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Thu 07 Jul 2008DUP's attitude to RTÉ shows how far North has come
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness keen to honour RTÉ Northern editor Tommie Gorman, writes FIONNUALA O'CONNOR
A GLITTERING glass wall now winks sideways across the street at BBC Northern Ireland. RTÉ's new Belfast office makes the bigger broadcaster look tired. Brian Cowen, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness turned up to launch it affably in a next door hotel last week, the Taoiseach more proper and impersonal than the two Northerners. But Cowen's investment of time in the trip was as eloquent as the State broadcaster's investment in a high-prestige new headquarters. Other media organisations may have scaled down. Political managers North and South have a different perspective.
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