Ever since George Lee was announced as the Fine Gael candidate for the By-Election for Dublin South, the press have been quick to jump on the bandwagon and launch a scathing attack on o0ne of their colleagues. Every person involved in media was thinking one thing at the time of Mr Lee's announcement as candidate: was there an ulterior motive to Mr Lee's coverage of the Government's failings in the political world on RTE News?
Was his time on air less than objective? And even his documentary "How We Blew the Boom", which was given ample advertising before it was shown, is it feasible that the whole agenda of this piece was biased against Fianna Fáil and pro Fine Gael? I believe it is impossible to think that George Lee wasn't' favouring Fine Gael and that both his documentaries and RTÉ News coverage were completely subjective anti-Governmental propaganda.
It is important that, as journalists, we do not have this sort of incident reoccurring. Mr. Lee should have made his political intentions known to the big wigs at our national news organisation and I believe that, if he fails to fill the late Séamus Brennan's seat in the upcoming by-election, then RTÉ cannot reappoint him as the editor of a very controversial sector of news, a place where objectivity is paramount. It would be a disgrace to the profession of journalism if he were to return.
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