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?
Down €3.7 million in total
The public wants somebody to pay for this mess, and that person must be someone they can identify with.
“If it was Sharon Ní Bheoláin or Gráinne Seoige, the numbers would be reversed.”
“I would encourage people to pay it.”
“It is in fact an explicitly political institution” – Gript Editor JOHN MCGUIRK argues for the defunding of RTÉ on Newstalk. Listen Back: www.newstalk.com/shows/the-hard-shoulder-234864
RTE has two things going for it: Patronage, and inertia.
As the wheels came off corporate RTÉ in the last few weeks, one of the more interesting narratives to emerge was that of the wounded and betrayed RTÉ journalist.
RTÉ does not deserve a life buoy, in its present crisis. It deserves a lustily thrown anchor.
‘You don’t want to be there’
As a performance it was at times compelling. But almost none of it was credible.
‘Only acting on instructors’