Madam, – Dáithí Ó Maolbharaigh succinctly expresses my view – and I’m sure that of many other people – on this matter. As a licence fee payer, by coercion rather than choice, I feel RTÉ’s service has deteriorated over the years and standards have fallen.
The arrogance shown by overpaid, over-hyped broadcasters when faced with the frank realities of recessionary life has been truly galling.
These media “stars” are a creation of RTÉ management and it is high time for these creations to be dismantled.
RTÉ can easily replace these people, and at the same time improve standards and make savings. There are many well-educated, well-spoken, articulate and eminently more presentable media hosts out there if RTÉ only managed to shake a leg or two and bring real change.– Yours, etc,