The ESB’s promotion of gender identity belief in Ireland
Yes, you’ve one more day of this to go. And you deserve it.
What, exactly, is the point of the television licence, if RTE is not going to behave any differently from the commercial stations that don’t receive a penny in public funding?
As ever in Ireland, a big change will happen slowly, and then all at once.
The bad news just keeps coming for RTE.
In such an environment, the argument for public funding of RTE will get weaker over time, not stronger.
After all, if Tubridy was expendable, why wouldn’t they be?
How do you feel, in short, about all of this if you are Miriam O’Callaghan or Claire Byrne or some other highly paid presenter?
RTE has two things going for it: Patronage, and inertia.
Make the licence fee optional – then those who trust RTE can pay for it.
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Just under a week after RTE’s veteran reporter, Tommie Gorman, told the viewing public that Ireland was doing so well compared to Britain because the English “lacked people of the stature of Tony Holohan and Paul Reid”, RTE is getting a treat from the Government. What a good boy: GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE of public service […]