A Current Affair
Since last week, plenty of sushi-eating, bubble-tea-sipping Aussies have taken to the Interwebs to voice their indignation on behalf of Asian-Australians over A Current Affair’s “All-Asian Mall” blunder.
They wanted to make clear they were personally aware that the members of our community who cling-wrap their remote controls, chop their food with giant cleavers and apparently want to start specialty stores in Sydney’s North-West are, indeed part of the community.
But as a country, it looks like Australians aren’t all that into “Asia”.
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I saw something a couple of days ago that made me want to throw a brick through the TV.
I’m not normally a violent person, but A Current Affair’s “special investigation” on the “Asianisation” of our shopping centres wasn’t just dumb, it was dangerous.
If you were lucky enough to miss the program, you missed reporter Ben McCormack’s “exclusive” story on the “Great mall of China” in Sydney’s Castle Hill.
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Pat says:
Most of the comments here are heartening. As an Aussie in Kkong , I find the ACA program despicable. It just reinforces the perception by many Asians that Oz is a deeply racist country. Read more »
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Jesus would have voted for Obama on the grounds that he was probably history’s biggest left wing activist. Think: Hanging out with prostitutes and lepers, kicking the money changers etc out of the churches, socialism via the loaves and the fishes, Blessed are the MEEK and all that (no blessed… Read more »
When news broke Bert and Patti Newton were going on A Current Affair to talk about their son Matthew a lot of people rolled their eyes, and then nearly 1.8 million of us tuned in.
I was definitely in the fairly large skeptics camp, wondering what good the interview could possibly do, and if in fact, it could turn out to be self-indulgent and harmful. And then I watched it.
You can read news stories about the content of the interview here and here. And you can watch the whole interview here.
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For about the fifty-millionth time on my television screen in recent times, I recently witnessed yet another slimy current affairs story that shouldn’t have been screened at 6.35 pm.
This time it was the tale of a woman who is taking her former boss to the cleaners for sexual harassment. In itself, the story on Today Tonight didn’t particularly offend my sensibilities; it was quite newsworthy and, if told sensitively, may not have aroused my ire. But it’s the sleazy manner in which these stories are so often portrayed that really gets up my nose.
Why did they have to give the intimate details of the case – word for word? Why did they have to quote the man who supposedly said to the young woman during dinner that the dessert was so good it was ‘like a **** in the mouth’? Oh yes, they beeped out the ‘offensive’ word. Woohoo! Good on them for being so ‘family friendly’.
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This my friends is why I pay $70 p/m for Foxtel. Read more »
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