RTE Watch !

[Dr. FIVE]

Mark Tighe

https://twitter.com/mark_tighe

RTE say in FoI that the cost of covering the 34-day Michaela McAreavey trial in Mauritius was €126,000.

€126k breakdown: Staff & Contractors €56k Communications Satellites & Links €50k Air Fares €2k Accommodation €10k Subsistence €3k Other €5k

RTE say: The only RTÉ staff member involved was Tommie Gorman. Camera crewing was provided by a contractor. Costs for RTE & contract staff.

RTÉ believes given the huge level of public interest in the trial & the volume of broadcasts by Tommie Gorman the costs are fully justified

RTE says Gorman reported almost daily on the trial and for Pat Kenny, Drivetime and Prime Time. Also made 45 min documentary

"the two major costs were contractors and satellite and links costs in sending material back to Dublin on a daily basis. "

hmmm,

well over three grand a day that

[C. Flower]

Mark Tighe

https://twitter.com/mark_tighe



hmmm,

well over three grand a day that

The fundamental flaw in that is that the "huge level of interest" in this trial was pump primed by RTE's coverage.

I don't recall any public marches demanding wall to wall coverage.

Most people were too respectful to the family to say anything negative.

In my view the coverage was an outrageous use of public funds, and while it was wall to wall, was poor.

[Dr. FIVE]

GRA rep on the news comparing their annual prebudget whinge someone blowing the whistle in the banks during the

If only eh?

[C. Flower]

Heavens. Miriam has a surprisingly hairy chest !

[Baron von Biffo]

Truly woeful 'interview' on This Week now. I don't know who the presenter is but she and Sonia O'Sullivan are just talking away at the same time resulting in incomprehensible noise.

[C. Flower]

Wrong thread I think DCon.

College grant changes will cause a lot of aggravation I think.

[Dr. FIVE]

Just listening back to Pat kenny this morning. The way the grants thing is viewed compared to welfare is interesting.
Timmins and FG reckon manipulation is too strong a word for people distorting their accounts in order to qualify for grants but they would probably be the first to tell you about welfare fraud

[C. Flower]

Just listening back to Pat kenny this morning. The way the grants thing is viewed compared to welfare is interesting.
Timmins and FG reckon manipulation is too strong a word for people distorting their accounts in order to qualify for grants but they would probably be the first to tell you about welfare fraud

It's all a question of who did it.

[Baron von Biffo]

Watching the Aga Kahn on RTE and at times a big screen in the arena comes into shot flashing vigorously. I'm wondering if it could cause problems for people with photo epilepsy.

[Dr. FIVE]

Look who will be gracing our screens this Autumn

Former Tainiste Michael McDowell looks at the events of an ambush during the civil war in A Man Young and Old.

This documentary will explore one of the darkest episodes of the Irish Civil War, when six Republican soldiers were shot dead by their former comrades on the summit of Ben Bulben in County Sligo. One of the victims was Brian MacNeill. His nephew, former Minister for Justice Michael McDowell, now wants to discover what happened on that day in September 1922. Did Brian and his comrades really die in an ambush, as the official version goes, or were they killed in cold blood? Why was Brian MacNeill, the son of a minister in the Free State government, fighting on the Republican side? What were the forces, events and ideologies that drove him and other Irish men to take up arms against their former comrades – and in Brian’s case, members of his own family?

Going to be some job pinning the blame on Gerry Adams but no doubt he will manage.
Wonder did he tap the BAI, will be interesting to find out who made the program.

Eddie Hobbs is also doing a program on the Civil War cuz eh, ..

also

Inside the Department


This observational documentary follows Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn and his senior advisers and civil servants as they carry out the day-to-day business of running one of Ireland’s largest government departments. Filmed over six months, with unprecedented access, we witness the highs and lows of a minister under pressure as he attempts to bring in reforms in education while at the same time having to make controversial budget cut-backs. A fascinating insight into the world of a government department.

Sceptical


Tubridy, Hector Craig Doyle and Ballsy etc all back too

[PaddyJoe]

This observational documentary follows Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn and his senior advisers and civil servants as they carry out the day-to-day business of running one of Ireland’s largest government departments. Filmed over six months, with unprecedented access, we witness the highs and lows of a minister under pressure as he attempts to bring in reforms in education while at the same time having to make controversial budget cut-backs. A fascinating insight into the world of a government department

It must have been a helluva job for the film crew to keep up with Ruari if he's still maintaining last year's pace. He was traveling an average of 311km a day last August
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...days-work.html

[Dr. FIVE]

lol, true

[PaddyJoe]

RTE online had a link to the Hollande/Merkel press conference on their www.rte.ie/live page just before six pm. All well and good, says I.
Press conference starts around 6.07pm with Holllande speaking in French(naturally). The stream lasted for about 2 minutes before it disappeared abruptly along with the link on the live page.
Did somebody get bored and pull the plug?
Why bother to put up a link and start the stream only to pull it after a couple of minutes?

[Dr. FIVE]

Charlie Bird to leave RTE

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking54.html

[C. Flower]

Charlie Bird to leave RTE

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking54.html

He explained that, being so close to retirement anyway, he could have gone at any time and one advantage of going now was that his retirement would based on his pre-cut salary. “I’m not getting a huge amount of money because I’m going early,” the journalist said.

Corruption is a personal, as well as a national, tragedy.