Great to see RTÉ reporting on Reggie Littlejohn's visit to Ireland.
Well no actually, not a mention, not a peep. Nothing in the print media either.
It seemed pretty obvious a couple of months past when the Chinese Premier was visiting Ireland for a couple of days that we were courting him and his country. The level of obsequiousness in the voice and actions of our Minister for Foreign affairs was at a level never seen before. You see China is going to invest in us and help us out of the economic mess that we're in. China's economic success (doubtful, possible the mother of all bubble economies) is in stark contrast to Ireland's decline. You see the major reason why China is so successful is that her people save a high percentage of their earnings, the major reason why Ireland failed is because people spent so much of theirs. Mara Hvistendahl believes that one reason why the Chinese save so much money is because since there is such a shortage of women due to genercide men have to save up to "buy" brides, this is, I believe, a good segue to talking about Reggie Littlejohn and her talk at The Gresham last night. I posted a video below which outlines her work so I won't go into that in depth, instead I'd just encourage you to look at her. I'm more concerned about why a major human rights figure was ignored by the Irish media. I have not noticed any coverage of her visit in the Irish print or broadcast media. No figures from the section of society who have made 'uman rights a career bothered to turn up to her public talk. Not one. We have turned this kind of work into a minor industry but not one person bothered to come hear her. Why is that I wonder? The word hypocrite is often misused, people apply it to people who say one thing and then (often in a moment of weakness) do something contrary. Properly it is applied to a person who says one thing and believes another. In other words it is a deliberate, calculated deception.The dirty truth is that certain organizations in Ireland will never acknowledge Reggie Littlejohn because she campaigns on behalf of women who have been forced to undergo abortions in China. The people who should be highlighting this in Ireland and raising further outrage in our media fear speaking about this issue because they fear the wrath of pro-abortion opinion makers. Is it that or are they themselves so pro-abortion that they cannot see the true horror of China's forced abortions?
Anyway, enough of the disgust with Irish print and broadcast media and their hangers on. They are in crisis. Print media has suffered a 20% decline in sales over the last 5 years and is not about to win that back. The hollowness of RTÉ abilities was revealed by the way they treated Fr. Kevin Reynolds, it was further exposed by the way they dealt with the presidential election last year. The TV License, AKA the "telly tax" isn't working for them, people are refusing to pay it for a variety of reasons, they don't have the money, they object to being insulted and patronized or they no longer watch RTÉ and if they do they watch online.
I intend to write some more and maybe even document some of the biased treatment of the abortion issue at a later date. I'm far more concerned about the bias in RTÉ because it reaches more people and as a license payer I have to pay for their bias.
