I doubt it's just you but I suspect yours is a minority view in general but possibly a majority on AAM. Maybe you should complain to RTÉ or as you might say yourself 'Give it up for the holy souls'.ClubMan said:Maybe it's just me but . .
I don't. I think that your view of the coverage as 'distasteful' and your view that there is a lot of RTÉ reporting lately that 'seems to insinuate Catholic religious bias into general news items' is a minority one.ClubMan said:Why do you think that keeping irrelevant religious bias out of news reporting would necessarily be a minority view?
The separation of Church and State still has a long, long way to go in this country
Well imagine the furore if RTE had attempted to juxtapose a symbol of one of our minority religions at the end of that report?To be honest I have found a very strange angle in a lot of RTÉ reporting lately that seems to insinuate Catholic religious bias into general news items (e.g. the gratuituous and pointless parting shot of the crucifix at the end of last night's report
Agreed.ClubMan said:Fair enough. Doesn't make it less valid for being (if it is) a minority opinion though.
Therein lies potentially the most "criminal" aspect of it! But I wouldn't hold my breath for any hard-hitting investigative journalism from RTE's side...TarfHead said:Is it a criminal story, in the sense that few, if any, criminal prosecutions have resulted?
And Joe Little's sycophantic comments on the steps the Church are taking to protect children in the future, "even before approval from the Vatican" (gasp!)
With any other serious corporate scandal news organisations would surely endeavour to interview the CEO to get his/her view on the issues. Why then do we not get to hear directly what the Pope has to say about this stuff so?
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