Some user
14-02-2007, 06:50 PM
Anyone see that Week in Politics Special programme last week called ‘Frank Opinion’ when they had a bunch of people in Thurles in the studio and were questioning them on what they thought were the most important election issues?
For all the bitching I and others do about RTE I thought it was an important incite into how various people think coming up to an election. When I saw “the yank” taking on a bunch of ordinary rural Irish people I started to worry but he’d obviously done some serious homework on Irish politics and really challenged the audience on some of their views without being antagonistic. Excellent programming overall IMHO.
At one point I sort of fell sorry for politicians when so many of the people in the audience said that they didn’t give them any credit (whatsoever) for the state of the economy.
I think it has been down to many things but I would credit the Irish people for the economy. They work hard and don’t make unrealistic demands. If we can get health and infrastructure sorted we’ll secure what we’ve had for the last 10+ years.
Some of the opinions people had on the “problem” of immigrants was worryingly skewed. Another startling factor was how many people rated CRIME as their top election issue yet when quizzed about whether any of them had been subjected to crime not a single person claimed to be a victim. Shows how much the media hype things out of proportion.
Overall most people came across well but you’d have to wonder how the opposition have any chance at all when people didn’t overly warm to the idea of a FG/Lab coalition.
Anyone who didn’t see the programme should give it a lash here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1203/weekinpolitics.html (http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1203/weekinpolitics.html)
For all the bitching I and others do about RTE I thought it was an important incite into how various people think coming up to an election. When I saw “the yank” taking on a bunch of ordinary rural Irish people I started to worry but he’d obviously done some serious homework on Irish politics and really challenged the audience on some of their views without being antagonistic. Excellent programming overall IMHO.
At one point I sort of fell sorry for politicians when so many of the people in the audience said that they didn’t give them any credit (whatsoever) for the state of the economy.
I think it has been down to many things but I would credit the Irish people for the economy. They work hard and don’t make unrealistic demands. If we can get health and infrastructure sorted we’ll secure what we’ve had for the last 10+ years.
Some of the opinions people had on the “problem” of immigrants was worryingly skewed. Another startling factor was how many people rated CRIME as their top election issue yet when quizzed about whether any of them had been subjected to crime not a single person claimed to be a victim. Shows how much the media hype things out of proportion.
Overall most people came across well but you’d have to wonder how the opposition have any chance at all when people didn’t overly warm to the idea of a FG/Lab coalition.
Anyone who didn’t see the programme should give it a lash here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1203/weekinpolitics.html (http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1203/weekinpolitics.html)