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Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

Josh — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:25:31 -0000

Oh my. That is simply and utterly genius.

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

Ross — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:46:07 -0000

I hope none of the above comments by me implied anything other than a complete loathing for ACA. Yes, they seem to be having a better run than TT at the moment but that just means they're not getting caught.

Both shows are manipulative, exploitative, drivel for the masses, thriving on fear and stupidity.

I simply meant in this case ACA did a good job pointing out exactly how terrible TT were. Much better than in the previous 'woman chained in her retirement home' gloating where they used footage from Media Watch as though ACA and Media Watch were old allies in the fight for reputable broadcasting.

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

catbrain — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:56:20 -0000

Oh.My.God. 11 years since the Paxtons - I feel so old.

I never watch ACA/TT - they just make me angry and I end up hoarse by the end of the half hour. Was it Witness that did the strange barely-hosted show with pop-up info boxes about the story? I loved that show - it gave tabloid "current affairs" the level of disrespect it deserves.

Brett: a perfectly adequate defence against defamation is to include the word "allegedly".

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

fourthof5 — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:41:18 -0000

Josh you are quite right. Which got me thinking. Do you think if nine does a 20 to 1 on the most outragous moments in television, they would put on at number 2 and 1 spots, Mike Wilisy (sp?) being pissed on air and interfearing with a hostage situation ??

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

Josh — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:59:31 -0000

Fourth, that was 11 years ago!

At that time I was still living in hope that the "current affairs" programmes would have learnt from shows like Frontline and the backlash over the Paxtons that people were not going to fall for their sensationalism and needed real stories.

Unfortunately the producers of the programmes knew something I didn't: people appreciate their own ignorance. They placed their bets with this knowledge and continued business as normal.

Soon enough people returned to being outraged about whatever the programmes told them to be rather than being outraged about being dictated to or the methods the programmes were using.

In fact, the producers of the programmes were even smarter than that. They knew that they could create things to be outraged about to distract people from their anger against the programmes themselves.

It's a genius piece of manipulation and I have a philosophy about it that maybe I'll talk about on the show this week but it needs more space than is afforded me by the comments.

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

fourthof5 — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:38:05 -0000

Let us not forget that ACA had their own underhanded moment with the Paxtons.

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

Brett — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:55:31 -0000

Like they can talk...

They're just shitty that public opinion is swinging around for the Corbys from the 90-odd% belief that Schapelle was innocent to rumours abounding and photos circulating about drug use, etc... (don't want to be too specific about what the rumours are here - just to stay on the safe side of defamation)

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

Ross — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:54:42 -0000

We were recording the show, but I saw a large chunk (possibly all) repeated on Nightline.

Although there is quite a bit of pot kettle name calling, ACA do have a point. There is no way Channel 7 come out of this looking anything but awful at best. And no matter what you think of Mercedes or the Corbys, to then try and flip it and attack Mercedes character...

The scary part is how many fools actually watch TT.

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

guywithoutaname — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:57:21 -0000

Did any of you guys see a current affair on monday?
All they did was go on and on about how Today Tonight was devil spawn

Re: The Corby, Today Tonight fight gets a whole lot uglier…

Ross — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:19:55 -0000

I know.

And I love Channel 7 saying 'We didn't lure her there' when they had several hidden cameras and Jodi Powers lurking in the car park.

Why else would Mercedes go if she didn't think it was a way to help Schepelle?