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 bits of government buildings to do live talkies to Anne Doyle;
- Ciaran Mullooly on a helicopter ‘bringing’ hay to a stranded farmer;
- The Week in Politics and the features with the music and the screen fades…
feel free to add your suggestions.)
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While the US networks are really bad on news coverage, when it comes to RTE I’d add umm…
the lack of a world view on international news…where’s globalised news? We only hear about Peru when Machu Pichu is falling into the sea of mud!
I detest having “foreign” correspondents in [name of city] reporting on [insert news item] that is elsewhere in name of continent]… [= lazy, cheap-ass reporting, at least Sky sends someone to the Yemen]
I’m shouting at the tv when they’re interviewing either Government Ministers/ Opposition spokespeople/ “experts” and not grilling them about an issue [info-mercial meets PR];
I’m appalled how coverage of issues like the civil partnership debate don’t highlight woeful speeches like Mansergh’s, such an obvious target… they can get onto Obama’s surgically-attached teleprompter, so…
Items signalling an up-coming RTE documentary/prime-time special… this is advertising not news and then interviewing the film-maker about the programme we are going to see anyhow;
Stupid stories about a blue whale that can leap out of the water, people who fall on iceand all that parish pump politics cac is just mind-numbing!
RTE could provide an award-winning news service, but When I want news for adults I watch Channel 4.
Now I’m off to buy meat for the week in Fallon & Byrne – my foodie tip for the day!
Things I want RTE to stop doing?
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Ah, reminds me of TV3 on Stephen’s night!
Charlie Brooker speaking truth yet again. Newswipe’s essential viewing.
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I heard you on The Matt Cooper Show speaking about the THAT woman and her life partner, I’m afraid if I say their name it’ll be like beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice and hell will appear in front of me in the manner of a libel court….
Anyhow; just been nosy. You’re not the same Susie that played tennis out of Sutton Tennis Club in the 90′s are you?
Hi Itchy – I can confirm that I’ve never lifted a tennis racquet competitively in my life so sorry it’s not me
(Things I want RTE to stop doing?
- Existing
- Failing that; RTE Radio – Joe Duffy and Aine Lawlor in particular – feigning OUTRAGE and using the word OUTRAGE like snuff at a wake. Outrage is a once, maybe twice a year word. The illegal invasion of eyeraq for example is outrageous. Booking a restaurant for 40 friends, having only 29 turn up for you and getting billed for 35 is not a reason to feel OUTRAGE. Slightly miffed maybe.
- Stop not asking every government party member at every opportunity why they
(a) did not nationalise the banks and tell the gambling bond holders – “It’s landed on Zero; you lose.”
(b) Stop not asking – NAMA? WTF? Did somebody actually vote for you? Why do you want the population to cover the gamblers losses.
That’s all off-topic I’d say but I just got in from 20major; I feel a little wasted….just read the accounts of BOI…jesus.
RTE – when they have voice overs for sports coverage and they are talking about someone, say for example Roy Keane, they seem to pick the oldest footage they have in the archives to show us, why? Drives me mad.
Also, Sharon is fairly poor at interviewing live on air, it has to be said.
OK Maman. I just had to be sure. Your namesake was excellent. As I’m sure you are too ..*BLUSH*
How about all the boilerplate that they spout when a someone is killed? “State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy carried out a post mortem examination on the body… “(check) “Members of the Garda Technical Bureau today carried out an examination at the scene….”(check) with shots of a white marquee and guards in face masks (check). And then they tell you what hospital the body was moved to (check), and that they reveal that the postmorten results haven’t been released yet (eh, since you didn’t lead with a cause of death we kinda worked that out) and really why are they still talking if there is nothing more to say? Maybe RTE feel they wouldn’t be taking the subject seriously if they said “Someone has been killed, it’s terrible really, no one has a clue what happened but the gardai are onto it, we’ll definitely keep you posted.”, but I wish they would.
Everything Sean R said and..
Men only panels discussing anything, including sport
Reporting ad nauseum the official Garda line after every murder in a working class area and I include here in particular the statement: “The victim was known to the Gardai”
Gerry Ryan,Brendan O’Connor,the All Ireland Talent(sic) show
Fair City, Fair City, Fair City
I want RTE personalities to stop interviewing other RTE personalities on RTE talk shows- its like a cluster f**k!
Brooker’s skit reminded me of Chris Morris’s The Day Today, which took similar potshots at the news but in a less self-referential fashion. That’s not a criticism, by the way: both satirists hit their marks, and make watching the actual news afterwards a decidedly surreal activity.
I want RTE to stop mimicking successful comedy panels shows from the BBC.
Came late to this. Love reading Charlie Brooker on guardian.co.uk. This is genius and so true. RTE is much worse, with the slow pan across significant buildings, followed by the zoom, followed by the person to be interviewed walking purposefully towards and past the camera, followed by the interview. It never changes. Ever.