Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

There were two plants. As the Deputy will be aware, even when news interviews are being filmed, people sometimes wear makeup, they have lighting, a plant might be moved to improve the shot, etc. I would expect that of our highly professional promotions team. Lastly, there has been some coverage about extras being brought in. The proper conversations were had about this between our marketing team, who were doing this, and the news management team. They discussed how it was going to be done. The initial request was for some journalists from the newsroom to sit in the background - they can be blurred out, by the way - while filming was being done for several hours. The answer was, "No, our journalists are too busy, so you have to use other people".

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.