Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. John Purcell:
Perhaps the best way to combat misinformation and disinformation is to have sources of information that people can trust. What the Reuters report showed today is that there are great levels of trust in radio, newspapers and indigenous media. We need to support that because of what will happen if we do not. I have seen AI proposals for newsrooms where the AI device will plug in to press releases and websites and will generate both the scripts and the voicing for the news bulletins and you can subscribe to those devices. That is not the way to go.