Nightline Bias
January 7th, 2006 at 10:00pm
Well Channel 9 outdid themselves with their late night news bulletin, Nightline, last night. I could have been certain that I was watching A Current Affair with an altered background.
For one reason or another, each and every story had to be introduced with an opinion, for example, a story about Victorian highland drovers hering their cattle through national parks was introduced as “it’s illegal, but it’s alright because they are trying to save their heritage” (paraphrased).
Channel 9 are supposed to be a respectable news agency, I do hope this was just a bad night and not a new mandate…unless they are trying to rid themselves of an audience…
Samuel
Entry Filed under: Samuel's Editorials,TV/Radio/Media
2 Comments
1. viscous_fluids_burn | January 8th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
Channel 9 are about as credible as FOX is in the usa…
why bother watching such garbage! treat yourself to media watch or lateline …
sure is great for shits a giggles but realistically as you mentioned all their news is accompanied with a bleed your heart out opinion!
2. Samuel | January 8th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
I don’t even know why I was watching it. I think somebody else dozed off in front of the TV during the show before it and I walked into the room and spent a bit of time watching it. I became intrigued by the obvious bias and stayed for a while.