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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Hunter wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Hunter wrote
>>
>>>>>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most
>>>>>> countries now have a government funded online news service?
>>
>>> There is no govt online news service in the biggest market, the US.
>>
>>>>> In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites
>>>>> with news.
>>
>>>>> Dubious proposition tho.
>>
>>>>>> Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it.
>>
>>>>> Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to
>>>>> spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc.
>>
>>>> Can't remember when the ABC ever missed anything newsworthy.
>>
>>> I can. Lots of the stuff that ends up in Austory and 4 Corners
>>> never made it to the ABC News, 7:30 Report or Lateline.
>>
>>> And you dont get much coverage of trials at all, particularly the
>>> gory detail, presumably because they dont bother to have anyone
>>> there every day etc.
>>
>> Patrick Waring, one of the most utterly obscene examples of a complete
>> fuckup by WA cops and the WA judicial system, didnt even get a
>> mention, not even in Aust Story or 4 Corners etc.
>
> And we saw no coverage of the Patel trial in Qld either.
>
> The coverage of the Dud assassination left all the alternatives for dead
> tho.

ABC did a daily report in the news. It was streamed into Bundy live for the
locals to salivate over.

>


From: Rod Speed on
SG1 wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Hunter wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Hunter wrote

>>>>>>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most
>>>>>>> countries now have a government funded online news service?

>>>> There is no govt online news service in the biggest market, the US.

>>>>>> In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites with news.

>>>>>> Dubious proposition tho.

>>>>>>> Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it.

>>>>>> Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to
>>>>>> spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc.

>>>>> Can't remember when the ABC ever missed anything newsworthy.

>>>> I can. Lots of the stuff that ends up in Austory and 4 Corners
>>>> never made it to the ABC News, 7:30 Report or Lateline.

>>>> And you dont get much coverage of trials at all, particularly the
>>>> gory detail, presumably because they dont bother to have anyone
>>>> there every day etc.

>>> Patrick Waring, one of the most utterly obscene examples of a
>>> complete fuckup by WA cops and the WA judicial system, didnt even get a mention, not even in Aust Story or 4 Corners
>>> etc.

>> And we saw no coverage of the Patel trial in Qld either.

>> The coverage of the Dud assassination left all the alternatives for dead tho.

> ABC did a daily report in the news. It was streamed into Bundy live for the locals to salivate over.

Pity it never made it out of Qld.


From: SG1 on

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> SG1 wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>> Hunter wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Hunter wrote
>
>>>>>>>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most
>>>>>>>> countries now have a government funded online news service?
>
>>>>> There is no govt online news service in the biggest market, the US.
>
>>>>>>> In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites
>>>>>>> with news.
>
>>>>>>> Dubious proposition tho.
>
>>>>>>>> Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it.
>
>>>>>>> Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to
>>>>>>> spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc.
>
>>>>>> Can't remember when the ABC ever missed anything newsworthy.
>
>>>>> I can. Lots of the stuff that ends up in Austory and 4 Corners
>>>>> never made it to the ABC News, 7:30 Report or Lateline.
>
>>>>> And you dont get much coverage of trials at all, particularly the
>>>>> gory detail, presumably because they dont bother to have anyone
>>>>> there every day etc.
>
>>>> Patrick Waring, one of the most utterly obscene examples of a
>>>> complete fuckup by WA cops and the WA judicial system, didnt even get a
>>>> mention, not even in Aust Story or 4 Corners etc.
>
>>> And we saw no coverage of the Patel trial in Qld either.
>
>>> The coverage of the Dud assassination left all the alternatives for dead
>>> tho.
>
>> ABC did a daily report in the news. It was streamed into Bundy live for
>> the locals to salivate over.
>
> Pity it never made it out of Qld.

To be honest it has been pardon the pun "dead" boring. Jury is out atm.

>
>


From: Rod Speed on
Rod Speed wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Hunter wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Hunter wrote
>>
>>>>>> How are the commercial news websites going to survive when most
>>>>>> countries now have a government funded online news service?
>>
>>> There is no govt online news service in the biggest market, the US.
>>
>>>>> In theory by have more apes on the ground feeding their web sites
>>>>> with news.
>>
>>>>> Dubious proposition tho.
>>
>>>>>> Our is news.abc.net.au and they will never charge for it.
>>
>>>>> Yes, but it remains to be seen how much they will choose to
>>>>> spend on say showing up at interesting trials for long times etc.
>>
>>>> Can't remember when the ABC ever missed anything newsworthy.
>>
>>> I can. Lots of the stuff that ends up in Austory and 4 Corners
>>> never made it to the ABC News, 7:30 Report or Lateline.
>>
>>> And you dont get much coverage of trials at all, particularly the
>>> gory detail, presumably because they dont bother to have anyone
>>> there every day etc.
>>
>> Patrick Waring, one of the most utterly obscene examples of a
>> complete fuckup by WA cops and the WA judicial system, didnt even
>> get a mention, not even in Aust Story or 4 Corners etc.

> And we saw no coverage of the Patel trial in Qld either.

The problem appears to be that quite a bit of stuff like the susan falls trial just
doesnt make it to TV for some reason. Its on the web site, but not on national TV.

But the web site coverage of the Patel trial is pathetic as well.

> The coverage of the Dud assassination left all the alternatives for dead tho.

In spades with the follow ups like on Insiders.