Great to see Catalina involved. She’s doing so well at sbs. Another one bites the dust from 10 that was half decent.
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And we’ve sent our presenters there why?
COVID-19 and this.
I just can’t see how they can justify this. Really poor form from our local media.
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The only civil unrest will come from lefties when Trump wins. That’s why businesses in strong far left places like Washington & New York are boarding up their businesses.
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They send reporters into war zones, embedded with troops during military conflict. Reporters go into these zones all the time to cover the story. Reporters went to earthquake and tsunami zones as well. Yes there is an inherent risk and I understand your concerns. I’m sure no one is forced to go but asked if they’d like to cover it and most journalists would jump at the chance to cover big world events.
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While David’s post is absolutely relevant to Media Coverage, just a reminder that general, non media related discussion over potential “civil unrest” as a result of the election result belongs in the US Politics thread, not here.
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Pandemic and civil unrest aside, I dont understand why we do this - our reporters very rarely add anything of value, leave it to the correspondents that are already there
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It must be hard for the permanent US correspondents who have moved away permanently only for other reporters and presenters to come in and “steal their thunder” when a big story happens.
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Normally i think you’ve got a fair argument, but when it comes to US political news and the biases that have been formed in many of the newsrooms there (both left and right wing), I would trust our journos much more.
Local journalists would also be busy reporting on the local issues - extra bills attached to the polling forms, where as we really only care about the overall results and how it’s going to effect us as an external entity.
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Thanks for your input doll.
You raise a fair point about American newsrooms - but we also have US correspondents located there that are offering decent coverage already, i’m talking about this silly practice of sending over a few of the “more popular” presenters to allegedly augment a localised coverage
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Randomly watching one of India’s largest news channels, ‘India Today’ on youtube, and they are running some pretty interesting promos for their coverage of the US election. They are reporting that they have partnered with “Aljazeera”, “ABC News” and “VOA” for coverage - but they are using ABC Australia’s Logo for the promos instead of ABC America. Not sure if an Indian news channel has partnered with an Australian owned news channel for coverage but pretty interesting nevertheless!
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Don’t forget the 6 News coverage 
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Why do you keep writing unbiased on everything? Appealing to right wingers?
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Indian channels are the worst looking stretched 4:3 things ever. ND24x7 looks appalling in Fetch.
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Probably to generate clicks from the whole ‘MSM bad’ brigade.
I think anything on twitter that mentions the US Election now attracts a fair whack of traffic, alota bots too.
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Ticker will have coverage from early Wednesday, with the boys from The Ben Rob & Robbo show doing a special show from 9.30am AEDT.
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