Michael Usher’s first Seven News bulletin delivers big win over Nine in Sydney
Michael Usher’s first news bulletin for Seven since he left Nine’s 60 Minutes has delivered an instant win for the network.
Usher presented Friday night’s 6pm bulletin for Seven News and won the timeslot for the network by the biggest margin since the Olympics were on air.
Usher: Instant win for Seven News
According to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam, Seven’s bulletin averaged an audience of 225,000 viewers in Sydney between 6 and 6.30pm.
I’m with Waleed on journalism being a trade rather than a profession because day in, day out you’re out there just trying to shed a bit more light on what’s really going on and upholding the three most important journalistic tenets: accuracy, accuracy and accuracy. And that applies whether you’re breaking Watergate or reporting on the local council meeting. But it’s interesting that journalism shares with the legal and medical professions – as well as with the priesthood – a crucial ethic: privilege. Attorney/client, doctor/patient, the sanctity of the confessional and the protection of a source. That ethic not only reflects journalism’s power and importance, but the fact that it’s more than just a job. Hopefully, there will always be a journalism – somehow, somewhere – that is more than just a job, but as Waleed astutely points out, at the moment there is plenty to be worried about.