TELEVISION HAD “accelerated the massive social transformation” in Irish society over the past 50 years, broadcaster John Bowman said last night.
He was speaking at the launch of his book, Window and Mirror: RTÉ Television 1961- 2011,which looks at the key moments and controversies since RTÉ Television first began broadcasting.
The medium made an "enormous impact on Irish society" Mr Bowman said. Much of that credit went to viewers, particularly female, who wanted discussion on society, rather than "liberals in Dublin 4" he said. Speaking of the Late Late Show,Bowman said he thought there was "no other democracy in the world where one programme had made such an impact in modernising society".
Launching the volume, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said it was a wonderful read by a broadcaster who had “the kind of decency and integrity we all aspire to in our lives on a daily basis”.