Quotidianitas, mouths of babes, and how the news suxx0rz

[catsidhe]

Flicking through channels, in between the end of a DVD and the beginning of the news. One channel change drops us at a wildlife documentary. The scene was of two whales, frolicking. One of the whales was male. You could tell. He was very excited to be around the other whale, if you get my meaning.

Abi: “What's that thing sticking out of that whale?”
Me (fighting giggles, as is mimdancer): “Well, when a daddy whale and a mummy whale love each other very much...”

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And when the news does start: some guy who coaches football did something, some cricketer has come home in disgrace for some reason, and Indian students are still scared. Oh, and we're on tenter-hooks to see who gets what in the fallout from Fitzgibbon's white-anting.

Maybe it would be nice to have a mention that pretty well every single member of the British cabinet has resigned in disgrace, and that Brown is an utter lame duck. Still, we know where our priorities are, right?

(Edit: 6:24, and still no mention of Britain's governmental meltdown. However they have gone into some detail about how hot the Australian soccer team is in the middle east, and how the football went. Weather next. Hope you didn't expect the Nine News to actually inform you or anything.

Comments

[neefsck.livejournal.com]

Its *9* news for chrissakes!

Of course they're not going to mention anything that doesn't concern (directly) Australians.
Especially Australians that aren't "Aussie Battlers"

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

“English parliament dissolves into a gelatinous goop, with no survivors. One Australian onlooker was slightly grossed-out. He will tell his story exclusively to Today's Current Affair Tonight. Here's Tom with 25 minutes of Sport.”

Abi came up to me last week, and said “Daddy, I know what ‘News’ is: ‘News’ is a TV show for grown-ups, with all the bad things that happened today.”

I could not fault her definition, except possibly for the word “all”.

[sjl.livejournal.com]

I'd amend that definition slightly. It's a TV show for grown-ups, with some of the bad things that happened today, and virtually nothing that is relevant to the general population.

But still. That's a smart kid you have there.

[enrobso.livejournal.com]

I do feel sorry for Gordon.

[(Anonymous)]

And where's the mainstream news coverage of The Pirate Bay trial? And the EU elections where the Pirate Party scored 1, possibly 2, seats? Not even SBS showed these stories (that I saw).

-- mpp