RTE ‘not neutral’

Sir — I feel compelled to write to your paper to express my thanks to Bruce Arnold on his excellent article (Sunday Independent, August 6) outlining the rot at the core of RTE.

As he said, RTE does not appear to make any effort to present both sides of the argument in a scrupulously balanced neutral way. Sadly, I feel the same imbalance is shot right through the heart of the Irish media in general.

He rightly points out that, “such broadcasting is in keeping with the one-party state nature of the Irish Republic. We have a change of personal in government, but never a change of government... a reprehensible situation”. Rational debate on the public square is a rarity in our society today. So-called liberal Ireland is very superficial. Old values that have stood the test of time and that have arguably enabled us to be a modern firstworld country today are subtly and not so subtly scoffed at. Eileen Davey, Laytown, Co Meath