Australian TV News - worse than the US?

[Pert_UK]

Jesus I will go insane if the GWN News doesn't raise its game.

It's full of scare stories like "Your pork sausages might have beef in them!" and "Sharing Contact Lenses Might Make You Go Blind!".

Talk about non-stories....they even admit "Of course, nobody has gone blind through sharing lenses yet.....and in fact, nobody really does ever share contact lenses......and if you were stupid enough to stick random crap in your eyes without cleaning it then you deserve to go blind.......but as you can buy them on the internet now there's the possibility that it could happen!"

The crowning turd in the waterpipe came yesterday when they did a big SCARY story about the weather......

"Forecasters predict that there's a 50/50 chance of higher than average rainfall likely this Spring".

Now think about that statement for a moment. It's in a NEWS programme. What it actually represents is the total absence of new information. They may as well have said "Everything will probably continue as normal".....

The amateurism here is astonishing.

P.

[Maple]

1. I remember a line from

The Feminine Mystique, the book that came out in the 60s....she said that every woman's magazine always had an article on some variation of 'there's death in your medicine cabinet'

So next time I was near a magazine rack, I checked it out...and sure enough...along with the diets, beauty tips and utterly useless articles like 'how to make Xmas ornaments from old used milk cartons' there was always one scare story...like death & the medicine cabinet.

I notice it's now permeated the entire media...print, net, radio, tv...they're all doing it.

Something, somewhere, somehow is gonna getcha.

And most of them are REALLY reaching....like sharing someone's contact lens??

[Pert_UK]

2. I remember an old "Mary Whitehouse Experience" gag on this.....

Taking the piss out of Lynne Faulds-Wood who presented a "consumer" programme highlighting the "dangers" in everyday life...

"This refrigerator is a potential death trap........This chair is another potential death trap in the home......And this salt pot is a 200ft tall black angel of the night that pumps us with diabetes as we sleep!"

ROFL!

BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING!!!

P.

[rooboy]

3. Stay right away from the commercial networks, Pert...

ABC and SBS should be pretty much your only sources of news. And ABC radio news programs are better than the TV ones, I find.

Channels 7,9,10 news bulletins are just fillers between home improvement and "reality tv" shows.

[Pert_UK]

4. I can only get 2 channels.......Bloody 50 year old TV and crap aerial!

Mind you, one of them is ABC, which at least allows me access to some decent news and current affairs programmes, as well as some great drama and documentaries.

Having said that, a lot of the decent drama is from the UK and the US, but at least they import some of the good stuff, rather than the total toss.

P.

[GCP]

5. Would the commercial channel be a Murdoch enterprise by any chance?

That effer has a hell of a lot to answer for in the dumbing down of the planet IMHO.

:grr:

[GOPisEvil]

6. Where is Rupert Murdoch from again?

Sigh...