Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

Yep…join the Amish or sommit…..

To me this picture, just shows how out of touch everyone is with the normal person. Mark Little in the background hosting the event celebrating RTÉ NEWS's status as the most trusted news service in the country, all hail the new Caesar, tsar and so on. He has delivered so much in the past year!

I know it's part of the media game and the news moves on but I've never wanted more for a follow up than on the Dee Forbes situation.

It has happened countless times in this country but where somebody in a public scandal has "retired" or "taken legal advice". It's sickening they can just weasel off.

Really the media don't want to follow on, its not that a story has died but just simply they want people to move on.

For example, the most recent update on RTÉ is that potentially Jim Jennings is negotiating an exit. A week on surely the media have reached out and surely now he gets a doorstop or even a doorstop with the current DG, who was at an event in Dublin with the CnaM where he could have been door stopped, actually questioned.

The summer Dail recess is fast approaching. As is usual, the last outgoing story is last year's news and it's a clean slate when they come back in October. All she has to do is sit tight. It won't be sorted. I haven't paid my renewal as I reckon I'm just throwing money away to a bunch of wasters. I'll wait until I get a summons.

There is a reason why Glenroe never got repeated. IMO It seems that the actors union's terms are far too good. There is a reason Glenroe was axed it was too expensive for what it was.

Not that RTÉ ever thought of renegotiating repeat fees with the union. But I suppose repeats of Murder, She Wrote are better value for money or the Golden Girls. I think the summer time repeats of Ros Na Run ran in to similar problems.

Remember when RTÉ had to negotiate to get Fair City on their +1 channel and the player. Actors getting 100k for 30 weeks work.

The talk about the Grab All Association, in RTÉ its Real Talent needs Everything!

Seems like she was back today.

Knowing RTE, English will start in September after the Summer recess is over.

I wonder if there could be a protest about paying the new charge alla water charges and no one pays until the people paying for this mess get answers, I can only see people paying it if Dee Forbes is rightly questioned and or prosecuted as their was definitely fraud going on with in RTE why has a case not been brought forward.

I can't see it happening tbh. I could be wrong but the protest of not paying is significant and should be significant enought. 13% less people paying, while normally 15% don't pay! surely that is a protest in of itself.

There could be protests set up before this being rammed down our throats I find it hard to believe the Irish people will just pay for the mess that is RTE and be so hard nosed with the refusal to pay more tax for clean water or maybe I am out of touch with the bog standard Irish person

Also they want to host Prime Time or the Six One news.

The Jornos are not going to bite the hand that might feed them. Two examples brought this into the light.

The initial outrage regarding the axing of Children's programming, and their acceptance that the funding of children's programming was just being move to the independent sector but never to follow up to see if RTÉ had supported children's content, or that they cut content by 25% and then by a further 50% in 2016 and 2017.

There have been plenty of times between this and the second example also: -

But for me last Christmas's Buckhurst Black out, they were happy to take interview after interview with him and give him the thumbs up and to lob softballs at him. Then when something did come up after Christmas he was unwilling to take an interview!

I see.

It's not as if there's a shortage of people to stand in in the meantime so it's all good they would probably claim.

So one year on from the lighting of the match that ignited an inferno at the national broadcaster, the fire is now out and the rebuilding is well under way.

Really ?

The only thing that is assured, is that events of 22 June 2023 have changed the organisation forever.

Yeah!