Comments on: Last night’s TV ratings http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/31/last-nights-tv-ratings/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nick T http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/31/last-nights-tv-ratings/#comment-13871 Nick T Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13871 "at least as good as Frontline ever was. "<br /><br />says it all really... “at least as good as Frontline ever was. “

says it all really…

]]> By: Dave Liberts http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/31/last-nights-tv-ratings/#comment-13872 Dave Liberts Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13872 Perhaps you need to have worked as a political staffer at some point to fully appreciate The Hollowmen, but as far as I'm concerned it's at least as good as Frontline ever was. Last night's episode again played out a scenario which, for all it's unlikelihood, has been replicated in real life. The silliness around the marketing of budget initiatives and the need to be seen to be big-spending without actually being big-spending is precisely what gave us the Howard Government's 'Future Fund', which has been the subject of some great analysis by Stephen Mayne on these pages over the last few years. The harder you look, the more there is to this show. Perhaps you need to have worked as a political staffer at some point to fully appreciate The Hollowmen, but as far as I’m concerned it’s at least as good as Frontline ever was. Last night’s episode again played out a scenario which, for all it’s unlikelihood, has been replicated in real life. The silliness around the marketing of budget initiatives and the need to be seen to be big-spending without actually being big-spending is precisely what gave us the Howard Government’s ‘Future Fund’, which has been the subject of some great analysis by Stephen Mayne on these pages over the last few years. The harder you look, the more there is to this show.

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