Please. It’s a gimmick, like when Koshie was on the first non-stop flight from NYC to SYD a few years ago. Except I’d argue that the first international travel in nearly 2 years is more significant than that was.
Even if it is sponsored by Qantas (which I’m sure it would be) it is still a significant news story and being on the flight is a unique angle to show - has covid changed the way we travel going forward etc?
I daresay that if there wasn’t any media on the flight, we’d be criticising them for missing the opportunity.
American TV presenter Matthew Hoffman has joined Sunrise’s suite of entertainment reporters Nelson, Edwina and Steve Hargreaves. His first interview from the LA bureau aired this morning.
Not really. For the majority, it’ll be years (and for some, potentially not at all) before their financial position allows them to travel internationally again.
No doubt there will be some people in that position who were lucky enough to have stable work and income during the pandemic, but don’t underestimate how hard financially the last 2 years have been on more people than you’d think.
drifting off topic, but a lot of that is assuming the prices for travel remain the same as they did pre-pandemic and over a longer period that remains to be seen.
Sunrise while having rolling coverage is good people tune in on the half hour and hour for news. There is other stuff happening so Sunrise should still be taking the news as normal and then going back to the coverage.
Brisbane got local news inserts at 6.00 am and 6.30 am when it was reported that Cleo had been found. The feed switched to live after the local insert with the incorrect time which was then covered up.
They should have had the local inserts as normal. Probably more difficult to handle the intros etc during the live coverage. Ben Downie looks very inexperienced but is handling things well. I stopped watching at 9am, how long did the coverage last for?
