The Nine News drinking game
With flood coverage still very much round the clock, even Queensland viewers appear to be tiring of it.
Hence the Facebook-based Queensland Floods Channel Nine News Drinking Game whch has been created by a group of Queenslanders.
There’s a detailed set of rules, including the instruction that every time a reporter says “unprecedented”, the viewer has to take a drink.
So far, more than 12,000 Facebook users have Liked the page.
Another aspect of the game can be when they refer to their coverage as “rolling coverage…”
I couldn’t believe the sensationalism in Nines coverage. Are they aiming their programme at 7 year old’s? No tact, no respect (other than for their own ego’s…)
I watched one poor man be interviewed who had lost everything. He was probed with a microphone shoved in his face and even when he started to break down in tears, the microphone was thrusted further forward and yet more questions from the bullish news reporter. Have some bl00dy respect for this poor man!
Don’t get me started about Peter Overton on the river, mentioning the word ‘pontoon’ time and time again. I am not surprised that this game has been set up at all.
It is of course tragic what has occurred with the Floods (an understatement) but do Nine have to be so sensationalist with their coverage? I am swerving their channel as a result; it’s so so poor.
Have Nine given any money to the flood donations that have been set up, I know it seems like a long time ago but KP would certainly have put a hand in his own and his company pocket for the victims, just wondering if the modern corp has?
I might get criticism for this, but I don’t think I’m alone. After a day or so I was suffering from flood coverage fatigue. If I lived in Queensland maybe I would have welcomed the ‘rolling’ coverage on Nine, Seven, ABC 1, ABC 24 and Sky. But I’m not in Queensland, so the occasional update would have suited me well.
ABC 24 and Sky were fine – that’s what they do, but I suspect Seven, Nine and ABC 1 had no choice, getting caught in a vicious circle. Once one started round-the-clock coverage, the others had to do the same and none could stop for fear of losing face (and bragging rights) to the others.
The incidents referred to by False Smile are an inevitabe result of having to fill unlimited time with limited material. When you are doing rolling live coverage, it doesn’t matter how big the story, there will be times when it’s difficult to fill the gaps. Sometimes it’s better to just back off.
I live in rockhampton have all the news channels forgotten where we are. Well we r one of the first to get flooded and one of the last to start to clean up. We have been cut off from the rest of the state every which way for the last 3 weeks(new years eve actually) Some water still hanging round I feel sorry for every1 that has been affected but BRISBANE is NOT the only one