Speaking of embarrassment - Sunday TV news. Seven's bulletin, about two fishermen rescued when their boat sunk, closed with this:
"It was biting cold in the water, but in the end the only thing that was biting was that old fish called embarrassment."
That old fish is new to me.
If you insert a breathless pause, two dramatic up-words and nod your head sagely as you finish, you can make it sound even more stupid than it reads.
The disconnect between the news reader, what they actually say, their comprehension of it and if they have bothered to pre read it, becomes wider each day. Channel Seven takes the awards, Channel 9 is a close second.
Who ever said talking heads needed to have a brain?
The budget cutting that is happening across the News networks with a generic sanitised news porridge being served up, is only making me think "May I have some less sir'?
Posted by: Mr Bagel | 14 June 2007 at 13:32
Do you have Paul.......Mar...shall over the border? If ever see that that fucker in the street, he's getting punched for crimes against the language. We've also got a pretender to his crown, Murray Nichol, who is, possibly, even more annoying.
Thank God for Aunty.
Posted by: 13th Man | 14 June 2007 at 13:57
All commercial news is rubbish, but it's the weekend versions, networked out of wherever and probably staffed by work-experience duds and lesser-level wannabes, that are more than usually awful.
Just listen to the footy bulletins. You could probably record one at the start of the season and use it over-and-over again for the rest of the year. Surely, it's only a matter of time before they are computer generated voice-overs with a program linked to the AFL draw that automatically inserts the correct team names.
Posted by: Tony T. | 14 June 2007 at 15:23
The true definition of atrocious is watching Heals or Voss do the sport. Voss has OCD with his hands, constantly fucking with things on the desk, and Healy puts a p..ause in the most inap..pr.opriate of places (breathe, smile, look at autocue, read, breathe, smile, pause...)
We hates them, don't we precioussss?
Posted by: CB | 18 June 2007 at 20:29