[LINK] Fwd: MR 113/07: Australians have a voracious appetite for telecommunications [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
> 
> On 24/09/2007, at 12:04 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> 
>> If "news" is something noteworthy, then the facts in the bit that was
>> originally quoted are not news. Tarting it up with impressive-sounding
>> adjectives doesn't (or at least shouldn't) turn a routine fact into news.
>>
>> Am I expecting too much? ;)
> 
> In a society with a voracious appetite for news, only the good stuff 
> (i.e. newsworthy) would filter to the top.

when used with appetite wouldn't swallow rather than filter to the top be a more 
positive verb?

> 
> However, in Australia, where our perception of 'news' is determined by 
> (at best) 7 people, we get drivel like this on days when there isn't 
> enough 'real' news.
> 
> Stating the bleeding obvious is for those days when we don't have enough 
> car crashes, stock market fluctuations, celebrity shenanigans, and when 
> parliament isn't sitting.
> 
> iT
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