RTE Cutbacks The Plan

FrancieBrady wrote: »

What is PBH on about here...did he get the heave?

https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1192358380796596224

Freddie_Turnill wrote: »

http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/apr/05/the-curious-case-of-pamela-izevbekhai/

"RTÉ broadcast an interview with a man claiming to be Dr Joseph Unokanjo in 2005 and again replayed it last week. This newspaper has established that the man purporting to be Dr Unokanjo reads verbatim from this fake document (pictured right) that Izevbekhai now admits is a forgery.

Philip Boucher-Hayes is the RTÉ broadcaster who conducted the radio interview. Boucher-Hayes has sworn an affidavit supporting Izevbekhai's claims for her legal case. He said through a spokeswoman last week: "In 2005, I rang international directory enquiries and got a number for the hospital in which Dr Unokanjo works.

I rang the hospital and was put through to the person whose interview was aired."

A phone number for Isioma hospital in Lagos was not available from international directory enquiries when contacted on several occasions this week. The address on the fake document gives a fake address and phone number for the hospital.
The hospital's actual address is 11 James Robertson Street, Surulere, Lagos.

In his sworn affidavit, Boucher Hayes said that when he telephoned Dr Unokanjo back some time later, Boucher Hayes he alleged to have been visited by a Nigerian army captain who threatened him for speaking publicly in support of Pamela Izevbekhai. Boucher Hayes was unavailable for comment."[/

It's one thing to be fooled, or more accurately in this case blinded, because of "advocacy (rather than investigative) journalism" but it's another case entirely to assert that you did things like "independently contacting" the hospital by "international telephone directories" when you currently cannot contact that hospital in Lagos by this means, as per above attempt by the "Sunday Tribune". His supposed method of contacting Isioma hospital in Lagos cannot be replicated.

Boucher Hayes interviewed a phony and claims to have been given a telephone number by international telephone directories which amazingly took him to the phone number of this phony doctor for his interview "verifying" Pamela Izevbekhai's story thus enabling him to disclaim responsibility for being thus fooled. How convenient.
So any check on the title/name & address attached to the telephone # (presuming he didn't ring a mobile)that he actually rang in Lagos to conduct the interview with the phony "doctor"; which can, I'm sure, be traced in the records; (which is obviously different and not the correct location as visited by the Garda officer) is neatly made into a nullity. How convenient.

Boucher Hayes goes on to assert that he had recontacted the "doctor" he first interviewed, ie,the phony, and been told by the "doctor" that he had been intimidated by a "Nigerian Army Captain".

You have to hand it to this guy he clearly has Oscar potential in dispensing with inconvenient truths.

Making "Sworn affidavits" is a very serious step to take.
What it indicates to me is firstly an oversized ego of someone unable to process the information in his head that he has been fooled but much more serious an issue is the dogmatic adherence to an immigration agenda prevalent amongst his trendy right-on PC kind. The ideologues pursuing the multiculturalist agenda are willing to throw overboard any kind of journalistic ethics worth their name.

The ego side of him feeds off an overdose of a superior feel-good smugness over and against the "bigoted" and "prejudiced" attitudes of the hoi-polloi and the ideological face is of PCDom which must be seen as correct at all times. By these means they intend to leverage into position an oppressive all-knowing all-embracing, no hiding place State, dispensing with opposition and if truth is a casualty that's No Problem.

odyssey06 wrote: »

I think the point is the 2Fm have many similar offerings in the commercial space that those 880,000 can switch to.

odyssey06 wrote: »

Yep, it's the same with soccer coverage. Back in the studio, an anchorman and 3 pundits discussing a game is way overkill.

Should be 1 pundit for most games. I expect this kind of over-staffing occurs all the way down i.e. not just what we see on screen.