For those who are unfamiliar with the fantastic book and film Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh - some prerequisites:
Choose waste. Choose overpaid executives. Choose nepotism. Choose a f#*!king big ego, Choose €12k per year to drive your car to work, Choose outdated programming formats, crap comedy, and appalling scheduling. Choose to waste the licence fee, Choose 24, Rescue Me, Brothers and Sisters - Choose to put them on when most people are in bed. Choose embarrassment - Choose Failte Towers, Katherine Lynch's Wonder Women, Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels. Choose humiliation, Choose broadcasting a grovelling apology after caving in to political pressure. Choose to spend the licence fee AND advertising revenue, Choose to have your cake and eat it. Choose jobs for the boys - Choose Lyric FM. Choose broadcasting cringeworthy calls on a daily basis - Choose "yeah..yeah..yeah..yeah.." Choose "Ah jaysus Joe" Choose Liveline. Choose Duncan Stewart droning on ad nauseum about unproven and expensive "energy saving" technology. Choose "bong, bong, bong, bong, bong" at 6pm every day. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows. Choose "Mass on Sunday". Choose the multi-lingual TV licence inspector. Choose to pay pompous old farts salaries which make even TDs envious. Choose George "I told you so and I'm loving it" Lee. Choose to be patronised, sickened and embarrassed all at once. Choose your national broadcaster. Choose RTE... But why would I want to do a thing like that?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Don't they get their "budget deficit" paid by the taxpayer though? I include the quotes because RTE produces deficits and cost over-runs the way a county councillor produces inflated expense accounts - probably more, if that was even possible.
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