“It seemed to me that RTÉ’s fundamental failure was to allow this appetite for ‘edgy’, ground-breaking journalism to devour good journalistic practice and particularly editorial practice. It was failure above all of editorial control.”
Bryan Dobson on the Fr Kevin Reynolds affair.
‘Edgy’ journalism led to RTÉ error – Dobson (Independent.ie)
GalwayGirl writes (edgily):
So noted newsreader Bryan Dobson had a lot to say yesterday about editorial standards at RTÉ. Well, he’d certainly be a leading expert on that topic… Maybe stick to reading other people’s scripts to introduce other people’s journalism. Still though – looks good in a suit…
FIGHT!
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Leave Bryan alone! Met him on a bus to Rathgar once and he was the definition of lovely
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Gentleman.
Also intelligent and articulate.
You know who else was intelligent and articulate ? Hitler !!
Yea right, I bet Hitler was crap at scrabble tho
Chris Donoghue knocks him into a hat for interviews.
Hmmm. He can be good (he’s an awful swot, I’d say and is very well prepared) but I’ve heard Mary-Lou running rings around him.
GalwayGirl, who do you think writes the script for the newsreader?
Newsflash its the newsreader. So Bryan Dobson isn’t reading someone else’s script, he also conducts interviews that he would have to research himself – seems like journalism to me?
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link bodged bodger
Has anybody clicked on that link to the Indo piece?
And tried to make sense of the opening paragraph?
And wondered why they don’t have sub-editors at INM anymore?
Or why they don’t have a basic grammar book? Or someone with the ability to cut-and-paste without losing half a sentence?
Just wondering is all…
The ‘topic’ link I mean, in GalwayGirl’s paragraph that brings you to Colum Kenny’s article
Yeah it took me a few goes to get through.
It’s a mess – is he giving general media training to health board officials, and the officials happen to be involved in a controversy, or is he giving specific training on how to respond to the controversy? Did he train them before the controversy happened? Why is the lead paragraph the same as the second paragraph?
would we accept and post sarcastic compliments about the appearance of a female newsreader?
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To be fair, yes. Or sleazy ones. And they would be allowed to stay for quite a while.
Where’s Elaine Crowley gone then :)
I dont know who that is
Comments maybe but posts definitely not
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great headline!
NO, I’M Bryan Dobson!
If you think about it, aren’t we all a little bit Bryan Dobson?
Say it ain’t so
I have thought about it, and I’m still going with the answer “Nope”.
Dobson’s 100% right though. Fr Reynolds offered to take a DNA test to prove he was telling the truth, that should have been a big red flag to the editors of that programme.
One would think so Joe, yes. But remember, the guy was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, so automatically guilty in the eyes of some in RTE. Even if he had given proof that he was actually a woman dressed up as a priest, they’ed have still believed he was a rapist.
On GalwayGirls point – I just don’t get how editorial standards and doing a nixer for HSE staff are the same thing, as she seems to be suggesting.
again, you’re generalising. women can commit rape.
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RTE have very few journos , Brian is a NewsReader , thats wot it says in the credits and it makes sense
How he looks in a suit doesn’t change the fact that he’s absolutely right. ‘New Media’ practices, which prioritise ‘getting there first’ followed by smug, snarky ‘analysis’ over good journalistic practice, mean the fourth estate has to gone to utter sh*t in the last couple of years. Before we know it, the likes of RTÉ and the BBC will read like the edgy, student newspaper-standard bile found in Vice, Gawker etc.
rte is publicly funded and has an obligation to present accurate impartial news. It has however become the mouthpiece for government propaganda and seems to be proud of this.
Dobson was the Rte presenter who did the most outside commercial jobs (8 MC gigs) in 2013 according to a Sunday Times story a few weeks ago. Can’t find a link.
Dobson does a good job. Which is more than be said for knockers like Galway Girl and Stewart Curry.
Ha ha, you said knockers
He licked Bertie’s hole during his ‘won it on the horses guv’ interview. Ever since he had as much credibility as Paul Williams.
a day in the life of dobbo:
dear party, i’m fresh out of ideas, what line should i toe today?