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Entries Tagged as 'MSM'

Changes to RTE News and Current Affairs

October 25th, 2012 · 2 Comments · MSM, Social Media

RTE’s new managing director of News and Current Affairs Kevin Bakhurst is settling in and yesterday announced changes to the station’s output that will take place early next year. Claire Byrne and George Lee join Prime Time, RTE 1 will get a new morning news programme from 9 until 11 am and The Week in [...]

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Three years on the circle is complete and still turning

March 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media

Three years ago myself and a number of other bloggers attended the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, liveblogged, (It’s amazing to read it back) took photos, video , blogged and encouraged people in attendance to tweet and engage. We were looked at a bit strangely as we were there for the sake of doing it. OK [...]

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Dumbing down Radio 1

August 28th, 2011 · 8 Comments · MSM, Newstalk

Today’s Irish Mail on Sunday reports that RTE Radio 1′s Saturday View programme is to be dumped in favour of a satire show featuring Nob Nation’s Oliver Callan and a weekly one hour programme hosted by Charlie Bird. RTE’s Press Office could not confirm the Mail on Sunday’s story but did confirm to me that [...]

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Hope they brushed their teeth

June 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, MSM

You will no doubt have heard about that ad, either by reading blog posts or hearing debates on radio. What you may not have known is that the brand’s PR company are sending crates of the stuff to media organisations all over town so that the more people talk about it the more the presenters, [...]

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Ronan Mullen and me on a panel

September 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media

Yes it surprised me also. Next Monday night a public debate on Politics and the Media will be held in Galway City Museum at 8 pm. Hosted by the Galway Green Party the panel will debate the relationship between old and new media and politics and given garglegate last week and #simoncoveneysfault promises to be [...]

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Suits you….

September 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · MSM

Maybe we could collect pics of all the interviewers who got their 20 minutes with Tony at the weekend. First up it’s Matt Cooper

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Scraping the barrel

August 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM

While #Fag-gate starts to rumble (it’s still August unfortunately) some political correspondents are clearly desperate for news to joke about it. It is a joke right? Niamh Lyons is a political correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail – wishful tweeting? It’s not the usual political correspondent tweet (no they’re not all devoid of humour but [...]

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‘Mr. Drumm, It’s Charlie Bird from RTE, Can I talk to you?’

April 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments · Irish Media, Michael Lynn, MSM

Update: Video is at the end of this post Have a look here – at 22.54 minutes in and watch Anne Doyle calmly introduce the TV News moment so far for 2010. Charlie Bird is back viewers … back with a bang. After over a year of isolation and loneliness as RTE’s Washington correspondent, Charlie [...]

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Form an orderly queue there

February 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media

Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly.  It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned [...]

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Segue, monochrome, walk towards camera, soundbite

January 30th, 2010 · 15 Comments · MSM

Charlie Brooker is must see television at the moment with Newswipe on BBC 4. This segment makes for some uncomfortable viewing for many TV newsrooms in the US, UK and Ireland. (Things I want RTE to stop doing? Putting pol corrs outside Government Buildings when there is nobody there; Putting two different correspondents outside different [...]

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