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Revision as of 06:26, 12 March 2013
| Today Tonight | |
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| Genre | Current affairs |
| Presented by | Hitsus (Yes that's Jesus and Hitler's potara fusion form) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | John Choueifate |
| Production locations | Sydney and Melbourne (as a single edition) Brisbane Adelaide Perth |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Seven Network |
| Release | January 1995 – present |
Today Tonight is an Australian "current affairs" television program produced by the Seven Network and shown on weeknights at 6.30 pm in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair and is known for their appalling lack of research and generally pathetic cast, crew and production.
There are four different national editions of the program: Helen Kapalos presents the New South Wales & Victoria edition, Sharyn Ghidella presents the Queensland edition, Rosanna Mangiarelli presents the South Australian edition and Monika Kos presents the West Australian edition.
The show has been criticised numerous times due to sensationalism, its breaching of the Australian Communications and Media Authority's policies and its often fabricated stories, among other things.[citation needed]
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Reporters
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Achievement
Today Tonight nationally was the last program to win the Logie for Most Popular Public Affairs Program before that award was discontinued.
Criticism
Today Tonight is notorious for its sensationalist reporting, and is an example of tabloid television where stories rotate around community issues i.e. diet fads, miracle cures, welfare cheats, shonky builders, negligent doctors, poorly run businesses and corrupt government officials. For this reason the program is constantly under criticism and ridicule, especially by satirical groups such as The Chaser.
The show has also been found multiple times to be in breach of The Australian Communications and Media Authority's policies in regards to invasion of privacy and not Presenting factual material accurately.[1]
11 march 2013 the day Tristan barker fooled the whole today tonight team
The "Serial Single Mum" controversy
On 18 July 2005, Today Tonight screened a report by David Richardson about "Australia's Serial Single Mum". The report was about a single mother named "Mary-Anne", a private citizen who lives in suburban Sydney. The program asserted that Mary-Anne "had five children to five different men and pocketed tens of thousands in welfare" from Centrelink. It was later revealed by Media Watch that Mary-Anne was working full-time and had the children to four fathers not five. Media Watch described the exchange between Richardson and Mary-Anne as an "appalling attack", and "Another offensive beat up from Dave 'Sluggo' Richardson".[2]
The "Wa-Wa" controversy
On 13 September 2006, Naomi Robson and a Today Tonight crew were detained by Indonesian authorities in Papua for working as journalists despite entering the country on tourist visas.[3]
The Seven Network claimed that its team was sent to the region to do a story on Wa-Wa, a young boy who was apparently in danger of being ritually killed by his tribe, the Korowai (according to a 60 Minutes story on the Nine Network some months earlier). Seven also claimed that their rivals at Nine had sabotaged their story and their mission to "rescue" Wa-Wa from his tribe (who are believed to practise cannibalism), by informing the Indonesian authorities of their visa arrangements. Nine refuted Seven's claims and threatened legal action. Seven alleges that a Nine reporter offered about $100,000 to a guide not to help Seven with their story. Seven's director of news and current affairs, Peter Meakin said "There is evidence to support the claims that, in particular, this man Cornelius was offered $100,000 not to rescue the boy." "I think the phrase was 'name your own price'", he said.[4]
Defamation of Mark McGaw
On 2 November 2006 the Supreme Court of New South Wales awarded former Gladiator and rugby league star Mark McGaw $385,000 for a defamatory story Today Tonight broadcast in June 2003. The Supreme Court jury found that the story made two defamatory imputations: that McGaw was "a man of dangerous domestic violence", and that he "bashed his lover so severely that she was hospitalised with horrific injuries".[5]
Chain stunt
On 20 February 2007, the East Coast edition of Today Tonight led with a story about Shirley Frey, an 84-year-old resident of a nursing home in Willoughbywho was fighting attempts to evict her. The story featured footage of her chained up in her room, and the reporter, Nicolas Boot, said she was "refusing to budge, chaining herself to her room". In response to the airing of that story, the following day officials with the Department of Health and Ageing visited the nursing home. According to a spokesman for Minister for Ageing Santo Santoro, the resident told them the chains had been brought along by the crew, and the process of chaining her up had been instigated by the program.[6] [7]
In response to this incident, presenter Anna Coren was forced to read an apology to viewers on the next night's broadcast, and announced that Seven had launched an internal investigation.[7] Earlier that day, Boot was suspended.[6] On 23 February, Seven released a statement indicating Boot had left his employment with the Seven Network. However, no announcement was made as to any actions taken against off-camera staff, such as producers, over this incident, which Seven Head of News and Current Affairs Peter Meakin described as "one of the more embarrassing" incidents which he has had to deal with.[8]
Vietnamese flag controversy
On 8 May 2007, Today Tonight reported about a Vietnamese Australian welfare cheat Dat Van Vu; though using the generalised title "Vietnamese Sting" and using the flag of Vietnam. Both resulted in anger amongst the Australian Vietnamese community, the first because of the association of ethnicity to criminality, and the second of using the communist flag. Most Vietnamese Australians fled the anti-communist South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon to the one-party state ruled over by the Vietnamese Communist Party, and choose to identify with the flag of the Republic of Vietnam.[9]
References
- ^ "ACMA Annual Report 2007–2008". Australian Communications and Media Authority. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ "Sluggo takes the high moral ground, darling". Media Watch. 25 July 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2007.
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Hawthorne, Maria (13 September 2006). "Robson detained in Indonesia". News.com.au.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Robson may return to Papua". Melbourne: The Age. 15 September 2006. Retrieved 15 September 2006.
- ^ "Today Tonight hammered for $385,000". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 November 2006. Retrieved 2 November 2006.
- ^ a b Staff writer (22 February 2007). "Today Tonight reporter suspended over chain stunt". News.com.au. News Limited. Retrieved 22 February 2007.
- ^ a b Gibson, Jano (22 February 2007). "Truth the missing link in chain stunt". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Retrieved 22 February 2007.
- ^ Gadd, Michael (23 February 2007). "Chain TV reporter gets the boot". News.com.au. News Limited. Retrieved 23 February 2007.
- ^ Tamhane, Mark (16 May 2007). "A Sting in the Tale". Media Watch. Retrieved 9 June 2007.