Sorry, but this is why i dont watch tv.... here's my rant.

[dubbed]

That's why I get my news on the net from BBC and the likes. Hell even the New York Times is a lot more insightful and significant than most of the stuff we get here.

[sabloke]

I only watch The Journal (meh, Germans...), The PBS News Hour (Yanks, well done and at times quite interesting) and SBS (less and less now, it seem to go down the drain with the others lately). ABC News is boring, 7:30 Report has a few shows worth watching a month... Commercial television news? Just a bad way to waste time unfortunately.

Want the best news show there is? Try The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Seriously!

[gareth_oau]

I read the daily local paper every day.

I flick straight to the comics page and read "calvin and hobbes", then I'm done and happy!

the rest of the paper is very forgettable


I also love "Alex" in the Fin Review (but cant bag the fin review, its a decent, specific newspaper)

[Spyda]

How do they keep geting away with it? This issue has been bugging me for ages.

Best thing i heard tonight on TV was Today Tonight "After the brake we will show you how to hunt down the best easter eggs"

[Peter Jones]

I just don't watch it at all.

More time to work on VWs that way.

Pete

[Buller_Scott]

I just don't watch it at all.

More time to work on VWs that way.

Pete

you present a very interesting argument sir.

[evorobin]

The fact we have a whole section attributed to sport makes it all the more stupid when the main news reports on yep, sport too

[cme2c]

What you all seem to be missing is that the news program isn't there to inform you, it is there to sell advertising. On ABC Sydney radio the other morning, someone was on the Sydney Morning Herald website. This tells you how many others are reading the same story. Chile earthquake 2. Fiji cyclone 1. Lara Bingle 580!!

As Barry Humphries(IIRC) once said. "nobody went broke underestimating the taste of the Australian public"

[Buller_Scott]

The fact we have a whole section attributed to sport makes it all the more stupid when the main news reports on yep, sport too

yeah. that gets my goat, actually.

first, there's the news. then, before the game, then the game, then the post match show which is marketed as somewhat more analytical of the game, then the ''news'' in which there's a brief, tiny tiny tiny scratching of the surface of what's going on in world news, THEN something local (in melbourne, it'll most likely be about brutal violence, or sexual assault, or a mixture of both), then the remaining 45% of the report being about football football football.

ghey. and it IS ghey. how many times i've come across commentary on the radio: "oh and the BIG MAN launches a huge kick to the forward half, oh person A and person B are going for the mark, oh well taken person B! a beautiful mark by the BIG MAN from (insert place). he's lining up for goal, goes for the kick, there it goes....... what a mark! someone from the opposing team saved the goal! what a mark from the BIG MAN!!! what a BIG MAN!!! look at those big hands! look at those deliciously big, powerful thighs! look at those big, thick, accommodating arms! arms that could wrap you up and hold you tight just as easily as taking a mark like the big man just took now!"

yeah. ghey.

[Rocket36]

19 posts and counting.... your answer is in the self perpetuating reactions to such "news". If people really did ACTUALLY IGNORE this BS, the social commentators who pass themselves off as journalists would actually have to go and learn how to report new. Bring back the likes of George Negas (spelling?) and true investigative reporting on domestic and current affairs.