Saturday, November 26, 2011

15 minutes of fame

While I really welcome another news source ( ABC24) , esp arts etc, . its very frustrating as a resilience planner to watch sensitive matters of environment risk and impact  being handled quickly in 15 minutes. In order to build a more sound response to the NET and the need for fuller discussions,  I hope ABC (inc radio ) add more URL'S to their reports as a matter of course 

 Many recent short circuit news grabs make serious errors and presumptions -eg  reasons for the bushfire in WA ( some of the reports on Fires , 
floods ( Bangkok QLD) are misleading and one sided talk. Better in 15 minutes to identify and promote local sources and reports from people ( incl net) . "ABC quarters " and others in abc24 should be counselled to report LOCALS, name URL sources locally  and resilience experts to avoid quick fix journalism and editorializing that is so common elsewhere .
That way they can be ahead of the game and capture
 the AUDIENCE desire for both  quickfix with quickfollowup as well. 

2 comments:

journeymanj said...

journeymanj said...

Why quarters instead of full finals games ; While I love some of them ( arts Q) the "for real ones" are often not fair dinkum ( WeatherQ is a front for climate and Environment Q a front for political defence of popular causes )
Also , if we are going to have cultural grabs Q in 15 minutes, let the diverse elements of our culture write their own pieces ! Reporters are not players and neither are they umpires . Mr mark Scott ----lead your team!