SIPTU will host a seminar to launch an essential discussion paper, ‘Broadcasting the Future’, which warns that Ireland is currently ‘sleepwalking into the destruction’ of its public media institutions.
The document seeks to initiate a debate involving workers, experts and progressive political parties to ensure that Irish media remains anchored as a public good rather than a mere profit-generating mechanism.
The paper addresses the converging pressures of governance failures, the ‘bogus self-employment’ scandal, and the structural decline of the traditional licence fee for public service broadcasting. It argues that public service broadcasting is a strategic national asset, not a legacy model to be downsized, and calls for a shift towards a more public-led institution.
Among those who will address the seminar are DCU Institute for Future Media Deputy Director, Dr. Eileen Culloty, Technological University Dublin School of Media Lecturer, Mark Sheils, SIPTU Services Divisional Organiser, Adrian Kane and invited party-political representatives.