Commercial TV News: Pathetic

Re: Commercial TV News, Pathetic

jono1887 said:

I doubt it... the idiots will simply switch to the channels that still reveal the trashy media/news. Their simple minds are quite incapable of grasping the significance of real news or even understand the fact that the news they are receiving is full of crap in the first place.

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I believe if we only had the ABC and SBS the general population would be smarter, more intelligent.

Morning TV -

Ch9 - Grinning arrogant smart **** Karl, the resident wanker Richard Wilkinson and his Hollywood bum buddy all talking absolute crap and repeating it for 3 hours.

Ch7 - David (the human penis) Koche, finance expert ?, yeah and I'm an astronaut. Talk slowly so his audience with the large foreheads and knuckles dragging on the ground won't miss a single letter of his verbal diarrhea.
His side kick, cringing, giggling, snorting Mel who just makes you want to slam a door in her face if you could, Fi Fi , how freeking stupid can one person be, Box - is only there so that Mel doesnt appear too stupid. It's not working.

and thats just mornings..........their news services are just as bad almost.

2 minutes of local news then it's onto the FOOTY

I stopped using broadcast news years ago for exactly the reasons stated. TV and radio.

I get all my news via the net (and this forum site).

This way I decide what is newsworthy, not some other overpaid and out of touch Klown.

Edit: I do actually get my US political news from The Daily Show with John Stewart, and The Colbert Report, who really do report the political news the way we all really see it.

Re: Commercial TV News, Pathetic

MrBurns said:

They couldn't give a toss about a few complaints

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You have obviously haven't worked in a Television Newsroom before.
Either that, or you have conveniently closed your eyes when the viewer logs are distributed throughout the station. The newsroom copy is generally pinned up on the notice board for all the Journo, Producers, and crew to see.

Legitimate criticism IS noticed.
General whinging and moaning is not.

Anyway, you seem to have more time and energy to complain here, where nothing you post will have any effect BTW.
Why don't you DO SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT IT, or do you prefer just to be a moaner?

I too get all my news from the net or ABC/SBS.

News on commercial channels now has to 'rate' and attract advertising revenue like all the other time slots. Therefore they will run with whatever is deemed the most interesting and popular to their listeners not what is considered the most newsworthy. It's more infotainment now, not news.

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DVEOUS said:

You have obviously haven't worked in a Television Newsroom before.
Either that, or you have conveniently closed your eyes when the viewer logs are distributed throughout the station. The newsroom copy is generally pinned up on the notice board for all the Journo, Producers, and crew to see.

Legitimate criticism IS noticed.
General whinging and moaning is not.

Anyway, you seem to have more time and energy to complain here, where nothing you post will have any effect BTW.
Why don't you DO SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT IT, or do you prefer just to be a moaner?

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You obviously have no idea what it's like to be a viewer.

Ohhh Ohhh I worked in a TV studio ..........well why didn't YOU do something about it instead of moaning about the complaints in a thread like this.

They take no notice of viewer complaints, they might circulate them but if the ratings are there the don't give a toss or we wouldnt have to suffer their manipulative bull**** like running a Current Affair over time so everyone waiting for 2 1/2 Men has to listen to their next days promos etc etc.....
They have no morals or scruples, look at Big Brother what a mindless piece of **** that was but they kept going with it and only pulled it when the ratings dropped.

Legitimate criticism IS noticed.

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What a load of crap.

Re: Commercial TV News, Pathetic

MrBurns said:

I believe if we only had the ABC and SBS the general population would be smarter, more intelligent.

Morning TV -

Ch9 - Grinning arrogant smart **** Karl, the resident wanker Richard Wilkinson and his Hollywood bum buddy all talking absolute crap and repeating it for 3 hours.

Ch7 - David (the human penis) Koche, finance expert ?, yeah and I'm an astronaut. Talk slowly so his audience with the large foreheads and knuckles dragging on the ground won't miss a single letter of his verbal diarrhea.
His side kick, cringing, giggling, snorting Mel who just makes you want to slam a door in her face if you could, Fi Fi , how freeking stupid can one person be, Box - is only there so that Mel doesnt appear too stupid. It's not working.

and thats just mornings..........their news services are just as bad almost.

2 minutes of local news then it's onto the FOOTY

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Excellent post Mr Burns, loved it.
By the way, your from that commercial station ch 10 , the simpsons , arent you ??

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namrog said:

Excellent post Mr Burns, loved it.
By the way, your from that commercial station ch 10 , the simpsons , arent you ??

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There are exceptions to the rule, on rare occasions commercial TV stations accidentally put something good on.

Simpsons
2 1/2 Men
RPA

Struggling after that...........

60 minutes is still ok, as long as the keep Karl Grinning Stefanovic out of it.

Bit off topic, should have stuck to news.

Was a show on ABC about 1930 and how we are doing the same thing now.. bet the rating we low..
Still Krudd will be happy with the dumbing down and crap comedy the drones watch.
MJ a man of Steal wears his undies on the outside...

Australians are foolishly
starting To lower their guard

"Just a huge
level of debt"

"The whole so-called Australian dream has been a nightmare. This bubble began right in the middle of 1964 and it's gone right through to now. We have got 44 years of this enormous level of borrowing, it's gone from when the baby boomers first applied for a job to when they're now looking for retirement and at the end of it, the game is up and that wealth is not there, it's just a huge level of debt."
Professor Steve Keen
"Australia in the Red"
Panel Member

"It's about time that someone made a bit more noise on the disastrous policy actions being taken on the economy, interest rates, housing and superannuation. That's what we are looking to do."
Kris Sayce
"Australia in the Red"
Panel Member

"Most believe the recent banking crisis was a random, unpredictable event. But far from it: the drama unfolding is just history repeating - only the numbers get bigger. By studying the past, we can get a good idea of how the economy is going to unfold."
Phillip J. Anderson
"Australia in the Red"
Panel Member

"What Australia needs is a good property price correction to correct the inflationary excess of the credit boom that pumped up prices so much in the first place. The two-decade credit boom and investment in residential property hasn't made the country wealthier if it's put hundreds of thousands of people into debt they can't repay. It's made the country poorer."
Dan Denning
"Australia in the Red"
Panel Member
The scary thing is that most people don't believe we have a debt problem down under.

The truth is, household debt is just as big in Australia as it is in America. And it's growing every day.

Thanks to credit cards, mortgages and car loans, Australians have racked up nearly $1 trillion in debt-equal to the entire GDP of the country. And the $44 billion in credit card debt alone (according to the RBA) amounts to $2,000 per Australian.

As worrying as this private debt trend is, the most alarming trend is Australia's growing public debt.

Here is a simple warning: if Australia's public debt continues to grow, the country will, like America, soon become a debtor nation-dependent on high-saving foreign creditors to fund government programs.

Am I exaggerating? Or being unnecessarily alarmist? Consider the facts:

The first wave of the Global Financial Crisis has seen a $20 billion government budget surplus transformed into $57.6 budget deficit. Whether you agree with the policies that produced this deficit is not the point. The point is, the deficit is growing.

The government deficit is already 5% of GDP. That's not bad compared to the U.S. and U.K. (12% and 13% respectively). But the Bank of International Settlements-the central bank to central banks-reckons that Australia's net public debt could grow to $203 billion by 2013-nearly 14% of GDP.

That means no matter which party controls the government in Canberra, Australia will have to sell nearly $315 billion in bonds each year to bridge the funding gap.

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that in a Credit Depression-where money is hard to borrow-finding $315 billion a year to fund Australia's growing deficit won't be easy.


It won't be cheap either. Interest rates will likely rise in order to attract investors to this debt. That means the cost of servicing Australia's debt is going up too-just as the debt itself is growing massively.

Public debt is set to skyrocket at exactly the time that governments all over the world are competing for capital.

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Glen48 said:

Still Krudd will be happy with the dumbing down and crap comedy the drones watch.

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And I thought I was off topic

Have to agree about the dumbing down of society TV brings our kids up not us.

In part it’s due to ratings and getting advertising dollars but many Australians do seem obsessed with celebrities and sports people and anything that happens in America, ask more than a few younger people what the emergency services number is and a good portion will say its 911!, so I suppose commercial TV is only doing what the viewer want, but on the other hand the commercial TV channels here also seem to have an obsession with imitating American channels which has only fuelled the celebrity and USA fascination generation, maybe a few years ago commercial TV execs could see the viewers the celebratory obsessed US channels could pull in, so they started adopting the same here.

Still think its sad that commercial TV seems to ignore our own Asian doorstep and even the US Presidential election seemed to get more air time, coverage and comment from the commercial channels than the last federal election in Australia.