Prime Time Investigates

RTE Prime Time: Lack of scrutiny and challenge within the department led them into “groupthink”…

Mick Fealty on April 10, 2012, 12:33 pm

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So Anna Carragher (ex BBC NI) has completed her report for BAI on RTE’s Prime Time Investigates libel of Father Reynolds, and although not yet published, the Irish Times has a list of some the reports conclusions: * Interviews with significant sources were not documented and there was an almost complete absence of documentary evidence. * At all stages of the production of the programme, note taking was either nonexistent or grossly inadequate. * There was a lack of scrutiny …

RTÉ Prime Time Investigates is dead. But what happens next?

Mick Fealty on April 5, 2012, 9:49 am

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Okay, so RTÉ Prime Time Investigates is dead ahead of a critical report due to publish from the BAI tomorrow… On Tuesday night, Vincent Browne brought together a first rate panel to discuss the wider issues flowing from the mater… The discussion here falls roughly into two parts. The broken system of journalistic checks and balances, and the value of RTE’s public service broadcasting product as opposed to privately owned print journalism… Three things occur: – This case demonstrates that …