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Jun 11
ICYMI: #TonightVMTV
🚨 Belfast: Ogilvie family say “unrest is not welcome” - but will online rhetoric fuel a second night of violence?
🚨 Can independent broadcasters survive a 39% levy hike?
🚨 World Cup: Ken Early joins us from Mexico City
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🗣️ “He’s [Gianni Infantino] talking about it being the most inclusive World Cup, as he defends a pricing strategy that excludes 99% of people,” says @kenearlys.
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🗣️ “The mission here is to protect those radio stations.
It wasn’t envisaged at all that the increase in the levy would come at 69%,” says @garretahearn.
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🗣️ “The risk to society and democracy from independent radio is not of the scale of the risks being posed by the media outlets we talked about earlier,” says John Purcell, Chairman of the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland.
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🗣️ “Outlets becoming dependent on a state agency in order to continue to function is not good for those outlets,” says @Ben_Scallan.
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🗣️ “We have to be careful that Coimisiún na Meán doesn't become another big state juggernaut,” says @harrymcgee.
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🗣️ “The technology has outgrown our ability to control it,” says Eamonn McCann, Activist & Journalist.
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🗣️ “Is that the collateral damage we’re happy to live with? We have to do something,” says @edelmcginley.
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🗣️ “There are issues in relation to immigration that have to be dealt with.
But dealing with them in the heat of what’s happened over the last two nights is not an ideal place to discuss them,” says @harrymcgee.
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🗣️ “We also had the case of a man in Northern Ireland being sentenced for the murder of his partner… there wasn’t any rioting on the streets in response,” says Shane Coleman.
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🗣️ “We have been warning for years that this is going to raise tensions in society,” says @eastantrimmp.
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On #TonightVMTV at 10pm with Shane Coleman:
🚨 Belfast: Stephen Ogilvie’s family say “unrest is not welcome” - but will online rhetoric fuel a second night of violence?
🚨 Can independent broadcasters survive a 39% levy hike?
🚨 World Cup: Ken Early joins us from Mexico City.
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🗣️ “If people can organise online and tell others where to go to disrupt society, those platforms need to be held to account as publishers.”
After unrest in Belfast, the #TonightVMTV panel debated whether social media companies should be accountable for real-world disorder.
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ICYMI: #TonightVMTV
🚨 Belfast braced itself for a night on unrest
🚨 Calls for complete boycott of Ireland vs Israel football fixtures intensify
🚨 Today's front pages
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🗣️ “The fact that it’s taking place in a neutral venue, the Government may be able to wash their hands of this,” says @MaryERegan
🗣️ “It’s a matter for the FAI… the Government have always been consistent in that,” says Charlie McConalogue TD.
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🗣️ “Boycott works, and it about us a leader and saying we want to be the first,” says @sineadgibney.
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🗣️ “If the match does go ahead, we should have a right to protest it,” says @sineadgibney.
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