The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.
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And so we say, well done, Channel 9 News in Brisbane, for refusing to cover up an embarrassing technical hitch during Wednesday night’s 6pm bulletin.
And we’re talking about the embarrassingly long nine seconds that the image below lobbed on and dominated the screen halfway through a report on a fire that had cleared Dracula’s cabaret venue in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast.
The footage actually was meant for the following item on the Russell Island home fire tragedy and comment from the aunty of the five young boys who died in the blaze.
The bitter and washed-up hacks who compile Mediocre Bytes reckon it would have taken the IT nerd who prepares Nine’s news bulletins for uploading to 9now mere seconds to remove the blunder.
They think it’s a credit to the Nine management that they’ve left the hiccup there for all to see. It brings a tear to the eyes of those bitter and washed-up hacks that there are news outfits still prepared to own their mistakes.
Unless, of course, so few people go online to watch past Nine News bulletins on 9now that covering up the blunder wasn’t worth the effort?
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We’ve said before that Mediocre Bytes sometimes gets a little picky. Okay, often gets a little picky.
But here’s our beef with a recent ABC yarn about record profits from the Commonwealth Bank.
We reckon that well into August, any mention of the last financial year would logically refer to 2022-23. That is, after all, the last financial year, right?
But here’s the heading and the intro to that bank yarn by the bizoid scribes Michael Janda and Stephanie Chalmers at Aunty.
Call us picky if you must, but we still reckon the intro below that took us, aah, seconds, is much more … how can we best describe this? … journalistic?
The Commonwealth Bank has posed a record profit of $10.2 billion in the 2022-23 financial year, up 5 per cent on the year before.
At the very least it would appease the pedants among us.
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