In highlighting the alleged diversity of organised crime, RTE isn’t telling you anything new about organised crime. It’s telling you what it thinks of you, the Irish people.
Not coincidentally, it must be suspected, the new Taoiseach has pledged to sort the issue of RTE funding before the next election
Expansion
Religion in schools
“Disgusting and barbaric”
Verona Murphy
“The role of public service broadcasting is to hold the government to account.”
Diversity is the name of the game at RTÉ.
The obvious question is whether artists who travel to Texas to attend a festival are entitled to taxpayer funding for their flights and accommodation when they then decide not to bother playing at the event – the whole reason we were funding them to go in the first place?
Patrick Kielty is by all accounts a very fine fellow and a nice man, but the ratings do not lie. The public, in this first year at the helm for him, just isn’t buying what he’s selling.
The truth is that it was the politicians who didn’t understand – why they were having these votes, what the point of them was, or why people had the concerns that they did.
Down 13 per cent on last year