RTÉ have spent €80k on external PR advice since the crisis started, despite having an in-house PR department
by Sornai
RTÉ have spent €80k on external PR advice since the crisis started, despite having an in-house PR department
by Sornai
16 comments
Crisis PR is different to regular PR, it’s a different beast with a different specialised strategy management. Companies don’t keep Crisis PR people on their books
“RTE continues to fraud since the fraud was exposed” it’s not a crisis
Government funded. Reminds me of the Irish Water quango when it was being set up initially. Spent millions on outside consultants rather than hiring experienced people who knew what they were doing.
Pure corruption plain and simple. A revolving door with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.
The RTÉ board have spent that on PR. The board is meant to be independent of the executive, relying on PR advice from internal people who are accountable to those executives would obviously create a potential conflict.
As far as the article goes the services were provided after a public procurement process, which is what is supposed to happen.
Scrap the licence fee,
Fuck RTE.
Not uncommon for people to hire external PR people for crisis management sistuations.
That’s pretty normal?
Like I work in a PR adjacent industry and everyone brings in outside help depending on what campaigns or issues they’ve going on cause the way you handle them all is so different.
Like this is just how the business works.
I’d love to get some info around the percentage of licences paid before and after the scandal.
I know atleast 5 households that have refused to pay, including myself.
If only they’d spend some cash on the rte player. It’s atrocious.
80k on advice which will amount to don’t try and polish a turd, the public are not stupid RTE is completely fucked.
R/Ireland: They should not have engaged any external PR and lost all their advertisers and sponsors.
Any realistic future for RTE is looking extremely bleak. We’ve had enough.
These headlines are getting silly. Yes we should scrutinise RTÉ expenditure, but everything doesn’t have to be a smoking gun.
It is incredibly common place for in house PR / Comms teams to work with external PR agencies, especially when they need specialised support. If anything, 80k on agency fees for a company the size of RTÉ is pretty low.
Someone’s been advising them through this shit show??? I hope they kept the receipt!
Kevin backhurst isn’t the man for it. He was part of the crooked organisation before.