What else would you like to see on the news?

hey guys i was speaking to a friend the other day and we got talking about what else should be on the news of a night. for example a more comprehensive stock market report, jokes etc. what do you think?

twojacks28 said:

jokes etc.

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Commercial news is already a joke. They probably don't need any more.

But generally, less sport, more news.

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I like my sport and all but I tend to agree... with sport taking up almost half of the news.
there should definitly be better coverage of the stock market, mabey with the days biggest movers and losers, and more variety too not just the same old telstra, bhp etc. how about they cut the sport segment by 1/3 and give the stock review a few minutes instead of the last 10 secs before the add break.
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i agree with the both of you. what about a segment about why your internet is slow and where the viruses are coming from lately and what they do? do you think anyone would want to know this information. its just a suggestion

what about a segment about why your internet is slow

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Or how Kim Beazley is going to make it so much faster for us

hahaha but do you think people would want to know about the speed and viruses etc

well, yes i do.
The internet is such an important part of everyday life these days, we wouldnt even be having this conversation if it weren't! trading online, banking etc etc etc. We shouldn't have to deal with virus threats that gather private information but its part of everyday life now due to the internet.
Alerting people of new threats and what to do to prevent it would help however people should always keep their virus protection up to date, as by the time it gets on the news it could be too late.

Oh and spam mail... dont even mention that. I have to filter anywhere up to 100-150 per day.

The Mint Man said:

well, yes i do.
The internet is such an important part of everyday life these days, we wouldnt even be having this conversation if it weren't! trading online, banking etc etc etc. We shouldn't have to deal with virus threats that gather private information but its part of everyday life now due to the internet.
Alerting people of new threats and what to do to prevent it would help however people should always keep their virus protection up to date, as by the time it gets on the news it could be too late.

Oh and spam mail... dont even mention that. I have to filter anywhere up to 100-150 per day.

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my kids are on the bloody thing 24/7 thats all they do everything is via computer, we might as throw away the landline phone & t.v. plus there spelin is attroshus due to there shorthand on msm :swear:

thanks for that milkman i agree in a way. what do you fellow asf members think?

justjohn said:

my kids are on the bloody thing 24/7 thats all they do everything is via computer, we might as throw away the landline phone & t.v. plus there spelin is attroshus due to there shorthand on msm :swear:

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ye i no what yr talkin bout!

[EDIT] too many JD's for me.

sorry mint man not milk man. i called you the wrong the name

twojacks28 said:

sorry mint man not milk man. i called you the wrong the name

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You drinking JD too?
I actually thought you were talking to old mate JustJohn.... he's a milk man.

I would like to see all the ladies presenting the news in a bikini.

haha sam no wonder your 'banned'

sam76 said:

I would like to see all the ladies presenting the news in a bikini.

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I think they do a similar thing in germany only its strip news. aparently ratings are through the roof :bananasmi

ok guys i think you are now :topic lets get back to the question. what else could be on the news.

In short, I would like more information and less spin. And I'm absolutely fed up with the "dumbing down" of factual information by practically all mainstream media.

If they're going to report that, for example, XYZ is building a new furnace in their factory then I DO want to hear that it will cost X million Dollars, increase production by X thousand tonnes per annum which is worth X Dollars, will employ X people when operational, uses X megawatts of power to run it and so on. I DON'T want to hear the dumbed down "they're investing in equipment to secure the future of the plant" with no details.

This "dumbing down" seems to be getting a lot worse IMO. 25 years ago probably two thirds of the adult population of Tasmania could readily relate to a figure of 180MW without further explanation. Such figures were freely quoted, at one point on a literally daily basis, on talkback radio and in the press just as figures in Dollars or litres are quoted freely without need for explanation.

But in 2006 such information wouldn't even be broadcast because many of the viewers wouldn't realise that it's a measure of electricity generation / consumption, let alone the significance of a given number. Talk about dumbing down the population!

It's the same with anything technical. In decades past such information was quoted in a factually correct manner with only a minimal explanation required as to the significance of a given quantity. Now the media won't even quote the actual figures because they don't think anyone will comprehend them.

So I would certainly like to hear the facts on any matter without some news editor deciding that I'm not sufficiently intelligent to understand any number more than 10 or any unit of measurement that isn't $, litres or kilograms. And, of course, if someone doesn't understand then that's what encyclopaedias, dictionaries and the internet are for. We have more information readily available than ever before and yet we've come to the point of assuming practically everyone to be somewhat dumb.

As for sport, no problem with reporting it but if sport is reported as part of the main news as is increasingly the case then that ought to mean the sports bulletin is reduced accordingly or scrapped altogether that day. It's beyond a joke on a Saturday to get maybe 20 minutes of news (with another 10 minutes of ads) only to have sport take up a full 15 minutes of that time and most of the rest being weather.

Finance suffers the same problem as anything techincal. A lack of willingness to report anything that even 1% of the population won't understand. That precludes reporting anything much beyond interest rates and what BHP and TLS shares did today.

If there actually were reports on the bond markets and so on then people might actually understand more about what goes on in the financial world. Likewise more reporting on any other factual subject can only help public understanding of what really goes on.

I don't know what channels you guys are watching. The ABC 7pm news only has usually about 6 - 7 minutes max of sport, earlier in the week probably only 5 minutes, no commercials, and the final 2 minutes are the weather.
I don't find it "dumbed down". I haven't watched the news on any of the commercial channels for years, let alone what purports to be "current affairs" on the commercial channels. It's a rare night when I don't find something interesting on the ABC 7.30 Report, particularly regarding political commentary.

Things like viruses, internet speed, etc are interesting and of concern to all of us, but they hardly constitute "News", do they? Wouldn't they more appropriately go into a programme like Catalyst or similar?

Julia