BAI rejects complaints about shows hosted by Claire Byrne and Pat Kenny

Pat Kenny’s Newstalk radio show has rejected 11 complaints about a segment on his show about Covid-19, which involved an interview with Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.

They said this prevented the subject matter from being presented in an objective and impartial manner. “The Committee found no evidence in the broadcast of content that stigmatised, supported or condoned discrimination or incited hatred against any person or group in society.” The BAI’s Executive Complaints Forum said in its ruling that it was “editorially legitimate for the broadcaster to cover this local protest action and to 74 interview speakers at it.”

In response, Rte said that “there is no statutory or regulatory obligation to provide ‘balance’; the requirement is to be fair to all interests and, in the case of this programme, this meant being fair to both sides of the argument on VAD.”

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