StefanoRoccoWhite
6 Oct 2006, 12:49
Great article and this is spot on, couldnt have said it better myself.
I agree with Andrew Denton (http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/denton-to-nine-apologise-for-lees-poll/2006/10/05/1159641444778.html) that it was wrong of Nine's Today show to ask viewers to vote on whether Joanne Lees, an innocent victim of crime, was guilty of murdering her boyfriend Peter Falconio.
"This is a woman who has been very wronged by various sections of the media and I note with interest that Channel Nine has added to that long list of inglorious media outlets that continue to accuse her of something she never did," Mr Denton told ABC Radio. "They should be offering a public apology now - immediately."
And here is where Andrew and I part ways, for I don't believe Nine should bother apologising - not because I don't think the apology is due, but simply because an apology would be a waste of time, as Today's viewers are all so thick they wouldn't know a heartfelt act of contrition from a slimy sexual assault.
The morning news programs in this country might be the dumbest in the Western world. They are vapid, phony goop engineered for the dumb and those willing to be dumbed down.
The one template upon which they are based, NBC Today (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079108/), is genius by comparison. Katie Couric (http:///) and Bryant Gumbel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel) set the standard for the coffee-and-giggle format that we're all stuck with today, but when it came time to interview their subjects they asked the tough questions and appeared to do so from a solid bedrock of educated journalism. Matt Lauer (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079110/) does the same, and where Willard Scott (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Scott) laid the foundations for a character that can be known today as the "weather ********", his heir, Al Roker (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4515729/), at least has a credible history as a weatherman.
I am reliably informed, from sources very close to the action, that Mel and Koch (http://www.seven.com.au/sunrise) are very decent, good-humoured, intelligent people, and I have no reason to believe any less of Jessica and Karl (http://today.ninemsn.com.au/). But they all might as well be socks with button-eyes for the limp-wristed, baby-brained, jingoistic tosh they are forced to deliver us for breakfast every morning.
Can there be any more accurate barometer of the academic standard insisted upon by such programs than the fact that Kochie is being replaced while on holidays by game show host Larry Emdur (http://blogs.smh.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/DTlarry.html)?
I banned these shows in my own house long ago, because I actually felt them sapping my intelligence, the mere sound of the sub-Play School babble in the next room causing me to type the wrong keys, ash in my coffee, give good morning kisses to hawkers at the door while telling my wife to take a hike.
I'm exaggerating, of course - the socks shouldn't have button-eyes at all. For buttons can't cry, and you've gotta' squirt a few to suck in the masses.
Joanne Lees is guilty of the very same thing than damned Lindy Chamberlain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Chamberlain) to hell back in the 80s: refusing to cry , and Australian morons addicted to misery - and it seems they're in the majority - think that's just plain weird. Being a phony is alright, so long as you do it with an thick Aussie accent, but being weird is just not on in this brainless paradise, where dipsticks, led hook line and sinker by repulsive frauds in the media, continue to howl like bitches desexed at the death of Steve Irwin, a man discovered by America before Australia gave a fat hoot about him, a man so "popular" with the Aussie public that his one movie (http://au.movies.yahoo.com/The+Crocodile+Hunter:+Collision+Course/movie/4382/) scores no place at all in the Australian Box Office Top 300 (http://www.moviemarshal.com/). Maybe that's why people cried - they were guilty about never having given a toss about him.
Mainstream Australian entertainment is conceived, tailored and packaged for idiots. It's for the clods who might be excited, rather than spooked or nauseated, by the fact that some taxpayer-funded foolery has distilled us all down into a couple of faces (http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/revealed-the-face-of-sydney/2006/10/05/1159641464886.html), a "human embodiment of government statistics", the "official male and female Face of Sydney", one of those responsible claiming what was interesting about this high-priced art **** masquerading as anthropology was "not how much we differ, but how much we are the same".
Get stuffed. If you're happy to be a booger in a bulbous mass of silly putty, turn your camera on yourself, by all means, but leave me out of it.
And watch your breakfast shows in the morning like a good, dumb animal.
Posted by Jack Marx
October 6, 2006 11:23 AM
http://blogs.theage.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/2006/10/thick_as_the_ea.html
I agree with Andrew Denton (http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/denton-to-nine-apologise-for-lees-poll/2006/10/05/1159641444778.html) that it was wrong of Nine's Today show to ask viewers to vote on whether Joanne Lees, an innocent victim of crime, was guilty of murdering her boyfriend Peter Falconio.
"This is a woman who has been very wronged by various sections of the media and I note with interest that Channel Nine has added to that long list of inglorious media outlets that continue to accuse her of something she never did," Mr Denton told ABC Radio. "They should be offering a public apology now - immediately."
And here is where Andrew and I part ways, for I don't believe Nine should bother apologising - not because I don't think the apology is due, but simply because an apology would be a waste of time, as Today's viewers are all so thick they wouldn't know a heartfelt act of contrition from a slimy sexual assault.
The morning news programs in this country might be the dumbest in the Western world. They are vapid, phony goop engineered for the dumb and those willing to be dumbed down.
The one template upon which they are based, NBC Today (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079108/), is genius by comparison. Katie Couric (http:///) and Bryant Gumbel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel) set the standard for the coffee-and-giggle format that we're all stuck with today, but when it came time to interview their subjects they asked the tough questions and appeared to do so from a solid bedrock of educated journalism. Matt Lauer (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079110/) does the same, and where Willard Scott (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Scott) laid the foundations for a character that can be known today as the "weather ********", his heir, Al Roker (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4515729/), at least has a credible history as a weatherman.
I am reliably informed, from sources very close to the action, that Mel and Koch (http://www.seven.com.au/sunrise) are very decent, good-humoured, intelligent people, and I have no reason to believe any less of Jessica and Karl (http://today.ninemsn.com.au/). But they all might as well be socks with button-eyes for the limp-wristed, baby-brained, jingoistic tosh they are forced to deliver us for breakfast every morning.
Can there be any more accurate barometer of the academic standard insisted upon by such programs than the fact that Kochie is being replaced while on holidays by game show host Larry Emdur (http://blogs.smh.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/DTlarry.html)?
I banned these shows in my own house long ago, because I actually felt them sapping my intelligence, the mere sound of the sub-Play School babble in the next room causing me to type the wrong keys, ash in my coffee, give good morning kisses to hawkers at the door while telling my wife to take a hike.
I'm exaggerating, of course - the socks shouldn't have button-eyes at all. For buttons can't cry, and you've gotta' squirt a few to suck in the masses.
Joanne Lees is guilty of the very same thing than damned Lindy Chamberlain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Chamberlain) to hell back in the 80s: refusing to cry , and Australian morons addicted to misery - and it seems they're in the majority - think that's just plain weird. Being a phony is alright, so long as you do it with an thick Aussie accent, but being weird is just not on in this brainless paradise, where dipsticks, led hook line and sinker by repulsive frauds in the media, continue to howl like bitches desexed at the death of Steve Irwin, a man discovered by America before Australia gave a fat hoot about him, a man so "popular" with the Aussie public that his one movie (http://au.movies.yahoo.com/The+Crocodile+Hunter:+Collision+Course/movie/4382/) scores no place at all in the Australian Box Office Top 300 (http://www.moviemarshal.com/). Maybe that's why people cried - they were guilty about never having given a toss about him.
Mainstream Australian entertainment is conceived, tailored and packaged for idiots. It's for the clods who might be excited, rather than spooked or nauseated, by the fact that some taxpayer-funded foolery has distilled us all down into a couple of faces (http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/revealed-the-face-of-sydney/2006/10/05/1159641464886.html), a "human embodiment of government statistics", the "official male and female Face of Sydney", one of those responsible claiming what was interesting about this high-priced art **** masquerading as anthropology was "not how much we differ, but how much we are the same".
Get stuffed. If you're happy to be a booger in a bulbous mass of silly putty, turn your camera on yourself, by all means, but leave me out of it.
And watch your breakfast shows in the morning like a good, dumb animal.
Posted by Jack Marx
October 6, 2006 11:23 AM
http://blogs.theage.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/2006/10/thick_as_the_ea.html