Mmmm. Martin DiStasio with that chilling report.
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The ABC sums up the embarrassing TodayTonight/A Current Affair prostitute shemozzle this morning:
Unfortunately I didn’t get a screenshot of the footage with both TT and ACA logos and ironic “exclusive” tags covering it.
It’s a squabble over one of the almost 23 million Australians who have never slept with Craig Thomson.
And if there’s one thing enduring one of these programs last night has made crystal clear for me: Somebody needs to rebroadcast Frontline URGENTLY.
Just heard some one from ACA trying to justify their report. He said that in a telephone conversation they had after she recanted he could hear CT on the TV in the background and that she said that she didn’t want to be hounded by the Govt for ever.
What a ridiculous defence.
1) If she did go ahead and the Govt fell then one would presume the Coalition would be in power. Why would they harry the person who so helped them/
2) Why did they not note in their story that she had recanted beacuse of “fear”
3) Wouldn’t this “fear” give rise to ACA being able to run another story
4) I think her passport that indicates that she wasn’t in the country is pretty compelling evidence that she didn’t have sex with CT ( unless they are suggesting he went to NZ or was really , really well endowed).
This crap is why we need some sort of control in place. There is no accountability. No tsndards No credibility. Frontline undersold the reality
Malcolm Fraser at the Whitlam Oratory had it pretty right
You said it Pav:
No accountability.
No standards.
No credibility.
And I think on a personal and professional level for ACA/TT “journalists” and anchor people:
No dignity.
No integrity.
Blind Freddy could see there would be no happy ending for ACA in this case.
Does anyone know when ACA usually pays appearance fees? Is it once the story airs?
that reminds me, I’ll get my boys to watch Frontline when they do media studies in school.
I think ACA and TT have long jumped the shark. And Channel Nine was found recently to have a problem with the truth.
“Somebody needs to rebroadcast Frontline URGENTLY”
Don’t expect the ABC to do it, it’d be too close to 7.30.
“No accountability.
No standards.
No credibility.
No dignity.
No integrity.”
The modern TV
evangelist’s“journalist’s” credoA lot of schools in the 90s did in fact use FRONTLINE in their meeja studies. The writing was superb, not a wasted syllable, every line a blow to the head of Currant Bun & Barcelona Last Week.
Make that “..a blow to the guts..” as there is clearly no head nor heart used in the production of either show.
A lot of schools in the 90s did in fact use FRONTLINE in their meeja studies
And the 2000s. I did Frontline when we covered Media in Year 10 (?) English back in ’03.
Course, they also used The Simpsons episode “Homer Badman” to show us the power of the media as well.
Ha. I helped write Frontline.
Well one scene anyway.
Once Frontline hit the airwaves and exposed the machinations of the typical Tabloid 6.30 tv show, you might have thought that these shows would learn a lesson.
But they have in fact, gotten WORSE!
Frontline was like the primitive Sleestak’s that Enik (the cultured Sleestak) encountered in a time travel sequence in the (supposedly) kids show, Land of the Lost. After initially thinking they were his ancestor’s, he realise that they were in fact his descendant’s!
jules – sound interesting! Tell us more.
Also recommend Absolute Power starring Stephen Fry and John Bird. Not sure if this has been on Oz TV, but it should be. One brilliant episode has the PR company spinning for Bin Laden’s brother.
Good work Jules!
Its not as awesome as it sounds. One scene, anbd it was accidental.
but anyway…
I had a girlfriend who lived in a flat in S Yarra at the time, and I got to be good mates with her flatmates B/f. One night we were sitting around watching Friday night footy and having a few beers and cones and at one point got the munchies. So we went down to get a pizza. I forget the name of the place but it was popular and expanded to have pizza shops all over the place for a while.
We had just got our pizza when my mate went a little weird. He’d seen Jane Kennedy and was drooling about how cool she was and how he had a crush on her. My g/f and her mates were all media studies students at RMIT so this was a perfect opportunity for him. I told him to go get her autograph and chat her up, it could be a good career move if nothing else. But he was too shy.
Being wasted I said how easy it was and proceeded to take our pizza box and ask for her autograph.
I told her how good Frontline was and how it was about time someone did that and blah blah blah and asked her to sign the pizza box for my mate who was too shy and wasted to do it himself. She did and I left. On the way out he asked me why I didn’t get Rob Sitch’s autograph. “Oh was he there? I didn’t notice him.”
Two weeks later we happened to be watching the show when someone asked for jane kennedy’s character’s autograph and completely ignored Mike Moore. After laughing for a few minutes we decided that scene was having a go at me in the pizza shop weeks earlier. The pizza box with the autograph was stuck to the wall in their loungeroom by this point. (Dunno what ever happened to it tho.)
I got the blame for that scene and have been trading beers of it ever since.
Arg, all I’ve wanted to watch since Jeremy started tweeting about it is Frontline.