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RTE - head to correct thread if you want to discuss masks again

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    #32
    Necro
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    Mod:

    If there is to be a thread on RTE then the discussion needs to be focused on exactly that - RTE.

    Take any further discussion of masks to the appropriate thread


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    #33
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    Boggles wrote: »
    Why would it be interesting if it isn't real? :confused:

    It's not real by the way.


    I feel the same to be honest. It's interesting in that the first comment below says their friend gets the same message in France.

    A default message perhaps?


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    #34
    suicide_circus
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    I wonder will Miriam O Callaghan and David McCulagh have the humility to avoid commenting on the golf gate lads or people having pints in the street now that they've thrown away any moral authority to do so?


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    #35
    hotmail.com
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    It just underlines that Irish people are hypocrites. They want restrictions but not for themselves.


    RTE are lucky this broke now and not in the summer.


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    RTÉ don't exist in the same universe as you or I. Theirs is a secure bubble, where job losses and paycuts are fiction. Propped up by the taxpayer, the bonfire of money well fed. And then the condescending narrative day after day: "Do as I say, not as I do". Deliberating undermining sectors of society which they perceive as expendable, retail and hospitality in particular. And then protecting similarly priviliged interests in the HSE, numerous outbreaks in hospitals and nursing homes played down as much as possible. The wider public ('plebs' in D4 speak) have had enough of this biased swill, we contribute to their salaries and damaging lies are no acceptable.


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    #37
    hotmail.com
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    Sean O'Rourke got the boot over Golf Gate. Should Eileen Dunne and the rest of them face a similar fate?


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    #38
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    Look at this post from thebaz in the relaxation thread:

    thebaz wrote: »
    Yestreday RTE - yes RTE - were headlining with a story that the second wave was 90% less fatal than the first wave according to our Minister of Health Stephen Donnelly :-

    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1119/1179261-daily-virus-figures/

    Of course today and later last night the story got buried by the non stop NPHET Fear propangda about how we are in all danger / we are not doing ennegh etc etc -

    What the **** is going on - am I going crazy but why is this story not been broadcast as the many story today -

    Why can the media not focus on some positivity instaed of non stop misery , and the authorities contintuing to treat the public like bold stupid children.


    I took a screenshot of the whole page and while it's been compressed in quality, the point still stands - it's over halfway down the page.

    F*ck sake. The miserable middle at the very top, and then the better news buried down the page.


    Screenshot-2020-11-20-RTE-Ireland-s-National-Television-and-Radio-Broadcaster.jpg


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    #39
    Thierry12
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    ^^^^

    Its a propaganda station

    Trump called it years ago and we all laughed at him, myself included

    The man is a fool and made many many mistakes, but time will be kind to that man, in 10 - 20 years from now on certain subject's


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    #40
    Thierry12
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    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Sean O'Rourke got the boot over Golf Gate. Should Eileen Dunne and the rest of them face a similar fate?

    It will be on the back pages tomorrow

    No one is going against RTE


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    #41
    hotmail.com
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    Thierry12 wrote: »
    ^^^^

    Its a propaganda station

    Trump called it years ago and we all laughed at him, myself included

    The man is a fool and made many many mistakes, but time will be kind to that man, in 10 - 20 years from now on certain subject's

    Trump commented on RTE?


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    #42
    froog
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    Thierry12 wrote: »
    It will be on the back pages tomorrow

    No one is going against RTE

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you are no fan of CNN either?


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    #43
    Boggles
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    froog wrote: »
    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you are no fan of CNN either?

    Yep, all main stream media are fake news.

    BigBob55 on my twitter feed told me.


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    #44
    Archeron
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    I've come to hate Rte so much over the past few months that sometimes I think I might turn into the incredible hulk. Shower of Nphet pandering manipulative asshats. Then they have the gall to run that recent ad about how they speak the truth. I've seen first hand since March with my own elderly dad how they just try to instill a never ending cycle of fear and misery. I would happily see rte shut down for good.


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    #45
    Paddygreen
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    Impressive that Phil Collins was working at RTE, guys. I nearly wet myself on the spot when I found that out there. If Phil Collins was working with any of you people who are quick to admonish our personalities at rte I am fairly sure you would party on too. Hypocrisy is alive and well. Fiona in Meath has been baking cupcakes every day since march. Wash your hands. The dark wave of interminable fear in George Lee's eyes really concerns me, thousand yard stare, the things he must have seen, like Twink. On the upside he also got to see Phil Collins .


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    #46
    Boggles
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    Paddygreen wrote: »
    Impressive that Phil Collins was working at RTE, guys. I nearly wet myself on the spot when I found that out there. If Phil Collins was working with any of you people who are quick to admonish our personalities at rte I am fairly sure you would party on too. Hypocrisy is alive and well. Fiona in Meath has been baking cupcakes every day since march. Wash your hands. The dark wave of interminable fear in George Lee's eyes really concerns me, thousand yard stare, the things he must have seen, like Twink. On the upside he also got to see Phil Collins .

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    #47
    AlanG
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    These presenters have definitely lost all moral authority they had. I feel the RTE coverage has been very over the top and scaremongering. Clearly their top presenters think the same. They consistently report people who died with suspected COVID as dying from COVID. Two completely different things.


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    #48
    funnydoggy
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    Rte are loving the coverage they're getting. Up until covid popped up they were reportedly in a bad way. This must have given them a second wind.


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    #49
    clairevoyant
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    bet they wont be asked to step down from their pedestals in RTE though


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    #50
    tallaghtfornia
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    I notice a lot of people on these forums giving out about RTE and there presenters they should do what I have done and give up watching it have not watched it in years and do not subscribe to live TV got sick of there PC news reporting stories and biased news - with the exception of Sport there is nothing worth watching that's my opinion though.

    As much as it despises me having to hand over €160 of my hard earned money I have no choice to pay the license for TV as I have access to TV for my kids who watch Netflix you tube and XBOX with the exception of the Toy Show once a year they don't watch live TV and have no interest,


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    #51
    hotmail.com
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    froog wrote: »
    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you are no fan of CNN either?

    One of the sad effects of Trump is that so many Irish people defend CNN. When before CNN was viewed as tabloid rubbish to us. The worst kind of media.


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    #52
    hotmail.com
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    Joe Duffy has it on now.

    Anyone that is actually doing the restrictions must surely feel stupid now?


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    #53
    Mrsmum
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    I think what the presenters did goes to the crux of the Covid problem, that is that everyone kinda thinks they themselves have unique exceptional circumstances for putting the guidelines aside here and there.


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    #54
    Beasty
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    Masks posts since prior warning deleted


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    #55
    boombang
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    I think RTE in general is poor and their news output is particularly is weak.

    There's a definite love of negativity. Part of this is journalistic laziness in that a large proportion of their stories are simply moany press releases and lobby pieces from NGOs with axes to grind. If they did any sort of proper journalistic analysis of the claims they wouldn't bother putting them up because it's not real news.


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    #56
    BrianD3
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    As well as the lack of social distancing, a question would need to be asked about whether some who were at that presentation should have been WFH or if they were WFH did they "just pop in to wish Phil luck". Or indeed whether Phil herself should have been there (linkedin says that there is a Phil Collins in RTE who is a reception supervisor so probably justifiable)

    I'm aware that this all sounds very petty but that is a consequence of the restrictions that have been imposed on people and the already poor opinion that people had of RTE.


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    #57
    Boggles
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    Teddible Joe.

    They stood for a picture, they should be fired Joe.

    Teddible.

    Is that about it?


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    #58
    ShineOn7
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    funnydoggy wrote: »
    Rte are loving the coverage they're getting. Up until covid popped up they were reportedly in a bad way. This must have given them a second wind.


    A second wind in ratings definitely, but I think there was a recent article about their revenue being very much fúcked

    Couldn't have happened to a "nicer" organisation


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    #59
    Thierry12
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    Boggles wrote: »
    Teddible Joe.

    They stood for a picture, they should be fired Joe.

    Teddible.

    Is that about it?

    No worse than Chief Medical Officer Tony then

    Masks dont work for an airborne virus he said for months and came back to ramble on about heavy traffic


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    #60
    Thierry12
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    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    A second wind in ratings definitely, but I think there was a recent article about their revenue being very much fúcked

    Couldn't have happened to a "nicer" organisation

    For sure

    They'll be gone when this pandemic is over


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    #61
    ShineOn7
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    Thierry12 wrote: »
    For sure

    They'll be gone when this pandemic is over


    They're too big to ever fully be gone. But there will be huge cuts made internally

    Tubridy isn't worth €495,000 a year or anywhere close to it


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