The ABC spent the day spruiking the one event of the week really: the Chaser were arrested, and it airs tonight. Maybe the Chaser should include the ABC news team in its line up of villains who sell their own shows as news items alongside their arch-nemesis’ A Current Affair and Today Tonight. I guess the Footy Show broke the Andrew Johns scandal, so maybe they deserve their moment. But no where covered it as extensively as the New Manic Times, founded by one Andrew Firth. I want Media Watch to keep a close eye on that one.
Actually, they started to be reported as actual news somewhere near the end of the last season, which happened to be one which people are now agreeing with my initial judgment of it. It is the season when satire wafted out the window and all that was left was Chas leading guerrilla teams to harangue people on the street. People do not like to be annoyed and they do not like to be in unexpected situations they have no control over; that is what the Chaser set about doing. How do you think people will react if you take their near full beer away from them? No real surprises. Hopefully, the APEC stunt may signify a return to satire, or at least using their notoriety for good rather than as a license to behave badly in the interest in self promotion.
Now sadly I have made it into news. And at this point I must say
