Getting this day in day out for the last two months,people are kind of over the media.Agreed the media are getting way over the top. Before the last Slycoon they were raving about Qld's wet was "Australia's worst natural disaster", it wasn't good with around twenty people dead. What about a couple of years ago when near on 200 were killed in fires in Vic?
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It's a double edge sword - one of the reasons there were so few deaths was because of the widespread publicity :P.Getting this day in day out for the last two months,people are kind of over the media.Agreed the media are getting way over the top. Before the last Slycoon they were raving about Qld's wet was "Australia's worst natural disaster", it wasn't good with around twenty people dead. What about a couple of years ago when near on 200 were killed in fires in Vic?
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I didn't see it but on the commercial channels they had a "Countdown to disaster" wih a big clock on the wall, what a crock of poo. They had live crosses to people in Brisbane telling of eyewitness reports somewhere else. News conferences every half hour and a mighty buld up to the other night. You'd have thought there was going to be nuclear war with total annihilation the way they were carring on. ::)
It's a double edge sword - one of the reasons there were so few deaths was because of the widespread publicity :P.
Yes it was a little tasteless at times and it was repetitive and boring for the non-involved. And can be seen as cynical, opportunistic, ghoulish etc etc ::). But it performed a job ;).
to get it in a bit of perspective though an average long weekend road toll would be similar, does that get the same treatment? My thoughts are still a large percentage of the press is inconsistant and senationalist.
to get it in a bit of perspective though an average long weekend road toll would be similar, does that get the same treatment? My thoughts are still a large percentage of the press is inconsistant and senationalist.And the reason they're like that is that millions of people just like us lap it up in droves causing those shows to rate through the roof. Serious television journalism such as that often produced by the ABC and the other news oriented networks don't rate a razoo in comparison. Without wanting to demean those people who have been sadly affected by these disasters, you can bet that they'd be glued to their screens watching our lives unfurl if those disasters had occurred in Sydney, Perth or Ballarat. We all cry out that ACA and whatever the ch7 version is called are shit but we still watch them. These shows are merely a reflection of society and it's need for instant news without the thinking.
We all cry out that ACA and whatever the ch7 version is called are shit but we still watch them.
No we don'tWith respect, as a society we most certainly do watch tabloid television. You, 66M and I mightn't watch those shows but the ratings prove that a vast majority of the population do indeed regularly watch them. I agree that they're sensationalist and over the top but as I said earlier....they're just feeding up the fodder that the punters want.
;D ;DQuoteNo we don'tWe can be very thankful we don't have a local version of the Fox Network who'd be finding a communist plot behind Cyclone Yasi and calling for the CIA to go in and arrest the commies at the Weather Channel and charge them with subversive broadcasting. ;)