News - what rates vs what we get vs what is really news?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:11 pmToday 1 person died and others were injured following a train crash on the Rome underground. Also today, at least 100 people died in a suicide bombing in Sri Lanka.
Commercial news headlines are emphasising the Rome underground train crash. The ABC to its credit has placed more emphasis on the Sri Lanka incident by leading earlier with the story.
This is just one example of the journalism of the modern media - aka Tabloid journalism. The commercial stations use their programs continually to cross-promote other network programs or to plug advertorials - pieces within a story that are paid for by a company so their product can seemingly be endorsed as part of normal programming.
I can think of at least 5 stories that are bigger stories in Adelaide for our present and future than the lead story on the news tonight that 4 more houses will be compulsorily acquired as part of the South Rd Underpass construction process.
Gone are the investigative stories, the exposes, the whistleblowers, the insights. Now we are peppered with todays new headliners - the cheap and easy stories that can be made locally with a car, a reporter and a cameraman - the neighbour from hell, the 24 hour pawn shop, the old Ukrainian sailing ship rusting at American River, or worse still, Dean Brogan assaults another dog walker, Emma Forster got caught drink driving or the new building being built on the old Advertiser site.
What are your thoughts - (no wonder sites like this have so much regular custom).
Commercial news headlines are emphasising the Rome underground train crash. The ABC to its credit has placed more emphasis on the Sri Lanka incident by leading earlier with the story.
This is just one example of the journalism of the modern media - aka Tabloid journalism. The commercial stations use their programs continually to cross-promote other network programs or to plug advertorials - pieces within a story that are paid for by a company so their product can seemingly be endorsed as part of normal programming.
I can think of at least 5 stories that are bigger stories in Adelaide for our present and future than the lead story on the news tonight that 4 more houses will be compulsorily acquired as part of the South Rd Underpass construction process.
Gone are the investigative stories, the exposes, the whistleblowers, the insights. Now we are peppered with todays new headliners - the cheap and easy stories that can be made locally with a car, a reporter and a cameraman - the neighbour from hell, the 24 hour pawn shop, the old Ukrainian sailing ship rusting at American River, or worse still, Dean Brogan assaults another dog walker, Emma Forster got caught drink driving or the new building being built on the old Advertiser site.
What are your thoughts - (no wonder sites like this have so much regular custom).
FFS what utter crap. Its a natural phenomena the earth heats up and cools down also dries up and gets saturated.
