Today’s editorial is brought to you by a visibly frustrated Kerry O’Brien, during last night’s 7.30 Report interview with Prime Minister Gillard:
“I’m talking about the cynicism, the disillusionment, the frustration that you must confront often in the electorate, in your own personal electorate, in the wider electorate. I hear it all the time; so do many others. You know exactly what I’m talking about. People are fed up with what they perceive as spin and superficial attempts at manipulation.”
What he said.
Is is a wonder the PM got a word in with the increasingly grumpy Kerryn OB off on another of his ranties.
Increasingly Mr 7.30reportland just wants the talent to comment on his spin on the spin. I did respect Howard when he would say he would leave the analysis of the politics to the journos.
When Gillard did get to talk about policies it was much more interesting.
Also interesting that whoever did the transcription used “gonna” repeatedly for Gillard but Kerry never droped a “g” or had an “um, err”. I dont recall seeing a lot of this sort of phonetic transcription previously.
……pretty puerile behaviour on the part of ABC (or KOB)crew.
Mark, that’s just another example of the crap that comes from ABCtrashmedia these days. What O’Brien and the rest of the media rabble don’t understand is that “People are fed up with what they perceive as spin and superficial attempts at manipulation”. Except it’s not just perception. It’s reality.
Mr Squid – how right you are. We are fed up with the media’s own spin when questionning the PM. Kerry O’B is now so concerned with his own relevancy in the face of newer, younger journos that he hung up on the peripheral trivia.
It’s not what we want. It’s tiring and boring to watch. Let’s have real questionning on the things that matter. Leave the repeated spin behind, journos.
If the ALP had actually announced any policies then it would have been opportune for Kerry O’Brien to quiz the PM – but they haven’t detailed anything yet. If he’d asked Gillard about policies she would’ve done the usual politico trick ie: “We’ll be announcing details during the course of the campaign, Kerry.”
O’Brien was perfectly justified in what he was suggesting regarding the banal “moving forward” mantra. And PM Gillard gave a less than satisfactory response. She appears hellbent on parroting it.
@ Mark
The last time I saw this type of transcript on the 7.30 Report’s website was the night former PM Rudd supposedly lost his temper (except he didn’t). Every ‘um’ and ‘er’ was faithfully transcribed. When the ABC was challenged on this they offered some limp excuse about an inexperienced staff member. Apparently another dose of inexperience has surfaced with the latest transcript.