Sigh.
Previously: Right So
Thanks Mike Hogan
Tag Archives: RTE
Right So
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Philip Boucher-Hayes tweetz:
“The Anglo Irish Abortion pens sent to RTÉ.”
Aunty Matter
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“Financial reality” is one of the main reasons RTE is going down the path of iPhone journalism. #newsrw twitpic.com/ckf8ko
— BBC Journalism (@BBCCollege) April 19, 2013
404 State
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Conor O’Brien writes:
A story headlined ‘Austerity in Ireland was a Mistake’ on the RTE website was removed about 45 minutes ago.
The story is now on another page timidly headlined: Reliance on austerity is counterproductive, says former IMF mission chief.
It’s all terribly confusing
Anyone?
UPDATE: There’s an INNOCENT explanation (see comments).
*switches on Alex Jones*
Bouchedag
at“For every €1 spent on licence fee RTÉ contributes more than double that back to the Irish Economy” – Price Waterhouse Coopers report
— Philip Boucher-Hayes (@boucherhayes) April 10, 2013
Anyone good with numbers?
Yesterday, Elaine Byrne (above) described in the Sunday Independent how RTÉ planned to use the Lowry Tapes as a story to re-launch Prime Time.
“The Sunday Independent ran the transcript in full, but there is no substitute for hearing the actual voices – preferably with the transcript to hand. That is why I had also gone to RTE’s Prime Time, to gauge their interest.”
“There, I dealt with David Nally, the managing editor of RTE’s television current affairs division, and Paul Maguire, Editor, RTE Investigations Unit. They were very interested and seemed keen to do a programme based on the tape. They listened to the tape and then had me play it for their lawyers. Then I gave them a transcript. However, they insisted that they would need to do an interview with Phelan and planned the whole thing for the opening night of the Prime Time re-launch.”
“After much to-ing and fro-ing, Phelan decided he would not do the interview and the show was dropped. But this was not because they did not think the material in the tapes was of great interest – on the contrary. It was because they could not get Phelan to sit down in front of a camera.”
However…
Where this leaves Mr Nally’s letter to The Sunday Times last week (above), that RTÉ believes the tape did not advance the story beyond the findings of the Moriarty tribunal is anyone’s guess.
Elaine Byrne: Shedding Light On Shady Dealings (Sunday Independent)
Previously: RTÉ And The Lowry Tape
Maria Daly writes::
“[RTE’s] Ingrid [Miley] is in Galway but the backdrop is Athlone. If it doesn’t happen in The Pale they haven’t a clue.”
Rita O’Reilly tweetz:
“So Tom Cruise is doing a #latelate show interview. But how many men, how many Mercs?”
And inside:
He brings that step everywhere.
Via Jules McDee
Nice puffa jacket.
What!?
Thanks Mary Hennessy
Managing editor of RTÉ Current Affairs David Nally, top, defends the level of RTÉ’s coverage of the Lowry Tape story in a letter to the editor in today’s Sunday Times, below. In his letter, among other things, Mr Nally points to a Six One News report on Friday, March 15, above.
Elaine Byrne and Gene Kerrigan originally broke the story on February 24 in the Sunday Independent. Their story indicated that Mr Lowry had paid £248,624 to Kevin Phelan in August 2002. The Moriarty Tribunal had only heard about a £65,000 payment made by Mr Lowry to Mr Phelan in April 2002.
In today’s letter, Mr Nally contends that the Lowry Tape “does not advance the story significantly beyond the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal”.
Separately, but also in the Sunday Times, Justine McCarthy reports that RTÉ executives were told that tapes existed last October.
Ms McCarthy writes:
“RTÉ was contacted last year by a newspaper reporter who said Phelan had told him about tapes that raised questions about Lowry’s finances. The RTÉ executives said they would be interested in running the story in the journalist could acquire the takes, but he was unable to deliver them.”
“Last January Elaine Byrne, a Sunday Independent journalist, played the tape to editorial executives and the station’s lawyers. Byrne said she had a commitment to reveal the tape’s existence in the newspaper but was keen RTÉ would broadcast it after.”
“The Sunday Independent published a transcript of the tape on February 24. Plans by RTÉ to cover the story were shelved because of ‘legal difficulties’. Byrne again offered the tape to RTE after publication of the transcript. Prime Time, the current affairs programme, declined the offer.”
Hmmm.
Meanwhile, this is what Elaine Byrne has to say on the matter (read from the bottom):
(Top pic: IFTN)
UPDATE:
Mr Nally, and others, respond on Twitter:
