RTE reporting inaccuracies

[Shelby219]

I'm not saying anything about the content of the FAI EGM this evening but Tony O'Donoghue reporting outside the Avia this evening said there was a big protest outside, and then proceeded to say there were 100 people protesting, that's not a big protest Tony.

 

[JoeRoberts]

Why are you surprised at RTE reporting ?
They have set out their stall long ago.

 

[Purple]

RTE are a quasi-public sector organisation which is heavily Unionised. People see the world through the prism of their own experiences, views and biases. RTE has a strong left wing social bias and an even stronger left wing economic bias but it's a long way from being as bad as most US broadcasters or most UK newspapers. I'd say that they are biased and can be inaccurate due to those biases rather than incompetence but they could be a lot worse.

 

[Shelby219]

Is there really a need for RTE to send a reporter to Nepal to stand in front of a camera to tell us how bad the situation is there, she was not even in the disaster area like other news outlets but reporting from the capital Katmandu , smacks of the late Charlie Bird reporting from the roof of the Hilton hotel in Kuwait.

 

[peemac]

Is there really a need for RTE to send a reporter to Nepal to stand in front of a camera

I reckon they looked at the cost of taking an independent report and compared it to cost of sending a couple of people over to the area and found that was cheaper especially as the story is likely to run for a while yet.

Independent organisations can charge quite a whack of money when a story like this is going around.

From what I see Katmandu is where officials in Nepal are providing information, so if you just have one reporter on the scene, that's probably the ideal location. BBC main reporter, Azadeh Moshiri, is also in Katmandu.

 

[Purple]

If there's anything that RTE should be spending money on it's news.

 

[JoeRoberts]

reckon they looked at the cost of taking an independent report and compared it to cost of sending a couple of people over

They ignored the carbon footprint cost but will continue to tell us we have too many cows.

 

[Purple]

They ignored the carbon footprint cost but will continue to tell us we have too many cows.

Two things can be true at the same time.

 

[Shelby219]

I take back what I said about the RTE reporter , Kate Varley and her cameraman actually travelled to Bidur today to report from one of the worst towns affected by the disaster.