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Just listening back to @CorksRedFM there. A radio licence is a privilege to have. I wonder how the @IrishTimes feels about the recent show, as a minority shareholder in the station. Because what happened yesterday was outrageous.
I'm embarrassed for everyone who works at the station. Negligent, dangerous, unprofessional nonsense.
In circumstances like this you have to wonder if they deserve a radio licence at all. What on earth was the rationale? What did they think they were doing?
The host concludes the interview basically admitting that he doesn't know what he's doing, or how to question the false claims being made because he's "not in a position to refute anything". Maybe he should have thought that before inviting a conspiracy theorist onto his show?
Did him and the team producing the show notice how a video that featured said conspiracy theorist was removed from social platforms for making identical false claims to the ones made on radio - unchallenged? Does the station have any standards at all or what?
He starts out the show
"We've been asked to get as many experts as we can on the [COVID] topic in the interests of balance.. we had a lot of conspiracy theories yesterday.."
What balance?
First question: "You declare Coronavirus is nothing more than seasonal flu?"
"We've been asked to get as many experts as we can on the [COVID] topic in the interests of balance.. we had a lot of conspiracy theories yesterday.."
What balance?
First question: "You declare Coronavirus is nothing more than seasonal flu?"
What. The. Hell.
Also, a lady - Pauline - rang in later in the show saying she was scared out of her wits as a result of the interview.
"I'm just frightened now."
Host: "Coronavirus is flu". NO it's not.
Then he again admits he doesn't know what he's talking about. https://twitter.com/SeanMcCarthy997/status/1308844252823248896
"I'm just frightened now."
Host: "Coronavirus is flu". NO it's not.
Then he again admits he doesn't know what he's talking about. https://twitter.com/SeanMcCarthy997/status/1308844252823248896
Some googling would give you an answer https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-similarities-and-differences-covid-19-and-influenza
How many other vulnerable listeners were scared out of their wits by all the false claims - or were misled into believing masks are not needed, or that deaths from COVID are not really happening?
He laughs it off at the end of the clip.
You're making vulnerable people *more* vulnerable.
You're making vulnerable people *more* vulnerable.
If you have relatives in Cork and they casually tell you they "heard on the radio" that hundreds of thousands of people aren't really dying during this pandemic, or that zinc will fix it if you get COVID-19, now you know who you can blame.
(And before you start blaming the host whose name is on the show title - this was presented by a stand-in host. And it takes a team to produce a show).
