Elaine Loughlin: Ryan Tubridy saga another nail in coffin of traditional media

In a world of fake news and a growing threat from AI, traditional media needs to meet the high standards that it sets itself, or trust will be lost.

RTÉ Television Studios in Donnybrook, Dublin 4. 'The priority now for me and the priority for RTÉ should be rebuilding that trust,” says Culture Minister Cathering Martin. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

RTÉ’s shameful antics have put yet another nail in the coffin, not just of the State broadcaster, but of all traditional media.

At a time when all forms of journalism are under severe pressure, and at times attack, RTÉ has taken one of the most important elements of traditional media — public trust — and has scrunched it up in a ball before carelessly discarding it.