Maurice

I'm afraid, Kevin, it's a sinking ship.

A lot of people believe now that RT is a sinking ship and it's time for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, to come out instead of this drip, drip, drip, drip that we're getting all the time from this situation.

I mean, I don't want to use the word corrupt, but it does look like we're looking at a broadcaster in a complete meltdown situation where accountability is very, very hard to achieve full accountability.

And I think people are very disappointed by it.

We've got a big back

We've got a big backlash from the licence payers as well.

According to Unpussed, 8,000 people are not paying the licence fee and they're being brought to court.

So it's a very, very serious situation.

There was even talk of Kevin Backhurst now getting an extra 20 grand and you've got pay disparities too in RT between senior staff and junior staff producing a very, very, very toxic environment indeed.

I don't know why anybody would want to work there to be perfectly honest with you.

Well, the public perception is very, very clear.

RT are not being open-handed about it.

And we had Ciarán Lynch at the Public Accounts, the Public Media Commission, saying that Ciarán Lynch, he was the acting DG at the time, and he made it very, very clear.

He said that the controls were overridden.

But the question is, by who?

We never found out who overrode those controls.

And, of course, we had the conspicuous absence of Dee Forbes.

Granted, she said she couldn't attend.

That's fine.

But it would have been very, very, very helpful indeed if we could have had Miss Forbes at the media commission.