13 May 1999 Edition
Back issue: RTE attacks censorship.. in South Africa
Sinn Fein described Tuesday's RTE's Today Tonight programme breaching South African broadcasting censorship laws as ``courageous'' but asked ``Will RTE producer Mary Raftery be given the same freedom by RTE management to challenge state censorship in Ireland as defined by Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act?''
Dublin European Parliament candidate, Anne Speed, who has called on the European Parliament to investigate the conduct of the Euro elections because she claims that Section 31 breaches Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said: ``RTE bosses crowing about censorship in South Africa is like the apartheid regime attacking racial inequality in Britain.''
The RTE producer of the Today Tonight programme, Mary Raftery, gave RTE management ``full credit for giving us the go-ahead to challenge censorship.''
A report on Section 31 published by the Brussels based International Federation of Journalists in May 1987 concluded:
``Irish radio and television are subjected to clear-cut political censorship. And the defence of that censorship, whether it is put up by present or former ministers, by journalists or others, does not stand close scrutiny.''
Dublin European Parliament candidate, Anne Speed, who has called on the European Parliament to investigate the conduct of the Euro elections because she claims that Section 31 breaches Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said: ``RTE bosses crowing about censorship in South Africa is like the apartheid regime attacking racial inequality in Britain.''
The RTE producer of the Today Tonight programme, Mary Raftery, gave RTE management ``full credit for giving us the go-ahead to challenge censorship.''
A report on Section 31 published by the Brussels based International Federation of Journalists in May 1987 concluded:
``Irish radio and television are subjected to clear-cut political censorship. And the defence of that censorship, whether it is put up by present or former ministers, by journalists or others, does not stand close scrutiny.''