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Mon 03 Mar 2009Portrait of Ireland as a laughing stock
Amid the dark farce of our society, the Cowen caricatures packed far more than one punch line – with RTÉ’s apology, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE
SURELY THE point is not that RTÉ news should not have apologised for making us laugh, but that it doesn’t apologise enough. As the nation hangs on that well-worn cusp between tears and laughter, RTÉ news is pretty well guaranteed to render the licence-payer helpless with mirth – and not just when it is performing its devastatingly accurate impersonation of Soviet state television.
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