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By Michael Visontay, published 9/6/2009The Matthew Johns-Sharks affair is a story about the power of broadcast media, rather than about the morality of footballer culture.
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Tracey Grimshaw and A Current Affair did their usual tired old sensationalism and dumbing down of their audience. They were later to boast about the ratings. I suspect the same thinking is behind the on-air stoush that is being promoted between channel 9's 'girl' and that nasty chef who was mean to her. The chef is 'mean' to everyone, that is his media persona but don't you worry about that.
This article should be about the parlous lack of investigative journalism, the abuse by the media of its privileged position through conducting of witch hunts, abusing individual's rights and generally acting in the many shoddy ways that we have come to expect of a media where the ownership is in too few hands and the overarching aim is even higher profits.
If the author wants to perform a service, why not talk about the grinding down of good journalists and the favouring of hacks who will churn out the same old, same old clap-trap featuring the same old stereotyped villains of politically correct Oz?
What about just one decent article on immigration for goodness sakes, or something even mildly better than superficial on the effect of political parties on democracy?
To be truthful, it is not only the gutter-dwellng TV current affairs shows who know it is easier and cheaper make news than find it - budget-conscious editors and lazy journalists know that! I wonder what the next 'take' will be on that publicity seeking chef, who according to one comic, insulted 'our' girl Tracey by calling her a journalist. Let's hear it for the light-hearted ribbing about the facial mole that shouldn't have been broadcast but was and started the faux war to give cheap publicity to both.