Irish Examiner view: Social media is new front line in the Israel-Hamas propaganda war
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Destruction after Israeli aerial bombardment in Gaza City on Wednesday. Picture: Fatima Shbair/AP
The war between Israel and Hamas which erupted this week is forcing many distant observers into difficult choices, a situation summed up this week by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
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The various scandals this past summer in RTÉ spilled far beyond Montrose to stain quite a few other areas, and one of those was GAAGO, the joint streaming venture involving the national broadcaster and the GAA.
It surely came as a rude awakening to many of those people to read this week’s account of a pub in a Kerry village which used a “dodgy box” to show Premier League games. Representatives of the Sky broadcasting company called to the Railway Bar in Lixnaw eight times between 2018 and 2023 and found Premier League soccer matches being shown there.
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RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst held a “town hall” meeting with the staff of the national broadcaster on Wednesday at which various plans were outlined for the organisation’s future.
A change of culture will have to be part of that plan, and in that context it was interesting to note the departure of RTÉ’s chief financial officer Richard Collins, whose resignation was announced on Wednesday.