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

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  • #32
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    sock puppet wrote: »
    I agree. The news should only report on things I care about.

    Don't mind them reporting on it but they completely lost the plot all day with wall to wall reporting on all they're news programmes,how many times or ways do you have to say the popes resigned.


  • #33
    Bloody*Mary
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭Bloody*Mary


    One could justify Eileen Dunne going as she does "the God Slot" on radio.

    Miriam is a studio presenter so her presence is a little unusual.

    RTE cannot just piggyback on other media feeds.

    In my opinion nothing too alarming about their reportage of this event.

    It's what TV stations and radio stations do.


  • #34
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    The problem I have is with their salaries, not that they've been flown to Rome to report on the Pope retiring. As for some posters saying the country doesn't care and 'have turned its back in religion', nothing to do with the news report on it.

    BBC news also done full coverage, hardly a catholic strong hold. There's a thread going on here in After Hours about the very issue so people are obviously interested. A Pope retiring hasn't happened since the 1400's, hardly an everyday topic.

    I agree they needed to be flown to Rome but disagree completely on their salaries for doing it.


  • #35
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Not having to look at Miriam's leather handbag for a face is the reason I live in the UK. Catriona Shearer can read me the news anyday the big fla that she is.

    I don't get these junkets either, how can they justify sending two people? More than likely a case of use the budget to get more next year.

    Should have sent Aoengus anyway for the lolz.


  • #36
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    delthedriver wrote:

    Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.
    It was the leading news story in most news outlets around the world. So, quite a lot of people, I'd say.


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  • #37
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    Do we need a state broadcaster anyway?

    In this age of high speed communication and social media networking, I suspect RTE do not have the viewing figures for which we pay a licence fee.

    Wall to wall coverage of the Pope's resignation is unnecessary in a multicultural, muti faith society. The majority of people do not give a stuff about the Pope.

    Ireland is no longer holy Catholic Ireland, the fair maidens dancing at the crossroads are long gone, but RTE is still in cuckoo land.


  • #38
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    delthedriver wrote: »
    Wall to wall coverage of the Pope's resignation is unnecessary in a multicultural, muti faith society. The majority of people do not give a stuff about the Pope.

    It's still news no matter how much to bleat to the contrary.
    Stop your crying.


  • #39
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    dvpower wrote: »
    It was the leading news story in most news outlets around the world. So, quite a lot of people, I'd say.

    It was simply a quiet day in the media. The Popes resignation was used as filler. A bit like horsemeat


  • #40
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    delthedriver wrote: »
    In this age of high speed communication and social media networking, I suspect RTE do not have the viewing figures for which we pay a licence fee.
    Why don't you look up the figures for RTE News and Current Affairs programming? I suspect you'd be surprised.


  • #41
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    delthedriver wrote: »
    It was simply a quiet day in the media. The Popes resignation was used as filler. A bit like horsemeat
    You're just trolling now :)


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  • #42
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    vicwatson wrote: »
    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:

    We're not in a recession.

    Thread fail.


  • #43
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,903 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    delthedriver wrote: »
    Who gives a stuff about The Pope resigning.

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

    ah i see, RTE should only cover events that you personally are interested in...


  • #44
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    dvpower wrote: »
    Why don't you look up the figures for RTE News and Current Affairs programming? I suspect you'd be surprised.

    If you believe the figures That is great for you.:)


  • #45
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    Why did RTEs main news anchor man Bryan Dobson not travel to Rome?:)


  • #46
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    why don't they fly them to north korea to talk about the explosion....oh I see.....its okay to talk about this story from the newsroom. :D:D

    selective trips by rte


  • #47
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    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.

    Does every thread on AHs have to be turned into a church bashing one. Now I'm not a particularly religious person, but I still respect peoples views and beliefs, and understand, that dispite the revelations within the church, that Catholicism is still the biggest religion in the country, and people are going to be interested in this event.


  • #48
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    why don't they fly them to north korea to talk about the explosion....oh I see.....its okay to talk about this story from the newsroom. :D:D

    selective trips by rte

    This is sarcasm, right?


  • #49
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Very often if there is some big news regarding a foreign country, they will have someone outside that country's embassy in Dublin, and talk about the story and maybe speak to somebody from it.

    Don't see why they couldn't just plonk a journo outside some church here and talk to a priest or a higher-upper, and have some shots of Rome and Bento doing some religiousy stuff here and there.

    Job done, and a hell of a lot cheaper.


  • #50
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Lapin wrote: »
    Jesus Vic you really have a bee in the bonnet over this.

    Its not that expensive in the scheme of things.


    Sure do Lapin, hate to see my tax payments being unnecessarily WASTED, maybe you don't mind but it pisses me right off, don't you think we have had enough waste in this country already?


  • #51
    VampiricPadraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭VampiricPadraig


    Y'know how RTE can cut down on travelling and still report from these places...

    Green Screen!

    Chroma key in a pic of the Vatican, Korea, Monaghan and there you go. No one has to go anywhere!


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  • #52
    Buford Tannen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Buford Tannen


    Just join the increasing number of people who don't pay the license,then you won't have to care about the wastage.


  • #53
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    Meh, having their own footage live from Rome means they can use it on Reeling In The Years instead to having to pay rights to a third party, so its probably cost effective.


  • #54
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Sure do Lapin, hate to see my tax payments being unnecessarily WASTED, maybe you don't mind but it pisses me right off, don't you think we have had enough waste in this country already?

    I don't see it as waste though Vic. I see it as on the spot reporting and money well spent.
    delthedriver wrote: »
    Why did RTEs main news anchor man Bryan Dobson not travel to Rome?:)

    I reckon he'll be there to cover the papal election next month.

    He was the last time.


  • #55
    Mr_Spaceman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Mr_Spaceman


    It's a hell of a lot of wasted resources, but, on balance, the leader of the world's biggest paedophile cult doesn't resign every day.


  • #56
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I'm sure they're doing a mighty job out there, real journalism, getting to the heart of this story. I don't think I'd fully accept that the Pope has resigned if I didn't see lots of Irish people reporting from Rome. I mean it could just be a PR stunt otherwise. But sending Miriam and the all the rest of them negates that risk. I hope we're paying them more for this trip.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    vicwatson wrote: »
    It's belt tightening time RTE - did you not know we were in a recession?
    No we're not.
    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    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.
    I think the Irish see the BBC in a better light than the British themselves. You do realise the British are threatened with jail if they don't pay their licence too?


  • #58
    dienbienphu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭dienbienphu


    rte are great at sending reporters off to exotic destinations at the same time absolutely useless at covering local news. 9 out of 10 times the headlines will be dominated by the economy which most people don't give a toss about.


  • #59
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    The rte news homepage was hilarious yesterday, live updates etc.
    It was like transfer deadline day for priests.


  • #60
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Brian Dobbos turn out to fly out to Rome today :(

    1st report from Tony Connolly in St.Peters Square in Rome

    2nd report from Samantha Libreri in Vatican City in Rome

    So we've 3, at the least, reporters out there with camera crew, sound crew etc etc


    RTE GET A DAMN GRIP AND STOP WASTING OUR TAXPAYERS MONEY WILL YOU. A JOKE.:mad::mad:

    IS ABSOLUTELY GETTING RIDICULOUS AT THIS STAGE RTE


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  • #61
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Hang on we're not finished just yet ....

    Joe Little accompanied Dobbo on a free trip to Roma along with the others

    4 reporters in Rome covering this sh1t.

    Pathetic


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