Today Tonight
#1
Today Tonight
Just read this quote about today tonight and I think it says it all
"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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#2
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Re: Today Tonight
Just read this quote about today tonight and I think it says it all
"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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Personally, I'd rather 24 hours of news than 5 minutes of this type of shite ... and that includes A Current Affair too.
#3
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"Tonight, how you could save $'000s on your electricity just by changing your plugs"
or
"The chemicals that you are drinking every day that could be rotting your childs brain"
And you think... oh I better watch it then just to stop my kids brain rotting and save myself $'000s.
And it always turns out to be the biggest steaming pile of psuedo science crap. But I fall for it every time.
#4
Re: Today Tonight
Just read this quote about today tonight and I think it says it all
"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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In fact, the same could be said of every "current affairs" show on Australia's commercial channels.
If you want intelligent discussion, you need The 7:30 Report or Four Corners.
Incidentally, the ABC once did a spoof of the infamous "current affairs" shows; it was called Frontline, and ran for three series. I bought the lot when I visited Australia last year.
You can learn all about it here.
#5
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But without TT and ACA we wouldnt have Chaser doing their "What have we learned from current affairs this week" sketches - "youth gone wild" is one of my faves
#6
Re: Today Tonight
Just read this quote about today tonight and I think it says it all
"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
Full Story
"The most ludicrous show on television, and about as accurate as a blind sniper,"
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#7
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I think they should rename TT "Whinge TV" - one day I'm expecting a story with Mandy Skeggs still moaning how she can knit a jumper at the traffic lights in Perth
#8
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Xenophobia and nationalism in one sentence.
Other pearls are:
'Cheap foreign workers taking OUR jobs' and then the next week, 'Companies canot get enough workers, Aussie workers too lazy to work, economy being affected'.
Talk about having your cake and eating it!
#9
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But their trailers always get your attention. I'm definitely not going to watch TT or ACA, and then the trailer pops up and says:
"Tonight, how you could save $'000s on your electricity just by changing your plugs"
or
"The chemicals that you are drinking every day that could be rotting your childs brain"
And you think... oh I better watch it then just to stop my kids brain rotting and save myself $'000s.
And it always turns out to be the biggest steaming pile of psuedo science crap. But I fall for it every time.
"Tonight, how you could save $'000s on your electricity just by changing your plugs"
or
"The chemicals that you are drinking every day that could be rotting your childs brain"
And you think... oh I better watch it then just to stop my kids brain rotting and save myself $'000s.
And it always turns out to be the biggest steaming pile of psuedo science crap. But I fall for it every time.
It's a piss-poor excuse for journalism though.
Last edited by wmoore; Mar 7th 2007 at 7:40 am.
#10
Re: Today Tonight
I like the diets.
One week it's shock horror we all going to die young because of our fad diets.
Then the week after it's "loose 5 kg's in one week" using the "raspberry" diet
One week it's shock horror we all going to die young because of our fad diets.
Then the week after it's "loose 5 kg's in one week" using the "raspberry" diet
What was the promo the other day, 'foreign companies using millions of litres of OUR water and paying only 50c a day'.
Xenophobia and nationalism in one sentence.
Other pearls are:
'Cheap foreign workers taking OUR jobs' and then the next week, 'Companies canot get enough workers, Aussie workers too lazy to work, economy being affected'.
Talk about having your cake and eating it!
Xenophobia and nationalism in one sentence.
Other pearls are:
'Cheap foreign workers taking OUR jobs' and then the next week, 'Companies canot get enough workers, Aussie workers too lazy to work, economy being affected'.
Talk about having your cake and eating it!
#12
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It's the presenter's little comments at the end of every film sequence that gets me. One of the stories tonight was about the plane crash in Indonesia and at the end she says sort of under her breath "must be very frightening". Well, NO SH*T.
#13
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The ones that make me laugh are the morbidly obese people who sit there going "I desperately need this surgery or I'm going to eat myself to death"
Erm..... stop shovelling food into your gob then
Erm..... stop shovelling food into your gob then
#14
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Re: Today Tonight
What was that one the other week - some old lady chained up in her retirement home. Turned out the reporter had brought the chains along to 'illustrate' how the old lady was confied.