Radio reviews: ‘Is the ability to move from journalism to the dark side a kind of DNA test?’
Since I’ve in the past been critical of RTÉ1’s This Week (RTÉ1, Sundays, 1pm), I note with approval that they did an item last week which for them must have been challenging.
It was about the alarming number of journalists who are becoming political “advisers”; a story with many strands, one of which is the symbiotic relationship which can exist between these two estates – something to which This Week itself must be regarded as a net contributor.
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