emotive article that has been recently reported and run with it. It is pretty much Livelife for people who, instead of shouting at someone/something, want to shout at the clouds.

"Bobby Darvo came out this week saying he buys all his clothes in Charity shops. Do you use Charity Shop?"

"A Mammy journalist tweeted on twitter yesterday that grand parents don't do enough to mitigate the need for childcare. Should they just shut up and do it?"

Etc Etc.

Valerie Cox seems to carving out a post-RTE niche as a regular fixture with Anton Savage on Sundays.

Spent seven hours on the puter waiting for tickets, and the puter kicked me out as they said I was a bot

Glad to hear I'm not the only one! It's painful and completely contrived. He's a bit of a dose too, and sees it as some sort of opportunity to force his personality onto the show.

Whilst I like the show, I agree it has become somewhat formulaic. But then again, familiarity can be a good thing. The Shane Beatty news item has to go though, beyond painful!

Kellys false stutter in full flow this morning.

"So so so s s so we we we w w we"

Shane Coleman doesn't like Alan Rickmans "nasaly" voice.

He should be forced to listen to his own whiney voice some time.

Oh thank god, when I woke up this morning and read the big news about Dave Grohl having a child outside of his marriage, all that was running through my head was "what does Terry Prone think of this?"

Luckily Newstalk had their finger on the pulse of the nation as usual, and got her on to discuss it in detail. Is there anything to be said for giving the communications clinic a good chunk of the 13 billion?

That and Shane and Ciaras daily Punch and Judy routine "I'm sorry but I disagree with you, I feel really strongly about this issue, for money, let's have an entirely not scripted disagreement and then ask for listener contributions via text".

You also have to love when it gets to ten to nine and there's an ad break only to come back for them to thank Joe Bloggs on sound blah blah blah, talk to you tomorrow and then another five minutes of ads leading up to the nine of clock news.

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