ABCTV newsservice sus

leongatha reporter is allowed to use use words "fear" and "warning" ( without reporting by whom and only a poster to talk to her) in her report about the water shortage in leongatha today . the milk factory is clearly not desperate or silly enough to move on the strength of the situAtion, as suggested . Desperaition too appeasr in showing other posters of other allied papers ( the age) in the same specaultive program - who needs 7:30 reporters when they start early.

Doomsday Declaration Day

On 30th october 2006 it seemed the whole ABC celebrated world warning day ."Global warming is really very very seriuos " was on the news, lateline , even mediawatch piped in with its own interesting piece of tighty worded logomachy. The euphoria of the chorus on climate change was loud, unambigous and strong unlike the verses which sort of missed the point - they were going overboard emotionally and while the group thing might be working, the public motivation thing is not .The news was mainly from England this time ; poly s again and the subtitles agents had English accents - Blame industry if you like, but that too is a distraction from the method failure.

Global warming may be a "political reality"-but if he troops are too be moved quickly, the HOW must be clear on this day - it was not as Latelines moving feast on implementation so well demonstrated

Don't declare war until you know how to win it . If the wanna declarers , like the wanna meets want to be convincing , they need more effective methods of motivation - time , ongoing science forum outcomes ; not polys and media people speaking for them .
The campaign is not working, and the problem is not all with the listeners.
There is real problem in the ABC with its attitude to reporting - and who to report .