IRELAND
Irish Independent

By Jody Corcoran

Sunday May 06 2012

THE approach of RTE to the controversies which have dogged News and Current Affairs in recent months has been one of pre-emptive containment.

Each step of the way, the broadcaster has shown itself to do just about enough to meet the obvious requirement for action in the face of damning evidence.

This approach was again evident on Friday upon publication of the Broadcasting Association of Ireland (BAI) findings, and the report of the investigator, Anna Carragher, into the Prime Time Investigates: A Mission to Prey programme.

The timing of that publication, at the start of a bank holiday weekend, at a time when the media, and the public in general, were focussed on another significant issue, is a curious aspect in itself.