Tuesday, May 12, 2009

3 News Update

Mike "It's All About The News" McRoberts on tonight's bulletin:
"The British tabloids have finally found something to fill the hole left by the Jade Goody saga - the breakup of Peter Andre and Katie Price [or whatever Jordan's real name is]."
Yes, that's it: the British tabloids have found something to fill the gap. I don't know how someone can operate with such a level of cognitive dissonance, although it probably has something to do with sleeping on a pile of money.


I really need to start a blog for the television news.
Posted by at

7 comments:

  1. KenMay 12, 2009 at 8:23 PM

    People watch infomercials dude, at least they don't normally spend half an hour reading them. TV news is too easy.

    unless you live-blog it.

    I'm totally into that.

    ReplyDelete
  2. gazzajMay 12, 2009 at 9:48 PM

    I believe the correct tag line is that "he gets it"

    which is appropriately vague

    ReplyDelete
  3. BearhunterMay 13, 2009 at 8:24 AM

    I doubt "he gets it" anywhere near as often as he'd like. And I'd really prefer it if both he and the correspondingly oleaginous Simon Dallow stopped treating the main evening news like a fucking advertisement for their channel's website.

    ReplyDelete
  4. gazzajMay 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM

    I don't even know what the "Jade Goody saga" is/was/will be. I guess that's a sign that TV3 is not an essential source of news.

    ReplyDelete
  5. JP_RocksMay 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM

    Jade Goody represents everything that is wrong with the world's media outlets today. She was nothing more than an unattractive, talentless racist who was completely unworthy of even a skerrik of media attention. Her (former) presence irks me so much that I cant even talk about her rationally. Jimmy, any chance you can give us a balanced, unbiased point of view on how the prominence of the Goody's of this world is another nail in the coffin of genuine journalism?

    ReplyDelete
  6. Much Like The Other OneMay 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM

    I think it deserves to contribute more than one nail in the genuine journalism coffin.

    ReplyDelete
  7. AnonymousMay 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    what always makes me laugh about Mike McRoberts is the promo shot of him walking through the 'war zones'. but ask anyone who's been in a war zone with McRoberts and you'll find he prefers to buy footage from other, real journalists, rather than risk going anywhere near danger.

    falling off a bar stool's about the worst frontline injury he's likely to suffer.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)