Double brush with criticism for RTÉ over Cowengate coverage

AS RTÉ is quickly realising, you just can’t please all of the people all of the time.

Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) findings published yesterday have shown the national broadcaster received a double rap on the knuckles from the public over the Cowen caricature fiasco — first for showing the portraits, and then for apologising the next day.

In the latest batch of decisions from the TV and radio watchdog, a quarter of the 16 complaints referred specifically to RTÉ’s reporting of the story over March 23 and 24, claiming that while the paintings showed the Taoiseach with no clothes, the reporting showed the state broadcaster with no shame.