Post by Butterfly Effect // ?Conor? on May 25, 2009 19:17:28 GMT 10
this isn't so much call-out for being unethical or biased but just being plain retarded.
Right, so in Australia the Current Affairs shows hog the 6:30 time slot, you have the choice between Today Tonight and A Current Affair, my family chose A Current Affair and on the broadcast tonight.
1) Sarah 'Bogon' and her media prank - Basic Rundown, this nineteen year old made up a story in an interview after 'witnessing' a shooting. Her report was very un-politically correct and lighthearted for a shooting victim. The media latched onto this interview and even though it wasn't a police statement portrayed it as one. this was a follow up interview about her fame. What a stupid idea! Let's do a story about how sensationalist media like us are totally retarded and have shoddy reporting skills.
2) The Feature Story - Stealing Back a baby: Ok, so a father kidnapped a child from it's mother and brought her to Egypt. a Current Affair funded a two year investigation to find him, and they did. Good on them, no serious. Now all they had to do was alert the police and it would have been fine. instead they planned to snatch the child back and made a huge scene when police told them not to, possibly putting the child's rescue in danger. Nice one guys, almost turning some nice philanthropy into a complete farce.
3) Another Bloody susan Boyle story - I get it! Ugly people can sing too. I don't need to hear aboyut every performance she does and how she plucked her eyebrows for the first time in ten years
4) Chip-Tastic - Not really much to say on this, Smiths Chips is offering 1% of all sales to the creator of a new chip. Sorta exagerated and said $200,000 a year every year for the rest of your life in Tracy's segway. Bit of a waste of space really.
5) Tracy Grimshaw and her ridiculous segways - Ok, I have enough crap reporting without her totall exageration and hyperbole segways. "How would you like $200,000 a year, every year, for the rest of your life (if the flavour you come up with is awesome and stay on the shelves with massive sales for twenty years)" and her intro to the child-snatching story was totally sensationalist. Not to forget of course, the words "internet sensation" were used three times to describe Sarah 'Bogon', Susan Boyle and the Chips Promotion.
Does anyone else have any stupid current affairs show's that their families watch? And also, what do you think of them masquerading as news?
Right, so in Australia the Current Affairs shows hog the 6:30 time slot, you have the choice between Today Tonight and A Current Affair, my family chose A Current Affair and on the broadcast tonight.
1) Sarah 'Bogon' and her media prank - Basic Rundown, this nineteen year old made up a story in an interview after 'witnessing' a shooting. Her report was very un-politically correct and lighthearted for a shooting victim. The media latched onto this interview and even though it wasn't a police statement portrayed it as one. this was a follow up interview about her fame. What a stupid idea! Let's do a story about how sensationalist media like us are totally retarded and have shoddy reporting skills.
2) The Feature Story - Stealing Back a baby: Ok, so a father kidnapped a child from it's mother and brought her to Egypt. a Current Affair funded a two year investigation to find him, and they did. Good on them, no serious. Now all they had to do was alert the police and it would have been fine. instead they planned to snatch the child back and made a huge scene when police told them not to, possibly putting the child's rescue in danger. Nice one guys, almost turning some nice philanthropy into a complete farce.
3) Another Bloody susan Boyle story - I get it! Ugly people can sing too. I don't need to hear aboyut every performance she does and how she plucked her eyebrows for the first time in ten years
4) Chip-Tastic - Not really much to say on this, Smiths Chips is offering 1% of all sales to the creator of a new chip. Sorta exagerated and said $200,000 a year every year for the rest of your life in Tracy's segway. Bit of a waste of space really.
5) Tracy Grimshaw and her ridiculous segways - Ok, I have enough crap reporting without her totall exageration and hyperbole segways. "How would you like $200,000 a year, every year, for the rest of your life (if the flavour you come up with is awesome and stay on the shelves with massive sales for twenty years)" and her intro to the child-snatching story was totally sensationalist. Not to forget of course, the words "internet sensation" were used three times to describe Sarah 'Bogon', Susan Boyle and the Chips Promotion.
Does anyone else have any stupid current affairs show's that their families watch? And also, what do you think of them masquerading as news?
