RTE Watch !

[Dr. FIVE]

Man in Mercedes SUV (worth 60k+) fly tipping in the Wicklow mountains on ear to the ground there.

Sheep rustlers now

[Baron von Biffo]

Mrs. Bosco has just been chewed up and spat out by Sean O'Rourke on News at One over the Centra Child Benefit alcohol special promotion.

[Dr. FIVE]

Analysis of the employment figures from Narnia there on News at One

[riposte]

David Murphy must be the worst economics correspondent in the world. His contributions to news bulletins on RTE are unintelligible.

[Dr. FIVE]

Kevin Bakhurst new head of news

former Controller, BBC News Channel and Deputy Head, BBC Newsroom

[Dr. FIVE]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0710/rte...-bakhurst.html

[Dr. FIVE]

awful bollox on liveline today, not news I know

[Baron von Biffo]

awful bollox on liveline today, not news I know

WhineLine exists to allow every awful bollocks in the country a shot at their 15 minutes.

[Dr. FIVE]

From the SBP

http://www.businesspost.ie/#!story/H...a0-67028850916

Morale is low in RTE and some of Mulhall’s admirers may see this current redundancy package as the perfect time to move on from the broadcaster. It is not yet clear who will leave, but up to 200 people will be gone from RTÉ by the Autumn under the organisation’s own cost cutting targets.

The new MD will also have to oversee RTÉ’s new codes for broadcasters dealing with new media, such as twitter but also more traditional news gathering methods such as doorstepping. This practice of turning up at a subject’s home or workplace to pose questions is a well used journalistic tool but RTÉ staff will now have to give written notice of their intentions to come calling.

Cant claim to know much about Bakhurst. Im open to correction but he couldn't have got to the level in the beeb he did without some decent how news is collected and presented in 2012. Cant see editorial changing much for all the usual reasons. One thing though, when was the last the last time someone was recruited for any top level public job without it being hailed as 'a coup' for the country?

[Slim Buddha]

From the SBP

http://www.businesspost.ie/#!story/H...a0-67028850916





Cant claim to know much about Bakhurst. Im open to correction but he couldn't have got to the level in the beeb he did without some decent how news is collected and presented in 2012. Cant see editorial changing much for all the usual reasons. One thing though, when was the last the last time someone was recruited for any top level public job without it being hailed as 'a coup' for the country?

Indeed. Wasn't the Shaw woman supposed to be amazing, yet standards remained and continue to remain doggedly below average?

[Baron von Biffo]

Great excitement in RTE as hacks clamour to kiss the new arse.

http://www.independent.ie/business/m...e-3166678.html

[Slim Buddha]

Great excitement in RTE as hacks clamour to kiss the new arse.

http://www.independent.ie/business/m...e-3166678.html

The new arse's first job should be to see the vast sums been paid to the main buttock-lickers in that remedial home for the utterly unemployable.

[riposte]

Tommy Gorman's documentary is in tatters in the wake of the unexpected verdict...... eight week's of his time wasted.

[C. Flower]

Tommy Gorman's documentary is in tatters in the wake of the unexpected verdict...... eight week's of his time wasted.

Hardly unexpected. The prosecution case was a farce.

[Ah Well]

Hardly unexpected. The prosecution case was a farce.

Yes, was looking for some time than an acquittal was the inevitable outcome ... and so it came to pass