Ireland: : Complaint from government health authority over RTÉ investigative programme rejected

• Autores: Ronan Ó Fathaigh
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 10, 2015, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 1 September 2015, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) held, by a majority, that the public broadcaster RTÉ did not violate the Broadcasting Act’s and Broadcasting Code’s rules on fairness and objectivity when it broadcast a programme based on a leaked internal document from a government health authority. A complaint had been made by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to the BAI following a broadcast of RTÉ’s current affairs programme "Prime Time", which concerned a pregnant asylum seeker and her interactions with a number of government agencies. The programme broadcast information from a draft report which had been commissioned by the HSE, and which had not yet been made public