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Where is the Nudie Cowen Clip?
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Last night’s Nine News on RTE had a hilarious feature on an artist whose paintings of a nude Brian Cowen made it into some of Dublin’s most notable galleries for a while. Guerilla art and all that. It seems that the clip from the relevant Nine News last night is no longer available online. Go have a look….
I wonder if this has anything to do with pressure to take it down, Government figures have been unhappy with RTE’s tone in certain items and this would certainly fall into that category.
Edit to add the missing report via @damienmulley
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a right row this morning. The item really over-egged it. The reporter had a photocopies of the offending portrait and invited comments from confused gallery visitors and foreigners. It was a bit OTT if very funny
LOL
The emperor’s new clothes
According to the Beeb RTe are to apologise for showing the clip!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7960997.stm
That was quick the rest of us have to take complaints to the BCI and wait for months.
they went ahead with the apology – a complete nonsene. RTE did not perpetrate the act, they reported it.
ah, I’m on Cowen’s side on this one. It was pretty mean
The photocopies were gratuitous 
No i dont think so Sarah, RTE were not the creators of the painting, they weren’t responsible for its content. That someone broke into a gallery (where valuable art is stored) and hung their own is newsworthy in itself. Having pictures makes it more so for TV. Apologising to the Taoiseach for covering an embarassing story – instigated elsewhere, will the Tribune follow suit? – is a pretty low mark.
Cheap and Crass i.e. the RTE news package was a bit cheap and they might have handled it better just by dealing with the facts and not embroidering it with the vox pops. A plain facts package would have been funnier and carried a bigger punch because, like it or not, this was a fantastic and brilliantly subversive stunt. The ‘powers that be’ reaction, though, is totally crass. For pity’s sake, who’s advising that man on his communications? Or are our politicians really such delicate petals and so personally vain that they can’t take being lampooned? If so, they’re in the wrong business.
oh – just changed sides – They got the cops involved. A step tooo far. Good comment too by Eamon Keane on Newstalk. He said his producer said “they just made a 24 hour news story a 48 hour news story”. With the cops we are looking at 72….
72 hour news? Christ, Sky will jump all over that idea!