I’m sure he would do it with complete professionalism, but there would always be that underlying possibility he could just snap…

I’m aware that only a certain type of person would host your modern public affairs show, but I’m also aware that jobs like that (and therefore exposure like that) are like hens’ teeth.

Sigh.

I’ve also given up defending myself when it comes to bias. Being a member of a profession which is clearly peopled with lefty, Howard-hating pinko scum while at the same time clearly being a Howard-arse-licking Nine Network fascist is quite an achievement in contortion.

Ross, I agree. When it comes to a couple of programmes in particular my feeling is they follow their perception of public opinion rather than trying to form it. A loungeroom sit-down would be driven as much by Rudd’s office as TT. Same principle applies in other areas: just because Howard absolutely refuses to do FM radio doesn’t make those stations left wing just because they get Rudd on.

And when the election is called – possibly as soon as this Sunday – don’t forget this speck of gold dust:

Birch Barlow: There are three things we are never going to get rid of in this town. One, the bats in the public library; two, Mrs. McFuly’s compost heap; and three, our six-term mayor – the illiterate, tax-cheating, wife-swapping, pot-smoking spendocrat, Diamond Joe Quimby.
Mayor Quimby: Hey, I am no longer illiterate!

God bless Diamond Joe.

It’s that whole Murdoch-reading Southern Cross-listening why-don’t-those-young-hooligans-stop-littering-my-pavement yes-bomb-Iraq-it’s-only-foreigners-anyway racism-is-bad-and-don’t-those-dirty-Vietnamese-smell demographic, so yes, the John Howard fan club.

Nine itself is usually biased towards the Liberals as well. I reckon Boxcutters should have some discussion about Media Bias in a upcoming episode.

The only difference is that thay had ‘good guy’ music to go with the Rudd interview. I wouldn’t look into it too much, I’m of the belief most people wouldn’t take Today Tonight’s word for it, I’ve never known somebody who thought it wasn’t a joke of a program.

Like Diamond Joe Quimby says:

“Very well. If that is the way the winds are blowing, let no one say I don’t also blow.”

Maybe I am being naive but surely viewers go up by pandering to their whims than by trying to change the government.

Is anyone aware of Kerry Stokes’s political allegiance at the moment? I know Packer was all up Howard in his dying days, so maybe the C7 case pushed Stokes to chuck a tanty and join the Rudd fan club.