I am sure you will agree with me that it has been a most extraordinary week where the spotlight was put on RTÉ, the Government’s propaganda unit, imploding in slow motion.
History Rhymes
I wrote last week that we are currently viewing the equivalent of the news of Eamon Casey and Michael Cleary fathering children that triggered the Catholic Church in Ireland being knocked of its pedestal.
As it was for the Catholic Church when news first filtered out about Annie Murphy and Phyllis Hamilton, it was the only the beginning of the end of the church’s iron fist control over almost every aspect of how we lived our lives, for RTÉ too, Tubridy and Forbes is only the beginning, worse is awaiting exposure.
History will show that RTÉ’s control over us peaked during lockdown.
How can we ever forget the daily propaganda dished out to us by Tubridy, Byrne, Duffy et al.
RTÉ provided Tony Holohan with a personal platform that terrorised people daily into complying with state diktats that originated outside the country.
Such was the level of brainwashing, he came to be worshipped as a national hero.
As women like Vicky Phelan were dying slow agonising deaths, his past history in the Department of Health was airbrushed out of existence by the state broadcaster.
Among the findings of today’s Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll are that trust in RTÉ following the events of the past 10 days has declined sharply, with 55pc saying they trust RTÉ less, while a further 35pc said they never trusted the station.
That’s absolutely brilliant news ahead of much worse scandals to emerge that will bring trust in the station closer to zero.
The power of the government to use the station to control us has evaporated.
Pillars of State
