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The RTE spin machine

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  • #32
    slum dog
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭slum dog


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Does it matter?

    Look, all I'm saying is it's really not the biggest story. The shooting happened almost a week ago, and there's no great mystery behind it. It's all pretty clear what happened and why, it's old news.

    The shooting in the Alps happened only two days ago, almost a whole family were murdered by what seems to be an assassin, a little girl lay under dead bodies for a few hours and we're none the wiser as to who did it or why. It's not old news, it's current and as a result is given priority in the media.

    So you think RTE didn't suppress this story then?


  • #33
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    This no ordinary Funeral in the sense that there are masked men & women supported by hundreds of mourners/onlookers at it.These same people dont & wont recognize our Government or courts,To me that is news that I want to know about as it might concern me here.


  • #34
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    slum dog wrote: »
    So you think RTE didn't suppress this story then?

    Suppress what story?


  • #35
    slum dog
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭slum dog


    I don't think freedom of speech should have to suffer just because the funeral might of given the RIRA a propaganda boost


  • #36
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    realies wrote: »
    This no ordinary Funeral in the sense that there are masked men & women supported by hundreds of mourners/onlookers at it.These same people dont & wont recognize our Government or courts,To me that is news that I want to know about as it might concern me here.

    Ok, let me fill you in. There are masked men and women who don't recognize our government at a funeral of a guy who got shot a few days ago and might have been in a terrorist organisation. In other news, Galway is getting ready to sock it to Kilkenny tomorrow in a game of two halves involving 22 men running around after a piece of turf. And now the weather: The kids are back to school which means theres a decent chance of a bit of sunshine, but bring your umbrella with you just in case. Radar charts can be viewed on the Met Eireann website, email us if yo can decypher them better than us.


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  • #37
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    syklops wrote: »
    Ok, let me fill you in. There are masked men and women who don't recognize our government at a funeral of a guy who got shot a few days ago and might have been in a terrorist organisation. In other news, Galway is getting ready to sock it to Kilkenny tomorrow in a game of two halves involving 22 men running around after a piece of turf. And now the weather: The kids are back to school which means there's a decent chance of a bit of sunshine, but bring your umbrella with you just in case. Radar charts can be viewed on the Met Eireann website, email us if yo can decyfer them better than us.


    Don't need you to fill me on anything thanks.But I would expect the state broadcaster to.


  • #38
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I don't get why some gangland funeral should be on the six o'clock news.


  • #39
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    The RTE spin machine :pac: FFS! How many here knew who this guy was before last week? He's a nobody. Just like the rest of those fools wearing masks.


  • #40
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    syklops wrote: »
    In other news, Galway is getting ready to sock it to Kilkenny tomorrow in a game of two halves involving 22 men running around after a piece of turf.

    30. It's hurling not soccer.


  • #41
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    token101 wrote: »
    The RTE spin machine :pac: FFS! How many here knew who this guy was before last week? He's a nobody. Just like the rest of those fools wearing masks.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Massereene_Barracks_shooting


    He was one of the leaders of this ^^^^ organisation.


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  • #42
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    realies wrote: »
    Don't need you to fill me on anything thanks.But I would expect the state broadcaster to.

    Why???
    30. It's hurling not soccer.

    Sorry, haven't played hurling since I was about 10.


  • #43
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    syklops wrote: »
    Why???


    Why, well as you dont even know how many players are on a hurling team I will take RTE over you any day.


  • #44
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    realies wrote: »
    Why, well as you dont even know how many players are on a hurling team I will take RTE over you any day.

    Because hurling and the Real IRA are so closely aligned.

    Some douchebag got shot. Today they stuck him in the ground. Whoopdy feckin doo. Pass the scampi fries.


  • #45
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    syklops wrote: »
    Because hurling and the Real IRA are so closely aligned.

    Some douchebag got shot. Today they stuck him in the ground. Whoopdy feckin doo. Pass the scampi fries.


    Whatever :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #46
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    realies wrote: »
    Whatever :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    'Cause one rolleyes wasn't enough.

    Tell you what. You take me off your christmas card list, I'll take you off mine, and we can both save ourselves a few cents this Christmas.


  • #47
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    slum dog wrote: »
    I decided to switch over to six one news tonight to see if i could grab coverage of the funeral of slain republican Alan Ryan. Since it was a high profile murder I thought it would of been on the mainheadlines but it wasn't and instead they had the ongoing investigation into four murders in France confused.png

    Is it fair to say that the state broadcaster has deliberately refused to include this in its headlines and if so, who's behind this kind of political broadcasting?
    Tbh, I like to make my mind up on political issues and I don't need the likes of RTE with its reputation of broadcasting sh.it television impeding on that.
    If the guy in question was using the RIRAs name as a cover for criminal activities then I say fair enough but at least let the public make its mind up on the issue without the interferance of state television.

    Mods, I don't want this thread merged with the other one. Any thread which includes an opening post that says 'good riddance' to somebody who was murdered is an absolute disgrace and is akin to the journalism practices of RTE.
    Jesus H christ a low life paedo child killing drug dealer gets his cumuppamce and you are up in arms because RTE are not glorifying his depravity?
    Get a life!


  • #48
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    slum dog wrote: »
    I decided to switch over to six one news tonight to see if i could grab coverage of the funeral of slain republican Alan Ryan. Since it was a high profile murder I thought it would of been on the mainheadlines but it wasn't and instead they had the ongoing investigation into four murders in France confused.png

    Is it fair to say that the state broadcaster has deliberately refused to include this in its headlines and if so, who's behind this kind of political broadcasting?
    Tbh, I like to make my mind up on political issues and I don't need the likes of RTE with its reputation of broadcasting sh.it television impeding on that.
    If the guy in question was using the RIRAs name as a cover for criminal activities then I say fair enough but at least let the public make its mind up on the issue without the interferance of state television.

    Mods, I don't want this thread merged with the other one. Any thread which includes an opening post that says 'good riddance' to somebody who was murdered is an absolute disgrace and is akin to the journalism practices of RTE.
    Good Riddance


  • #49
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    SocSocPol wrote: »
    Good Riddance

    You can say that again.

    Good Riddance.

    Edit: I wish I had said it sooner.


  • #50
    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    His funeral was covered on both the 6:01 and 9 o'clock news, and also on RTE news now. I'm really not sure what your gripe with RTE is? What's the conspiracy? :confused:

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10046635

    Its at 5:26 mins there



    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10046652

    and 09:16 on the 9 o'clock news


  • #51
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    realies wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Massereene_Barracks_shooting


    He was one of the leaders of this ^^^^ organisation.

    He would have been in his late teens around the time of the omagh bombing...very unlikely he was a boy general :confused:


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  • #52
    pm1977x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭pm1977x


    Did TV3 lead with it as top story or are they in on the conspiracy too?


  • #53
    PC CDROM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭PC CDROM


    realies wrote: »
    The murder of Alan Ryan is the biggest killing of a senior Republican in the Republic since Seamus Costello back in 1977, It has huge significance for this country .....


    ehhhh.... no.

    I can assume you don't really know much about republican history.


  • #54
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    PC CDROM wrote: »
    ahhh.... no.

    I can assume you don't really know much about republican history.



    Well educate me then or do you just make posts and leave them in the air ?


    And don't say Dominic mcglinchey as at the time he was killed he was out of the INLA and on the run from everyone. And also you are assuming wrong.


  • #55
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    syklops wrote: »
    Because hurling and the Real IRA are so closely aligned.


    Would you say Henry Shefflin and Joe Canning are the generals..??
    And there will be 83,000 RIRA sympathisers in Croke Park today..??
    Sincerely hope you are taking the piss, if not then you really need to get out more as statements like that are an obvious cry for help. :confused:


  • #56
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Bambi wrote: »
    I don't see why the funeral would make the news, the shooting would but the funeral is really only of interest to the print rags and the curtain twitchers that infest this country
    Magic Marker wrote: »
    Who gives a **** that his funeral was today?

    The murders in France is the far bigger story imo.
    syklops wrote: »
    Two innocent people were shot dead in france and their two daughters were let live to witness it in France. One scumbag got shot in Dublin.

    Two is greater than one.

    Whats the problem?

    Edit: It was his burial? In that case I care even less. How is that news worthy?
    Skylinehead wrote: »
    I fail to see how yet another ex-IRA man being killed (not even, it's only the funeral. What are they going to say?) is bigger than the mysterious circumstances of a family and a passer-by being shot in the head.
    syklops wrote: »
    Foreign news trumps local non-news.

    If he was in the RIRA he was a scumbag and I don't care he is dead, and I care even less that he got buried.



    Well it seems the minister for justice had more than an Interest in the funeral yesterday even if RTE had not or by some posters here that it is/was a non story.

    Gardaí have begun a criminal investigation after shots were fired during the funeral of dissident republican Alan Ryan in Donaghmede yesterday.Minister for Justice Alan Shatter described some of the events at the funeral as reprehensible and absolutely unacceptable.........http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0909/events-around-ryan-funeral-unacceptable-shatter.html


  • #57
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    PC CDROM wrote: »
    ehhhh.... no.

    I can assume you don't really know much about republican history.


    You get lost ?


  • #58
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    realies wrote: »
    Well it seems the minister for justice had more than an Interest in the funeral yesterday even if RTE had not or by some posters here that it is/was a non story.

    Gardaí have begun a criminal investigation after shots were fired during the funeral of dissident republican Alan Ryan in Donaghmede yesterday.Minister for Justice Alan Shatter described some of the events at the funeral as reprehensible and absolutely unacceptable.........http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0909/events-around-ryan-funeral-unacceptable-shatter.html

    Looks at the thread title and OP.

    Looks at the website you've linked to.

    Indeed.


  • #59
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    realies wrote: »
    Well it seems the minister for justice had more than an Interest in the funeral yesterday even if RTE had not or by some posters here that it is/was a non story.
    [/URL]

    You seem to have ignored this post above in your quoting of nearly everyone else
    some random drunk wrote: »
    His funeral was covered on both the 6:01 and 9 o'clock news, and also on RTE news now. I'm really not sure what your gripe with RTE is? What's the conspiracy? :confused:

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10046635

    Its at 5:26 mins there



    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10046652

    and 09:16 on the 9 o'clock news


  • #60
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    copacetic wrote: »
    You seem to have ignored this post above in your quoting of nearly everyone else


    :o Must of missed it :o Thread closed and corrected so.


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  • #61
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Looks at the thread title and OP.

    Looks at the website you've linked to.

    Indeed.


    [HTML]

    Originally Posted by Magic Markerviewpost.gif


    Who gives a **** that his funeral was today?


    The murders in France is the far bigger story imo.[/HTML]


    In your opinion it shoudent have been on the news at all, sure who cares ,Indeed is right.


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