Newstalk Megathread

delaad

dvcireland wrote: »

now, where do I find Ger Gilroy in the dictionary?

He comes in under "smugger"

Macy0161

The ad for tonights Coleman at Large shows the quality of Newstalk in recent years. The topic is the mistrust of the media by the public. Fair enough topic. But what Coleman flagged as examples was the Presidential Debate Tweet and the Reynolds case, both concerning RTE. Obviously, mistrust of the media is nothing to do with the ownership structures, and the perception that this influences editorial policy...

thedubboy

Remind me to tune out for that agenda driven spluttering so-called 'presenter'. Amazes me that he used RTE cases as examples, pot kettle black springs to mind.

Sergeant

Macy0161 wrote: »

The ad for tonights Coleman at Large shows the quality of Newstalk in recent years. The topic is the mistrust of the media by the public. Fair enough topic. But what Coleman flagged as examples was the Presidential Debate Tweet and the Reynolds case, both concerning RTE. Obviously, mistrust of the media is nothing to do with the ownership structures, and the perception that this influences editorial policy...

He also writes an article (usually full of bluster and búll****) for the Sunday Independent. Marc must have done some serious soul-searching before having a debate on that particular issue.

d'Oracle

I like Marc, completely disagree with his opinion, political orientation etc. but I like him because of it.

It would be very easy for Newstalk to just slip on the cozy moderate armchair leftism that most outlets do. As irritating as I find Marc's christian right "middle Ireland" bull or Ivan Yates mid right trollathon, I think its important to balance out the likes of lunchtime and the allseeing Hook.
Good radio paints all the picture.

In other , this "x litres of PURE ALCOHOL" I am hearing on the news makes me sick to my stomach. It offends me.
Its a plant to help Rosin Shorthalls campaign against affordable beer, its overly sensational and it factually incorrect.

giftgrub

Listening to Jonathon Healy on Lunchtime today talking about the shooting of the girl in Tallaght.

Anyway he had an ex garda on....

Healy was determined to try and get him to say that gangland crime was down to a failure in legislation (or at least thats what i got from his line of questioning)

The ex copper kept pointing out it was simply down to garda manpower.

Newstalk seem to being aiming for the indignation angle recently....

constitutionus

Macy0161 wrote: »

The ad for tonights Coleman at Large shows the quality of Newstalk in recent years. The topic is the mistrust of the media by the public. Fair enough topic. But what Coleman flagged as examples was the Presidential Debate Tweet and the Reynolds case, both concerning RTE. Obviously, mistrust of the media is nothing to do with the ownership structures, and the perception that this influences editorial policy...

heh.

not like newstalk havent been stung by the BCI in the past over bias.

IIRC karen colmen got done for pushing a pro lisbon/nice agenda and they had to broadcast an apology for it. i think she had some kind of breakdown when we voted no.

on the shooting of the 16yr old, yeah i got the impression he (healy) was gunning for the cop to blame leglislation too but garda under representation in tallaghts been the norm for decades.

theyve literaly HALF the number of cops per citizen ratio than anywhere else on the island.

when you've twice as many cops per head of population on the aran islands is it any surprise shyte happens ?

oh if only they had a gov minister in cabinet to sort such issues !

ballsymchugh

andrea pappin in for sean?? i'll stick to 5 live for the afternoon i think

spank_inferno

I think Andrea did ok for a standin.
having said that.... it was just ok.... I still switched to Bacon on 5Live

el diablo

Yeah, she was certainly superior to some of the recent stand-ins (eg. Pat Short, Gurry O'Sullivan, Des Bishop).

constitutionus

pappins back on talking point again.

turns out carey is knocked up and on maternity leave now so she'll probably be on for weeks yet

bit of a boring femifest today about "love".

i was desperately hoping the token bloke would go all misogynstic to wind them up but alas it was not to be.

wnolan1992

Talking Point is a brutal show. Absolutely terrible regardless of who's presenting it.

But onto the real reason for my rant this morning...

Is it me, or is Newstalk getting progressively more and more preachy day by day? Heard an ad this morning to the effect of "Newstalk, facts, not rumours. No bogus tweets." Or some shíte. And they're having (I think former) DG of RTÉ on breakfast next week. I'd throw a fiver down saying it's gonna be laced with bias bullshít....

Imhof Tank

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Talking Point is a brutal show. Absolutely terrible regardless of who's presenting it.

But onto the real reason for my rant this morning...

Is it me, or is Newstalk getting progressively more and more preachy day by day? Heard an ad this morning to the effect of "Newstalk, facts, not rumours. No bogus tweets." Or some shíte. And they're having (I think former) DG of RTÉ on breakfast next week. I'd throw a fiver down saying it's gonna be laced with bias bullshít....

Yeah thats the angle they are going for all right.

Full page ad in the Irish Times today referring to the bogus Sean Gallagher tweet on Frontline.

I do like most of NTs output, but the hypocracy of this campaign would make you cringe really, in light of their coverage of the Moriarty Tribunal report.

irishh_bob

giftgrub wrote: »

Listening to Jonathon Healy on Lunchtime today talking about the shooting of the girl in Tallaght.

Anyway he had an ex garda on....

Healy was determined to try and get him to say that gangland crime was down to a failure in legislation (or at least thats what i got from his line of questioning)

The ex copper kept pointing out it was simply down to garda manpower.

Newstalk seem to being aiming for the indignation angle recently....

the plea of lack of resources has become tiresome , let the guards volunteer to take another paycut if thier that concerned about a shortage of numbers , better still , allow civilians to stamp passport applications

vector

I haven't tuned into Barthelemow McIlhatton FM, sorry I mean Newstalk for a while, but I must say I was pleastanly surprised with the content.

There was even a job announcement that Barthelemow McIlhatton Estate and lettings agents were recruiting during a jobs piece

wnolan1992

Two things to gripe about...

Ken Early: I like him on Off the Ball, but dear Jesus he can't commentate for sh1te! Now, I know yesterday's game wasn't exactly that exciting, but dear lord he nearly put me to sleep in the car with his droning monotone. A commentator should be able to make the worst game in the world sound mildly interesting.

Kids's Talk: Nuff said.

neris

Why do nt always have liam griffin on when they have a discussion on how bad businesses are strugling. All he ever tallks about his hotels and the hotel sector and how hes been fleeced by taxes rates etc. if they want someone to discuss how bad business has it get ibec on at least instead of an individual whining about his own business and sector

GSF

neris wrote: »

Why do nt always have liam griffin on when they have a discussion on how bad businesses are strugling. All he ever tallks about his hotels and the hotel sector and how hes been fleeced by taxes rates etc. if they want someone to discuss how bad business has it get ibec on at least instead of an individual whining about his own business and sector

IBEC :eek::eek::eek: The trade union for AIB, BOI and PTSB bosses?

neris

GSF wrote: »

IBEC :eek::eek::eek: The trade union for AIB, BOI and PTSB bosses?

Doesnt have to be IBEC but some group who represent a variety of business rather then 1 individual speaking out for his industry and his personal business would be better.

artful_codger

can't stand that smug middle-class Ian O'Doherty with his painfully practiced irreverence.

McDave

artful_codger wrote: »

can't stand that smug middle-class Ian O'Doherty with his painfully practiced irreverence.

A kind of snooty baby Gerry Ryan.

constitutionus

GSF wrote: »

IBEC :eek::eek::eek: The trade union for AIB, BOI and PTSB bosses?

AH yes.

IBEC

the "irish business and employers confederation"....


...who're made up of RTE, Board gais, the esb, board na mona , coilleta, the DAA, An Post, the VHI, CIE, .

you know all the private lads.

Say Your Number

I wish they would kill the 'It's not just paint, it's personal' jingle, My head melts everytime I hear the f*ckin thing.

FGR

Say Your Number wrote: »

I wish they would kill the 'It's not just paint, it's personal' jingle, My head melts everytime I hear the f*ckin thing.

..I always think of movie references/quotes when I hear this.

"It's not just paint. It's personal" I expect their next jingle to be "Sh*t..and Paint..just got real.."

delaad

artful_codger wrote: »

can't stand that smug middle-class Ian O'Doherty with his painfully practiced irreverence.

Spot on. He's so unauthentic.

neris

Anyone hear the interview that their reporter did before 8 this morning in Dundalk. Only caught the end of it but really pi55ed me of listening to that crap.

chughes

neris wrote: »

Anyone hear the interview that their reporter did before 8 this morning in Dundalk. Only caught the end of it but really pi55ed me of listening to that crap.

Listened to it alright. If the sister is to be believed, he's a proper little angel :rolleyes:

telekon

chughes wrote: »

Listened to it alright. If the sister is to be believed, he's a proper little angel :rolleyes:

Ffs, heard a clip of her on the website there.

"...he never bothered nobody..."


Surely that's only cos he didn't want to wake anybody up while he was was burgling them...:rolleyes:

irishh_bob

artful_codger wrote: »

can't stand that smug middle-class Ian O'Doherty with his painfully practiced irreverence.

look up the word pratt in the dictionary and thiers our ian

bamboozle

Say Your Number wrote: »

I wish they would kill the 'It's not just paint, it's personal' jingle, My head melts everytime I hear the f*ckin thing.

or the other one they do 'ireland deserves sun.ie' drives me mad!

Malari

Anyone remember what the q-tip was at the end of Sean Moncrieff's show today? It was a strange cover of something I think, it's wrecking my head I can't remember!

Poochie05

It was a cover of Big in Japan, quite enjoyed it. Can't remember who it was by though, only that she was female and sounded a bit quirky.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Who will they replace Dunne with? Surely they won't continue with his morning show while his numbers are so low (53,000). I imagine it affects the carry on figures for the Lunch time show and further on down the schedule.

Aidric

Excellent interview with Geraldine Kennedy on breakfast this morning. Put Chris firmly back in his box.

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/featured-5-slideshow-homepage/former-irish-times-editor-geraldine-kennedy-on-breakfast/

constitutionus

which is saying something considering just how complicit geraldine kenndy and the times were in pushing the property boom till it fell off a cliff.

the cheek of her talking up having morgan kelly on page god knows what in the paper to act as a figleaf to balance on the subject when she stood over the page one demonisation of richard curren.

ya'd know she was a politician.

artful_codger

is that Frank Stapleton on the phone to George about Gender Identity Disorder?

Yakuza

Anyone else having issues with this in the last week or so? It doesn't work on the phone, nor over the internet connection at work. TodayFM works fine for both, and I presume they're coming from the same source.

Bard

Yakuza wrote: »

Anyone else having issues with this in the last week or so? It doesn't work on the phone, nor over the internet connection at work. TodayFM works fine for both, and I presume they're coming from the same source.

Have you tried using TuneIn.com?

http://tunein.com/radio/Newstalk-1060-s15123/

Yakuza

Website didn't work from here, might be a firewall thing (will try from home), but the app worked fine (I'd never even heard of it until now!). Cheers

artful_codger

future FF leader there on Moncrieff. What a waffler.

Imhof Tank

artful_codger wrote: »

future FF leader there on Moncrieff. What a waffler.

Absolutely.

Q: What does Fianna Fail stand for?
A: Freedom, equality and justice for all!
Q: And who is against freedom, equality and justice?
A:

my friend

who is this ranter (on right now) ?

was reading from a script and lost her place

Fulton Crown

Who is this cat Ian Guidera...the business guy on newstalk...mid atlantic accent and can't pronounce "th" its dis/dat/dem...etc etc.

Fuckin embarrisn...where did dey get him ?

bamboozle

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Who is this cat Ian Guidera...the business guy on newstalk...mid atlantic accent and can't pronounce "th" its dis/dat/dem...etc etc.

Fuckin embarrisn...where did dey get him ?

dis guy was with de sunday tribune, he's actually very good apart from de inability to pronounce 'th'

fred funk }{

bamboozle wrote: »

dis guy was with de sunday tribune, he's actually very good apart from de inability to pronounce 'th'

Are you taking the piss? Giving out about someone not pronouncing their "th" properly yet you use "de" instead of "the". Couldn't make it up.

hacx

fred funk }{ wrote: »

Are you taking the piss? Giving out about someone not pronouncing their "th" properly yet you use "de" instead of "the". Couldn't make it up.

>>>----The Joke--->



(your head)

SEPT 23 1989

Bernard would want to calm down a bit

3 Dollar Bill

Anyone know the song from the current active 55 ad that is played on Newstalk in the mornings?

bamboozle

hacx wrote: »

>>>----The Joke--->



(your head)

i'm glad you cleared up that one!!!

uriah

The 52 year-old Ivan Yates, (€74,000 public-service pension Ivan) dribbling over
"hot totty" can hardly be classified as serios current affairs broadcasting.

And Shane Coleman was on yesterday, doing his 'report-card' for the government ministers.
Once again, the ill-informed (or 'couldn't care less'?) Shane referred to the €600m social welfare 'fraud' which had been uncovered, completely disregarding the truth of the matter which was that more than three quarters of the savings came from correcting errors made by staff in calculating people's entitlements..

Standards are very poor on Newstalk.