Sometimes it's not all bad

Good news day.







I should clarify that the news that Mary Kostakidis has stormed out on SBS is not good because she's left, but good because I entirely agree with her and I think she's hot unreal.

Comments

  1. MikeAugust 20, 2007 at 10:33 PM

    Interesting. When I saw the new SBS format, and how they had started interviewing experts and whatnot, I had high hopes that the show might take on a Jim Lehrer kind of take on news. Alas, no, it did not.

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  2. TomAugust 20, 2007 at 10:44 PM

    The hour-long format was never going to work, there's not enough news to fill with the resources they have so they flesh it out with awkward interviews by Stan Grant and cheap imports from the ABC (America), CNN, Reuters and the BBC.

    It's certainly nothing approaching the quality it used to be.

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  3. VirginiaAugust 21, 2007 at 5:22 AM

    Maaaaaaaary!!!!

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  4. Capital Ideas AustraliaAugust 25, 2007 at 2:24 AM

    Yes in principle good on her & she's doing the right thing blah blah blah. But what about us? What are we gonna do without her unreal hotness, huh? She's pulled us through adolescence & laid us straight in our 20's. Are our thirties set to be filled with a barren parade of Jackie O types?? *shudder*

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  5. AnonymousAugust 26, 2007 at 11:13 PM

    I agree with Mike. I too thought it might be an intersting Jim Lehrer type thing, but it is not. However, it remains the least bad news on televison. It was once a top news. Now Stan Grant... I can't even be bothered finishing this. woot on latest galaxy poll.

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  6. TomAugust 27, 2007 at 1:06 AM

    CIA - God help us from Jackie O and her ilk. She wears her vacuousness like cheap perfume - shudder indeed. But who DO we turn to? Ange Pippos? It's just not the same...

    Anon - I hear you on the Stan Gra... fuck it, I can't be bothered either.

    The Gallaxy poll though is VERY interesting. Don't you just wish we could jump forward three months - to verify a Labor landslide - and then return to the present to properly enjoy watching Howard and co fall apart?

    I can't have too much fun just yet, I won't believe it till I see that concession speech. Now THAT will be a party!

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