Terry Prone on RTÉ saga: Calls for end to drip-drip of data are at best naïve, at worst idiotic

If RTÉ was worth a damn, goes this theory, they’d open the faucet, clear the drain, drench all of us in data and then we could all move on. Unfortunately, this theory is pure drivel

26/06/2023 Dublin Ireland. RTE logos at the station in

Let’s all agree that the worst thing about the RTÉ saga is the drip-drip of revelations. If RTÉ was worth a damn, goes this theory, they’d open the faucet, clear the drain, drench all of us in data and then we could all move on.

Unfortunately, this theory, frequently articulated by politicians and almost as frequently articulated by commentators, is pure drivel. It is based on the fallacious assumption that an organisation like RTÉ can at any moment get together all information about — say — who got an exit package, and vomit the findings forth in an attack of transparency. Lovely assumption. Pity about the reality.