There it was yesterday. A plethora of Australian journos standing mic in hand in front of the Champs Élysées or the Eiffel Tower reporting on the French presidential election.
The trouble was what they were doing was not reporting. Or to be more precise, they started with a little reporting and then moved quickly on to speculation and opinion.
Welcome to Australian media’s version of the Kon Tiki tour. With elections looming in the UK and the French National Assembly in June and elections in Germany in September, it’s all aboard the bus. When you get there, don’t worry so much about factual reporting. Tell us what you reckon.
On last night’s ABC News at 7.00pm, the ABC’s European correspondent, Lisa Millar, spent the first five seconds repeating the result and then moved full steam into divination. To be honest, it wasn’t her fault. She faced questions posed from the desk in Sydney from newsreader, Juanita Phillips, all of it demanding a “What do you reckon?” response.
Ms Millar spent the bulk of her report waxing on what might happen by Christmas and beyond.
Full column here.
Gee if only the coalition had people like Dr John Hewson in their ranks now the Nation and the party would be much better served. Dr John continues to show just how ridiculous the coalition and their supporters have become.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/its-time-for-a-mature-and-apolitical-welfare-debate-20170518-gw7jnp.html
I see an incident in Times square NOT being called a terrorist attack. The driver a Navy veteran was hearing voices? Lucky for him his name is Richard and not Raheem.
TIme to put in the tips. I’ll take the Blues over Freo this week for sure. I liked the style of their game last week and I think they’ll be stronger for the outing, and Freo will still be a bit frazzled from their China trip. Cats to bite the ‘dogs. Demons to do the ‘boners.
Is that tips or tipples Wiseendorf? Freo didn’t go to China, that was Gold Coast and Port.
LOL! My error! Should have gone to spec savers!
Too much of a very god thing Lou, but I’m still on the Blues this week.
I love the irony. Trump and members of his team are accused of being too close to Russia. While US media are not permitted to attend a meeting in the White House with senior Russian officials, that is no problem because an offer to release the transcript of the meeting is made – by Vladimir Putin!
An early convivial visit to the White House to see POTUS Trump coming up for the very likeable Vlad Putin imho NFY!