Terry Prone: Telling people what deserves their attention has never really worked

People read and view just as often because they hate someone as because they love them. Hate pulls eyes more than love does.

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic. The fate of the Titan submersible captivated people around the world for days. Picture: Paul Daly/The Canadian Press via AP

It’s a disgrace, so it is, this level of coverage of RTÉ and Ryan Tubridy. Lots more important things out there we should be paying attention to. That point has been made by a handful of commentators during the past fortnight.

In an odd coincidence, the same point was being made the week before the national broadcaster meltdown, only in that earlier case, the issue was whether the implosion of the Titan submersible was newsworthy if compared to the sinking of a ship filled with refugees.