RTE slams "secret" producer for telling the truth?

Dravokivich wrote: »

Does your job not sign up to the tax saver scheme?

Didn't know taxis were considered public transport

valoren wrote: »

Circle those wagons!

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/michael-odoherty-why-the-secret-rte-producer-is-really-a-simple-rat-36146281.html

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/vogue-williams-blasts-rte-secret-producer-twitter-account-as-just-some-loser-36147747.html

Vague Williams is not impressed either!!

marvin80 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/vogue-williams-blasts-rte-secret-producer-twitter-account-as-just-some-loser-36147747.html

Vague Williams is not impressed either!!

Unsurprising considering what they said about her

We have stopped making shows for the under 50s. Oh sorry, Vogue comes out of her mansion now and then to patronise marginalised communities. ‪#edgy‬. Sorry, that's bitchy. But I spent time making docs. Vogues 'docs' go against all the decent aspects of Rte. Selling its ethics for viewers.

marvin80 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/vogue-williams-blasts-rte-secret-producer-twitter-account-as-just-some-loser-36147747.html

Vague Williams is not impressed either!!

Sure she'd probably want them thrown into a camp with the rest of the loser immigrants.


Also, look at the state of that lineup.
That should be brought to court and used as evidence for why its ok to forego you're tv licence.

afatbollix wrote: »

A few years ago TV3 made the weakest link. RTE gave them a great quote to film it at RTE studios they had 3 weeks to film it.

What they didn't realise was that with the unions it was 10am to 5pm working hours only meaning even if you were in the middle of a take the camera ops walked off set.

Then when someone was kicked off the show they remove the plinth that the person stood behind. But you needed three people to do it. An electrician had to come down to unplug the light and two set hands had to lift it up and remove it. If you remember the show it was a 2 minute round followed by a removal of a person but in the RTE way the electrician walked back to the office each time and a runner had to be sent out and find them. One person could have done it rules be rules. It took 7 weeks to film in the end.

Also, the two man jib camera is a joke, Seen it in action on a bank holiday the camera op was behind the crowd seats sitting down while a woman was lifting the camera up and down. Prob on triple pay too.

I've struck through the statements that are factually incorrect.

Larbre34 wrote: »

Any public servants on travel expenses get it from the taxpayer, so what?

Join the PS!

There is a big difference between being paid or covered for business travel and being paid for coming to/from work. No-one gets the costs of coming to/from work (except for TDs travel allowance, but let's not go there). If people are ordering taxis on the RTE account to travel to/from work, that would be a breach of travel policy. However, if the taxis are being used to travel to/from locations where they are required to travel for work, like an outside broadcast or similar, that may well be a within the travel policy. But taxis from the office to/from home is not on.

A good FOI will show a lot.

Is he a boardsie?

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

Kids tv was cancelled by rte years ago, they publicly announced (iirc) that they hadn't enough viewers to justify keeping it going.

They lost the viewership because as the person points out they gutted the department and started making shows parents would approve of instead of stuff kids would want to watch, then when no kida watched they declared it dead cus nobody was watching.

Alot of whats been revealed may have been suspected but nothing was known for certain by the wider public.

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

The taxi thing is no surprise. Gerry Ryan used to talk all the time about what the taxi driver said to him on a given day.

Didnt Terry Wogan frequently complain that there was no room for him to move here in rte, so he went to the UK?

Kids tv was cancelled by rte years ago, they publicly announced (iirc) that they hadn't enough viewers to justify keeping it going.

So far this secret producer hasn't said anything earth shattering or divulged anything of interest. It's all a fuss about nothing.

Not really. There seems to be a culture of entitlement in some of Ireland's public bodies. People are paying a lot of money for TV licences and they're entitled to know whether their money is being spent correctly.

So far we've heard of people spending large amounts of public money on taxis, staff that couldn't care less. work practices which cost the public far more than they need to and Lottie Ryan hired exclusively on the basis of whose vagina she came out of. I apologise for the vulgarity, but to me this sort of entitlement is vulgar and I will describe it as such. So no, an organisation which demands the already squeezed public paying more money for a pension while squandering our money for jobs for the boys isn't a fuss about nothing.

On the Kids show department, you could hire young irish animators, hire young drama students to do voice work etc, you could give people experience in all aspects of such a production for irish made, irish centric content. Sure it may be a shambles but at least an attempt would have been made, and at the very minimum some talented people would gain experience in such projects.

But as the producer points out that is simply too much WORK.

It involves management to actually manage. It would involve recruitment, administration etc etc.

And when you've been getting by on a six figure salary for doing the very bare minimum, creaming it on expenses, then why would you even consider taking that on for yourself. You'd be crazy to and that is the essence of the problem. You are very comfortably 'stuck'.

Consider that Ray D'Arcy earns upwards of half a million euro a year. He is almost a perfect analogy for RTE as an organisation. Unprofessional, disinterested, poor attitude, hired on a not what you know but who you know basis and obscenely well paid for the output.

That's what this is about, RTE needs to change/adapt or else it's going to become obsolete, if it hasn't already.
There is a need to put efficiency in place in terms of use of public money. To be innovate invites effort and as we have been seeing that will possibly never be the case in RTE until it becomes such a liability in terms of loss making that it becomes a political issue.

There is nothing salacious in these tweets. It is constructive feedback. And from the reaction from RTE hierarchy and the media circles that the reaction has been to discredit, expose, smear, belittle and insult this person speaks volumes for the attitude in our publically funded national broadcaster.

flangemeistro wrote: »

I tagged vogue and that rat Doherty when replying to a tweet about people trying to expose the secret producer and this was her reply before immediately blocking me.

"get a life" come one vogue thats like soooo 2003