{"id":471,"date":"2007-05-17T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/17\/news-still-imprisoned-allowed-visitors\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T22:28:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T22:28:35","slug":"news-still-imprisoned-allowed-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/news-still-imprisoned-allowed-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"News, still imprisoned, allowed visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Eoin&#8217;s call on RTE to let us use the footage of the leader&#8217;s debates has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cearta.ie\/2007\/05\/speech-just-wants-to-be-free-iii\/#comments\">turned down<\/a>. The reason given?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The view has been taken that it would not be prudent for RT\u00c9 to waive its rights to the migration of the debates to other sites.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Use of the passive voice, (the functionary&#8217;s friend), and a reference to purdence, but no real explanation of <em>why<\/em> it might be imprudent. Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems as thought at least some of our mutterings have been heeded. RTE didn&#8217;t just give us the footage from the broadcast news yesterday when John Gormley hijacked Michael McDowell&#8217;s press call. It also let us see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2007\/0516\/election4_av.html?2248710,null,230\">raw recording<\/a> in full- all 30 minutes of it. <\/p>\n<p>Of course we still can&#8217;t do anything with it. Our national broadcaster says that it is imprudent to let us touch The Precious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, Eoin&#8217;s call on RTE to let us use the footage of the leader&#8217;s debates has been turned down. The reason given? &#8220;The view has been taken that it would not be prudent for RT\u00c9 to waive its rights to the migration of the debates to other sites.&#8221; Use of the passive voice, (the functionary&#8217;s friend), and a reference to purdence, but no real explanation of why it might be imprudent. Lovely. However, it seems as thought at least some of our mutterings have been heeded. RTE didn&#8217;t just give us the footage from the broadcast news yesterday when John Gormley hijacked Michael McDowell&#8217;s press call. It also let us see the raw recording in full- all 30 minutes of it. Of course we still can&#8217;t do anything with it. Our national broadcaster says that it is imprudent to let us touch The Precious.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[409,672,438,47,439],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-politics","tag-copyright","tag-irish-politics","tag-news","tag-rte","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}