Where has all the serious journalism gone?
January 8th 2007 08:25
Is it just me or is it that the more I read the Daily Telegraph the more I dislike it? I'm not sure what it is about this particular paper but it just seems to grate on one of the few nerves that I seem so desperate to hang onto. Can they explain how out of all of the news that is happening around the state and the country it seems to search for and then focus on the most inane and mundane stories for front page stories. Today their front page had a big picture of Shane "Warnie" Warne signing an autograph with the headline being "Warne: Simone is still in my heart" Awww isn't that sweet? There's just one problem...it doesn't belong on the front page. In fact it doesn't belong in the first section of the newspaper. In fact why is it in the paper at all? Why is the media pushing this onto us? Do they think we have become so celebrity obsessed that we need it on the front page of our newspaper?
Where are the Telegraphs priorities? I mean seriously, c'mon guys, as a newspaper you can do better than to plaster a guys private life all over the front page. He's not that important!
The other point about the paper is that it's decidedly anti-labour. I am not labour, nor am I liberal but the newspaper is there to report the facts not to editorialise in sensationalistic headlines. Thats not the job they're there for. If they want to editorialise, thats why they have an editorial page and columns for writers to express their views. The paper has become more like a cheap gossip rag than a worthwhile read. Until the paper gets it's priorities right, gets a little more serious about what it deems to be important and stops the sensationalism, I shall not waste anymore of my money on it.
My other grouse is against shows like "Today Tonight" and "A current Affair" which don't seem to be adding that much to the prestige of television journalism. They don't seem to focus on anything substantial, except finding unscrupulous and shady ripoff merchants. (Maybe they'd like to do a story on my former boss who was also as slimy, shady and unscrupulous as they come). These shows are more like magazines that are primarily aimed at women. I always believed that shows that are directly after the news should go more in depth about stories that were in the news. Perhaps an interview with someone who's newsworthy. I think that's the difference between TT ACA and the 7:30 report. Can you imagine Kerry O'Brien doing stories on Warnies love life? Or Summer fashion? It doesn't seem like him does it? Then again I can't see Tracey Grimshaw giving any politician a hard time, but more likely to find out what brand of makeup/shoes/dress/suit they're wearing. Perhaps she can give them a hard time because of what they're wearing
It seems to me what lacks in this country is serious investigative journalism. All I see is reporting the facts and letting it go at that, but what they're quite happy to do is to follow celebrities...Nicole Kidman, Shane Warne or Lara Bingle for stories like they somehow will have some bearing on my life in my present or future life. If someone asked me how journalism is in this country right now the only thing I'd reply is to repeat Ted Bullpit "Bloody shambles of course...someone should blow journalists up!"
Where are the Telegraphs priorities? I mean seriously, c'mon guys, as a newspaper you can do better than to plaster a guys private life all over the front page. He's not that important!
The other point about the paper is that it's decidedly anti-labour. I am not labour, nor am I liberal but the newspaper is there to report the facts not to editorialise in sensationalistic headlines. Thats not the job they're there for. If they want to editorialise, thats why they have an editorial page and columns for writers to express their views. The paper has become more like a cheap gossip rag than a worthwhile read. Until the paper gets it's priorities right, gets a little more serious about what it deems to be important and stops the sensationalism, I shall not waste anymore of my money on it.
My other grouse is against shows like "Today Tonight" and "A current Affair" which don't seem to be adding that much to the prestige of television journalism. They don't seem to focus on anything substantial, except finding unscrupulous and shady ripoff merchants. (Maybe they'd like to do a story on my former boss who was also as slimy, shady and unscrupulous as they come). These shows are more like magazines that are primarily aimed at women. I always believed that shows that are directly after the news should go more in depth about stories that were in the news. Perhaps an interview with someone who's newsworthy. I think that's the difference between TT ACA and the 7:30 report. Can you imagine Kerry O'Brien doing stories on Warnies love life? Or Summer fashion? It doesn't seem like him does it? Then again I can't see Tracey Grimshaw giving any politician a hard time, but more likely to find out what brand of makeup/shoes/dress/suit they're wearing. Perhaps she can give them a hard time because of what they're wearing
It seems to me what lacks in this country is serious investigative journalism. All I see is reporting the facts and letting it go at that, but what they're quite happy to do is to follow celebrities...Nicole Kidman, Shane Warne or Lara Bingle for stories like they somehow will have some bearing on my life in my present or future life. If someone asked me how journalism is in this country right now the only thing I'd reply is to repeat Ted Bullpit "Bloody shambles of course...someone should blow journalists up!"
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