Which news is true?

[jmcc]

AAAGH. You just reminded me of all those dreadful European cartoons of Lolek and Bolek type RTE used to show. uuuuuugh. *shiver* All we wanted to see was Tom and Jerry and instead we got French existentialist line drawings, talking sheep from Czechlovakia and images of Soviet factory workers! *Another shiver"

And in 1978 when RTE started, everyone got the benefit of the Ned Stapleton Cumman's communist love affair with an almost interminable series on World War 2 from a Soviet propaganda viewpoint. I'm just surprised that nobody decided to invade RTE and demand better programming. But cable television saved things. Even with only BBC1/2/HTV (The Welsh ITV), there was a lot more to watch. Perhaps that saved RTE from thousands of angry kids.

And of course Charles Mitchell (whose grave I accidentally stood on when visiting a cemetery lately. Sorry Charles!) And of course Deirdre Purcell and Anne Doyle reading the news!

Strange how much changes in RTE.

Regards...jmcc

[spalpeen]

Lovely trip down "whatever you may call it lane"
But back to the original thread:
maybe it would be a good idea to post up examples of this "double-Speak" as they occur.
Something tells me there is going to be a hell of a lot of them over the coming months,

It would be interesting to compare how different media sources headline and report the same story.
That would show Who's on what side of whatever fence.

Of course past and recent examples of blatant economy of truth in reporting would also be good to see. :mrgreen:

[constitutionus]

Though the Hall's Pictorial Weekly ripoff of 'Garda Patrol' was brilliant. I still can't understand why some RTE type thought that banging on an old oil drum was cutting edge music. Then I remember RTE "comedy" and the damage that communist 'Lolek And Bolek 'crap promoted by Harris and his friends did to all those impressionable minds.

Regards...jmcc

dustin was the only man for me when it came to ripping the piss out of gardai patrol.

Dustin: "gardai in finglas would like to ask for any information in regards to a stolen black mariah (spl?), its not so much the vehicle but the six gardai that were in it at the time that their worried about !"

classic

still looking at this thread title, cant help thinking theres a TV gameshow in this somewhere !