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Why do RTE keep sending their employees abroad and wasting taxpayers money?

  • 11-02-2013 11:49PM
    #1
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭


    Both Eileen Dunne AND Miriam O'Callaghan out in Rome today/tonight covering the Pope story along with goodness knows how many more RTE employees.

    Dunne out in Brussels the other night for a 3 min interview with the taoiseach.

    Ray Colgan out reporting from Jordan.

    What a complete blatant waste of taxpayers money.

    It's belt tightening time RTE - did you not know we were in a recession?

    I won't comment on the €400.00 taxi fair you paid to get Michael Healy Rae back to Kerry last Saturday night :mad:


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  • #2
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Winning Streak had money left over from last week.


  • #3
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Come on, do ya expect them to do a report on the Vatican from the corner of the newsroom in RTE? You HAVE to have Miriam backlit by the lights of St. Peter's Basilica, you just have to!


  • #4
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Agricola wrote: »
    Come on, do ya expect them to do a report on the Vatican from the corner of the newsroom in RTE? You HAVE to have Miriam backlit by the lights of St. Peter's Basilica, you just have to!

    Fake backdrop :pac:


  • #5
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Wish they'd stay there


  • #6
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    It's just how the news reporting is.
    I don't think we can really blame RTÉ on this one.
    It's a nice job, but someone has to do it I guess.


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  • #7
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Because they can.


  • #8
    miller50841
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    Because they can and honestly you would do the same come on admit it.


  • #9
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    I'm sure it's top price flights booking last minute too


  • #10
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    can they not just get them to stand on front of a green screen and matrix them into Rome?


  • #11
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Aye, they should be reporting from The Holy Stone of Clonrichert, much more sacred setting


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  • #12
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,891 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Their job is to brief the public on issues of National importance ........So the trip is justified .


  • #13
    mike65
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    Even the BBC has a man (or woman) in Rome tonight.


  • #14
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    I wish RTE just stuck to doing the news, current affairs and sh1te local shows with the odd bit of Irish trad thrown in.

    Why in the name of suffering haysus are we threatened with jail if we don't help fund Fair ****ing City, Ryan Tubs and Miriam O being millionaires all the while getting in countless American shows as filler in between cooking shows.

    **** off RTE.


  • #15
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    Their job is to brief the public on issues of National importance ........So the trip is justified .

    Brief us from home ;) not Rome ! (and other places)


  • #16
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    mike65 wrote: »
    Even the BBC has a man (or woman) in Rome tonight.

    Could RTE not have interviewed that person?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #17
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Could RTE not have interviewed that person?


    Eileen Dunne interviewed the Rome Correspondant from The Los Angeles Times (and he happened to be an english guy:p) on the Six One news tonight :eek:


  • #18
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Agricola wrote: »
    Come on, do ya expect them to do a report on the Vatican from the corner of the newsroom in RTE?

    Yes.


  • #19
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    I don't understand at all why reporters have to go to the scene for stories like this. like Brian O Donovan bein constantly outside the Dail,it's not any use that he's there instead of in studio.


  • #20
    Bad Santa
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 381 ✭✭Bad Santa


    RTE are missing a trick.

    They could easily have had a special Pay Ver View event of live action from Miriam's hotel room tonight.


  • #21
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    I don't understand at all why reporters have to go to the scene for stories like this. like Brian O Donovan bein constantly outside the Dail,it's not any use that he's there instead of in studio.

    You could also just read all your news in plain text without any images / sound at all.


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  • #22
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I'd say RTE would get criticised if they didn't have correspondents abroad; they are a national broadcaster, they need to have people on the ground near internationally important events. Every country in the world does it.


  • #23
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Brief us from home ;) not Rome ! (and other places)

    Yes who wants proper journalism now anyway. They should just source their info from various blogs wrote by hipsters who get some of their info from real journalists but make the other 80% of it up.


  • #24
    janeo80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭janeo80


    I did think that tonight when I saw them all out in Rome, delighted to see others copped on as well! But there are a few arguments for it... what are the real advantages of having them in Rome? Does RTE lose its reputation or will the broadcast somehow be compromised by not doing it from Rome? I'm not sure I fully understand yet!


  • #25
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    Their job is to brief the public on issues of National importance ........So the trip is justified .

    Is that you Ann Doyle.?

    Hardly an issue of National Importance.

    Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

    He is simply the head of a very corrupt and evil organisation.

    Most people have turned their backs on The Church in Ireland, because like its Head Office , the Vatican, is also a corrupt and evil organisation.

    Why are RTE wasting a whole heap of money on this? Beats me.


  • #26
    Cereal Number
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 329 ✭✭Cereal Number


    I wish I was Healy Rae's taximan, i drive him to Clare and off the cliffs of moher

    Cereal


  • #27
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    Gosh, we the people of Kerry would be very disappointed if you done dish.

    We would prefer to bring him in the shnow and shleet up the mountains and fire him off the top of Carrantouhil, the highesht mountain in the land.!


  • #28
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    If they just sacked the pair of them they could afford to fly Rome to us.


  • #29
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    delthedriver wrote: »
    Is that you Ann Doyle.?

    Hardly an issue of National Importance.

    Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

    He is simply the head of a very corrupt and evil organisation.

    Most people have turned their backs on The Church in Ireland, because like its Head Office , the Vatican, is also a corrupt and evil organisation.

    Why are RTE wasting a whole heap of money on this? Beats me.

    I agree. The news should only report on things I care about.


  • #30
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    humbert wrote: »
    If they just sacked the pair of them they could afford to fly Rome to us.

    They should be sacked anyway.
    Neither are worth the salaries they are earning.
    Guess the TV licence will go up again.


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  • #31
    Lapin
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    Jesus Vic you really have a bee in the bonnet over this.

    Its not that expensive in the scheme of things.


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