Never has the launch of a new RTÉ strategic plan attracted as much attention as the one published this week, setting out the national broadcaster’s stall for the next five years. Yet one major plank is missing to assess the plan’s credibility fully. “This strategy has been costed on the basis of a level of public funding within a reformed and index-linked public funding model: aligned to the Future of Media Commission’s recommendations and that will be confirmed in parallel with the launch of this strategy,” the document titled “A New Direction” indicates.  This is the Government’s job in its…

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