Liveline Thread 20/7/2013 to 12/10/2013

quinrea01

ButtersSuki wrote: »

You got a NY cab in Paris? :rolleyes:;)

Ha....brilliant!!!!

SEPT 23 1989

Big C wrote: »

butters and sky, not funny commenting on parents tears, hope these things never visit your door

parents tears are not funny its Duffy tactics trying to make them cry is the funny bit

JonathanAnon

ButtersSuki wrote: »

You got a NY cab in Paris? :rolleyes:;)

That's the celtic tiger for you.. We (ALL of us) sure did party... I remember getting a taxi from Dublin to the Olympics once...

Lapin

Public toilets for sale in Dublin -

syklops

Big C wrote: »

butters and sky, not funny commenting on parents tears, hope these things never visit your door

Joe gets off on callers crying on air so I would point your outrage at him not me.

He could actually get off his hole and help people instead he just pushes them to the brink.

With a budget of 300k Liveline could be more like a Challenge Anika type programme which goes out and gets stuff done. Instead its just a soapbox.

Hamilcar

Meathlass wrote: »

This woman is really at the end of her tether. Missed a bit at the start but is it just the transport that's been cut or the care as well? Could the families bring the children themselves to the school/facility? Not ideal but better than nothing.

You have a point. You can't rely on the state for everything. A bit of self-help might go a long way

neris

That the 1st god bless hes given in a while?

Hamilcar

syklops wrote: »

Joe gets off on callers crying on air so I would point your outrage at him not me.

He could actually get off his hole and help people instead he just pushes them to the brink.

With a budget of 300k Liveline could be more like a Challenge Anika type programme which goes out and gets stuff done. Instead its just a soapbox.

That entire budget only pays for Joe's pay packet I'm afraid. Nothing left for actual show

Big C

don't think it wud take much to push parents to the brink, where else can these parents be heard ?

ButtersSuki

I take it you're new here Big C?

My sympathies are totally with the parents/callers. It's Joe's propensity to reduce the callers to tears primarily through his own brand of amateur psychology that infuriates me, and that's what I and others here are complaining about.

Lapin

It takes some doing to drive to a cop shop after being shot in the head.

syklops

Hamilcar wrote: »

That entire budget only pays for Joe's pay packet I'm afraid. Nothing left for actual show

My point was Joe could use his team of researchers, his 400,000 listener-ship and all the resources at his disposal to go out and do something. To improve the life of someone.

Big C

SUKI difference between complaining and a cheap laugh, how often have you written to rte complaining, if u think joe is such a tool why do you listen .

PS Not new to any of this

CarrickMcJoe

Dam it, I'd say the Irish Rickshaw Acc regret it now the bus strikes over. They must have cleaned up.

ButtersSuki

Big C wrote: »

SUKI difference between complaining and a cheap laugh, how often have you written to rte complaining, if u think joe is such a tool why do you listen .

PS Not new to any of this

I have actually written to RTE on more than one occasion to complain about the standard of journalism/broadcasting on this show and the bias shown by the host who seems to seems to see the show as some sort of vehicle to promote himself, his cronies and his agenda. On each occasion I have received a standard, generic reply to which I have subsequently replied asking for specific replies to each of the points I raised in my original letter - to which I have not received any replies. I will even try and find a copy of one such generic reply for you if I still have them.

Why do I listen? Honestly? for the comedic value of the thread - not for Joe. from a timing perspective, I drop in and out, but I only ever listen when I have access to the Internet and can post. I couldn't listen to Lahv Lahn without the sanity of boardsies to remind me that I'm not the only one who thinks he's an overpaid talentless tool.


Edit: Found one in email:

Dear

Thank you for your e.mail and your interest in our programmes.

Your comments about Liveline with Joe Duffy will be included in the Audience Log of calls and e-mails which is circulated for information to senior RTÉ programme management and is reviewed at the weekly meeting of the Editorial Board.

We thank you for making your views known.

With every good wish.

there was a name given here but I've deleted it as it's unfair on the individual to name them publicly
RTÉ Information

As you can see - generic fare.

And as Meathlass posted on the previous thread, you're missing the point of the thread.

mickydoomsux

Big C wrote: »

if u think joe is such a tool why do you listen .

That's exactly why i listen.

That and most of the callers are hilarious morons.

Larbre34

It wasn't satire, it was imitation.

Roger_007

syklops wrote: »

My point was Joe could use his team of researchers, his 400,000 listener-ship and all the resources at his disposal to go out and do something. To improve the life of someone.

I would question that figure of 400,000 listeners. I know that where I work most people listen to the lunchtime news and because Liveline comes on next at 1.45 a lot of people hear the first 15 minutes, simply because the radio is left on. It would be interesting to find out how many listen to the whole program. I doubt if it would be half that figure.
I also notice that many of the ads later on in the program consist of RTE promoting it's own stuff, so obviously the paying advertisers are not taking the bait because they know that by 2.45 there are very few listeners left.

Dan Jaman

Roger_007 wrote: »

I would question that figure of 400,000 listeners. I know that where I work most people listen to the lunchtime news and because Liveline comes on next at 1.45 a lot of people hear the first 15 minutes, simply because the radio is left on. It would be interesting to find out how many listen to the whole program. I doubt if it would be half that figure.
I also notice that many of the ads later on in the program consist of RTE promoting it's own stuff, so obviously the paying advertisers are not taking the bait because they know that by 2.45 there are very few listeners left.

Which makes his salary all the more incredible.
I wonder how much the talent gets paid in, for example, regional radio in the UK? Something like Radio Clyde, as was, had a listenership in that kind of figure and even allowing for inflation, the top guys on that got paid nothing like he's getting.

mickydoomsux

Uhhhhh................. but Joe is the sole voice of the vast idiot population of this nation so he deserves to be paid more than a jock with a similar size audience in another country.

Obviously :rolleyes:

ButtersSuki

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Uhhhhh................. but Joe is the sole voice of the vast idiot population of this nation so he deserves to be paid more than a jock with a similar size audience in another country.

Obviously :rolleyes:

At least 5 times more

Anyone catch the promo for today?

I see Mary O'Rourke is continuing her media-whoring on News at 1 in a minute.....she never misses an opportunity to hear her own voice.

Boombastic

ButtersSuki wrote: »

At least 5 times more

Anyone catch the promo for today?

I see Mary O'Rourke is continuing her media-whoring on News at 1 in a minute.....she never misses an opportunity to hear her own voice.

It seems she's a medium now

ButtersSuki

Boombastic wrote: »

It seems she's a medium now

No, she's a geebag.

Roger_007

ButtersSuki wrote: »

At least 5 times more

Anyone catch the promo for today?

I see Mary O'Rourke is continuing her media-whoring on News at 1 in a minute.....she never misses an opportunity to hear her own voice.

I think she's advocating a merger between FF and FG. Would that be the political equivalent of a same-sex marriage?

Boombastic

ButtersSuki wrote: »

No, she's a geebag.

Harsh but fair

ButtersSuki

Boombastic wrote: »

Harsh but fair

Jeez, I was going easy as I was on an iPhone and couldn't unleash my full feelings towards her in less than 20,000 words.

Boombastic

Teachers get lost travelling between classes

ButtersSuki

Ask her is she making it up Joe.....

Boombastic

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Jeez, I was going easy as I was on an iPhone and couldn't unleash my full feelings towards her in less than 20,000 words.

Deep breaths, she's not worth it

ButtersSuki

Boombastic wrote: »

Teachers get lost travelling between classes

They probably have glass doors like the caller from last week so it's likely a health and safety issue.