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20 Comments
That’s not going to go over well
Why is an independent review of our national broadcaster a bad thing?
I’m sure Mary Lou will thank Simon for helping SF regain the ‘QAnon’ vote after the election.
Why is this a dog whistle to conspiracy theorists? RTE has had terrible coverage of what’s going on in Palestine just like the BBC and Sky have. They should be punished for having brutal bias on a literal genocide.
The same government who denied and deflected about Israeli arms travelling through our airspace which our well resourced national broadcaster failed to cover until three lads working at the Ditch brought attention to it? Right…
Harris is correct.
I think the second part of the article where the actual journalist representative is asked about this is what the focus should be on..
Political interference in what or how the media reports should not be acceptable to anyone. Considering the anti lockdown and the anti immigration protest movement all say “RTE is the virus” one can conclude that this is a dog whistle to the far right.
Sinn Fein rightfully (IMO) calling out the probably bias in the national broadcaster. But then Sinn Fein seem to be against supporting Ukraine, a crazy stance.
This election is a headache. It’s like picking which ticking timebomb has the most time left on it….
It’s true
There are many many Irish people who use the term Zionist rather than Jew but still talk about old conspiracy, but it’s the Zionists controlling everything, rather than the Jews.
Why would a parallel “independent review” be needed when we already have Coimisiún na Meán?
Everyone absolutely loves to piss all over anything anyone from SF says. But if someone from FF or FG said it it’s ok.
Fine Gael stand with Israel and it’s astonishing the depths people go to argue otherwise. If the conversation is about orphaned Palestinian kids scrabbling around drinking puddle water in rags whilst advanced Israeli airstrikes strafe their refugee camp Harris sure as shit brings up the fucking hostages. Israel themselves stopped pretending this was about hostages about 10 months ago.
Everything fine gael do has been to block for and excuse and indeed legislate for Israel’s genocide and yet us stupid cunts in this country will vote FFFG again and again and again
He has a point, mention Gaza and people lose their minds.
The Taoiseach isn’t reading the room on Gaza. But then that’s true of all European politicians.
What could possibly go wrong by having a Sinn Fein appointee approve news stories before airing them?
Fine Gael are doing a fantastic job mangling themselves during this campaign. I’m very thankful to them for that.
This might just be the result of seeing how [openly genocidal](https://youtu.be/X_3yRi7JGQw?si=pE5HG5HMG3n0CDLA) the German coverage of the war has been, but RTÉ feels at least somewhat critical of the Israeli lies we’ve seen propagate and actually neutral in how they’re reporting things. I’m still in favour of a review though, and think pretending such a review is unnecessary is a bit silly
Sinn Fein had a pop at the Late Late show over a joke a few weeks ago. They really don’t like an independent media.
I was out of the country for a few days and happened to get my news from Al Jazeera while I was away. It seemed to have much the same pro-Israeli biases built into its coverage as RTE – almost as if there is an Overton window that even a news station based in a country institutionally sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians, and which has itself had staff murdered by the Israelis, cannot step outside. I’m inclined now to think that RTE’s whitewashing of evil is more a function of the news ecosystem of which it forms a part than of failings specific to our national broadcaster.
>On his way into Cabinet this morning…
Do you think someone should tell him??