atw: Re: Particular past tense (now O.T.)


Dear Matilda R.

That was about segues (pronounced
"segways") regarding
how something totally irrelevant can
be used as an
introduction to the following story by creating some
obscure, even misleading word association between
the preceding and
following stories (I won't call them "reports").

A
long used technique in the media.

You might care to see the
Chaser Web site at:
http://abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/
where you
find podcasts of segments from their
show for download.

Cheers,

Micky G.

Michael Granat
Write
Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au


> Last Tuesday caught
the excellent comedy on ABC called "Chaser's War on
>
Everything"
<snip> 
> But what really was
insightful was their piece on a commercial news
> network (local)
who manage to graft two totally separate issues into the
> one
news story.  It was a cracker, have never seen anything like it.
>
Totally disjointed and schizoid news reporting.  Worth a watch. Did
> anyone see this one and can relate one example - it's mind boggling
what
> they are trying to do to people's minds.
> 
> Mat
>

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