Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

Or himself and NK have a bust up and tubs tries to redeem himself by saying he was betrayed by bad advice, blah blah blah.

I misread your post and skipped straight to the lads Grease cover. But suprised that they included the "****" and "gettin lots of tit". Replete with hand groping gestures.

There seems to be a bit on animosity between the Savages and Tubs.

As an aside, I belive I read something about Savage putting his shares in The Communications Clinic in a "blind trust". To ensure there is no bias from there dealings in on his radio show.

For anyone not famililer a blind trust is a

"trust in which the beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust, and no right to intervene in their handling."

Which makes sense. But I a not really sure how that works when the shares are all in one company. Especially when that provides media training, disaster management and comms for political parties, individuals and organisations.

Declan lynch in the independent today pretty much nails Ryan's problem.

https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/declan-lynch-saving-private-ryan-tubridys-media-operation-starting-to-resemble-the-d-day-landings/a347182093.html

This paragraph from Declan Lynch is worth excerpting:

Tubridy suggested that “there’s always a bunch of people who couldn’t bear the thought of TV people or radio people earning a lot of money… they’re very uncomfortable with that… that’s their thing.”It probably looks worse written down, but it is deeply wrong in two ways. It was a righteous and widespread anger, not “a bunch of people” harbouring some obscure resentment. And it was all the more righteous because it displayed a better understanding of the true nature of public service broadcasting than was evident in the highest ranks of the organisation entrusted with it. The country knew in its bones it was bad for broadcasting and even for broadcasters themselves to be getting the silly money, because it placed them firmly in the upper echelons of the professional and corporate elite. The licence fee was meant to help the national carrier to maintain a distance from such elites, not to provide the wherewithal to join them.

That’s all you took from it ? Interesting.

Is this actually a real book, or just a meme ?

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction so who knows

That was an excellent indo piece linked earlier. It's a perfect recap of why the events of two years ago were a watershed of sorts of the publics patience with inflated RTE salaries. The heads will not move on anything that would inspire a resumption of the TV license strike, and the private sector broadcasters are weary of his complete inability to read the national mood.

If he had actually landed a gig in the UK and made it grow he might have an argument for some sort of return, but that didn't happen. His talent was marked to market.

If I have sympathy for Ryan its that he is being pitched as someone who can come back to RTE, on Dee Forbes salaries.

Given how great Ryan's publicist is, its crazy that Newstalk took the jump for Clare Byrne, and RTE went with Keiran Cuddihy. All the while the 'best in the business' was living his best life, getting on swimmingly, in the UK.

The suspicion is that Ryan himself would take any morsel from RTE's table, and love to claim that he is home. Obviously, the agent's cut would be far less than what it was previously.

Maybe the response to the last few weeks will change expectations.

Watched this. There is a sleight of hand in all this, and was well captured by Fionnan Sheehan. The BS line of Ryan 'I take responsibility for those things that I am responsible for'. Weasel words when not saying what you are responsible for. Ryan and NK will want to present the case that it is not Ryan's repsonsibility for RTE incorrectly publishing his wages - suggesting that if Ryan's actual wages were published that no one would have a problem and everyone would love Toyman.

I agree with Ryan and NK, that RTE are to blame for this, with NK and Ryan being beneficiaries of shameful management practice. Certainly wasnt in NK or Ryan's interests to rock the boat in that situation.

After 5 mins discussion on that topic in the video, the real reason why Ryan and NK are in the situation they are in is mentioned at 11m01-11m.05 in the video. Less than 10 seconds in total. Ryan was the only one of the published top earners to decline a pay cut/or put in arrangements that meant this cut wasn't going to hit his take home pay. Hard not to see why colleagues would have an issue with that. Can only hope for Ryan, that it was NK doing his best for his client, and taking advantage of shameful management practices in RTE. If NK was doing this with Ryan's approval, Ryan's preachings come off as insincere, sanctimonious and treating his 'audience' with the same contempt with which he treated his colleagues. That's the mistake he needs to take responsibility for.