Saturday 4 October 2008

RTÉ has lost the Plot

Some people in RTÉ are completely nuts. We've known this for a long time. But so far at least the news desk had kept some degree of sanity.
Well, that last bit of sanity went out the studio window today.

Did you hear the news on Radio 1 at 10 and 11 o'clock this morning? If not, then I'll tell you.
There were items on the Irish cabinet meeting over the financial crisis, the EU meeting over the same crisis, and the GAA discussing a major change to its procedure. But none of these made the top of the news. At least the cabinet meeting should have. After all, what they come up with in there will affect us all very severely for the coming years... But no, it came down the line in the RTÉ list of priorities.

Those arrogant and overpaid raving lunatics opened both news bulletins at 10 and 11 a.m. - when everyone here tunes in to know what happened overnight and what's the agenda for the weekend - with the 'most important' news that "the former American Football player O. J. Simpson (now 61) was found guilty by a US court in Las Vegas of robbing sports memorabilia"!

Who the heck cares? The man's a nobody here, and a has-been for ages now even in the USA.
What relevance or news value has he for Ireland? Absolutely none.

But this grave error of judgement regarding the relevance of news shows how much the fecking gobshites in RTÉ are infected by the American virus, by global cultural neo-colonialism that creeps in everywhere, from Chicken McNuggets to the national news.

I am disgusted. And angry.
We are
NOT the 51st state of the damned US of A... !!!
But the fecking dumbos in RTÉ treat us as if we were. And this at a time when real serious news that affect us all are aplenty.

I think it's about time that some real people go into Donnybrook and kick some arse.

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