British Army Parade

[iggy]

This afternoon RTE reported
"As the soldiers passed by their band music could not be heard above the chanting and jeering. The PSNI riot squad kept the factions apart. Bottles and fireworks were thrown from the crowds and the police managed to keep order."

The Press Association reported.
"Ahead of the event, thousands of loyalists waving Union flags and singing pro-British songs, had massed behind barriers just yards from where a planned Sinn Fein protest was due to arrive from the west of the city.Some climbed scaffolding on a church building to gain a better vantage point. And when the republicans moved into position minutes before the parade was due to pass the situation came dangerously close to boiling over. A number of loyalists surged toward the demonstrators, prompting riot police to swoop in armoured Land Rovers. While loyalists and officers were involved in some minor scuffles a direct clash with republicans was averted. The situation remained extremely tense for around ten minutes with loyalists chanting at the protesters, most of whom stood in silence holding placards accusing the army of involvement in the killings of Catholic civilians during the Troubles."

Please check websites for full articles, and also the guardians report. Does RTE deliberately mis-inform? Specifically to insinuate that chanting and jeers came from the counter-demonstration and not Loyalists as is presumably THE TRUTH. And if so, Why?

[Thranduil]

The BBC piece in it was just as revealing, every effort made to use the term 'dissident Republican parade' - designed to suggest a terrorist association the pictures they had of it were also interesting... This is their vision of the typical loyalist march...



Nice and suburban eh? Elderly people, well dressed etc.

And the counter march....



Is this Hamas? LOL. The bandana strengthens the impression of banditry and illegality.

The second picture carried the subheading...

A dissident republican counter parade was stopped by police (What were they carrying a BOMB!!!???)

Complain about the RTE all you want they are just amateurs in this sort of thing.

[iggy]

The RTE are amateurs yes, but I think if you read their report it is extremely misleading in who caused trouble or shouted insults. I think it is another deliberate attempt to influence public opinion.
If they cannot report THE TRUTH, why don't they shut the f**k up

[raff]

RTÉ have been quite biased in their coverage of Republicans and events surrounding them, hence yer man getting hassle in Dublin at the 'Love Ulster' parade.

[puppybeard]

Does anybody else ever get the feeling that the mainstream media in Ireland encourages us to think of the North as being scary crazy land?

Sometimes I get the impression that the government feel they benefit from cultivating the impression that those in the North who identify with Ireland aren't our counterparts across the border but an alien race bent on destruction. It feels like RTE and the papers don't want us to think of the North as being part of who we are, but somebody else's problem. It also feels like it's working.

[st333ve]

This afternoon RTE reported
"As the soldiers passed by their band music could not be heard above the chanting and jeering. The PSNI riot squad kept the factions apart. Bottles and fireworks were thrown from the crowds and the police managed to keep order."

The Press Association reported.
"Ahead of the event, thousands of loyalists waving Union flags and singing pro-British songs, had massed behind barriers just yards from where a planned Sinn Fein protest was due to arrive from the west of the city.Some climbed scaffolding on a church building to gain a better vantage point. And when the republicans moved into position minutes before the parade was due to pass the situation came dangerously close to boiling over. A number of loyalists surged toward the demonstrators, prompting riot police to swoop in armoured Land Rovers. While loyalists and officers were involved in some minor scuffles a direct clash with republicans was averted. The situation remained extremely tense for around ten minutes with loyalists chanting at the protesters, most of whom stood in silence holding placards accusing the army of involvement in the killings of Catholic civilians during the Troubles."

Please check websites for full articles, and also the guardians report. Does RTE deliberately mis-inform? Specifically to insinuate that chanting and jeers came from the counter-demonstration and not Loyalists as is presumably THE TRUTH. And if so, Why?

In work i had 4 newspapers.
Irish news, Daily star, Daily mirror and the sun.

The Irish news shown loyalists rioting and throwing firworks at nationalists.

The Daily mirror shown the loyalist paramilitaries in the crowd facing the SF protest and said 'killers face to face'

The Daily star headlined 'Irish united' - 'No trouble at RIR parade where republicans and loyalists united to welcome home troops'

And the Sun also had strange idead about the trouble and went on about the usual British wibble wobble about heroes etc.
It stated that 'republicans and loyalists fought' when the republican protestors stayed still and silent.

...But RTE is by far the most Pro-unionist media available, nothing comes close to these clowns.
The soldiers never heard nor seen any protest as they were surrounded by tens of thousands of loyalists and SF was down the road, Sean Woodward actually thanked SF for the 'Silent' protest.
RTE would have to invent a whole new scenario where noisey protestors spoiled the parade.

[Nem]

Steve, I think it has been said before, but those newspapers are not noted for their, uhm, unbaised approach. Watch this:

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[drbob1972]

In work i had 4 newspapers.
Irish news, Daily star, Daily mirror and the sun.

apart from the Irish news which i've never seen, the other three publications are not newspapers, they are lowest common denominator rubbish based on sensationalist, emotive trash reporting, and gutter press, i believe that the only element of quality reporting in them is the soccer reporting........

so i think its safe to say that forming opinions based on their content is a waste of your time

[st333ve]

apart from the Irish news which i've never seen, the other three publications are not newspapers, they are lowest common denominator rubbish based on sensationalist, emotive trash reporting, and gutter press, i believe that the only element of quality reporting in them is the soccer reporting........

so i think its safe to say that forming opinions based on their content is a waste of your time

I totally agree, the Irish news is the only paper i buy
The other papers were from other people, they get swapped around in work.
It takes me about 10 seconds to flick through the Sun until i realise every day that it is full of crap and nonsence and there is absoloulty nothing in it that has any relevence to me or where i live.