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TV star’s dad goes rogue in defence of his girl · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, July thirteen, twenty twenty six. Former Australian Federal
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  Speaker 1: live now at the Australian dot com dot a u
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  Speaker 1: A dad rushing to the defense of his daughter. We
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  Speaker 1: can all identify with that, but in the case of
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  Speaker 1: one Channel seven reporter, Dad's decided to critique the performance
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  Speaker 1: and appearance of his girl's colleagues. Steve Jackson edits The
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  Speaker 1: Australian's Media Diary and he's here with the story that's
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  Speaker 1: got all of broadcast media talking. Jacko's here in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Steve Jackson edits The Australian's Monday media Diary. Jacko,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have talked before on the front about
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  Speaker 1: TV news. I love television news. I'm a big consumer.
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  Speaker 1: But what I really love about it is the personalities
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  Speaker 1: that make up these shows. It is a tough game,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Look the people who do it. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anyone appreciates how hard that job is. As we've discussed,
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  Speaker 2: you work on a newspaper, you think you can get
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  Speaker 2: everything concise down into just a few words, and then
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  Speaker 2: you go into TV and you, oh Jesus, turns out
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  Speaker 2: that I wasn't as concise as I thought. They're explaining
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  Speaker 2: emotions in half a sentence. You know, it's an amazing
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  Speaker 2: skill set they have.
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  Speaker 1: There's big drama going on behind the scenes at Channel seven.
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  Speaker 2: Why it's usually the stories that are happening in front
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  Speaker 2: of the camera everyone's talking about, but in It's seven,
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  Speaker 2: it's the behind the scenes drama. It's like, forget about
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  Speaker 2: commissioning a new Real Housewives of Sydney. This is the drama.
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  Speaker 2: It's a real life reality show and it's all because
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  Speaker 2: of one reporter and now her dad. Everyone who read
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  Speaker 2: the Diary last week has seen InGaN Nelson, who we
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  Speaker 2: got vision of earlier this year, swearing at a cameraman
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  Speaker 2: a few choice words, a little bit of argie bargie
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  Speaker 2: on the road. Unfortunately for her, was sent back live
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  Speaker 2: the newsroom. Everyone's watching and trading. It found its way
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  Speaker 2: to diary. But now her dad's weighed in on the action,
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  Speaker 2: and he's giving a little bit of choice feedback of
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  Speaker 2: his own and letting her former colleagues because she's now
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  Speaker 2: left the network, know what he really thinks of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been getting busy in the comments section of
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Mail, which is a great place to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's very entertaining. Most people use a pseudonym. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that's what you do. Jacko Jacko one two four, I
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  Speaker 1: think it is. But mister Nielsen has been loud and
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  Speaker 1: proud under his own name, commenting on stories about his
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  Speaker 1: daughter's former workplace at Channel seven and her colleagues.
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  Speaker 2: And not just on the Daily Mail, although that comment
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  Speaker 2: section is great, he's actually been doing it on the
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  Speaker 2: official Channel seven Facebook and Instagram accounts. His comments are
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  Speaker 2: truly bizarre. So on one hand, he's saying Channel seven
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  Speaker 2: terrible the way it treats young female reporters. On the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, he's saying, this young female reporter is so
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  Speaker 2: unattractive she could turn milk sour, and this one's got
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  Speaker 2: too much botoc then this one, I think she's just
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  Speaker 2: the work experienced girl.
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  Speaker 1: So I told.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone about that last week and it's evolved from there.
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  Speaker 2: During the week he went and spoke to the Daily Mail.
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  Speaker 2: He wouldn't take my calls, but he spoke to the
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  Speaker 2: Daily Mail and said, oh, yeah, I'm just sharing my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with that? When your opinion is, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: think you're ugly? Is just is that something as a
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  Speaker 2: society we all live in a society. Is that something
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  Speaker 2: that we're just cool with? Then generally, if you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say it in person, should you be jumping on the
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  Speaker 2: comment section on their pages so you know they're seeing it, going, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're ugly and you use too much botox.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think you could turn milk sour. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what is he thinking?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's using his own name, which in a
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  Speaker 1: way is kind of sweetly naive and almost refreshing, given
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  Speaker 1: that generally when people get into this kind of trolling behavior,
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  Speaker 1: they are using an anonymous handle. But he does have
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  Speaker 1: a job off his own. He's a pillar of society
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  Speaker 1: in his own way. What about his own job.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he is a school principle, and I pointed out
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  Speaker 2: that in his own school newsletters it's got an ethos
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  Speaker 2: of anti bullying. So he's got this job as a
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  Speaker 2: school principal. But for how long, Claire is the question?
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  Speaker 1: You put in some questions to the Department of Education
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  Speaker 1: in his state. What did they say?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I heard from some sources out at the school
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  Speaker 2: where he's teaching, out in central West New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: that he'd been on leave since last October because there
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  Speaker 2: had been complaints about the culture at the school. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's true, and he does deny all this.
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  Speaker 2: The department has come back and said he is not
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  Speaker 2: teaching at any school in New South Wales. He is
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  Speaker 2: still being paid by the department, but he's not teaching
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  Speaker 2: at any school in New South Wales.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up the demise of one of television's great skills.
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  Speaker 1: You're a dad of a daughter, Jacko, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we can all identify it with being your child's rite
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  Speaker 1: or die, you know, supporting them one hundred percent. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: it does give us an insight, I think, into the
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  Speaker 1: human toll of what's happening to the TV news business acts.
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  Speaker 3: Channel seven stars have spoken out amid the network's mass
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  Speaker 3: job cuts. Seven's parent companies, Southern Cross Media, revealed that
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  Speaker 3: it would be cutting two hundred and fifty to three
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  Speaker 3: hundred people from the business before the end of the
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  Speaker 3: month in a bid to save thirty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: In a letter to staff, explaining, the television newsrooms are
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  Speaker 1: under immense pressure. We've talked before about the potential for
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  Speaker 1: Channel ten's newsrooms to disappear altogether. Times are tough at
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  Speaker 1: Channel seven, But is it stabilizing a little? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think is the latest round of cuts going to mean
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  Speaker 1: that Steven does have a sustainable TV news business?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you'd like to think so, because when we look
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  Speaker 2: at the local industry, you kind of go, all right,
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  Speaker 2: there's the international streamers and Netflix and Amazon Prime and
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  Speaker 2: Apple TV. They're coming in. Let's face it, They've got
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  Speaker 2: the best drama, they've got the biggest budgets. What can't
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  Speaker 2: they do, what can't they offer, and what they can't
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  Speaker 2: offer and they're never going to offer is domestic news
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  Speaker 2: and current affairs. So that's really important. It's also much cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: Like you look at doing an hour of the Voice
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  Speaker 2: that's going to cost a million dollars. You've got licensing fees,
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  Speaker 2: there's a million cameras, there's producers. One of the few
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  Speaker 2: shows that still has a whole suite of soundos working,
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  Speaker 2: so that's a really big production. An hour of television
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  Speaker 2: news and current affairs, that's a quarter of the price.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everything's a single camera. Generally, even sixty minutes
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  Speaker 2: isn't paying big talent fees now, so generally that's really
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  Speaker 2: cheap content. It's also really popular. One thing that we
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  Speaker 2: all love is news and current affairs, so we want
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  Speaker 2: to know what's going on around us. So you'd hope
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  Speaker 2: that it stabilizes and instead of cutting people, they go,
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  Speaker 2: if we've got to make the budgets work, let's extend
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  Speaker 2: news and current affairs. Let's do more of it. The
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  Speaker 2: issue we have is the people, particularly you look at
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  Speaker 2: mister Neilson's case here, he's having to go at reporters
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  Speaker 2: who are working on these news bulletins. They've never worked harder.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you look back two decades ago and the
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  Speaker 2: hardest thing was getting your story into the six pm news,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you're competing for half an hour of airtime.
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  Speaker 2: It's now an hour. But these reporters, particularly for TV,
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  Speaker 2: and you forget when you go out to a crime
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  Speaker 2: sent in print, you're out there for five hours and
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  Speaker 2: you do the police press and you go back and
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  Speaker 2: write it up. The TV reporters they're out there at
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  Speaker 2: six am doing the cross into the breakfast show. Three times,
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  Speaker 2: they're doing a cross into the morning show. They're then
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  Speaker 2: doing the police press conference, they're crossing into the midday news.
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  Speaker 2: They're still out there at six thirty pm crossing into
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  Speaker 2: the main bulletin. So as soon as they're on a
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  Speaker 2: big story of the day where there's multiple live crosses,
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  Speaker 2: they're doing fourteen fifteen sixteen hour days incredibly hard for them,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why it is disappointing when you see people
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  Speaker 2: focusing on you know, oh, you know, I think she's
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  Speaker 2: got too much botox.
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  Speaker 1: Those live crosses are a feature of TVV news, which
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  Speaker 1: is relatively new. Once upon a time you would do
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  Speaker 1: your package from a story and then you would be
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  Speaker 1: able to go home. I think it's really made it
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  Speaker 1: difficult for particularly women or anyone who's got caring responsibilities
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  Speaker 1: at home to work in TV news. I mean, especially
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  Speaker 1: if you work at the ABC and the live cross
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  Speaker 1: might be at seven thirty pm. That's an incredibly long day.
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  Speaker 1: It's really difficult. You mentioned sound operators, Jacko soundos. Being
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  Speaker 1: a sound recordist was an amazing pathway to a job
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  Speaker 1: in television news and current affairs. It had two functions.
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  Speaker 1: One was delivering great sound and these are the guys
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  Speaker 1: holding the mic on the long boom. It was an
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  Speaker 1: apprentice pathway for cameramen and it was also a highly
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  Speaker 1: regarded career in its own right to be an expert
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  Speaker 1: sound operator. They've kind of disappeared from newsrooms now. You
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  Speaker 1: say they're only working on reality.
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  Speaker 2: And sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is really sad. And from the number of levels,
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  Speaker 2: like when you're going out as a team, you've got
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  Speaker 2: a sounder who's focusing on making sure everything's recorded properly,
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  Speaker 2: the channels are there. It's such a trusted part, even
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  Speaker 2: down to like relaxing the talent. When you go into
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  Speaker 2: a room, quite often as a producer, you've been talking
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  Speaker 2: to people for months about their story. By the time
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  Speaker 2: you turn up with the crew and you've got them
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  Speaker 2: across the line, you're focusing on, you know, getting the
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  Speaker 2: room right and the camera angles. And then for a
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  Speaker 2: sounder who can come in and just relax them and go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm putting on the mic and oh really
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  Speaker 2: that's amazing. Oh, don't tell me too much. And they
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  Speaker 2: have this the best sounder. Sixty has always had amazing sounders.
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  Speaker 2: They're all phenomenal. They're a guy called Mickey Breen. He's
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  Speaker 2: telling jokes, says Charles Davy. Has a great ability just
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  Speaker 2: to make people feel relaxed. And it's such a skill
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  Speaker 2: set for jobs like that to be disappearing. It's sad
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  Speaker 2: because these guys are amazing at what they do. But
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  Speaker 2: also the way technology has evolved is that cameramen can
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  Speaker 2: now do that, and a lot of cameramen they will
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  Speaker 2: now do five cameras and sound. But now even worse
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  Speaker 2: is reporters are being asked, oh can you start filming stuff?
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  Speaker 2: So the soundos are engagered from the cameramen, the cameramen
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  Speaker 2: are endangered from the reporters. And there's this weird thing
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  Speaker 2: that somehow editors are going to be loud out of
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  Speaker 2: their little windowless room of avids to go film and
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  Speaker 2: report stuff themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And journals and now TV journals are now expected to edit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in between everything else they're going to edit. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where all the hours are going to come
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  Speaker 2: in the day, but that job has never been harder,
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  Speaker 2: and probably there's never been a time in history where
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  Speaker 2: they have had more feedback. There used to be an era,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you remember this where turning up being
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  Speaker 2: from one of the major television networks came with a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of gravitas. So I know that one TV
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  Speaker 2: journal was telling me recently. I was saying, I was
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  Speaker 2: going somewhere, but there's no parking. Just put a little
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  Speaker 2: sign letting them park in the no parking and have
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  Speaker 2: a little sign saying you're a journal. So that's probably
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  Speaker 2: going to get me a ticket faster than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's going, oh, it's like putting a
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  Speaker 2: little sign saying you're a priest. No. No, we're sort
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  Speaker 2: of a magnet for vitriol. So it is a shame
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  Speaker 2: when everyone's working so hard to see people, as I say,
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  Speaker 2: give feedback. I don't agree with the way you told
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  Speaker 2: that story. We do that all the time. That os
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  Speaker 2: was that story told properly. That's great discourse and we
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  Speaker 2: should be having those conversations about news value. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be going, Hey, I think you're ugly. Hey, I think
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  Speaker 2: you've got to sour face, because that is juvenile. It's
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  Speaker 2: so disrespectful. It's disrespectful to men as well. Like seriously,
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  Speaker 2: I just think as a society, I get him wanting
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  Speaker 2: to defend his daughter. That is not an appropriate way
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  Speaker 2: to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Jacko, standing up for decency in public discourse.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but don't you say anything bad about my daughter,
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  Speaker 2: otherwise I'll be out there to get you. Thanks Jacko,
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  Speaker 2: all right, thank you m hm.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Jackson edits The Australian's Media Diary. You can check
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