If politics is show business for ugly people, television journalism is politics for stupid people.
At least that’s the conclusion one might reach after watching current affairs shows on the commercial channels. The performers huff and puff and the producers manufacture outrage, so that there is inevitably an inverse relationship between the heat generated and the light shed on major (or usually minor) issues.
Who can forget Mike Moore in Frontline, a show that while almost two decades old, is as relevant (if not more so) today. In fact, I recall thinking that some of the situations on this show were a little exaggerated. They now look positively tame in comparison to what we see today.
Perhaps someone should consider updating and remaking this show. The setting could be shifted to the newsroom of a Very Serious broadsheet newspaper where only a selected few are chosen to stem the barbarian social media tide that threatens to erode the foundations of good journalism…
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