Setting a bad example

WHY is our national broadcaster screening violence on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the holiest and most peaceful days in the year?

Setting a bad example
Thu, 22 Dec, 2011 - 00:00
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The Christmas Eve showpiece on RTÉ1 is Quantum of Solace, a James Bond adventure. Hundreds of people get blown to smithereens matter-of-factly. On Christmas Day TV3 brings us The Bourne Identity, a brilliant film, but an extremely violent one. Bourne will whet the appetite for the ultra-violent Baader Meinhof Complex, RTÉ’s offering at 11.20pm. Has anybody in RTÉ heard of bad example?

Tom Fitzgerald

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