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[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

This entire process would be more reasonable if we had some regulation on how involved the news is allowed to be with, well, the news. Never thought I'd support something that could be turned into a very ugly and vague peice of legislation if handled badly, but I think that's just what we need. They should be required to be objective and non-sensationalist. They should lose their jobs for trying to make the news, instead of report it.

Not an easy thing for me to say, since I'm normally against regulations (especially regarding free speach) but isn't it obvious that what's going on here isn't free speach, but profiteering that is detrimental to our political process?

You need a non-profit autonomous, government licensed and viewer funded broadcastes.

AKA, the BBC, but it won't haapen because Americans would never countenance a licence to watch TV, even though the system works and improves the quality of all broadcast news. The other thing we have is a law which prohibits "news" show hosts from offering opinions rather than actual facts. So Glenn Beck couldn't do his thing here.

[gaelic cowboy]

You need a non-profit autonomous, government licensed and viewer funded broadcastes.

AKA, the BBC, but it won't haapen because Americans would never countenance a licence to watch TV, even though the system works and improves the quality of all broadcast news. The other thing we have is a law which prohibits "news" show hosts from offering opinions rather than actual facts. So Glenn Beck couldn't do his thing here.

I agree you cant get a Glenn Beck in Ireland/UK due to the way telly is regulated BUT you can get material that is leftist/rightist or whatever your having yourself.

Eoghan Harris has admitted he was part of a conspiracy to promote a leftist agenda at RTE our version of the BBC essentially they were part of a secret Workers Party strategy.

Smartly he didnt put out opinion pieces so he might get caught instead he green lighted programmes about say the 1913 lockout like Strumpet City or historical pieces on James Connolly or Big Jim Larkin

Now the things is these were all well put together pieces and probably actually deserving of there slot on telly too but signs on he didnt green light more conservative leaning stuff.


Having said all that though such a strategy only worked in 80s Ireland most people only had two channels. Nowadays the biggest danger of channels like RTE BBC is actually trying to compete with opinion based telly, witness the incessant use of twitter, emails and texts nowadays on show.

That craic just caused a man to lose an election here apparently due to sloppy vetting.

[PanzerJaeger]

When people talk about Rick Santorum's lack of discipline on the trail, this is what they are refering to.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I agree you cant get a Glenn Beck in Ireland/UK due to the way telly is regulated BUT you can get material that is leftist/rightist or whatever your having yourself.

Eoghan Harris has admitted he was part of a conspiracy to promote a leftist agenda at RTE our version of the BBC essentially they were part of a secret Workers Party strategy.

Smartly he didnt put out opinion pieces so he might get caught instead he green lighted programmes about say the 1913 lockout like Strumpet City or historical pieces on James Connolly or Big Jim Larkin

Now the things is these were all well put together pieces and probably actually deserving of there slot on telly too but signs on he didnt green light more conservative leaning stuff.


Having said all that though such a strategy only worked in 80s Ireland most people only had two channels. Nowadays the biggest danger of channels like RTE BBC is actually trying to compete with opinion based telly, witness the incessant use of twitter, emails and texts nowadays on show.

That craic just caused a man to lose an election here apparently due to sloppy vetting.

Ah, but you said it yourself - good quality left wing programs. There's bias with the way you present the facts, and then there's bias in the facts you represent. It's pretty clear that the BBC is just now coming out of a left-leaning Europhile phase, but they still had to present all the facts as they were and that's the most important part.