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Neil Prendiville may face criminal charge following 96FM broadcast
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Thursday October 07, 2004 22:04 by Dave McCarthy - Traveller Visibility Group tvgcork at hotmail dot com 11 Comeragh Park, The Glen, Cork. 021 4503786
Radio chat show host may have gone too far this time Court in Cork hears reference to irresponsible broadcast facilitated by 96FM. Complaint to Broadcasting Complaints Commission to follow, and file to be sent to the DPP. The Traveller Visibility Group welcomes the announcement that a file will be sent to the DPP following Neil Prendiville’s morning chat show on 96FM today October 7th. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Why doesn't the Traveller Visibility Group deal with the substantive issue at hand here and condemn the "member of a feuding family, who said he would behead a member of the opposing family "?
The other one is clearly that Prendiville is some sort of sensationalist wanna-be shock-jock seeking to gain notoriety regardless of the damage he causes. It's painfully obvious that he's irresponsible at best. A not very cute hoor.
Prendy of 96 FM has a history to stirring up trouble, in particular anything that will get him quality air time. He's not a shock jock but he likes to give airtime to 'listeners' who are quite willing to regurgitate the lastest slurs about just about anyone. But in particular targetting ayslum seekers etc. I've no sympathy for him...
Prendeville knows there are legions of cranks and nutjobs out there with no girlfriends and a chip on their shoulder about every thing from urinals to American foreign policy.
In a free democratic society all opinions however bizarre should be expressed and if some lunatic wants to talk about beheading somebody then give the sap a chance.
Prendeville! Free Speech! You just have to listen to the show a few times to realise that 'certain' views get a lot of airing and 'others' don't.
Prendeville has an agenda and it targets the weakest and most vulnerable - who have no or little voice (as it turns out).
The worst thing for me - speaking as a Corkonian (BTW that was a great win in the All Ireland hurling, right!) - is that Prendeville tries to dress a lot of his 'vile' opinions up with 'members of the public' who are 'ordinary decent Cork people' that 'are just having their say'. He's a skilled operator, and he brings the dosh in for his radio... and that's what it's about for me: capitalism and racism hand in hand.
This kind of talk radio has been around for ages. Its as acceptable and as popular as tabloid newspapers. What's not acceptable is the people who wnat to cut the heads off other people.
Prendeville may be reprehensible, but is anyone investigating or likely to make a charge against the the man who threatened to behead?