Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed)
Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I am interested in the witnesses' voices as content managers of RTE. As they said in their opening statement, the witnesses are producing, for example, a programme that is coming out and saying that fossil fuels are the cause of climate change and that is the reason we are having all of these weather disruptions. If they finish the programme and at the ad break it goes to SUV advertising, do the witnesses have a difficulty with that? I am asking for their opinions as content managers within RTE and whether they consider that to undermine the content of the programmes they have put a huge amount of effort into.
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