Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Happyman42 wrote: »

Gardening will not be Sean's thing, I fear he will doze off.

Do you know this, or are you supposing it on the basis of his history as a broadcaster? [Unavoidable pun: "broadcast" has a different meaning to gardeners and farmers.]

I'm interested to see how he deals with those areas that are outside his professional experience of dealing with hard news and conducting challenging interviews with people in political or public life.

[As an aside, I am fairly confident that Pat Kenny's first broadcasting gig was as a music presenter. In recent years, some of the programme content that people least liked was when he dealt with music.]

First Up wrote: »

RTE daytime schedule:

7-9; Heckling of politicians
9-10 Miriam being coy
10-12 More heckling of politicians
12-13 Music my dad likes
13-13.45 More heckling
13.45 - 15 Whining
15-16.30 Birds n stuff
16.30 - 19 Heckling

Very good First! Though 15-16.30 could perhaps be rendered as "Eurovision, Louis Walsh, birds n stuff"

O'Rourke and Des ( Sports) had a big argument 'off air' and that 'gets leaked' to the papers ...

Are they heading down the road of staged PR to get a few headlines?

That was a very woolly interview with Claire Grady - odd to interview a newspaper editor & not even raise the Irish Times "non story"!

P. Breathnach wrote: »

She agreed to do an interview, and then clearly set out to tell us nothing.

I see a very promising career for her in politics so.:rolleyes:

Please let it not be Cathal mac couoiliilileeee for prime time !

Oops69 wrote: »

Please let it not be Cathal mac couoiliilileeee for prime time !

The Irish Independent have jumped the gun on this one ...

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/david-mccullagh-named-as-new-presenter-on-rtes-primetime-29551342.html

David McCullagh has been unveiled as the new presenter on RTE’s flagship current affairs series ‘Primetime’.

David McCullagh for Primetime ... lovely & the distinguished bit of grey & I love the sarky smirk he gives at times

Sounds like Kenny was content to suffer his lazy journalism but O'Rourke is calling his slot out for what it is.

califano wrote: »

Sounds like Kenny was content to suffer his lazy journalism but O'Rourke is calling his slot out for what it is.

He is painful to listen to.
Only RTE would give him a job.

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

MLOD alert! She's back on the show today

Just chucked by weetabix :eek:

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

MLOD alert! She's back on the show today

Urrrgh. Does anybody in the country actually enjoy her egotistical nonsensical ramblings?

One of PK's features which should have been quietly dropped when Sean came in.

Very interesting discussion re Chuck Feeney - an amazing man & interesting how he fought off the "personal empire builders" of the Charity business. Fascinating interview (and I dam near missed it because of MLOD, just changed back on time).

Please, please RTE get rid of that egotistical mouthpiece :mad:

constitutionus wrote: »

a bollocks i missed that.

must stream it later. i think the "charity" industry gets a soft ride by our media set by dint of its subject matter. when ya scratch the surface theres a shed load of cash sloshing about and all the lads at the top somehow seem to end up being the best paid people in the country

(even the chuggers get stupid money)

I recently read The Punishment of Virtue by former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes it's about Afghanistan post Taliban - a very, very interesting book but one of the issues she covers at length is that issue of where donated monies are assigned by NGO's & the criteria they use. In most cases it appeared to be projects that were convenient for the NGO staff, accessable to airports & proximity to large urban centres that has western style restaurants etc
She also makes much of NGO staff flouting local customs re alchohol etc
She is quite scathing of them really.