“Slammed” the government.
Down 13 per cent on last year
Media Minister Catherine Martin when asked if she accepts that people boycotting the TV license don’t want to fund RTÉ in any way: “What I would say to that is that the TV license is the law of the land, so it needs to be paid…it funds public service broadcasting.”
After all, if Tubridy was expendable, why wouldn’t they be?
Organisations have this kind of thing in their DNA.
To say that all of this is a problem politicians do not want to have to deal with is an understatement:
Eamon Ryan urges the public to keep paying the TV license fee: “Knowing the truth, having accuracy and fairness and balance, particularly in current affairs, but also in having a service that entertains us…if we stop paying we lose all of that. And that would be really harmful and bad for our country.” #gript #RTÉgate
Sky Ireland will warn that levies on content could become “distortionary”.
“Every devout Catholic should at this stage be boycotting RTE and refusing to renew your TV license,” Fr. Mulligan insisted.
There was a real danger there, for a while, that Tubridy and Co would have to take significant pay cuts to account for the fact that not enough people are watching RTE, but thanks to the generosity of the Fine Gael government, on your behalf, crisis averted: RTÉ is set to receive €50 million in […]
People are none too pleased about the new Screen Tax…will the Government face another boycott?