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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 06:17 am
Reader blogstrop noticed something odd in a live cross from Lakemba during Thursday night’s ABC news:
[The reporter] hadn’t got far into his spiel when the camera panned downwards to the footpath. The screen went blank. There seemed to be some concern, with one voice calling to the other, a name like Daryl. Jacinta carried on, and the whole event was not mentioned again. The 7.30 Report is on strike (petulant bastards objecting to the bias affair?), so no follow up there either.
Here’s your explanation:
An ABC cameraman could face strife for going on strike – smack in the middle of a live news broadcast.
A cameraman, Dough Sleeman, downed tools last night, shortly after ABC the 7pm newsreader, Juanita Phillips, crossed live to the reporter John Stewart at the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s west.
Sleeman yanked the camera from the tripod shortly after Stewart had started his piece about a meeting over Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly’s controversial “uncovered meat” comments …
A cut back to the studio revealed a bemused, but calm, Phillips, who asked Stewart a follow-up question.
Stewart was battling by this stage, and replied: “Yep … ah … they’ll be reviewing, they’ll be reviewing tapes of the speech … ah … and the 16 directors have one vote each … if … Doug! … he’s um … he’s just …”
Sleeman’s name—Dough!—has since been corrected. More on the professionals at the ABC from Frank Devine.
- Maybe Dough-Boy just got creative and decided to engage in cinematic art: panning to the sidewalk was his way of saying that, while politicians and reporters come and go, the firmament on which they tread is always with us, a path on which others will walk until global warming leaves only the ants to make their way along the vast concrete plain constructed by a race of extinct giants.Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 09:59 AM • permalink
- The closing paragraph of Devine’s column:
Even if the new editor-in-chief turns out to have hidden proclivities and edits ABC programs according to sharia law, it will be an improvement on the present quagmire of faded, trendy values maintained by the faceless intellectual elite of cafeteria society, a regime similar to that of the latte princesses in the high school comedy Mean Girls.
lol
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 10 27 at 10:00 AM • permalink
- Sets a wonderful precedent if he doesn’t get fired.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 27 at 10:00 AM • permalink
- Maybe the cameraman is an uptherehilaly supporter?Posted by surfmaster on 2006 10 27 at 10:23 AM • permalink
- Is his real name Doh?Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 27 at 10:43 AM • permalink
- #9, Rob, Ive checked, my accountant says no. He likes the idea though…Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 10 27 at 01:47 PM • permalink
- #9 I’m all for that idea!
You’ll never get any explanations from the taxpayer funded ABC! If you do, it’s not before the regulation 1 month has expired! Kieran Doyle whose name appears on most of these predictable replies, times it to perfection!
Question is: How much longer are we going to put up with it?
- Ahh – industrial action VC style.
Time for ABC management to bring out the napalm.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 10 27 at 06:45 PM • permalink
- I usually avoid the ABC TV news these days but watched it here in Queensland last night to see how they were going to handle Beattie’s blockade against Catmeat Hillaly.
But Queenslanders had to make do with the NSW version of the news and weather with not a peep out of Brisbane.
There was no explanation for this strange behaviour so maybe all the ABC cameras in Brisbane were dropped last night.
- From the Australian:
Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) organiser Graeme Thomson said Mr Sleeman’s action was part of protected industrial action when he removed the camera from its tripod. “There is no requirement on staff to tell management when they are on shift or when they are taking strike action,” he said.
Even under ordinary circumstances I hear that it’s difficult to tell the difference at the ABC.
- #1 Paco (kinda has a ring to it, eh?), you sure have a way of putting things in persepective.
(btw, condolences on Tigers loss, but “never up, never in”, and they do have a pennant, right?)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 28 at 12:16 AM • permalink
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