Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:57 pm
cdivision
Joined: 06 Jan 2009
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Theres no doubt RTE is shite and im finding it harder and harder each year to part with my hard-earned 160 euro. Im seriously thinking of packing it in when the current licence is up. When i do watch tv its usually non-Irish channels anyway. Not that theres an overabundance of good stuff elsewhere. TV generally is increasingly dumbed down and banal, with RTE just as bad if not worse than its international rivals.
From the point of view of its cultural remit, RTE is little more than a conduit for bargain basement dross, and rehashed formats from elsewhere. I know the argument is that its what the people want, but i for one am sick of the endless parade of celebrity chefs, makeovers and x-factor rubbish, and worst of all, the chat-shows which consist of RTE notaries having a titterfest with other RTE notaries, padded out with z-list celebs from the pages of vip magazine.
Then look at the salaries theyre dishing out to their presenters: Pat Kenny gets 850,000. Gerry Ryan 558,000. Marian Finucane 455,000.
Joe Duffy and Ryan Tubridy over 350,000. (2006 figures by the way)
Its outrageous. How can these people be worth such money, public money at that. To pay Pat Kenny's wages requires the licence fees of over 5,300 people. He defended his earnings by claiming that it paled by comparison to what some sports stars are getting. Too right Pat, and in view of what some of our revered bankers are getting I reckon I'm due a 2,000% increase in my own spawns.
The green areas at Montrose should be used to put these guys out to pasture. |
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