Thread: Exaggerated Reporting

And this over exaggeration is passed on to the younger generation. Quite regularly talking to younger people 14-18, some thing quite normal is refured to as "rare or rare as", things we have all been doing for generations is the most " hektic thing ever" and the one that peeves me the most is " I literally! insert specific action here" and my response is usually well that's a bit hard to do metaphorically and they look at me like an idiod cause they don't understand the difference.... Rant over lol

Canberra is both the hottest and coldest Capital in Aust. Temps in January are always between 30 an 40 every day with the occasional temp higher or lower. If you listened to the media you would think we are experiencing abnormal temperatures when this does seem quite normal.

Garry

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Have a look the percentage of people that look the commercial TV news programs compared with ABC and SBS. That will give you an idea of what the majority of the public want.
Is a reflection of the intelligence of the population?.....I live it up to you....

Rant over.............well for the moment

Maybe the majority see the ABC and SBS as being biased, but I would have thought it an insult to any forum members who prefer commercial TV to have it inferred that they are not intelligent enough to chose to watch Aunty

Certainly agree with ralph though.

And my non favourite is using "unique" for describing non unique situations - but I've given up trying to save the world from itself's destruction of the English language.

Originally Posted by nugge t

Maybe the majority see the ABC and SBS as being biased, but I would have thought it an insult to any forum members who prefer commercial TV to have it inferred that they are not intelligent enough to chose to watch Aunty

Certainly agree with ralph though.

What biased towards not exaggerate in the news .....or.......never mind

The recent hot spell in N.S.W was, as you would expect, was described by commercial news not in a particularity accurate manner. Hottest days ever records are going to fall etc etc. Seems that as explained by the ABC that there has been a worse spell of hot weather back in the 1930`s. Yes the temps got close but they did not exceed the record. I tend to watch the ABC news for this very reason. They at least try and do a bit of research on what they are reporting.
Cheers Hall

People may like to have a look at the following from the Bureau of Meteorology: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/statements/scs43a.pdf

Cheers
KarlB

On a similar note about TV, how many times must a show or movie be on TV before it stops being a Premier sometimes prefixed by Australian or Television?

I can't count the number of times I've seen a show on the box, multiple times and then it appears on another channel for it's latest premier!