RTÉ elite kowtowing to the great and the good

LETTERS by Brendan Cafferty and Thomas Studley (August 28) gave us a different perspective on the attitude of RTÉ to recently-retired Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Mr Cafferty thought “the coat-tailing of Bertie Ahern by RTÉ” and “the promised three-part hagiography” was enough to make his stomach churn. At the same time Thomas Studley thought that “Bertie played a blinder” and “a star has been reborn”.

RTÉ’s obsession with the former Taoiseach certainly seems to have survived the shock of his losing the most powerful political office in the land. My own view is that RTÉ staff are members of a privileged metropolitan journalistic elite. They continuously betray a mindset of having spent too many years kowtowing to the great and the good and the powerful within a short radius of Merrion Street.