A marketing campaign being filmed for RTÉ, using extras and props in the newsroom, “just doesn’t sit right”, the chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Media has said.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Alan Kelly said it seems to be “absolutely ridiculous” that RTÉ is presenting something “that isn’t real”.
The NUJ Dublin Broadcasting Newsroom Chapel has written to RTÉ management asking for production of the advert to be paused pending further discussion with staff representatives.
The advert purports to highlight a day in the life of the newsroom.
RTÉ said that a number of “non-featured extras” were used in the filming and that “most newsroom staff…