I watched a little on Vincent Browne last night on TV3.
How does such a biased programme not fall foul of the Broadcasting Authority?
There is no attempt at balance or fairness. It is just a vehicle for expounding ultra-leftwing views.
People from the loony-left get an unfettered platform wax lyrical about how utterly unjust the country is and how “the most vulnerable in society”© are being viciously exploited by our right-wing establishment. It’s like the mirror image of America’s Fox News on the loony right.
Irish Independent and Sinn Fein
The behaviour of Mary Loo and the Shinners is disgraceful and shows that their heritage of coming from an organisation that did not respect the democratic will of the majority has not gone away. That said the coverage of their role in the water charges protests and the intimidation of TD’s etc by the Indo is hysterical and totally lacking in balance. Reading their front page articles and so-called analysis one would think this was Germany in the 1930’s.
Journalists are entitled to their views but editors have an obligation to balance those views within the totality of their newspapers.
This “agenda journalism” is not unusual with INM.
I watched a little on Vincent Browne last night on TV3.
How does such a biased programme not fall foul of the Broadcasting Authority?
There is no attempt at balance or fairness. It is just a vehicle for expounding ultra-leftwing views.
So they're left with the idlers, drunks and insomniacs.
How so? What, other than Nevin Institute type lies and propaganda, do we get from Comrade Browne?VB's show if more infotainment than news . .
RTE have a Public Sector/Protected Sector/Union bias but it's not nearly as extreme as TV3My issue is when RTE show a lack of balance as I'm paying directly for that service.
To me it's like a comedy show dressed up as news. I find it and Mario sketches interchangeable.How so? What, other than Nevin Institute type lies and propaganda, do we get from Comrade Browne?
Perhaps not but RTE get the licence fee and should not be pushing any agenda.RTE have a Public Sector/Protected Sector/Union bias but it's not nearly as extreme as TV3
Agreed! I turned it on during the by-elections when a panel of the candidates were being "harangued" and for the first 5 minutes I genuinely though it was a comedy sketch (and a funny one at that!)To me it's like a comedy show dressed up as news. I find it and Mario sketches interchangeable.
I agree. Did you notice that in any employment issue, even dealing with "professionals" or "officers", the people involved are always referred to as "workers" and not employees or any other title.Perhaps not but RTE get the licence fee and should not be pushing any agenda.
So they're left with the idlers, drunks and insomniacs.
I watched a little on Vincent Browne last night on TV3.
How does such a biased programme not fall foul of the Broadcasting Authority?
There is no attempt at balance or fairness. It is just a vehicle for expounding ultra-leftwing views.
People from the loony-left get an unfettered platform wax lyrical about how utterly unjust the country is and how “the most vulnerable in society”© are being viciously exploited by our right-wing establishment. It’s like the mirror image of America’s Fox News on the loony right.
Irish Independent and Sinn Fein
The behaviour of Mary Loo and the Shinners is disgraceful and shows that their heritage of coming from an organisation that did not respect the democratic will of the majority has not gone away. That said the coverage of their role in the water charges protests and the intimidation of TD’s etc by the Indo is hysterical and totally lacking in balance. Reading their front page articles and so-called analysis one would think this was Germany in the 1930’s.
Journalists are entitled to their views but editors have an obligation to balance those views within the totality of their newspapers.
This “agenda journalism” is not unusual with INM.
Did you hear the bit on VB last night where Dennis O'Brien was mentioned with regards to Irish Water and also to his group of newspapers and editorials being biased in their reporting of matters?
I watched it last night but missed that. If that was said, Vinny will be down in the 4 courts...Dennis is very sensitive and has big ears....he can hear everything said in Ireland from his home in Malta!
yeah there were a few people on it who weren't singing the praises of IW and the government.......disgraceful stuff!
If they are so pro-Irish Water, I don't understand why they're not raising the point of the significant section of the population who are currently on private water wells or group schemes, or who have private effluent treatment systems. 12% of the population have private well, there's another few percent who are on private group schemes, that's a significant portion of the population who are being ignored in this, especially by the 'we already pay for water in our taxes' brigade.
But country folk aren't 'working class' in the Dublin sense of the word, and therefore don't count according to the left wing loonie/Union fringe.
Farmers get everything else for free anyways!
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