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Controversial opinion, but I think the tv coverage of the Bondi incident has been too saturated. The exact same images and story over and over again without anything new to report. Yes, it’s a terrible tragedy. But wow the media latches on and just won’t let go until it’s absolutely drained every last drop of blood out of it.
did you see the footage broadcast live on Saturday arvo? I thought the presenter was about to pop a boner from the excitement of having a story. It was disgusting.
Or something "more interesting" comes up. It's fucked.
Agree.
Yes! I noticed this. I think this has become much more common after the COVID era of people being glued to media for an extended period of time. The powers that be want that behaviour to continue.
I Agree with you.
I saw quite a bit on tv over the weekend and all they did was rehash and even reword sentences over and over just to extend the coverage and constantly interview people who said were guessing what happened but that the police had to complete their investigations and stuff before they could make a factual statement.
I don't watch aussie news at all and read newspapers maybe once a week
so missed all the arseholery by the media
I've been a bit weirded out by it too, but I'm trying to see the good side. It's a good sign that they're still going on about it, that shows that at least some people are interested, and the reason people still care about it now is that this is a pretty big thing that just doesn't really happen here. In certain other countries, shootings and similar massacres are so commonplace they're not cared about at a national level, and half the time won't receive more than a casual mention at state level,.similar to how we'd treat a car accident.
I didn't watch a lot about it but was still surprised at how gratuitous some of the images and footage were. One that surprised me was the ABC when they did an article about the response from the guy's parents and actually showed the police car outside their house.. We don't need to see where his parents live, they've done no wrong and feel awful about it all, why show everyone where they live?