A Current Tonight & Today Affair

MediaWatch dissed the “Current Affairs” programs of Channels 7 and 9 last night. You wouldn’t believe it, but Today Tonight and A Current Affair copy each others programming and run similar stories at exactly the same time. But who could blame them? With earth shattering stories about breast enlargements, miracle cancer cures and weight loss, a serious current affairs program simply cannot risk allowing a competitor to break a story first (even if the story was actually “broken” three years ago). Today Tonight must have been spewing when A Current Affair broadcast their story on OneCard (a new loyalty shopping card) – the team at 7 really got caught napping on that one.

And of course, the ABC’s 7:30 Report wastes tax payer dollars examining trivial stuff like the Iraq War or Australian politics…