Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

RTE: Governance Issues

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

The individual programme makers have to ensure that their coverage of a news item is fair, either across a programme or across time and that political parties are fairly represented either on a programme or across time. It is monitored by editors, the managing editors and by me. Frankly, the communications with the political parties feed into that. Sometimes we miss things. We monitor it very carefully but in the greater scheme things - sometimes individual political parties are keeping a particular view on individual stories and whether they are being properly represented on those stories - they might spot things that we do not. Therefore the dialogue is useful because they will make points that we should take on board. We do take them on board.

Deputy Timmy Dooley asked about the weekend magazine programme and I will pass that question to Mr. McGuire.

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