Post by guillaume on Aug 6, 2011 10:21:34 GMT
I reproduce here a post made on FB by David Quinn, included the very interesting commentaries :
David Quinn
I simply cannot believe that RTE sympathetically interviewed convicted rapist Ezra Nawi on radio today. Have they no shame whatsoever? Are they that incapable of recognising their own bias?
14 hours ago · Unlike ·
You and 18 others like this.
Peadar Laighléis
Even by RTÉ's standards, that is unbelievable.
13 hours ago · Like
David Quinn
I suppose it confirms what I said in my column today, namely that once you have the 'right' views you are deemed to be essentially good no matter how objectively wrong your actions are, eg Roman Polanski.
13 hours ago · Like · 1 person
Peadar Laighléis
It does in a very dramatic way. In the commentary on the whole affair, I haven't seen any reference to David Norris' very spirited defence of the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh following descriptions of his charitable endeavours in Nepal.
13 hours ago · Like · 2 people
Tom O'Gorman
Disgusting.
13 hours ago · Like
Tom O'Gorman
We PAY for this, by the way. Just something else to consider.
13 hours ago · Like
Fergal O'Neill
I suspect that there is a campaign under way to reinstate Norris into the Presidential race.
13 hours ago · Like
Jennifer Kehoe
I must say I was shocked at the total lack of any uncomfortable questioning-especially when he called rape of a 15 year old child a 'mistake' urgh!
13 hours ago · Like
Marion Murphy
The propaganda machine RTE in which I have to pay a license for have their own definition of RIGHTS and wrongs. Reminds me of Soviet Union style politics. If they truly believed in CHOICE then the TV license would be abolished.
12 hours ago · Unlike · 1 person
David Quinn What next, sympathetic interviews with priests who abused adolescent boys (which is what most of the victims were).
12 hours ago · Like · 2 people
Jennifer Kehoe
It was very interesting to read George Weigel's take on Ireland in the post you put up a few days ago.
12 hours ago · Like
Richard Waghorne
The only good thing about this whole episode is that it provides a durable and citable counterpart illustrating routine media bias which is of use in the future, not for mere point-scoring or question-avoiding, but to illustrate the perverses media standards that currently obtain.
12 hours ago · Like · 4 people
Anthony Murphy
Perhaps Enda might make a speech about it as he appears to be highly motivated on this issue and maybe charlie flanagan might call for Norris to be exiled - not just the media that have a bias on this issue.
12 hours ago · Like
TCathal Loftus
Don't hold your breath, David! Maybe I'm teaching my Granny to suck eggs when I address this subject; but on and on I go! Fame and infamy are, I believe, pretty much the same in the media; they are, I am told, paid much the same rates. Mind you, the infamous are, all too often, much more fascinating than boringly humdrum goodies! The infamous, should, accordingly, be paid more? No! For "ethical reasons" the media pays them the same as the goodies. And goodies are only there "for balance". God forgive us, but we all want to meet the man who bit the dog; hear what it felt like for him, wonder if he worried that he might catch Rabies, and BTW, discover what dog actually tastes like. I am, myself, personally, guilty, m'lud, on all counts of such lowlife curiosity. Like all the other bad boys do, I betcha I'm not the worst! I bet there are many millions more books, magazines and DVDs about Hitler sold and rented than ever there are about little Mother Teresa. Which of these two, do you think, could glue millions of us to the TV screen? Note Well: the question is not 'who SHOULD?'; it is 'who COULD?' I have watched Hitler on TV far more often. He is so often on, and, just as often, back 'by popular demand'. Mother Teresa doesn't really feature - apart from in the odd exposé documentary. You know the genre; some cocky British atheist shows her up as 'definitely not a great nun' and/or "just another dodgy foreigner" - or words to that effect. Fascinating stuff!
11 hours ago · Like
Anthony Murphy
Has Colm O'Gorman or Andrew Madden spoken about this - surely they must have an opinion?
11 hours ago · Like
Louise Mac Manus Lonergan
Expletive!
10 hours ago · Like
Catherine Kavanagh Could we start conscientously objecting to paying the TV licence fee....?
8 hours ago · Unlike · 1 person
Ray Mc Intyre
Trocaire also have some explaining to do it appears from a letter in the Independent today.Allegedly & according to the letter writer they praise Nawi's human rights work on their website on behalf of the Palestinian people....Funny that! when I voice concern about the routine lethal discrimination against unborn kids in any forlorn part of the developing world and Trocaire's soft line on the policy of some of their third party ''partners'' I am called anything but a ''human rights activist''.....Btw that letter in the Indo only appears in the hard copy paper not on the online version for some reason
about an hour ago · Like
Treasa Hynes
I think something should be done about it. Perhaps we should lobby our politicians.
about an hour ago · Like
Ray Mc Intyre '
'He was underage no doubt about it'' Ezra Nawi quote on RTE1....Doh! Every perverted monster in Ireland can only take comfort from this soft treatment of child sexual abuse.
www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0805/media-3019177.html
about an hour ago · Like
Paddy Rushe
whats the complaints procedure for RTE?
7 minutes ago · Like
David Quinn
Paddy, Donal O'Sullivan of FMA should know. He's on Facebook.
David Quinn
I simply cannot believe that RTE sympathetically interviewed convicted rapist Ezra Nawi on radio today. Have they no shame whatsoever? Are they that incapable of recognising their own bias?
14 hours ago · Unlike ·
You and 18 others like this.
Peadar Laighléis
Even by RTÉ's standards, that is unbelievable.
13 hours ago · Like
David Quinn
I suppose it confirms what I said in my column today, namely that once you have the 'right' views you are deemed to be essentially good no matter how objectively wrong your actions are, eg Roman Polanski.
13 hours ago · Like · 1 person
Peadar Laighléis
It does in a very dramatic way. In the commentary on the whole affair, I haven't seen any reference to David Norris' very spirited defence of the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh following descriptions of his charitable endeavours in Nepal.
13 hours ago · Like · 2 people
Tom O'Gorman
Disgusting.
13 hours ago · Like
Tom O'Gorman
We PAY for this, by the way. Just something else to consider.
13 hours ago · Like
Fergal O'Neill
I suspect that there is a campaign under way to reinstate Norris into the Presidential race.
13 hours ago · Like
Jennifer Kehoe
I must say I was shocked at the total lack of any uncomfortable questioning-especially when he called rape of a 15 year old child a 'mistake' urgh!
13 hours ago · Like
Marion Murphy
The propaganda machine RTE in which I have to pay a license for have their own definition of RIGHTS and wrongs. Reminds me of Soviet Union style politics. If they truly believed in CHOICE then the TV license would be abolished.
12 hours ago · Unlike · 1 person
David Quinn What next, sympathetic interviews with priests who abused adolescent boys (which is what most of the victims were).
12 hours ago · Like · 2 people
Jennifer Kehoe
It was very interesting to read George Weigel's take on Ireland in the post you put up a few days ago.
12 hours ago · Like
Richard Waghorne
The only good thing about this whole episode is that it provides a durable and citable counterpart illustrating routine media bias which is of use in the future, not for mere point-scoring or question-avoiding, but to illustrate the perverses media standards that currently obtain.
12 hours ago · Like · 4 people
Anthony Murphy
Perhaps Enda might make a speech about it as he appears to be highly motivated on this issue and maybe charlie flanagan might call for Norris to be exiled - not just the media that have a bias on this issue.
12 hours ago · Like
TCathal Loftus
Don't hold your breath, David! Maybe I'm teaching my Granny to suck eggs when I address this subject; but on and on I go! Fame and infamy are, I believe, pretty much the same in the media; they are, I am told, paid much the same rates. Mind you, the infamous are, all too often, much more fascinating than boringly humdrum goodies! The infamous, should, accordingly, be paid more? No! For "ethical reasons" the media pays them the same as the goodies. And goodies are only there "for balance". God forgive us, but we all want to meet the man who bit the dog; hear what it felt like for him, wonder if he worried that he might catch Rabies, and BTW, discover what dog actually tastes like. I am, myself, personally, guilty, m'lud, on all counts of such lowlife curiosity. Like all the other bad boys do, I betcha I'm not the worst! I bet there are many millions more books, magazines and DVDs about Hitler sold and rented than ever there are about little Mother Teresa. Which of these two, do you think, could glue millions of us to the TV screen? Note Well: the question is not 'who SHOULD?'; it is 'who COULD?' I have watched Hitler on TV far more often. He is so often on, and, just as often, back 'by popular demand'. Mother Teresa doesn't really feature - apart from in the odd exposé documentary. You know the genre; some cocky British atheist shows her up as 'definitely not a great nun' and/or "just another dodgy foreigner" - or words to that effect. Fascinating stuff!
11 hours ago · Like
Anthony Murphy
Has Colm O'Gorman or Andrew Madden spoken about this - surely they must have an opinion?
11 hours ago · Like
Louise Mac Manus Lonergan
Expletive!
10 hours ago · Like
Catherine Kavanagh Could we start conscientously objecting to paying the TV licence fee....?
8 hours ago · Unlike · 1 person
Ray Mc Intyre
Trocaire also have some explaining to do it appears from a letter in the Independent today.Allegedly & according to the letter writer they praise Nawi's human rights work on their website on behalf of the Palestinian people....Funny that! when I voice concern about the routine lethal discrimination against unborn kids in any forlorn part of the developing world and Trocaire's soft line on the policy of some of their third party ''partners'' I am called anything but a ''human rights activist''.....Btw that letter in the Indo only appears in the hard copy paper not on the online version for some reason
about an hour ago · Like
Treasa Hynes
I think something should be done about it. Perhaps we should lobby our politicians.
about an hour ago · Like
Ray Mc Intyre '
'He was underage no doubt about it'' Ezra Nawi quote on RTE1....Doh! Every perverted monster in Ireland can only take comfort from this soft treatment of child sexual abuse.
www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0805/media-3019177.html
about an hour ago · Like
Paddy Rushe
whats the complaints procedure for RTE?
7 minutes ago · Like
David Quinn
Paddy, Donal O'Sullivan of FMA should know. He's on Facebook.