The \u00a0Independents Radio and Television Commission issued guidelines in respect of independent broadcasting contractors. These guidelines covered matters such as Offences against the State act defamation and other general legal obligations. They emphasise the importance of free speech in democracy with a strong presumption against prior censorship of subject matters.<\/p>\n
In matters of major public interest, the controversy or matter should be dealt with in a balanced way ensuring the opportunity for rebuttal where appropriate. Interviewers might ask spokesman of political parties justify policies and action even including political violence.<\/p>\n
If a decision is made to interview members of an unlawful organisation caution should be adopted and such a broadcast should be in exceptional circumstances only.<\/p>\n
Factual reporting is permissible. Broadcasters should adopt a careful and sensitive approach in relation to live material and should screen recorded material. Senior and experienced journalists only should conduct live broadcasts where this was appropriate<\/p>\n\n
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RTE The Broadcasting Act, 1960 established the Broadcasting Authority as an independent body in control of RTE, the sole broadcaster.\u00a0 The functions of the authority were: To establish and maintain national television and sound broadcasting services; To establish and maintain services of a local community or regional character; To provide broadcasting services of interest to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19334,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}