Q&A
June 15th 2010 02:20
Oz desperately needs cogent political analysis of any kind, and especially in the mass media. So I have high hopes when a serious new current affairs program comes along, and of course it is always only going to be on the ABC or SBS. The commercials are too busy with cooking contests or survival shows to bother with such stuff.
You can see the logic of Q&A - try to break up the stone wall approach by pollies by having a participating audience and a few other notables. But it only works sometimes. The first problem is Tony Jones's tendency to go for the nice sound bite ( to appear on next week's promo) instead of real insight. The next problem is just how dull the pollies are. Our political class are really boring, toeing the party line at all times and giving as little as possible away about the actual stuff of politics. Watching Peter Garrett, who used to leap about and emote like mad up front of Midnight Oil, bite his tongue and say as little as possible except in broad abstractions was painful. And most of the non-pollies are so careful to say nothing contentious they are mostly useless as well. And finally there is the audience: although some of the questions are OK, the tweets just confirm that most Oztralians are morons - and this is the bunch that watchs current affairs on the ABC!
You can see the logic of Q&A - try to break up the stone wall approach by pollies by having a participating audience and a few other notables. But it only works sometimes. The first problem is Tony Jones's tendency to go for the nice sound bite ( to appear on next week's promo) instead of real insight. The next problem is just how dull the pollies are. Our political class are really boring, toeing the party line at all times and giving as little as possible away about the actual stuff of politics. Watching Peter Garrett, who used to leap about and emote like mad up front of Midnight Oil, bite his tongue and say as little as possible except in broad abstractions was painful. And most of the non-pollies are so careful to say nothing contentious they are mostly useless as well. And finally there is the audience: although some of the questions are OK, the tweets just confirm that most Oztralians are morons - and this is the bunch that watchs current affairs on the ABC!
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