JOURNALISM’S TOP HONOURS:
Channel Nine News in Brisbane has cleaned up at the annual News Corp Australasia media awards – and it’s not even part of that global media organisation!
Other nominees from around the News Corp stable of print and electronic media outlets across Australian and the Pacific reacted with increasing anger at the awards presentations at Crown Barangaroo in Sydney last night as Nine’s Brisbane newsroom won category after category for a segment screened during its 6pm bulletin on Sunday.
The awards garnered by Nine centred on the screening of just a few seconds of comments from Tara resident Debbie O’Halloran just after reporter Cam Inglis has mentioned that Ergon crews were desperately working to fix downed power lines in and around the town.
He says: “Debbie feels like it’s the Prime Minister leaving them in the dark”.
Take it away, Debbie: “He bagged out Scommo about not holding the hose. Where’s he? Is he holding the hose here now? No!”
A spokesperson for Rupert Murdoch told The Bug from New York: “You can see why Mr Murdoch watched that bulletin and made the simple but understandable mistake that Nine was part of his News Corp global network.
“Mr Murdoch has been watching Nine News Brisbane for some time now and has been mightily impressed by their efforts to bring down … sorry … to hold to account the old, stale and out-of -touch Palaszczuk government.
“And he was just, so, so impressed with Sunday night’s bulletin. There are not a lot of news organisations that would immediately have seen the merit of screening that lady’s comments. Here was an average citizen facing cost-of-living-with-bushfires pressures and making the very valid point that unlike Scott Morrison who had every reason for taking his family on a promised, short, overseas, holiday, the visionary that he was in knowing that he would soon be tirelessly leading his nation through Covid – our current PM – Airbus Albo – was swanning around the world and not being on the ground helping out!
“Given all that, it’s easy to understand why Mr Murdoch thought he owned the Nine Network already and it’s why he immediately contacted the award judges and insisted a number of people associated with that Tara bulletin be included as late nominees even though the deadline had passed.”
Among those who have picked up top awards on the night were Cam “this burning bohemoth” Inglis himself, his entire field production crew, the station’s helicopter pilot who couldn’t receive his award in person as he was reportedly hovering over Barangaroo last night as the awards ceremony unfolded, producers back in the editing suite at the station’s Mount Coot-tha studios, the cleaners who keep the Brisbane newsroom spotlessly clean, reception staff, senior station management, Nine Queensland executives and of course Nine Entertainment Co. chair Peter Costello “for his outstanding leadership and unswerving commitment to quality journalism”.
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