Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Morning television
I like to keep up to date with the news and what's going on. I like to watch a bit of the news as I'm getting ready for work in the morning - I need to find out what sort of clothes to wear that day, you know, skirt, pants, jumper, or bullet-proof jacket perhaps? I think it also has something to do with my need to always be 'in the know' about what's going on. I don't like the feeling of leaving the house without knowing if something major had happened overnight. I think I started making a really concerted effort when the Bali Bombings happened over the weekend, and it took me until Monday to even work out anything had happened. I'd spent the weekend insulated in my own little world, and it made me feel incredibly ignorant to realise that fellow Aussies had been in agony, families in turmoil, and I was blissfully unaware.
I have a dilemma in the morning though - I can't pick which news show to watch. We have Sunrise, on channel Seven. I watch this most of the time, but Koshie is beginning to get on my tits, big time. Mel is such a suckhole too, she's always talking in this softly softly sympathetic-you're-so-brave-however-do-you-go-on kinda voice. I find it much more watchable when Mel is on holidays, and they put Nat in the main chair instead of getting her to read the news. They generally try to give out a positive vibe, but have been known to take it a little too far. A while back, they adopted the BEP 'Where is the Love' as their theme song, and even did a performance on TV where they sang it and kept replaying the performance over and over and over.... Cringe! Get on with the news people! Today they decided that, in the face of the recent events in Sydney, they needed to relaunch their campaign. Now, I don't think they've dragged out the tapes from their singing disaster, but this is their logo for the campaign:
Excuse me while I vomit. Basically, they're feeling guilty about all the aggression they sent out in previous days when the initial shock about the riots was strongest, now this is an attempt to backpedal and disassociate themselves from other media outlets who still seem to be in hype-mode. One positive was their attempts today to get in leaders from the community to try and thrash out the issues together and come up with some solutions. But couldn't they have done that without a 'Spread the Love' mushy campaign? It's just patronising, and these are obviously testosterone-charged men causing all the problems... I don't think a purple love heart is going to change their point of view - do you?
The other choice is Today who are alot like Sunrise, but usually a day later. In other words, they are mostly unable to come up with original ideas, so instead they copy Sunrise's, tweak it a little, and pretend like they didn't notice someone else did it first. They even got caught a couple of times calling their show 'Brekky Central' which has been a Sunrise thing for ages. I think they must've picked up the phrase while watching tapes of Sunrise to see what other ideas they could copy. Their main female presenter, Tracy Grimshaw, never used to annoy me. But she recently went blonde... now she looks like mutton dressed as Mel. Opps, I mean lamb. But at least they don't make me cringe with 'Share the Love' campaigns.
So y'see, I just want my daily news fix without feeling like I want to throw my shoes at the TV. I think I'm going to have to switch to radio... ¶ 6:00 PM
I have a dilemma in the morning though - I can't pick which news show to watch. We have Sunrise, on channel Seven. I watch this most of the time, but Koshie is beginning to get on my tits, big time. Mel is such a suckhole too, she's always talking in this softly softly sympathetic-you're-so-brave-however-do-you-go-on kinda voice. I find it much more watchable when Mel is on holidays, and they put Nat in the main chair instead of getting her to read the news. They generally try to give out a positive vibe, but have been known to take it a little too far. A while back, they adopted the BEP 'Where is the Love' as their theme song, and even did a performance on TV where they sang it and kept replaying the performance over and over and over.... Cringe! Get on with the news people! Today they decided that, in the face of the recent events in Sydney, they needed to relaunch their campaign. Now, I don't think they've dragged out the tapes from their singing disaster, but this is their logo for the campaign:
Excuse me while I vomit. Basically, they're feeling guilty about all the aggression they sent out in previous days when the initial shock about the riots was strongest, now this is an attempt to backpedal and disassociate themselves from other media outlets who still seem to be in hype-mode. One positive was their attempts today to get in leaders from the community to try and thrash out the issues together and come up with some solutions. But couldn't they have done that without a 'Spread the Love' mushy campaign? It's just patronising, and these are obviously testosterone-charged men causing all the problems... I don't think a purple love heart is going to change their point of view - do you?
The other choice is Today who are alot like Sunrise, but usually a day later. In other words, they are mostly unable to come up with original ideas, so instead they copy Sunrise's, tweak it a little, and pretend like they didn't notice someone else did it first. They even got caught a couple of times calling their show 'Brekky Central' which has been a Sunrise thing for ages. I think they must've picked up the phrase while watching tapes of Sunrise to see what other ideas they could copy. Their main female presenter, Tracy Grimshaw, never used to annoy me. But she recently went blonde... now she looks like mutton dressed as Mel. Opps, I mean lamb. But at least they don't make me cringe with 'Share the Love' campaigns.
So y'see, I just want my daily news fix without feeling like I want to throw my shoes at the TV. I think I'm going to have to switch to radio... ¶ 6:00 PM
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Yeah, I don't know what they're on in the mornings on Sunrise. It's like they're high on something and Koshie cracks some dirty jokes too that Mel giggles at and Nat(the sane one from WA-of course) always gives him the what-a-freakin-retarded-joke-that-was-but-I'll-humor-you-anyway kind of look and laugh.
I only tune in for the news and I'm sad to say, but Channel 9 does the news better the Channel 7. So I'd just flick to the news on the half hour. Most of their topics are crap actually and their guests suck most of the time too.
I remember when the hijab topic was hot earlier this year and when Bronwyn Bishop was kicking up a stink about it, all the Muslims were having a go at her and they invited this Muslim girl on who DIDN'T wear a Hijab and also was wearing a short skirt and nail polish on her fingers...DERRRRR...
Bad choice of religious representation.
And what's with that Hollywood Gossip guy? Is he gay?
HmmMMmmMMMmmmmm
I only tune in for the news and I'm sad to say, but Channel 9 does the news better the Channel 7. So I'd just flick to the news on the half hour. Most of their topics are crap actually and their guests suck most of the time too.
I remember when the hijab topic was hot earlier this year and when Bronwyn Bishop was kicking up a stink about it, all the Muslims were having a go at her and they invited this Muslim girl on who DIDN'T wear a Hijab and also was wearing a short skirt and nail polish on her fingers...DERRRRR...
Bad choice of religious representation.
And what's with that Hollywood Gossip guy? Is he gay?
HmmMMmmMMMmmmmm
That is THE best summary on morning TV i have ever read. Sunrise make me wanna puke. And Today is for old people. Boring much.
That is THE best summary on morning TV i have ever read. Sunrise make me wanna puke. And Today is for old people. Boring much.
Lol, thanks for the handy summary. I was worried that by sleeping in until 1pm i was missing stuff.
All is well ^_^
All is well ^_^
I only watch sunrise for that Hollywood gossip guy suraya!!!! Nelson is awesome hehe
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