media rules in disaster reporting

[F4Phantom]

I want to register my disgust in the way the Aussie media are reporting this earth quake in NZ. I cant begin to really exaplain why I think they are doing not just a poor job but a disrepectful job but I am sure there are many people on this site who would agree.

some examples, they spoke to a lady live on air who was trapped, then they reported on her being rescued, which she was not, all her family got the wrong info,

they said 15 people were trapped and alive, to find out later they had all perished,

they sent koshie over there??? you have got to be joking, I dont want a self serving so called celelbrity reporting this stuff, I want trained professionals

I cant think of the rest but all in all in all these news outlets are only thinly hiding the fact that they are loving the misery and problems facing the kiwis

[cartm58]

Got to agree the media reporting has been awful we just turned it off the questions were banal and didn't elicit any facts worth knowing and the film vision was recycled every 15 minutes same scenes being played over and over again, level of questioning from so called news desk anchor person wasn't worthy of a high school newspaper column.

[F4Phantom]

Got to agree the media reporting has been awful we just turned it off the questions were banal and didn't elicit any facts worth knowing and the film vision was recycled every 15 minutes same scenes being played over and over again, level of questioning from so called news desk anchor person wasn't worthy of a high school newspaper column.

yes thats right, it has been covered here I think in the QLD floods, that is the type and style of questions asked. The news are not merely reporting news, they are trying to create news, the police told people not to use mobile phones, the tv station thinks this does not apply to them so they put someone trapped live on air, and ask them a series of questions and make comments like "call out" "I hope they find you" and the list goes on.

[PhilipA]

I was so disgusted with Kock's "mealy mouthed platitudes" that we switched off.

I found 9 to be a bit more businesslike , but barely.

Now they will continue to repeat the same stuff over and over.

Some analysis would be nice eg what are the authorities going to do with thehotel reported to be unstable
I must admit i have not switched on today preferring to look at The Australian website , but they seem to have little new.
Regards Philip A

[juddy]

Have to agree, its more to do with who's going to get the best ratings, and god cos they have run out of footage, they re run it they re run it they re run it on and on same same, and then they ring someone up whos on a mobile, and ask the most stupid questions ever.....

Oh and whats the chances it will all be filmed with the sound out of sync......

dont these people work to broadcast standards!!!!

[rick130]

Yep, to me it's just a cynical exercise in exploitation.

7 did the same during the Qld floods and Cyclone using 'celebrity anchors' instead of real journo's (are there any left in commercial TV ?)
To me it's all rather distasteful.

Have I become an SBS/ABC/SMH snob ? :D

[DDdisco]

They only thing they will respond to is if people stop watching it. Unfortunately, they are all on a grubby grab for the almighty ratings, and will do anything they think will get more viewers. If people watch it, they will keep doing it. Nobody wins media awards for good news stories. Vote with your remote, and write to the telecommunications ombudsman.

[mike 90 RR]

I want to register my disgust in the way the Aussie media are reporting

Add me to the register .....


.... It's not news ... It's just a lousy form of GOSSIP

[bob10]

I am so disgusted with how certain sections of the media reported the Qld. floods, and now the same clowns are in N.Z. eg-- A bloodied, disheveled woman was being " interviewed" by channel 9, she was obviously in shock, and the " journalist" kept asking stupid ,inane questions. All the poor woman could do was cover her face with her hands ,and still the reporter went on.And then there was the woman on the mobile phone, I think that building is the one they are no longer searching. Fair dinkum, these clowns make me feel embarrested to be an Aussie sometimes, I hope the Kiwis tar and feather them and run them out of town, anyone know who I can vent my spleen on in an official capacity. Since 7 & 9 started competing for stories, news reporting has gone right over the top. :mad::bat:

[Blknight.aus]

hey, it got the infomercials off the air....

based on that alone it can't be that bad can it?

[Hucksta]

I had to turn it off this morning and listen to 3AW .... the TV blokes are a bunch of disaster junkies ......:mad::mad:

Some of the journos' were walking around the place pointing at some of the devestation saying things like ....

'imagine if there were people in there, they wouldn't stand a chance':mad::mad:

Another said

'I've been told people have died in this rubble, I'm not sure if it they mean the rubble in front of me but they said they had died' :mad::mad:

What is this crap .... I was disgusted with both channels ... and David KOCH sounded like an absolute drop kick ......

It is very sad though .... I think I have had enough of national disasters for a while .... ibn my line of work I get enough sad stuff around here .....

[bob10]

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It is very sad though .... I think I have had enough of national disasters for a while .... ibn my line of work I get enough sad stuff around here .....

I'm with you Hucksta, the only good news is the Super 15 rugby has started, even watched a Melbourne team on friday, how the world is changing. Think I will make tv a news free zone , perhaps sbs news only [damn, I'm turning into my Father! ] :D keep smiling Bob

[Siska]

I thought the same recently with the QLD floods. The media are just a pack of vultures preying on human misery!! But the recent events in NZ have really hit home. When you personally know people that are severely affected by this tragedy and seeing the way the media are behaving and the way they carry on really makes me angry.

[crump]

hey, it got the infomercials off the air....

based on that alone it can't be that bad can it?

and Kochie is out of the country stealing their oxygen, its a definite winner for Australia, maybe Mel will go to??:twisted:

[djam1]

and Kochie is out of the country stealing their oxygen, its a definite winner for Australia, maybe Mel will go to??:twisted:


Maybe we should gift Kochie to them then we are all blessed lol

[CraigE]

All the media Australian, NZ and other world agencies have been way overdoing it. I hate sensasionalist journalism and the sake of reporting for the sake of reporting and just replaying clips over and over with no new information.
However I will defend them a bit on the story where 15 people were supposed to be alive but trapped but have likely infact perished. It was a NZ official that released the statement to the press, the press neither made it up or miss reported that. Ye sit was a shame but that one they were only reporting what they were told. There was actually a interview where that started.
As for the talking to someone trapped live, well that was poor taste as was the phone message to her family, but we dont know maybe she asked them to play it. Poor taste either way though.

[beanie_205]

It's the celebrity anchors that I can't stand- Kochie is the worst example- how that guy passes for someone anyone should listen to about anything mystifies me. The other that drove me mad was the channel 9 lady who maintained a pained, saddened facial expression for three days straight during the qld floods, which would have been fine if it was remotely genuine concern instead of something cooked up to generate the 'caring' image. As for 7, they've got a track record of tasteless tv stunts and shameless ratings grabs. It's a shame journalism standards are so low in aussie tv

[wesbt]

If you look at how they report now it is all small grabs of info, then regularly recycle. Look at Youtube, Twitter etc and what do you see, small bits of infor, repeated regularly by different people.

IMO Media's seen this and came to the conclusion that the only way they can stop general public going online for their news is to mimic what we get online.

Think this is our future of news reporting moving forward unfortunately... :mad:

[Beast]

I was only thinking this morning watching their crap (before I switched off in disgust) - haven't the people of Christchurch suffered enough without us inflicting Koch and Denyer on them?

On the upside, the Aussie USAR Teams are doing great work over there - maybe that makes up for importing the media dropkicks!

[isuzu110]

I notice the Sunrise ratings went down when Kochie flew into the Brisbane floods and started mispronouncing Brisbane suburbs and claiming some of them were in the country. At least most of the 9 reporters had some prior local knowledge and viewers recognised this with increased ratings.

I'd prefer to see NZ reporters covering this. It's their patch. We start looking like the yanks if we have to always feel we have to put our own media team into every international incident.

[Hoges]

Saw the NZ PM and deputy pm press conferences poor buggers, as if they haven't got enough on their mind...can't belive the lame, inane and insane questions being asked by the journo pack...like seeking exact numbers of dead and injured, and one clown even asked what the plans were for the reconstruction of the city :eek::eek: ...worse than some cricket commentators...verbal diaorrhea ... :mad:

[MickS]

"CHANNEL Seven presenter David Koch has admitted tweeting "... time to sleep like the dead" while covering the earthquake disaster in Christchurch was a "poor choice of words..."

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/time-to-sleep-like-the-dead-david-koch-tweets-in-christchurch/story-e6frfmyi-1226011030409

To our wonderful neighbours across the ditch...my heart goes out to you...and on behalf of Australia, I wish to apologise for David Koch being sent there, his insensitive comments, and the media circus that has engulfed you in this time of tragedy. You have my permission to arrest him, the Sunrise crew and Today crew for impersonating journalists.

[zuno555]

I don't like the 24/7 coverage of the latest disasters. Of course they have to use repetitive filler crap and scurry around trying to get new interviews (victims).... Hourly or two hourly reports should be enough, if you want 24/7 get on the Internet.

I also don't like the morbid fascination with the death toll been repeated every 10 minutes. Its almost like a competition, building up to a jackpot.

Kochies tweet is pretty disgusting, I bet all the rescuers were a lot more tired than him....

[windsock]

Well, if it is as bad as you guys are stating the mitigating factor is you guys see it and we do not.

Go to the TVNZ International Live Stream (http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/international-live-stream-christchurch-earthquake-video-4038451) website for kiwis covering the story. Some clowns still but some of them are covering it sensitively and with such a small country, some are directly impacted personally.

[windsock]

One of our interveiwers this morning had his camera man swing the shot around to reveal the worlds media all standing in one location all giving their sound bites etc. He laughed and said "good morning Koshie" to a guy I thought reminded me of an old character you blitzed us with, Norman Gunston. :D

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/175.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/176.jpg

[Rayngie]

I'd like to know where the oversea's meadia are staying, eating etc etc...i have good friends in ChCh who have lost their home and have nowhere to go..and these media idiots clearly all have somewhere to stay, the Channel 9 talking head told of how his Hotel room was shaking in an aftershock, so they are clearly staying in hotels while the locals stay in tents in a field.
ChCh dose'nt need a drain on resources from the media pack, there's a ton of NZ media already there, just take their news feed, the Australians are just there to check on the 'wonderful jobs our boys are doing to help'...while a whole city crumbles.
Get out and let people fix it..

Ray

[feral]

....... Its almost like a competition, building up to a jackpot.


And there you have it. You've got it in one.

I long for the day when regulations are in place that disallows any form of advertising during news programs or breaking events. This 24/7 reporting of tragedies, flying in celebrity presenters are all geared to one thing. The program must provide the best coverage so the presenters can win a so called 'Best Journalism' award. The TV channel can then present themselves to the advertisers as the most awarded program/presenters and charge whatever they like.

The media are only dealing in this misery so they can feather their own nest. Its all to do with $$$$$$$$$$

[MickS]

One of our interveiwers this morning had his camera man swing the shot around to reveal the worlds media all standing in one location all giving their sound bites etc. He laughed and said "good morning Koshie" to a guy I thought reminded me of an old character you blitzed us with, Norman Gunston. :D

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/175.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/176.jpg

The difference is though windsock....Norman Gunston is funny. The other bloke is just a git.

[Xul]

I haven't even bothered with owning a TV for the last five years, I found it just annoyed me too much.

ABC 891 radio has been covering this fairly well.

The media does need a big kick up the arse though. Probably almost a decade ago now, some relatives of mine found out their son died in a vehicle accident from the radio (the media had been specifically told not to report it until all the next of kin had been). Not very impressive, can't begin to imagine how hard that would be to find out over the radio.

[rockyroad]

On a positive note did anyone see the interview with the cute lil blonde doctore from Melbourne?

The interview took place on the side of a street in front of an orange coloured Defender which had an awesome roofrack and alloys.

I like to imagine it belonged to the cute doctor :blush:

[juddy]

I think that orange Defender was a G4??

[rockyroad]

YouTube - Ten News at Five Melbourne 22/2/11 - Christchurch Earthquake Coverage

Took a bit to find it, jump to 3min 30 sec to see the orange Defender

[rockyroad]

Two reporters arrested in Christchurch (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8215788/two-reporters-arrested-in-christchurch)

[bob10]

Two reporters arrested in Christchurch (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8215788/two-reporters-arrested-in-christchurch)

Damn! it wasn't those clowns from 9 Bob

[jsp]

I had an argument with my mum about this last night, as the sunrise ambulance chasers had got my goat.

My mum had no issue with it, and reminded me that this sort of thing paid for the first 12 years of my life until my father left television and went into radio/pr. Unfortunately the masses of unwashed thrive on sensationalism generated by some of these unhappy events, and these ratings generate advertising revenue, which in turn generates bonuses and jobs for a section of the media community. Its a dirty fact of life.

I still don't like it though.

[bob10]

Do the "masses" demand this type of reporting, or does the media push it on us, regardless, in the never ending quest for ratings. Who exactly are the " great unwashed"? I seem to remember, our media seemed to be better tuned to the sensibilities of the public before Murdoch and Packer became prominent, they have taken us into the North American style of sensationalist reporting, do or say anything to be front page. If certain sections of the media feels they have to cater for the lowest common denominator,[ " great unwashed"], instead of going for quality , have to trample over victims to sensationalise a story, without regards for their feelings, I think that is a sad judgement on the profession as a whole. I'm sure it is only a minority, but a prominent minority, and as one of the great unwashed, I take offence at their hubris. Bob. :soapbox: :spudnikconfounded:

[clubagreenie]

'I've been told people have died in this rubble, I'm not sure if it they mean the rubble in front of me but they said they had died' :mad::mad:



This just made rice and raisins come out my nose in the Uni library.

[trog]

why give the commercial media the air they need ? let the advertisers know that their products will be boycotted. perhaps in time the all mighty dollar will then be guided towards a more responsible form of journalism. or just give the commercial stations a miss .