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FTA-TV Bushfire Coverage!

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I think just the odd update will do instead of 90% of a news coverage. It's doing my nut in. Ramming the same 3 minutes of material down your throat for almost the entirety of the program.
 
What really $hat me about 7 news tonight and Today Tonight was...

The Reporter in front of a mini-fire (10m in front of it) saying, we're 1km away from town X. If the winds fire up and change direction, this town will go up in flames.

Well get out your cardigan you yuppie prick and put it out.:mad:
 
I too have been disgusted by the medias coverage of this disaster (and i've not seen any of the horrible 'morning' shows or TT/ACA).

Seeing Tom Steinfort waltzing around in the rubbles of peoples homes in his designer jeans, shirt and shoes made me feel ill.
 

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Monkey Worshipper said:
What really $hat me about 7 news tonight and Today Tonight was...

The Reporter in front of a mini-fire (10m in front of it) saying, we're 1km away from town X. If the winds fire up and change direction, this town will go up in flames.

Well get out your cardigan you yuppie prick and put it out.:mad:
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Good point. Yes we want to know what is happening but when you are all down there, do something constructive! They are all just standing around, I don't see them helping the situation.

What is worse is that most of the coverage is about the "stories", not about the facts of what has happened and what has gone on.

I am glad I am not the only one who thinks it is cringeworthy. It is embarassing how Australia covers any story like this. Even the Yanks do a better job (and that is saying something).
 
FRUMPY said:
Plus when they cross to the reporters, they stand there in the CFA uniforms looking like a nob and you know they have driven around for 30 mins trying to find a little fire they can stand in front of to get a good effect.
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seen plenty of the little fires in the background, for what im assuming is for effect.

strange, why dont they just put out the fire??
 
tess said:
Surely they know they have to start to pull back a little.
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That is like telling a pitbull with a taste for blood to roll over and play dead. Unfortunately, I don't think so, they can feel the awards in their greedy little hands right now.
 
I wonder if the Networks that are Broadcasting from the fire effected areas will donate their Advertising Fees for the time they are Broadcasting?
 
JUBJUB said:
So have they got those morning shows dweebs [Kochie,Mel,Robot,Lisa] dressed in Drizabones and wearing Akubra hats ?
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Kochie has his akubra I spotted earlier this morning while eating breakfast but isnt chasing anyone around. Mel is the one doing survivor interviews and from what I've seen has handled herself very well.

Having just turned on the Today show for a gander and seeing Karl wandering around the tent city looking for interviews as well as seeing the gimps in their fire gear on reports last night I have nothing but contempt for Nine and how they are reporting the fires. :thumbsd: Oh lol, Lisa Wilkinson (sic) is in a drizabone. Oh and back to Karl who has stalked another tent goer and is asking a man to re-count his story of how he lost his wife in the fires, his emotions are certainly like robot as well. :o

*TV off*
 
Just heard Micthell on 3AW talking to a CFA volunteer from Sth Morang about to go out again and of course .....

NM Q; Tell us what you saw?
CFA dude; Horrific!
NM; Discribe it....

Seriosuly 3AW are a Joke!
 
tess said:
Just heard Micthell on 3AW talking to a CFA volunteer from Sth Morang about to go out again and of course .....

NM Q; Tell us what you saw?
CFA dude; Horrific!
NM; Discribe it....

Seriosuly 3AW are a Joke!
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What else would you seriously expect from neil mitchell?

commercial radio flog :thumbsd:
 

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Nine just did a live telecast of a seperated couple reuniting, complete with the obligatory 5 cameras shoved in their faces. Truly cringeworthy.

Karl Stefanovic would have to be the most wooden personality on Australian television.

I wonder how much nine is chipping in out of their advertising profits?
 
Whats with these TV networks "being the first to return to town X" and being given access to areas not even residents are yet allowed in to?

Surely the CFA and emergency services have their priorities wrong if they are allowing Channel 9 reporters to trample all over peoples ruined homes before the owners have even been allowed back?
 
I thought Channel 9's blatant 'WE HAVE THE BEST COVERAGE WATCH US' was sickening. It's like Beaconsfield all over again but whereas that was at least a limited tragedy this is a massive one that is ongoing. Should have spent more time telling us what was going on and less time telling us how good their coverage was.
 
tess said:
Surely they know they have to start to pull back a little.
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To be honest, and this may sound rude and insensitive, but I'm already bored by it. The around the clock coverage become desensitising and unless you have a direct connection with it or are a Victorian, it's starting to become a bit labourious to watch. Understand it's a great tragedy and feel sorry for the victims, but when half an hour is dedicated to it on the news, I'm reaching for the remote.
 
I'm surprised with the coverage that some of the reporters haven't been slugged by a survivor.
Just getting in their face with cameras, as detailed above by Mario, it is surprising to me that this hasn't happened.
 

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Tortilla said:
Karl Stefanodick this morning said that the death toll was not likely to decrease but most probably increase.

Wotha??
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Perhaps the toll includes some people assumed to be likely dead?

The thought of that fat headed crap bag Kochie looking all sad while talking about people lives who have been destroyed makes me nauseous:thumbsd:
 
thejester said:
I thought Channel 9's blatant 'WE HAVE THE BEST COVERAGE WATCH US' was sickening. It's like Beaconsfield all over again but whereas that was at least a limited tragedy this is a massive one that is ongoing. Should have spent more time telling us what was going on and less time telling us how good their coverage was.
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There is starting to become a Beaconsfield like feel to this coverage, where the media go into complete overdrive and try and milk the tragedy for all it's worth. Fair enough it's a big story and people want to get information about it but there is a fine line between providing information and sensationalising for the sake of it.

As always the two breakfast shows seem to be the worst offenders in this area. They have both had extended non stop coverage and it almost seems like a competition between them to see who can get the most sensational coverage and the most interviews. Some people may be happy to talk to the media and tell their story but a lot of the time it just feels overly intrusive.

Even some of the Perth media have flown over there now to give their own local perspective and pester people for interviews. Surely there is enough local media there to cover it already.
 
Plugger35 said:
There is starting to become a Beaconsfield like feel to this coverage, where the media go into complete overdrive and try and milk the tragedy for all it's worth. Fair enough it's a big story and people want to get information about it but there is a fine line between providing information and sensationalising for the sake of it.

As always the two breakfast shows seem to be the worst offenders in this area. They have both had extended non stop coverage and it almost seems like a competition between them to see who can get get the most sensational coverage and the most interviews. Some people may be happy to talk to the media and tell their story but a lot of the time it's just feels overly intrusive.

Even some of the local Perth media have flown over there now to give their own local perspective and pester people for interviews. Surely there is enough local media there to cover it already.
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:thumbsu: I could not have said it better myself.........well done. Agree with everything you have said.

The worst part of this is everyone in the media really don't get "it" - they didn't learn from Beaconsfield, thought they were right and the other networks were "pathetic" with thier coverage. They don't see how cringeworthy and embarassing most of this is becoming. Put simply, the media in Australia don't see they are doing anything wrong.
 

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