Tasmania ABC TV staff have called for managing director Mark Scott to provide greater certainty on the future of television production in the Apple Isle. Plus other media news of the day.
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Like cooking pancakes, don’t judge 7.30 on the first one
Pancakes, newspapers and new television current affairs programs have one thing in common. The first one never comes out quite right, writes Margaret Simons, and that applies to 7.30 on ABC.
Political snippets: Telling them the truth but not us
In the latest instalment of the WikiLeaks cables was Kevin Rudd telling a group of US Congressmen one thing when he had been telling us something quite different.
Tonight: Farewell Kerry O’Brien!
Make sure you take the time out tonight to watch Kerry O’Brien present the final edition of The 7:30 Report. Love him or hate him, O’Brien is a TV institution and truly represents the best of the old guard, writes Dan Barrett.
Life after Kerry: Sales, Uhlmann could front revamped 7.30
Leigh Sales and Chris Uhlmann could both front a revamped 7:30 Report next year as the ABC’s flagship news program continues to furiously plan for life after Kerry O’Brien. Jason Whittaker and Cat Wall report.
Former ABC chief says laws on board appointments are ‘offensive’
The former chairman of the ABC, Donald McDonald, has told a Senate Committee that laws providing for an independent appointment process to the boards of public broadcasters are “profoundly offensive”, entirely without merit and unnecessary. But McDonald also indicated that he had no problems with the notion of a staff-elected director on the ABC board — a […]
7.30 Report’s O’Brien reflects on the challenges for the ABC
Kerry O’Brien’s presence at the ABC is not over. He is in conversation about a new role in 2011, but not one that will dominate his life in the way that the daily treadmill of The 7.30 Report has done.
Kerry won’t do it, so I will: it’s time to name the Libs’ mystery spokesman
Kerry O’Brien came close to breaking parliamentary convention and revealing the Liberal party room spokesperson chastised by Tony Abbott for getting it wrong. Richard Farmer goes the whole way and names names.
Gillard vs. O’Brien in battle of the rangas
Julia Gillard was in fine form on last night’s 7:30 Reportland even though Kerry O’Brien gave her the whip around. She emerged looking far stronger than her own leader, says David Penberthy.
Tim Blair: A preview of this week’s 7:30 Report
Kevin Rudd is a guest on Monday’s 7:30 Report. Tuesday’s headline: “Rudd Rage! Psychotic PM Assaults Elderly Ranga on Live TV”, predicts Tim Blair. And then there’s Abbott on Wednesday, Garrett on Thursday…
Tony: lies, gaffes and videotape
The infamous Tony Abbott interview with Kerry O’Brien doesn’t demonstrate Abbott’s brutal honesty or prove that all politicians lie. Abbott’s just a lazy politician who takes no personal responsibility, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Wankley Awards: The ‘TV freak and wigged-known reporter’
It was a Kevin Rudd’s “meltdown”, his “angry exchange” with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 Report where he “lost his cool”, but Crikey smelt a beat-up. Even China contributed.
Ruddquake: That’s not a meltdown. THIS is a meltdown.
Apparently Kevin Rudd had a meltdown on telly last night. Or at least the transcript has been fitted up to suggest so.
Talking the Town: Revellers caught in the ACT
Budget night in Canberra is meant to be a rowdy festival of unhinged advisers and journos binge-drinking in glorious fashion at some of the ACT’s most clique-ridden gossip houses. The truth is a little more pathetic.
The day I met Obama
Barack Obama fan boy (and ABC’s Washington correspondent) Michael Brissenden spills on his 25 minute encounter with the “tallish, slim, well groomed” POTUS, which included a surprise visit from Sasha and Bo.
O’Brien’s Obama scoop leaves Speers out in the cold
Kerry O’Brien has scored a major scoop: an exclusive 15-minute yak with Barack Obama, to be recorded at the White House. How did the ABC land the big gig that’s left Sky News smarting?
Dear media — are we all vented now?
Kevin Rudd finally offered a mea culpa on insulation last night. Will it be enough for a press gallery that has been sweating on the chance to get him? An open letter to the media.
20 years of Lateline
The Oz looks back at two decades of Kerry, Tony, Leigh and our favourite late-night wonky pleasure, dubbed “the caviar of TV” by Maxine McKew.
Kerr: Rattled Rudd stops tweeting, starts talking
That crappy Newspoll rating must have really scared Kevin Rudd, because he’s gone on a media rampage. But none of that normal tweeting stuff for our PM 2.0, it’s back to traditional media and a television interview blitz, notes Christian Kerr.
Political snippets: An election coming on
When a State Attorney General starts talking of a group of young, predominantly Aboriginal, people as “pure evil” you are reminded that there is an election coming on.
If ABC presenters were cakes
Auntie has released a cookbook of cakes shaped like its kids’ TV show characters — but what about the grown-up programs? asks Mel Campbell. Kerry O’Brien, Margaret and David, Ali Moore and more, imagined as cakes.
Newsreader fashion: a Crikey field guide
Have you ever sent forlorn tweets about Ali Moore’s cravat into the ether? Well, feel alone no longer. Mel Campbellprovides a semi-definitive guide to the sartorial language of news and current affairs.
