"RTÉ director general's media committee appearance was a total love-in rather than the normal bare-knuckle battles with witnesses at these meetings RTÉ chief Kevin Bakhurst played a blinder on Wednesday. He did a lap of honour for assembled TDs and senators. The embattled director general tamed his tormentors - the rottweilers of 2023 had become the pussycats of 2025. Two years after a multitude of RTÉ scandals, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Media - his former interrogators in the Leinster House dungeons - had become his back-slapping hosts."
"RTÉ chief Kevin Bakhurst played a blinder on Wednesday. He did a lap of honour for assembled TDs and senators. The embattled director general tamed his tormentors - the rottweilers of 2023 had become the pussycats of 2025."
Kevin Bakhurst received a notably warm and approving reception from TDs and senators at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Media. The previously aggressive scrutiny and confrontational hearings of 2023 were replaced by a conciliatory, congratulatory atmosphere in 2025. Bakhurst presented himself confidently, turning confrontational interrogators into supportive interlocutors. Two years after numerous RTÉ scandals, the committee moved from intense questioning to visible endorsement and back-slapping. The tone change reflected a dramatic softening of political oversight and a rehabilitation of Bakhurst’s standing before legislators.
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