A Place for Media Watch?

So many people seem to be rubbishing the 'self apponted' Media Watch lately, and it prompted me to ask 'is there a place for Media Watch in Australian media?'. Well of course there is! Who else will monitor those yahoos at tabloid newspapers, magazines, talkback radio shows and current affairs programs like ACA and Today Tonight?

The buggers pretty much do what they want. They take interviews out of context, sensationalise almost to the point of lying, and when they're reprimanded, it's a tap on the bottom and on their way. At least there's some organisation to pull them up when they go too far. Today Tonight was featured on Media Watch last week for taking a documentary with a group of Muslim youths completely out of context. The guy who documented the group told them it'd give them a chance to show what it's like to be a young Muslim living in (I think) Melbourne. Instead, T-T ran the doco as a group of renegade Muslim youths who were in no way willing to integrate into western society. This is appalling! How is Australian society expected to move forward when muck-rakers like T-T and ACA are running segments inciting anger towards non-western cultures? The problem is that the majority of people who watch T-T wouldn't watch the ABC's Media Watch. All they see is the initial segment, and then after they get pineed, their pathetic response which basically focuses on rubbishing Media Watch.

That's all for now, it feels like I could go on forever about this... but I'm hungry.

Next time, Gadget
Chris