Oh dear the Media are at it again. This time it’s a battle between Shappelle’s Mum and her daughters supposed best friend. Wah wah wah…is all I heard. But surprisingly enough, I hear people talking about it away from the tele. More than this however, and perhaps more annoyingly, I hear church people talk about it. Tony Squires did a fairly nice piece on this in his opinion column.
Forgive me for being cynical, but I really don’t give a hoot about whether Corby’s Mother think’s her daughters friend is lying or not. What I care about is whether Global Warming is a reality or not. Whether Rudd is a good leader or not. Whether the US is going to invade Iran or not. And so should the rest of this country.
Yet Two million Australians tuned into that rubbish this week. IF we want to know where political, social and moral complacency comes from, look no further. Whatever you do for the rest of this year, I urge you to boycott Today Tonight and A Current Affair….
February 19, 2007 at 7:08 am
here here.
February 19, 2007 at 8:56 am
I read that Schappelle’s bio outsold Peter Cosgrove’s in the pre-Christmas rush.
February 19, 2007 at 9:25 am
I am with you on the ‘who give a ___’ on the battle of the trash tv “current affairs”. This particular issue is a boon for seven in particular “the spirit of naomi lives on….”
February 19, 2007 at 12:41 pm
From a psychological point of view it’s noteworthy that we humans are ultrasocial and we often care more about the “one” person because we can identify with them. But if you talk about abstract ideas like war on terror, global warming, or even gospel ideas people often struggle to get their head around it. We are easily drawn into the interpersonal realm instead.
BTW – Well done on spelling Schappelle’s name correctly. Who’d do that to their child? They’d have to be on drugs or something… oops, did I say that?
February 19, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I was in the Chiropractor this evening and read an article on why Naomi quit. She said it was because there was a smear campaign against her. I reckon it’s cause the Chaser team played that clip where she was using the F bomb quite a bit. She played the ‘useless, media hype’ junky quite well I thought.
I am going to start an online petition soon to have TT and ACA banned. Once it’s up and running, I will let you guys know so you can sign it first….
February 19, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Boycott? Easy. Can’t remember the last time I watched either of those trashy tele-tabloids.
February 19, 2007 at 9:27 pm
The only trouble is, moulmein, they rate.
And with the several million viewers per night watching, one has wonder why there is a brain drain, and a lowering of the standards of both education and morality in our country.
I used to love how the Chaser showed us what we learned from current affairs programs! (But I couldn’t really enjoy the show because of the language – they just went that little bit too far).