A Current Affair.. Or A Current Lot of Crap

“You’re a cheat, a liar, a dole bludger, a conman and your ripping off the Australian taxpayers, what do you have to say for yourself?”

“No comment.”

Tonight, Wednesday June 7 2006 we had a very serious, very important agenda on A Current Affair.

Story 1 – IR Laws, sacking of three loyal workers in Gold Coast plastic surgeons office.

Story 2 – Centrelink cancels pregnant 16 year old’s $350 youth allowance because she came home.

Story 3 – Exclusive Parking Rangers have quotas – REVEALED

Story 4 – Life changing liposuction. Hideous women spend up to $20 000 to look better, and change their shape just to get some.

Story 5 – Setting the record straight. Hold the phone, A Current Affair admit mistake, they actually say sorry to wrong identity of woman.

Story 6 – Discrimination  looks decide your entry into nightclubs because of your haircut, ethnic background or gender.

Hello, is this the script for a sketch show, because the stories sound trivial and humorous… I can’t stand these tabloid journalism programs.

They are pointless, the host Tracy Grimshaw looks uninspired and the credibility of you as the journalist might as well be in the bowl. What is our obsession with these current affair programs? They’re not even current or important affairs.

The world has many SERIOUS issues occurring day in and day out but the tabloid programs have a rotation of diet, new medical breakthroughs with con men, dolebludging, government bashing, employer misconduct, criminal landlords and dodgy tradesman. They are planned well in advance, with confrontations and serious issues being expressed by the reporters.

At present, we have instability in Timor, the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Indonesia, a war in Iraq, the defused assassination plot of the Prime Minister in Canada, yet it is still more important to hear about the results of liposuction or the refusal of entry to Middle Eastern males in Sydney nightclubs.

There has been one piece of news this week come from tabloid journalism programs. Channel 9, A Current Affair Reporter Ben Fordham set a new record for the biggest payout for trespassing on a persons property, $310 000. Well well, in the words of Fordham’s colleague Naomi Robson, “I hope you have a great evening, please take care and good night.”

A real sincere, heartwarming departure that from the tabloid journalism program, sincere crap.