Significant seven: news stories
Over the next few days, we are publishing highlights from this year’s Mumbrella Annual.
1. Queensland floods
The commercial broadcasters swept aside normal programming to devote virtually non-stop coverage of probably the worst natural disaster in the state’s history. It was a ‘good’ disaster for Today presenter Karl Stefanovic, a Queenslander, and saw George Negus come to the fore on Ten some weeks before he spearheaded the channel’s ill-fated 6:30pm news experiment.
2. Cyclone Yasi
Commercial broadcasters used live streaming images from iPhones while staff from the ABC stayed underground until after Cyclone Yasi had passed through. News Limited published rare afternoon editions.
Meanwhile the public were discussing Assange, the Arab Spring, Occupy, government censorship, the continue collapse of Western economies, the MAFIAA and whoever Anons have hacked lately.
But MSM don’t understand the above issues and how they’re all interrelated so they tend to get glossed over or ignored.
Hence we get the above focus on Royal Weddings, Natural Disasters and Dead Terrorists – black and white, simple fodder for simple minds to convey and consume.