Ian Paisley 'documentary' - another RTÉ snow job

[LiamORaiste]

In the tradition of the infamous Dessie O Malley hagiography by Messrs Harris and Gregg, Tommie O'Gorman popped up on Wednesday with an hours worth of documentary about Ian Paisley - From Troublemaker to Peacemaker.

It was the most blatantly hagiographic and fawning piece of television since the Dessie O'Malley snowjob broadcast to RTE a few years ago.

How could a documentary worth its salt about Paisley gloss over the DUP leaders links to loyalist paramilitaries, the Third Force, waving firearms certificates on the hillsides, the maroon berets and lots of other less than edifying incarnations of Paisley, now dubbed the Peacemaker.

According to Gorman, the transformation undergone by McGuinness is from "terrorist” to ”spacemaker”.

it's debateable as to who actually made the peace in the North? was it really Paisley? Or was it the Republicans? But in the final analysis, this was a one sided 'documentary' from RTE which shows that station is not meeting its public service remit to be fair and impartial.


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[NotDevsSon]

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[LiamORaiste]

If you would be so kind as to point us to this thread, I'd be grateful.