I posted a comment over at the Crikey video of the day, praising the work of ordinary folks who filmed the Christchurch disaster live from their mobile phones and posted faster on Youtube than any of the mainstream media.
More than that, there was no offensive bullshit halfwit news reportage a la ABC 24 hours. There were the images – use your own mind to assess what you see. No explanation needed. Not helpful for some talking head to say how awful it all was.
“Lambkins” added a useful tip – that Euronews has a comparable segment called “no comment”.
So I had a peep – for example – surprised to hear what’s happening in Egypt as far as the important ancient site tourism. I was wondering if I might ever get to see the pyramids and Valley of the Kings – and catch up with both the Emmlets who have been there independently….
“At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of a news channel is to deliver facts without any opinion or bias, so that the viewers can make their own opinion on world events.
We also think that sometimes images need no explanation or commentary, which is why we created No Comment and now No Comment TV: to show the world from a different angle…”
And so we have Euronews no comment
Check it out
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Warrigal once said (something like), “Don’t just sit on the side and snipe (lob in odd anecdotes & short stories), write something & make proper comment ect, and of course he’s right–that’s the secret of UL (when it’s working).
However writing or reading a ‘good’ story is quite difficult; and time consuming, so there is definitely a place for unbridled desultoriness.
It’s my cuppa tea.
I haven’t written anything for a while, because it takes so much thought to write a really detailed story…Tht’s my excuse anyways.
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just before I retire, Id like to say
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No I’m sorry, we don’t have time
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,
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Hung! What have you done! A stand-alone comma! Who can make head or tail!
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What I find with these personal accounts by people in the midst of a disaster is that I can’t stop myself from feeling that I’m connected to what’s happening. It’s so much less distancing than regular media. As if the event is finally talking for itself.
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I agree, Lehan. I find it more effective as a connection to the event. Which I gather is what News ought really to be. Take us there and stay out of the picture.
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Don’t like The Red Shirts bit. I’m travelling through there in July.
Mind you there will have been a Tsunami of revolutions by then. There seems to be one every 5 days.
Maybe Julia will be gone by the time I get back.
Perhaps Tasmania will become revolting? Noo it’s too charming.
Note from WordPress….Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
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Don’t like The Red Shirts bit. I’m travelling through there in July.
Mind you there will have been a Tsunami of revolutions by then. There seems to be one every 5 days.
Maybe Julia will be gone by the time I get back.
Perhaps Tasmania will become revolting? Noo it’s too charming.
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No comment 🙂
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I wouldn’t mind a comment, if it was well thought out, useful, or contributed to the background of the story.
This did happen at the ABC. Quite news day, so the finace reporter explains how some financial index works, or weather man describes how the El Nino effect works. Not anymore. It’s a copy of the commercial stations.
Instead we jump straight to the cutsy ‘dog riding a scateboard’ story, or some footballer’s imminent arthrosopy, or cricketer’s rotator cuff injury! perhaps an actress was seen drinking beer in the morning, or, worse, coffee in the evening!
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quite quiet (nightshift affliction)
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BM, good try, with me it’s the naughty keyboard. It’s true, sometimes it will not let me use the letter ‘a’, and I have to ask nicely if I can add them later on in between…sometimes it even keeps all the little words…the, it, not, yes…
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Briliant and economical.
I feel a frugality driven future is the only way out. It will be painful but better than no future.
I suppose Hung One has been the Master of that ‘no comment’ philosophy all along with his heart rending and world reforming.”yo”.
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It’s spreading Gez
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I throw in a yo sometimes eh, you know.
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