Extensive coverage this morning of Tony Mokbel court appearance.
Nine had live coverage when he was granted bail. Seven was on an add break when the news came through.
Earlier
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Melbourne will receive local coverage from 12pm on 9
Tom Steinfort at 12pm.
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RTVE and RTP were among the initially affected; the former recovered near 1pm, the latter on emergency power and with a few computers on to keep the midday news going. TVE’s El 24h was on an extended edition of their noon Telediario until 6, then handed over to an Especial Informativo on the updates; RTP3 rolling special report. Both are simulcasting with their main channels.
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Sad to see no media coverage on VE Day 80 which is this week with the UK having a bank holiday today.
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I’m still trying to work out why News.com.au is only reporting this now when the earliest breaking news reports were around 3 hrs ago.
Seven News in Melbourne and Brisbane seems to have got this story wrong. Every other outlet including Seven Sydney reporting 2 dead in addition to the injured. Reports of the deaths have been on-line for hours.
Melbourne and Brisbane
Sydney:
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7 News: Unstoppable
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They mentioned two dead verbally.
Even so, they didn’t get it “wrong”, they just didn’t mention the deaths in the graphic.
Just want to call out the media over this week. In the lead up to the QLD Cyclone earlier this year, we had wall to wall news coverage, breakfast and nightly news hosts across northern NSW and in QLD. The cyclone fizzled out and there was next to no damage and/or impact.
As someone in the flood zone over this week, and currently, the coverage has been very minimal. The breakfast shows spent minimal time covering it, one reporter in the zone. Damage has been far worse than the cyclone and FIVE people have died.
Why did the media go so hard and overboard with the cyclone (flashback to 9’s megascreen with 9 reporters), and go so little with coverage for this flood disaster which has killed five and caused extreme damage.
Seems like the media pick and choose based on location and where ratings boxes are?
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I’m surprised there hasn’t been more coverage about this. I’m not in NSW so I wouldn’t see it but from what I’ve heard it hasn’t been great.
Except this isn’t quite correct - the damaged infrastructure costs alone are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the insurance industry has estimated the damage cost to be upward of $1.5 billion. This isn’t next-to-no damage.
Generally, floods never seem to get the same level of coverage - in part, I think it’s due to their nature. There is disaster fatigue, too - it’s happening on such a regular basis that it’s (sadly) becoming normal.
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