Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Julien Mercille:

Advertisers influenced the content. Usually it is not too hard to explain that to students or people in Ireland and it is pretty obvious because of property supplements. There are other examples. RTE has a radio show about banking sponsored by Ulster Bank. Do we really think there will be critical views on that show about banks? Maybe there will be a bit but one can listen to it. It is about dynamics. One must listen to the programme or read the article - that is about the dynamics - but the explanation is pressure from advertisers.

What was the other part of the question?