Whatever you think about RTE, this sort of bollix should be called out

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2. RTE feature stories about Gaza every night of the week. Most people who complain about the national broadcaster don’t even watch the news.

3. “Nothing on the News or RTE about this” is commented on so many things, particularly about immigration but a range of topics. It’s normally liked and replied to with echos about the corrupt media.

   Then, when you actually look, it’s a top story in most Irish outlets

4. Twitter is an echo chamber. What do you expect?

5. Honestly, why are we even supporting RTE anymore? It’s just recipes and shitty dramas now. We only watch it for the late night movies anyway. Film4 took over that responsibility years ago

6. RTE has an agenda, and Informing the Irish about current affairs isn’t it.

7. Isn’t that just the standard for these websites. Make up something that sounds vaguely true, people then decide it is true because it suits the way they think. Like yer man Michael O’Keefe has a page and just makes up complete lies daily on it and actually get more popular the more lies he tells. It’s just a big pile of made-up nonsense, and anyone that actually has anything factual is drown out by it.

8. The 100th day in a row of Israeli airstrikes killing women and children, hospitals bombed and unspeakable horror and misery gets to be a bit morose.

   If you’re trying to sell advertising space an Osborne taking a shot at kneecap is gold dust. Pretty much anything involving kneecap is gold dust. At this stage I’d nearly say kneecaps PR team has investments in the war in Gaza because once that’s over the lads will have to find some new cause to back.

9. Who’s the account? I want to go over and give them a good thrashing.

10. You can always expect Twitter to present you with the opposite of the truth.

    Don’t call out every individual piece of bullshit, just stop using twitter because it’s all bullshit.

11. RTE gutted their news teams a few years ago because they didn’t have the budget to keep it going.

    I know this is a very unpopular opinion around here but RTE are horrendously underfunded. They’re also mismanaged and riddled with nepotism but I’d argue that the primary issue is the lack of funding.

12. It’s called MSM – Main Stream Media – Donnybrook Dublin 4 is up it’s own arse and in it’s own bubble.

    They will always follow the ‘party line’.

    It too should be disbanded or moved to a warehouse in Athlone where the ‘stars’ would have to work for their money.

13. The Sharon Osbourne thing was featured on Drive Time, the flagship news and current affairs show.

    I’d assume that and related coverage of it is what “lead” means in this context. As in, why is a comment at a music festival being given substantial attention when the crimes in Gaza are escalating.

    I think you are reading it far too literally when it’s meant to be a (reasonable) exasperatiom at news focusing on a trival aspect rather than the serious aspect

14. There is a dedicated tab on the app for ‘Middle East’. 3 articles within the last 7 hours…

15. They are trying to claw at Newstalk’s market share. They never studied survivorship bias.

16. https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0424/1509224-gaza-israel/

    And I don’t even know what the fuck an RTE is, I just find this concept fucking ridiculous.

    It’s the 24h News Cycle era, they usually report on everything they can, they just see if they can spin it to their side.

17. I’ll say in *slight* fairness to that tweeter, the article about that airstrike seems to have been published 3 minutes before the tweet went out, so they may not have necessarily been wrong as they were typing it up.

    But in general, I am *very* sceptical of anyone who claims “the media isn’t telling you about XYZ!” Nearly every time I’ve actually checked that claim for various issues, the media is, in fact, telling us about XYZ, and often it’s quite obviously spending significant time covering XYZ.

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