This post is emotional, not logical
I don't know what this world is coming to when comedians known for outrageous stunts pull outrageous stunts, or when 'celebrity chefs' known for being foul-mouthed go off on a foul-mouthed tirade. Which is not to excuse The Chaser Team or Gordon Ramsay for some A+ idiotic behaviour, but the respective furores have been ridiculous.
Gordon Ramsay maybe deserves to cop it worse, at least from a feminist standpoint. But from that standpoint, The Chaser's stunt of the week before involving throwing a dummy of Quentin Bryce over a wall was pretty awful, too. I may as well have been watching The Footy Show.
I tell ya, I am so sick of biased reporting. I can't watch the news on any channel or read an article in any paper without hearing some inappropriately subjective language. For example, Channel Nine's story after the Chasers apologised began something like, "Well, it took them 48 hours, but the Chaser Team finally issued an apology..." There is no 'finally' about it. That's not your call to make, journalist. That's my call. You give me the facts, I make up my own mind. Of course, I perhaps should expect that kind of mental babysitting from a commercial network. I certainly don't expect it from the ABC. I can't believe they fired the head of comedy for letting the sketch go through.
Also, an anonymous comment on an internet forum doesn't count as a source. Many journalists seem to think an article is not complete without quoting several Dumb Things People Said Online. The internet is not your personal lazy vox pop library.
I can't believe our federal politicians keep weighing in on these oh-so-weighty issues, although of course I also realise that if you're doing a press conference on an unrelated matter and someone asks for your opinion, you need to say something, and you can't help it if that becomes the main headline instead of your original story.
Everyone's hating on The Chaser now, but I do agree that their wit is not as sharp as it once was. But then, back in the days of CNNNN, they used to do Fungry's ads where sick kids in a hospital were showered in French fries. Maybe it's because they weren't as well-known then that they got away with it. It probably wasn't as bad as the sketch they got in trouble for. I don't know, I didn't see that particular sketch, but since it's been censored I won't be able to now. Doesn't stop me and fifteen million other Australians being outraged about what we didn't see but know automatically was wrong. Because Channel Nine told us it was.
I have some Dove caramel-filled chocolates and the wrapper quotes are particularly stupid in this bag. The most recent one says, 'Give me chocolate right now or I will sing'.
If a person or group wants to court controversy, and deliberately set out to do so, and then get a ton of media attention, controversy, and uproar, then... why are we all acting so surprised?
Australia, there are more important things happening in the country and in the world right now. When did we get so uptight about everything? Dudes need to chill.
Gordon Ramsay maybe deserves to cop it worse, at least from a feminist standpoint. But from that standpoint, The Chaser's stunt of the week before involving throwing a dummy of Quentin Bryce over a wall was pretty awful, too. I may as well have been watching The Footy Show.
I tell ya, I am so sick of biased reporting. I can't watch the news on any channel or read an article in any paper without hearing some inappropriately subjective language. For example, Channel Nine's story after the Chasers apologised began something like, "Well, it took them 48 hours, but the Chaser Team finally issued an apology..." There is no 'finally' about it. That's not your call to make, journalist. That's my call. You give me the facts, I make up my own mind. Of course, I perhaps should expect that kind of mental babysitting from a commercial network. I certainly don't expect it from the ABC. I can't believe they fired the head of comedy for letting the sketch go through.
Also, an anonymous comment on an internet forum doesn't count as a source. Many journalists seem to think an article is not complete without quoting several Dumb Things People Said Online. The internet is not your personal lazy vox pop library.
I can't believe our federal politicians keep weighing in on these oh-so-weighty issues, although of course I also realise that if you're doing a press conference on an unrelated matter and someone asks for your opinion, you need to say something, and you can't help it if that becomes the main headline instead of your original story.
Everyone's hating on The Chaser now, but I do agree that their wit is not as sharp as it once was. But then, back in the days of CNNNN, they used to do Fungry's ads where sick kids in a hospital were showered in French fries. Maybe it's because they weren't as well-known then that they got away with it. It probably wasn't as bad as the sketch they got in trouble for. I don't know, I didn't see that particular sketch, but since it's been censored I won't be able to now. Doesn't stop me and fifteen million other Australians being outraged about what we didn't see but know automatically was wrong. Because Channel Nine told us it was.
I have some Dove caramel-filled chocolates and the wrapper quotes are particularly stupid in this bag. The most recent one says, 'Give me chocolate right now or I will sing'.
If a person or group wants to court controversy, and deliberately set out to do so, and then get a ton of media attention, controversy, and uproar, then... why are we all acting so surprised?
Australia, there are more important things happening in the country and in the world right now. When did we get so uptight about everything? Dudes need to chill.