Leigh Sales destroys Tony Abbott - the second-by-second recap. Last night Tony Abbott went on the 7.30 Report. We remember how well that went two years ago when Kerry O'Brien skewered a man we still thought of as the least capable, most unelectable Opposition Leader this country had ever countenanced. Well, that was pretty much the last time anyone in Australia pushed Tony Abbott to say something concrete. Until last night. And didn't he just collapse like a paper cup being hit with a mallet. The result is 12 and a half minutes of painful (but thoroughly watchable) digression, admission, hedging, inconsistency and general inability to answer basic questions. So, to celebrate, I have done a second by second recap of the biggest political interview disaster since Todd Akin diversified the rape lexicon.
It starts slowly, but when it gets going it's like really ugly, disdainful poetry in motion. 0:11: He got through the greetings without too much drama. 1 point for Tony! 0:15: Well, the mood changed fast. 2:43: Beginning of the end. 3:58: Fuck it, Leigh. Information et journalisme: les pure- players du net posent les questions qui dérangent. L’un des grands mérites de la dernière émission La Ligne j@une, d’@rrêt sur images, animée par Guy Birenbaum (1 heure 40), est de permettre à quelques uns des journalistes qui ont fondé ces pure-players de l’information en ligne, dont l’arrivée est une vraie nouveauté depuis 2 à 3 ans dans le paysage médiatique français, de poser à l’ensemble de la profession des journalistes quelques questions qui fâchent… Sommaire de la série Ce billet est le troisième d’une série de cinq : - Le journalisme et l’information : le débat qui a enfin lieu ? - Info en ligne : les pure-players jouent la transparence - Information et journalisme : les pure- players du net posent les questions qui dérangent - Pour une critique de la critique des médias ) - Entre corporatisme et blogosphère, la stratégie de rupture élastique des pure-players de l’info en ligne (à venir) Ces questions étaient jusqu’à maintenant taboues.
Dans l’émission d’@rrêt sur images, c’est peu de dire que le ton n’est pas le même. Grog’s Gamut writes more than 140 characters - The Media Machine Blog. Grog's Gamut. Leigh Sales doing what a journalist should do | The ABC has gone to hell. At 5pm yesterday ABC’s 7.30 anchor, Leigh Sales, tweeted that she had received word that Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition, would be her guest interview that night. Going off past interviews conducted with Abbott, those despondent with 7.30 and the ABC in general were entitled to be cynical about the impending interview. However, Sale’s opening salvo, “You were pretty loose with the truth today, weren’t you…” set the tone for an interview focused on mirroring objective reality up to Abbott’s reality, a long overdue task curiously neglected by the mainstream media.
If the Twitter reaction to the interview was anything to go by, viewers were in a flurry over Abbott finally being held to account. The free passes that Dennis Atkins, Mark Latham, and Barrie Cassidy have written about Abbott receiving from the media appeared to have run out just as cameras began rolling for the 7.30 interview. Whether this is a temporary shortage remains to be seen. Like this: Like Loading... An allegory of journalistic decline - The Drum. Updated Wed 29 Aug 2012, 1:35pm AEST It is the memory of the old-school journalism once championed by Rupert Murdoch that gives the modern 'profession' its scraps of dignity, writes Jonathan Green. It was at the tail end of journalism's golden moment, the brink of its transformation and decline. This is the late seventies and your current interlocutor - long schooled in the necessity of avoiding the perpendicular pronoun (one of any number of lost journalistic niceties) - was a year and a bit into a three-year cadetship at The Canberra Times.
Most days we cadets would approach our desks in the cluttered little newsroom with slight trepidation ... because most days you could count on there being a piece of copy paper snapped under the paper guide of your typewriter. It would be a note, sometimes of praise, most often of succinct admonishment. Style, it needs to be said, once meant more in journalism than a keen sartorial sense. That culture is long lost by now.