Sunday, April 12, 2020

COVID-19: TV News Media....take note!!

I, and many, many others, are completely fed up with news-media TV journalists using sensation-laden lines when before the cameras and also adding their hyped, dramatic opinions.

JUST GIVE US THE NEWS, for God's sake, without trying to dramatise it!!

We do NOT need the hyperbole. We just need the facts and have them delivered without your attempts at sensationalism.

Neither do we need cartoony graphics running in the background.

We DO realise the seriousness of the situation and DO NOT need your ridiculous attempts to increase the drama.
So you so-called journos - and those who write your lines - give it a rest and just state the facts.

Over the past month I have become so irritated by the TV news telecasts...all of them, including the ABC. Even SBS has joined the ranks.

(How we miss the days of one person (James Dibble, Brian Henderson, et al) sitting behind a desk and giving us the un-garnished facts and then if warranted, doing a voice over as a video ran to illuminate the story.)

Friday, February 28, 2020

Here we are, in 2020.

Nine months have elapsed since my last blog entry and during that time the new bridge over the Clarence River at Harwood was completed and opened for traffic in time for Christmas 2019.
It was five years ago that we could see signs of work starting on the approaches and then the bridge itself. It's hard to believe that it is finally open.

We drove across it in January when we had to go up to Lismore - it is a long way above the water to the road deck....30 metres, apparently. It certainly feels like it when you're up there!
It's a beautiful structure. Long may it stand.
(The hyperlink above opens a news video in another window).