Broadcaster has grappled with the same dilemma since the 1960s: to be a national jukebox or a national broadcaster
They showed how quickly those who were involved in setting up the TV station realised this. Ed Roth, the first director general, had concluded that “The dilemma of Irish television is that it combines two objectives; one to establish and maintain a service which will further national culture and aims and have regard to the prestige of the nation and secondly that the service must be a paying enterprise.
The Irish Times’s TV critic Ken Gray expressed the hope that the sacrifice the trio had made in giving up their jobs, and their success in stoking this national debate, might lead to “a radical alteration in the whole structure and outlook of broadcasting in Ireland”. Some hope. The only thing that really happened was that, a few months after Sit Down and Be Counted was published, the Fianna Fáil government launched a bizarre witch-hunt against an RTÉ current affairs investigation into the operations of money lenders who were fleecing poor people in Dublin. This included a tribunal of inquiry – not into the money lenders but into the programme makers. The message to RTÉ was clear: never mind Sit Down and Be Counted, just sit down and shut up.
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