Dil Wickremasinghe
Last night.
A statement from broadcaster Dil Wickremasinghe following her removal after 10 years at Newstalk.
Dil presented the Saturday night show, The Global Village.
She had criticised the station over its handling of the recent George Hook controversy.
Previously: ‘I Have Been Deeply Unsatisfied With The Management Of Newstalk’
Meanwhile…
Just tlking to Den O'Brien. Says ban on @IrishTimes journos nothing to do w him but @fotoole a "nasty" journo. All @NewstalkFM staff "angry"
— Kitty Holland (@KittyHollandIT) October 5, 2017
Um.
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The only thing Dil cares about is Dil. She had Conor Lenihan on her show once. Instead of grilling him on his ‘stick to the kebabs’ remarks, she spent the whole show licking up to him.
He is an odious creep in fairness.
Think you could be missing the point even slightly?
Does anyone here think that Dil’s show was brought to an end because her presenting style was too self-interested?
Looking forward to all the insecure little boys logging on to share their knowledge about radio production and say how poo her show was because they feel threatened by non straight white males having opinions.
I didn’t feel threatened at all. Her show was rubbish, nothing to do with gender or skin colour.
Whatever you need to tell yourself little buddy. I’m sure you know all about what’s needed to produce quality content. What station is your show on?
I like it when they don’t answer you back. That must feel incredibly satisfying for you
Tell us Moyest, why was it a good show?
Ill tell you why it was bull poo. The editorial line was one dimensional and predictable. the guests worthy but very dull. No conflict or curiosity, just homogenous perspectives with simplistic, idealistic and unrealistic proposals. So every show sounded the same. You are a minority, tell me your pain, Ireland is awful, someone else should do something, we are superior and just trying our best to bring the world to our level. She also had a voice that needed a lot of work, a production team who could obviously not challenge the presenter, and a presenter who by her subsequent actions has shown herself to be insular, self aggrandising and egoistic beyond her talent.
Now could you tell me why it was a good programme. (and not the guff of giving the voiceless a grunt etc). Why was it a well produced show Einstein?
You just described every show on Newstalk
Lol
No answers then? Like all nasty little trolls, you dont like it up you.
What a ridiculous attitude. So your basically saying if I don’t like the show it’s A: Because it’s a women and not a white man, B: My opinion is wrong, its an opinion it can’t be wrong, Because I wouldn’t be able to describe in detail how to put a show together.
huh? I was answering Moyest. Are you him too?
Apology I replied in the wrong place
Don’t listen to the radio myself, but I’ve never made a TV show and I’m pretty sure I’m allowed to say one of them is poo poo if I feel like it.
Totally
A bit like the last race on the card in Naas- also tans and tired old ginnets
Also rans
I have no knowledge of film production but I know The Godfather II is a better film than Exit Wounds. You don’t need to understand the means of production to have a valid opinion on quality.
True …Steven’s later work was somewhat poor. I do concur.
When crass virtue signalling backfires…
Would you stop using this term like it’s a bad thing. Of course insincere virtue is awful but that doesn’t mean that all signalled virtue is.
That’s the first time I’ve ever used that term. Didn’t enjoy it so won’t be doing it again.
It is a bad thing, though.
What the hell is it?
It’s just a way of saying a person is a liar.
When I say something like “we’re too rich a nation to have this bad a homeless crisis without it being an actual policy” I’m saying what I believe – my opinion.
If someone says I’m “just virtue signalling”, they’re effectively calling me a liar, that it’s not my opinion, I just want to sound good.
It’s a childish insult created by the far-right who believe everyone secretly is racist/misogynistic, but the ones who oppose them are just lying to look good/get laid/get promoted. Best steer clear or you’ll be mistaken for one of em.
+1000
It is the replacement term for champagne socialist, social justice warrior and all the phrases which have passed from functional to an over used and ineffective insult.
The first time I use it and you tell me it’s already over-used?
That’s cold.
Oooooh, do you want to ban the term?? Would that make everything better. That’s s but language policey isn’t it?
Would be better to be banning religion. It seems to make people very unhappy.
This is what virtue signaling looks like when it backfires!
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/916174195415011329
I’m sorry but despite agreeing with Dil on almost every issue I found her insufferable to listen to either on radio or on TV. Some shows come to an end eventually- and if she had to find sponsors personally for the show to continue in the past it’s very easy to see this as a commercial decision.
Oh it is easy alright.
How come rape apologists don’t have this problem?
If you mean Hook, then it’s the 50,000+ listeners he gets.
First off hook is an ass, I think we agree on that. But when was he ever an apologist for a rapist. I know what he said, but you seem think he stood up and said “its grand your rapist, sure the women are at fault”
And we’re off.
Did you agree with her anti-vax stance out of interest?
Of course not. I don’t have to agree with her to think that it’s surprising that she can’t get sponsorship but others can, despite their views. Both are anti vaxxers, let’s not forget, do I don’t think it’s that that’s chasing her off the radio.
Is she an anti vaxxer?
Christ alive.
Vaccines cause Down syndrome apparently.
FFS.
Wilful ignorance is what that is, pure and simple.
What?! Eh no. What anti-vax stance? Flipping heck.
Was it because she refused to go on air in protest over Hook or was it because her show is awful?
Lol Expert radio producer, Harold, lafies and gents. I’m sure its a coincidence that a man who thinks white Irish people should civilise Arabs, also thinks a show hosted by a non white gay woman who talks about the interests of marginalised peoples is “awful”. It is still hilarious to watch these mongoloids confuse their feelings about something for reasoned analysis.
“Mongoliids”?? Charming.
Hilarious how? It’s absurd and embarrassing
“these mongoloids”
Mongoloids? Really?
Moyest has almost virtue signalled too well there
disgusting comment, and he has the neck to moan about trolls elsewhere
Aaaaaaand the veil has dropped….
You just can’t help yourself can you Moyest
Ah well….
*shakes head*
Remember this next time you’re whining about people taking offence too easily, my hilariously bigoted little friend. You idiots are so easy to catch out I almost feel sorry for you. :D
You could not make this up. How sad and futile a life they’re in.
Would you ever reign it in a bit, Moyest? I stand on the same side as you on most issues but you’ve got a great knack for turning any discussion into a poop-flinging contest.
Sorry, you’re right, we should treat these dimwitted misogynists as intellectuals with legitimate opinions. Clown.
Well said Moyest. It’s other people’s obnoxious opinions that are not the real problem but your reaction against them. Well spotted eveyone, give yourself a good forelock tug
He doesn’t actually have a side. He says something to get a reaction and fans the flames. It’s how trolls work.
Bodger, ban this poisonous troll.
Laughable. You’re the chief contrarian
You just described yourself.
‘Mongoloids’ – Christ…
Moyest – the 1950s called; they want their offensive slurs back.
I wasn’t in the least offended, get over yourself
I was. I found it disgusting. Do you have kids?
I’m keeping them. Anyway, you think human beings get too a point where they’re too old for the state (ie *us*) to take care of, that we should let old people die for the sake of profit, so you don’t get to be offended by anything. :)
Moyest, suggest you log off the internet for a while, head out for a bit, go and meet some parents whose kids are living with living with Down Syndrome, and see how you feel about your use of the term ‘mongoloid’ then.
Mate, nobody needs lessons in civility from psychos like you who think old people should die to save money.
wtf is wrong with you today. Most people are normally amused by you, Because simply its normally cohesive and has a point. But your basically on the, Fupp everyone because im right, So nobody else can have an opinion, level today. What’s that about?. I never listened to her show because I don’t like her, its not personal a dislike I just never found her entertaining when I’ve seen her on tv.
I’m only fupping the insecure little boys who need to belittle and demean people who have arguments and opinions they don’t like and cannot counter with rationale. *I* am amused by it and that’s all that matters :)
Actually everyone has been discussing this rationally.
You’re the one screaming hysterically about racist downes syndrome boys and replying with ‘lol’ to posts you don’t like.
I thought you weren’t engaging with me. Poisonous trolls like you just can’t help yourselves.
Why do you call people mongoloids? Pretty nasty and out of touch. Dil would be upset.
Who cares about how another poster chooses to express himself? Are certain words upsetting for you you delicate little boy?
Lads, Moyest is touching himself furiously with this amount of attention.
“You idiots are so easy to catch out I almost feel sorry for you. :D”
When someone openly admits they’re trolling, don’t even try to engage.
Listen to rotide. He’s the resident troll. He knows what he’s talking about.
mongoloids ??? nice,
Moyest is the same type of poster who would drag anybody else over the coals for non-PC 1950s terminology.
have a word with yourself , moyest
It’s quite clear to anyone over 6 years old that Moyest is not referring to some specific mentally impaired children but rather using a descriptive term to highlight the obvious intellectual limitations of most of you who are critical of him.
wow, you can apply that logic to any number of slurs to justify the actions of those in your “team”
words have baggage
But I choose not to Harry. Thanks
To be fair, you would DEMOLISH anyone else for using that term, Moyest.
+1. And rightly so.
Alert! It’s the thoughtless police!
Get over yourself for fupps sake
Even if it was because her show was terrible, the timing of it doesn’t look great, does it?
I’m sure we’ll see all those that were supporting Hook’s “right free speech” being equally vocal in supporting Dil’s right to protest… Any second now…
First, please tell me, what is she protesting, and how was her right to do so threatened?
Oh, have you not being following the story?
Yes, she lost her job.
She still has her right to protest.
What am i missing?
Stop being so obtuse, Clampers, it’s extremely childish. You know very well that the timing of this is makes it look like NT only started paying attention to her because she stuck her head above the parapet on the Hook debacle, which would be an implicit threat to any other employees who were thinking about publicly taking issue with how NT runs their station.
That seems true at first and I’d actually believe it, but she did state she has had numerous disruptions before, time slots changed and basically no backing because she also had to find her own sponsor. So what seems true at first looks a little different when you look again, the timing is awful though.
I’m not being obtuse. She lost a job, possibly, and we’re in agreement on this possibility, for going up against her employer.
Yes, I see that to be likely too.
She still has her right to protest whatever she wants.
So she was potentially fired for exercising her right, like the people I mentioned above were saying that Hook was fired for exercising his right of free speech so, like I said, I’m sure they’ll be along shortly to weigh in behind her. Right? Except Hook wasn’t fired, was he?
Hook wasn’t fired or penalised for exercising a right to free speech.
He was penalised for having said something offensive.
He was not fired. He was reallocated to other duties.
Have a lie down pedantic Pat, I was following on from edalicious’ comment, which is why i put in… penalized. And clarified in the last sentence.
He wasn’t fired. That’s what the whole post is about you moron.
Lots of white Irish males saying they don’t like her show like that is why the show was cancelled.
I doubt she likes watching football.
The main thing about this is that Hook, a rape apologist (and read his attempts at fiction where his views of intoxicated woman and sex are giving a good airing) gets a new show and a rape victim, Dil, gets sacked.
To be honest, I don’t listen to Newstalk anyway, I’d rather shove knitting needles in my ears than listen to the likes of Hook, Shane ‘Mother Superior’ Coleman’ or Paul ‘manipulating alleged abuse victims’ Williams.
Totally agree. I’ve moved the dial
Oh dear God no. You work in advertising.
I don’t. I was being ironic.
Yea roight.
Totes
Social Justice Warrior gets canned.
Nobody cares.
Irony 101.
Zuppy writes lame right wing comment. Even less people care.
Who?
She took issue with her bosses over a matter of principle and got fired.
Hook aimed a punch at rape victims and kept his job.
In this context, whether or not you liked her show is irrelevant.
But how else can they rationalise their hatred for the gay brown woman?
*the brown gay woman who’s more successful than they are.
Successful? How is that measured?
Look in the mirror. It’s not that.
Is that an Advertising headline or just a really bad attempt at “irony”?
Bling
Oppression points?
@gorev Mahagut That’s the crux of it.
But we are regaled with halfwits complaining they don’t like her show when it clearly was not something aimed at them.
I don’t like the X Factor, but then, its not aimed at me.
Hook is a pathetic little cry baby, end of story. Click bait journalism at its worst. Since when did old men who shout at clouds become worth listening to?
Old men who shout at clouds can be very entertaining and make many people feel uncomfortable because of their honesty. They may not be very PC but dang they’re honest.
Dido doesn’t do it for me
Dildo’s are not for everyone.
Honesty isn’t always a virtue, I’m a bit surprised to see you state that as a precept, there are other virtues, knowing when to shut up one you’ve not had much luck with we all note.
Answers on a postcard please.
The irony!!
Show A is not aimed at the ‘halfwits complaining’ so they shouldn’t comment.
Show B is ‘pathetic’ etc. Clearly it’s not aimed at you, so why comment.
The regressive left: a logic free zone.
Show A; talks about the issues facing vulnerable human beings
Show B; talks about how rape victims should be shamed and take responsiblity.
The dim-witted right. An actual logic free zone.
Show A- an egoistic pain in the hoop.
Show B- an egoistic pain in the hoop.
theres equality and diversity!
One gets an audience, the other doesnt. Thus keep one and dump the other.
Thats capitalism.
A fantastic argument about how capitalism kills morality. Thank you.
So what?
It depends.
I agree that she should not be fired because of her principals – but there is no evidence that she was.
However, if nobody likes her show then she should be fired. If her listeners drop below a certain threshold, she should be fired. If she breaks the terms of her contract, she should be fired.
The Right Hook is consistently either 2nd/3rd highest ratings in Newstalk with 50-60k listeners.
The Global Village doesn’t rate in the top 5 – I can’t find definite figures (but has fewer than the 5th ranking @15k listeners).
Oops, She does mention “positive ratings and performance” – so it may not be relate to listener figures.
I can tell that you are really an intellectual Cian when you mix up principles and principals
Hook makes them money
he pays his way for them so he’s worth the risk
to them
Hook cost them 3 advertising accounts.
Replaceable
Can confirm, those accounts are replaceable, the reason he wasn’t fired instantly is radio listener magnets like him are much harder to come by.
Lol
Em… No.
Hook did not lose Newstalk three advertising accounts. The programme lost the main sponsor, a hotel group and Tesco. And two advertisers Snap Printing and a charity said they did not want to advertise in the programme.
The programme is now gone so, bar the sponsor, I believe the rest will still air on Newstalk….
So, to clarify, three ad accounts have not been lost, as you put it.
Source: https://www.businesspost.ie/news/two-advertisers-quit-hooks-show-398024
Source: http://www.herald.ie/news/show-loses-two-more-advertisers-as-newstalk-host-hook-awaits-fate-36141412.html
And each of the said advertisers got more publicity than they could have possibly hoped for throughout :-)
Sources: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/tesco-pulls-advertising-for-george-hook-show-over-remarks-1.3221652
When the Hook think happened she mentioned something about her four-week-old daughter.
If she is on maternity leave and got fired then Newstalk are in deep doo-doo.
Newstalk are the FG radio station.
Between Nora Owen and Ivan Yates and all the soft focus stuff its even more establishment than RTE.
Turn the dial to anything except DinnyTalk.
Dil wasn’t the birth mother this time around, her partner was so it won’t be an issue.
I don’t know why people are surprised that they’d fire one of the few remaining female voices on SnoozeTalk while protecting and coddling the old guy with dangerous opinions about women.
Ah, thanks for the info.
Hard at it processing the headage payments there Daisy?
Not in that area, but nice guess. (remember, touch typist, multiple windows, multitasker)
Hahaha I hope you realise I’m just having a laugh
I suppose it would be interesting to see what the ratings for her show were like. It does make you wonder if this was really a commercial decision given the timing. But maybe it was ( i have never heard her show).
But as a previous poster said; even if it was purely commercial, the timing was not very clever….. It was a badly judged move.
RTE took a similar show off th airwaves years ago and nobody noticed or cared. At least this is generating some heat if not light.
heemmmm
its one thing to say the show was – rhymes with kite
but it was only an hour out’ve their weekly roster
they should have just bit their tongues there in NT and lived with it tbh
I didn’t like the show, but then I don’t like Countrywide or cooking shows.
Still find it amusing how many people are saying it was a sh*te show.
Her 5 listeners are distraught.
There should be a new radio wave band… AM, FM, LW, MW and a new SJW
Bro you don’t need to get help. You need more
Giz a kiss ! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9phCHjI6cI
Ha!
There’s a world music show on Radio Kerry called The Global Village. 9pm on Tuesdays. Presented by JJ O’Shea.
It’s won a few PPI radio awards.
Podcasts available on the Radio Kerry website.
http://www.radiokerry.ie/global-village-october-3rd-2017/
That is all.
This, allied with the ban on IT journalists, seems to be a concerted attack by newstalk of anyone who doesn’t support their views on rape and rape victims..
And they most likely are hoping they will all text into their premium rate number to express their anger!
Astonishing that it took about 50 comments before someone ventured the opinion that actually, the ratings might not have been up to scratch.
I hated her show and switched instantly. I also hate Tom Dunne and switch instantly, however Tom does alright for himself in the ratings and keeps his show. Mind you he was switched to late nights when his morning show took a big hit, Was it racism or just Dil’s inability to do anything else that meant her show was cancelled without her being given another slot? Knowing a bit about Newstalk, I’d guess that it’s more the latter than the former.
Cupping nonsense. Who listens to the radio at 6pm on Sundays? No one, it was a perfect time to put on the Dil show and virtue signal that hey here at Newstalk we might employ some of the most contrarian and inarticulate right wing trolls in the business , but hey it’s not like we don’t have a liberal side. If the show was poorly produced then whose fault is that, hardly the presenters, the woman is a hero to minority groups in this country and when was the last time you heard any of these alternative voices on any other station? You’re a muppet, a contrarian conservative moron and a troll all rolled into one.
I listen to the radio at 6pm on a sunday.
Dil’s show was on a saturday lately, just so you can’t be accused to mouthing off without knowing what you’re talking about. Although contending that although noone actually listened to her show at the weekend, it was bound to be a ratings winner at drivetime is a bit silly.
Any radio presenter that turns up, reads a script and goes home probably deserves to be fired. It’s doing Dil a disservice to try to imply that the producer compiled the show and she merely presented it.
No it isn’t. It’s a joint effort and if it was as amateurish as people say then the buck stops with the producer for not stepping in. Personally I hated the program but I admired Dil as a presenter and the ethos of the program.
The only reason you hated the programme is because she was a brown lesbian. Apparently.
Words have meaning Harry. Be more considerate
This may be related to ratings. But she does mention “despite [her] positive ratings and performance [….] the show is cancelled” in her letter.
Unless someone can find out what her ratings *are* we’re just guessing.
She mentions it but doesn’t provide any evidence whatsoever to show her positive ratings.
I haven’t a notion of how big her audience is but you’d be hard pressed to find a more ‘progressive left wing’ audience than the broadsheet readership and everyone seems to universally dislike her show. Unscientific alright but telling.
Having said that, If she was elbowed for politcal reasons , it’s far more likely that she was canned due to her ultimatum than for any imagined racist or homophobic reasons.
Wow that’s some good statistical sampling. Moron
Astonishing is how you missed all the other comments that referenced ratings until now?
insight matters only take cash or cheque, handy
Unfortunately for Dil she made an error by giving her employer an ultimatum; refusing to work unless a colleague was dismissed.
She compounded that error by going public with that ultimatum while the station was trying to handle the whole thing.
I listened to the show from time to time but found it to be rather a divisive voice more than anything else. More interested in blame than solutions.
I believe she’s also a comedian which seems to be a thriving business to be in these days so she still has that. Does she have any newspaper columns or anything?
Not yet. But Una Mullally must be nervous.
Too many people moved the dial. Management moved her. That’s business.
Still it means Ray Darsey and/or Artist Exemption Tubridy have filled one guest slot now. Free this weekend? Don’t be.
Barely commented upon is the loss of Sarah Carey’s ‘Talking Point’ which got the axe just before the Hook controversy broke.
Her style was cheesy, but endearing, and I miss it.
Interesting axing, considering her history with DOB and Tribunal.
I think the Phoenix mag might have covered this.
sorry, wrote mine before reading yours
I hated it. Thanks
‘endearing’, more like nauseating.
She was excellent! I wouldn’t agree with her on a lot of things but I really enjoyed her show, she’s very articulate and is good at controlling a debate. Would love to see her getting a weekday slot actually.
Was it the Phoenix a while back that newstalk presenters were being made to sing for their suppers and that if they couldn’t get a sponsor they’d be gone. Also said she had trouble attracting a sponsor.
Didn’t she lie at the Tribunal? Thanks
I don’t know?
She’s a Dinnybot through and through
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lying-to-tribunal-over-leak-is-black-spot-on-my-record-1.581189%3Fmode=amp
Never knew any of that. It’s a terrible thing to lie in court and to a tribunal. At least she recognises it now.
What do you think about the leak though? Sounds like she was a whistle blower doesn’t it?
You love her even more now?
H. convenient.
Telling lies is a good way to control a debate.
She is a shill, plain and simple.
weird comment
That’s the show [REDACTED] rewarded her with after her newspaper fired her for lying and leaking at the Tribunal on [REDACTED]’s behalf, innit?
Poor Sarah!
Precisely. Endearing you say?
I’ve never heard her show, but her photo makes her look like a bit of a tool.
Hope this helps!
Delighted to see her & that Global Village poo gone. Well done, at last, Newstalk.
PS. Bring back George to the daytime show.
She tried to get a colleague fired and nobody listens to her show. Thats radio
As simple as that.
It ain’t over Dil, it’s over
It’s a Dil of a pickle alright !
stop gherkin her around
I hope this isn’t interpreted as unkind but
Anyone else look at that pic above and think
Jerry Lewis
RIP
Don’t insult Lewis.
The message being sent out by newstalk / DOB is the next individual to speak out , stand up or complain will be sacked . Obviously the management and owners of newstalk don’t actually see anything wrong with what hook said . DISGRACEFUL !!!
I see that parttime newsreader with Communicorp Jessie Magee has quit in protest at Dil’s show being taken off the air.