RTE has had a 'special' on the O'Reilly Murder

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis

Sunday July 22, 2007 20:24

by Cutter

Sunday TV Consumption

The Six One News tonight was followed by a Consumer Soap Opera 'Docu' special
on the intimacies and murder of the O Reilly Marriage. Serious Reporters
discussed with alacrity the 'ins' and 'outs' of the case. This is because RTE
are consumer driven shite and incapable of Opinion and analysis.
-They like to give the public what it wants-

This kind of mentality drives US Consumer TV where Newsreaders burn
reports on Paris Hilton. When did RTE last analyse Geo- political movements
GM/ECO/. It has become popcorn TV for the Great brainwashed Irish Nation.

Last week Newsmedia was dominated by the Clothing, the Mistress, the Murder Grotesquerie
and the domestic situation of the Rachel O Reilly Home. It brings the defunct big brother gossip
to a new level. people were texting me, delighted with the verdict- it sells newspapers.
Tonight there was a half hour special on the salacious trial. News avoidance being the name
of the game. The second headline were the floods in England. Journalists talk deeply to those
in grief and offend those of us who actually want to know what is going on in the world.
There was no meaningful analyses of the rise in domestic violence crime. There was no
meaningful analyses of the rise in rape crime. There was no analyses at all of the problems
in the Department of Justice , including lack of funding and reform of the Prison system.

http://www.justice.ie

Many followed the trial the judge commented on the queues outside for those who
'wanted a ringside seat' and all of this- RTE has led the media feeding frenzy on
a woman, her two kids and the man (in the Joy).
Those kids will be googling and reading intimate details of their parents relationship
whilst the fat cats in the Dail gleefully ignore the variety of crises that confront
Ireland on the Global stage.

Well Done- we are now officially as bad as the US.
As corrupt.
As empty of free media.
As driven by corporate and political interests.