ABC Newsradio FTW! (972AM in Adelaide).

Me - glad I'm not the only one who can't stand it. It's almost insulting to one's intelligence to have the morning TV crap flung at them.

The danger is, this is where less discerning people get their news (and with the way these shows are presented, probably their opinions aswell).

Coshy only speaks the truth!

I hate Televised and Radio newscasts period. Most networks tend to have stupid top stories like "Ben Cousins has been picked up by Richmond"

Next week it will be "Ben Cousins passes gas; said to be relieved".

Yes, Mel and Kochie are complete tools when it comes to presenting; but they're doing a marginally better job than the Today show.

Thank god for the internet where more important information can be found.


...WOW! There's a NEW mexico now?

of course on the positive side...they do make Today Tonight and A Current Affair seem intellectually challenging. :)


By the way...when did the Tigers sign gas?...and is he any good?
oh right..that was "passes gas"...not "passes TO gas"
:)

Unfortunately, the lowest common denominator takes over wrt news and so only populist items are reported on.

A death in Australia is worth 5 deaths in USA/UK/NZ/Canada, is worth 20 deaths in other 1st world, and is worth 100 deaths in India.

As a society, we like our male news presenters old as this portrays wisdom and knowledge, we like our female news presenters young looking so the men think "I'ld like to have her" and the women think "I'ld like to be as thin and pretty as her"

Morning radio is dribble to fill in the time between news updates, morning TV is just promotional stuff between new updates.

Which one is worse? That's like asking is it better to play for the Taipans or the Spirit?

Its sad when cartoons on channel ten are better than whats on the other channels

Not that I've ever seen them but I reckon a couple of weeks of getting up at 4am to get made up and plonked in front of a teleprompter, reading someone else's appeal to the LCD would make me brain dead too. I'd probably quit and become a radio broadcaster. Only on commercial radio though, 'cos you can always put on "Thick As A Brick" and piss off 40 minutes early

To think Journalism requires 90+ on T.E.R scores.

That 90+ suggests we have...
1) too many people going to Uni
2) Too few Uni places

"To think Journalism requires 90+ on T.E.R scores."

...and in addition to that, the yr12 subject with the largest journalism aspect, English Communications, get's scaled like hell (ie. if you get 17 it becomes 13 on your TER). Sooo messed up.
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"A death in Australia is worth 5 deaths in USA/UK/NZ/Canada, is worth 20 deaths in other 1st world, and is worth 100 deaths in India."

Reminds me of 'Real Stories' with Hamish and Andy:

"A huge FIVE Australians have died... along with thousands of New Zealanders... but FIVE Aussies!!!"

or something like that, lol.

Radio

Morning commercial TV and radio are both awful.

Xztatik - that's probably by design, as 'me' alluded to - I think more people doing a subject and finding it straightforward can result in scores being adjusted.

Is English Communications the equivalent of English PES back in the 90s, or English SAS (which was the 'easy' option)?

You can see the same trend in newspapers and (historically more 'serious') papers like the SMH and The Age becoming more tabloid-like in their online material. Crikey had a list from News Ltd of the 100 most popular stories from their online properties - from memory, the most popular related to sex, scantily-clad women, celebrities, crazy mishaps, and mutant animals. There were two stories pertaining to politics and one of them could've been loosely categorised under both politics and sex.

Now, if I'm the NBL marketing person, I take the following ingredients as mentioned above and wonder exactly how I can combine them (ie, sex, scantily-clad women, et al) into one mega-story involving Shane Heal, a two-headed goat, the back seat of a car, and some 'ladies'.

Cheerleaders, rats, a Dome that is more like a cube - that's the foundation for this revival.

Bo, you deserve a basketball. When you say 'ladies', do you mean those ladies with something extra to give?

I'm smelling JT's 'Sexy Back' as the soundtrack for the NewBL, something like your Tina Turner/rugby league 'Simply the best' combo.

Let's get him to re-record it with some alternative lyrics like 'We're bringing sexy back', instead of 'I'm bringing sexy back', although the following lines could be fascinating viewing given their appearance in a TV commercial, overlaid with the accompanying visual of some lucky NewBL players gyrating:

You see these shackles? Baby I'm your slave
I'll let you whip me if I misbehave

Jack Toft: if I had poor taste, I'd say yes, they put the 'lad' into 'ladies'. But I'd never stoop so low as to make that sort of crass joke.

There's no poor taste on this forum

Like your work Bo...can we assume when you are suggesting "bringing sexy back"...you are talking about a Paul Rees return to the game????

Sexy back reminds me of Pero Cameron