oh my god, they killed ...accurate journalism

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday February 07, 2003 13:22 by ollie - Katalyzer

pat kenny has just repeated the notion ,live on air ,that the catholic workers assaulted a guard last monday in Shannon Airport. He had a panel of supposed 'media experts' on with him, discussing the weeks news .This included former minister for justice and PD leader Des O Malley - a Limerick man! I rang in , tried to inform the person answering the phone about the fact that his claim of assault was wrong, but he (Kenny) didn't retract his statement. This guy has researchers working for him! He earrns something like 1/2 million euro a year (correct me if I'm wrong on that figure) to be an accurate and competent broadcaster ,and still ,almost a week later, him ,and his panel of experts claim that a panic attack by a garda is in fact an assault by a pacifist.