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Hmm, that's interesting. I notice that, in their special, 5000 episodes montage story, A Current Affair seem to have mysteriously ommitted every diet, plastic surgery, dodgy speed camera, neighbour feud, tennants from hell and celebrity puff story they've ever done.
Instead, for some reason, they've chosen to show their stories on major world events, important moments in politics and recent history, moving interviews, and confronting and sometimes frightening interviews with cult leaders and rapists. Which is very strange, because A Current Affair hasn't had any journalistic intergity for years, as it is a well known fact that political and serious stories, particularily ones involving world issues, don't rate as well as brain-dead puff pieces and "naming and shaming" of slightly shoddy local council policies. When they do get a potentially important story, they only sensationalise it to ubsurdity or downplay it into nothingness. Sure, they may do a story on an event when it happens, like the destruction of the World Trade Centre for example, but so does everyone else, and everyone else tends to do it better (except Today Tonight, of course).
Once, long ago, before my time, ACA had Jana Wendt and Ray Martin and it had credibiltiy. But that was years ago. Now it is about the puff pieces and the milking of the battler angle. The fact that they celebrate their 5000 epidose landmark by looking back at their glory days of actual journalism and completely ignoring the sort of sensationalised, patronising, what-a-waste-of-half-an-hour-of-my-life crap they've been puking out every weeknight for at least the last decade is just hilarious and not a little bit pathetic. It is also unfortunate, as it shows that channel Nine knows well just how silly its merry little news program has become. The fact that they let it go on that way is only one more thing to add to the very long list of evidence that channel Nine is the antichrist, that it isn't remotely concerned with providing quality programing or pleasing its viewers, only with making money and maintaining that the only way to do so is to treat its public like idiots.
I hate channel Nine.
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Things I have learnt from the ACA montage:
1) Appartently, 80s and 90s politians were not actual puppets, as they are in my head.
=>
"Hee, those blokes look like the puppet PM!!!
... Whaddya mean it's the puppets who look like the blokes, the puppets were the ones having the debates and making the announcements!
...That was on a comedy show, you say? Oh."
Ah, childhood and the utter ignorance of politics!
2) All molesters and rapists have bad teeth. Like, really.
Instead, for some reason, they've chosen to show their stories on major world events, important moments in politics and recent history, moving interviews, and confronting and sometimes frightening interviews with cult leaders and rapists. Which is very strange, because A Current Affair hasn't had any journalistic intergity for years, as it is a well known fact that political and serious stories, particularily ones involving world issues, don't rate as well as brain-dead puff pieces and "naming and shaming" of slightly shoddy local council policies. When they do get a potentially important story, they only sensationalise it to ubsurdity or downplay it into nothingness. Sure, they may do a story on an event when it happens, like the destruction of the World Trade Centre for example, but so does everyone else, and everyone else tends to do it better (except Today Tonight, of course).
Once, long ago, before my time, ACA had Jana Wendt and Ray Martin and it had credibiltiy. But that was years ago. Now it is about the puff pieces and the milking of the battler angle. The fact that they celebrate their 5000 epidose landmark by looking back at their glory days of actual journalism and completely ignoring the sort of sensationalised, patronising, what-a-waste-of-half-an-hour-of-my-life crap they've been puking out every weeknight for at least the last decade is just hilarious and not a little bit pathetic. It is also unfortunate, as it shows that channel Nine knows well just how silly its merry little news program has become. The fact that they let it go on that way is only one more thing to add to the very long list of evidence that channel Nine is the antichrist, that it isn't remotely concerned with providing quality programing or pleasing its viewers, only with making money and maintaining that the only way to do so is to treat its public like idiots.
I hate channel Nine.
***
Things I have learnt from the ACA montage:
1) Appartently, 80s and 90s politians were not actual puppets, as they are in my head.
=>
"Hee, those blokes look like the puppet PM!!!
... Whaddya mean it's the puppets who look like the blokes, the puppets were the ones having the debates and making the announcements!
...That was on a comedy show, you say? Oh."
Ah, childhood and the utter ignorance of politics!
2) All molesters and rapists have bad teeth. Like, really.