The Australian: It's her ABC 2005]:
"But these incidents became a pattern when two of the most significant news events in recent times took place and the ABC, once again, stuck to schedule. When the pope died on Sunday morning two weeks ago, it coincided with news of the Sea King crash in which nine Australians were killed. But the ABC chose to continue running its music video program Rage, followed by Poko, Basil Brush, Angelina Ballerina and The Fairly Odd Parents."
Ratings are fine, but journalism is what drives a culture and community. Edutainment is not real. Some would claim news is biased. Granted. Good point at this moment in our history..but we still need to have it and we are not stupid. We can usually work out the truth. I am tired of living in a country where news can be glossed over, not discussed, not reported, ignored, not followed up, delivered to me as a package deal complete with attitude. In a country which would rather watch the test pattern on Channel 7 than SBS or ABC.It's not something to be proud of and advertise. It took the tsunami to show me we still have great journalists, great reporters and that the weak links are not them. It's insane so many people should die to make us report news well and with great poise,inspiration and thought. Our reporters handled that sensitive, difficult, traumatic material with style and the news papers were worth reading. What a price to pay to find we still have it in us...we just ignore it and endorse the twaddle which was our Vatican reporter (who clearly had no idea what a requiem mass was nor why there was so much pomp and dignity) . Ms Levy has brought us some ground breaking shows which have revolutionised our TV and she should be acknowledged well for that.. News,however, should take priority..that's why it's called news!! NEW...s. Oh dear.
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