I knew this, too…
“I remember walking past a News 24 journalist who was doing a piece to camera, saying the UUP and Sinn Fein were locked in intense negotiations. I walked back into the room and our guys were all sitting round a TV watching Wimbledon,” he said.
“So, there is an element amongst the media of building these things up as well. Because they don’t have anything else to really go on, there’s a sense of ‘we have to to create something’ and create this hothouse environment.
“In reality, it’s very rarely a hothouse environment. There’s a lot of time spent sitting around, a lot of time spent having coffee or watching television, so it’s not quite the perception that people think it is.”
So, the media lie to us each and every day - says Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey.
Tags: Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, Terrorism