When?
On a regular basis, daily and weekly.
Iâll revert you back to the previous posts you ran away from.
Give me a few examples of when theyâve broke stories recently based on hearsay?
An RTĂ gem that crops up from time to time is âaccording to The Sunâ.
Google âAccording to The Sunâ site:rte.ie
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The last one is a report on a young lad they reported had died of Covid who actually had not. Did they check their sources there?
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The first and third were stories reported by other news outlets or a government body first. The Tony Connelly tweet was about something of little consequence
So was the Varadkar story. It was broken by the Village Magazine but RTE extended Varadkar the courtesy of responding to it via a statement before reporting.
Youâre tying yourself in knots here. They either proof their sources or they donât, you seem to be confused on the point youâre making (badly, I might add).
The Village is not a reputable source. Most people hadnât heard of it before the weekend
So if The Village magazine is not a reputable source then RTE would never source from them? Right?
Every word you type makes you look like a bigger clown that you already are.
See my post above about them being burned by defamation in the past
So why do they use unnamed third hand sources in their reporting on a routine basis?
The Village is not a reputable source when they have not provided proof. When Leo admitted it was true they reported on it
Because it doesnât matter for inconsequential stuff
Theyâve been burned recently
Thatâs a complete and utter lie.
They provided proof (screenshots of text messages) from a named source (Chay Bowes) in their article. Youâre just posting complete and utter bullshit here, itâs clear you havenât a clue what youâre talking about.
Not proof
It also doesnât seem to matter to them for consequential stuff either.
You do know Paul Reynolds is still an RTE reporter?
It is proof you idiot.