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Debunked: No, an FOI request did not show that RTÉ took orders from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
A post on Facebook suggests that the broadcaster received money from a number of international groups. By Stephen McDermott Sunday 14 Feb 2021, 7:30 AM Feb 14th 2021, 7:30 AM 34,689 Views 0 Comments
A POST ON social media has suggested that RTÉ received money from several groups whom conspiracy theorists often cite as being responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Facebook post, which has been shared more than 150 times, contains an image of a Freedom of Information response issued by the broadcaster and says “this is who RTÉ is taking orders from”.
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Nan and Akmaral, two young Asian students, attend Ace English Language Learning in Dublin. In the process of grappling with a weekend assignment from their teacher Aisling, to engage in an authentic conversation with a stranger, their perception of authenticity grows.
An Authentic Conversation by Yan Ge is broadcast this Sunday, 14 January, to coincide with the Chinese New Year, as part of the RTÉ Radio 1 series
Spoken Stories Independence - listen above.
Writers invited to contribute a new story started out by thinking about what a consideration of independence might throw up today, where it might bring them, a hundred years after Ireland s War of Independence.
We have some sense of the scale of our problem thanks to the work of Women on Air, to a small number of studies and to the participation of Dublin City University in the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project, which revealed women struggle to comprise even a third of media professionals here.
All of this matters because the absence of women’s voices – highlighted repeatedly in Ireland during the Covid-19 crisis – has profound implications for both public policy as well as public and private attitudes towards women and girls.
Media commentary and debate often shape the first draft of public policy.
3rd February 2021 - Ciaran Cannon TD
Independent radio stations should apply for a special round of Covid funding to assist them in providing important information during this challenging period, a Fine Gael TD has said.
Deputy Ciaran Cannon has welcomed details of the €2.5 million funding through the Sound and Vision Scheme, with this special round providing support to the independent commercial radio sector to produce programming to strengthen public awareness of COVID-19.
Deputy Cannon, Fine Gael’s Spokesperson on Media, Arts & Culture, said, “This is a very important funding announcement for a sector that has been doing exemplary work all during the pandemic, while at the same time coping with serious losses in revenue.