Sinn Fein plan to censor RTE

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Is anyone else worried about the Shinner plan to have a political board overseeing RTE's political content?
It's being done on the absolutely laughable pretext that RTE weren't anti-Israeli enough since the Israel-Gaza war started but that's just a pretext to get the body in place. Given their penchant for trying to silence journalists and media criticism it's a bit Trumpian.
 
So RTE gave reasonably balanced reporting on the Israel / Gaza situation, but because it was not in keeping with sf single sided biased policy, sf are going to introduce a political board to make sure that RTE only provide a sf view on all political matters.

Isn't this what Putin does in Russia? :D
 
peemac said:
So RTE gave reasonably balanced reporting on the Israel / Gaza situation, but because it was not in keeping with sf single sided biased policy, sf are going to introduce a political board to make sure that RTE only provide a sf view on all political matters.

Isn't this what Putin does in Russia? :D
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I thought RTE's coverage was very biased against Israel so the Shinners must really want to control the narrative.
 
I hadn’t observed any major bias to Israel. In fact i image they are less sympathetic than most broadcasters in Europe.

Definitely seems like an excuse. A move to go from a public broadcaster to a state broadcaster.

What about other broadcasters who receive a small amount of the licence fee. Do SF want to approve their content too?
 
Sinn Fein want RTE to give out more about indiscrimate bombing and killing of innocent civilians?? Puzzling to say the least given their history. .
 
Peanuts20 said:
Sinn Fein want RTE to give out more about indiscrimate bombing and killing of innocent civilians?? Puzzling to say the least given their history. .
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I think that the Shinners think RTE are not biased enough in favour of the guys who started this round of murder and mayhem. Anyway, it's just an excuse to establish a way of censoring RTE. They pick a popular, populist and emotive topic as a Trojan Horse and then they have established a mechanism of control.
 
peemac said:
So RTE gave reasonably balanced reporting on the Israel / Gaza situation, but because it was not in keeping with sf single sided biased policy, sf are going to introduce a political board to make sure that RTE only provide a sf view on all political matters.

Isn't this what Putin does in Russia? :D
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And they also saying ukraine should not be supplied with anymore weapons to defend itself, so its buying into the putin propaganda . The Ukrainian embassy complaining about it.
In an alternative scenario if Britain trying to retake this state I'm sure sinn fein would have a similar policy, do not supply irish state with arms but pursue a peaceful policy and capitulate to British demands
 
Claire Byrne absolutely nailed MLMcD on this - it was glorious. She couldn't articulate any rationale or cite one troublesome report other than equivocate about "public trust in the broadcaster". They want an independent "peer review" of the coverage and she goes on to say that the BBC had a review. CB retorts, eh no, they reviewed one report where the mis-attributed a rocket/missile attack. Straight back in her box!
 
The mask slips every so often. Now SF saying students best future is in a United Ireland.

SF exist for one reason only - a United Ireland, Brits Out. Everything else they talk about is just fluff to get elected, then its on to the REAL agenda.
 
joe sod said:
And they also saying ukraine should not be supplied with anymore weapons to defend itself, so its buying into the putin propaganda . The Ukrainian embassy complaining about it.
In an alternative scenario if Britain trying to retake this state I'm sure sinn fein would have a similar policy, do not supply irish state with arms but pursue a peaceful policy and capitulate to British demands
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But we don't supply Ukraine with "lethal aid" so why is this even a manifesto item?
 
odyssey06 said:
If in government they could attempt to stop EU level assistance?
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Team up with orban and the Slovakian guy who are basically saying the same thing. Why they went with this at all given the embarrassing links with russia which they removed from their website in 2022 after the invasion
 
lff12 said:
But we don't supply Ukraine with "lethal aid" so why is this even a manifesto item?
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They are suggesting that other countries should be influenced to stop supplying them with such aid, stating: “All sides must cease the current unlimited supply of weapons into Ukraine"
 
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