The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 66

1 Letters Iff with special consideration to Uncensored), criticism should rightfully be aimed at the Government that cut 10.8 million from the ABC budget in 1996- 7 and $55 million in the 1 997- 1998 budget I hate to add to the mountains of political comment during election season, but YOUR ABC is doing the best it can. Tara Calaby, Warragul 3LO's Summer Sounds WHEN 3LO radio managers are drawing up their programming for the summer, let us hope they don't give us that deplorable Sounds Of Summer again. They would do much better to give us comedy spots, music and repeats of their best programs and interviews over the past years rather than the trivial mush they served up to us last year. A Tehan, Mansfield A National Asset RADIO National's morning show, (6.00 to 8.30 am weekdays) is informative, entertaining and provides some of the most incisive reporting on matters Local and global. At a time when the standard of Australian journalism is being sacrificed in favor of sensationalism, this 1 2-and-a-half hours of radio each week is one of the last bastions of real quality.

Peter Thompson is the best person on radio. Bernie Brysha, St Kilda As Dyson Sees It THE challenge? Supplied with just 1 200, we had a day to redecorate the Blythe-Smyth's occasional room. Meanwhile the Blythe-Smyths were to transform our rumpus room within the same budget. Pocketing a thousand dollars for refreshments, armed only with our youthful energy, we set out to dramatically change the Blythe-Smyth's purview. Arriving at their South Yarra retreat, we instantly agreed the Gobelins tapestry was a little well gaudy.

Six dollars bought a tin of brown boot-polish, which after application was stripped back with a blowtorch, giving the tapestry a genuine antique feel. The parquet floor was too resonant for relaxed family living, so we replaced it with economical and hygienic seagrass matting (Ali Babars Bazaar, But the room still lacked personality. Fortunately, our children are artistic, and they rapidly transformed the sub-dado area with indelible markers (Newsagent, 1 2.00). We'd like to thank the producers of Changing Rooms for this chance to express our individuality. We'd also like to thank the Blythe-Smyths for our dazzling New-York-penthouse-style rumpus room.

We couldn't have done it ourselves. deride Brownlow Medal winner Robert Harvey about his beautiful three-month-old son on national television, then we should be entitled to know what was happening in Mr McAvaney's life when his children were conceived. Perhaps Mr McAvaney's children came into this world by some other method! Robert Broome, Wheelers Hill Susie Triumphs Again NO doubt Susie O'Neill will seriously reconsider her financially attractive media options after having to endure the lecherous Sam Newman pore over her in the Grand Final Footy Show (Channel 9, 249). Another gold for Susie, whose performance left Newman well back in her wake. Ian Haynes, Mt Waverley Bad News For SBS I NOTE a further decline in the level of reporting at SBS.

This time the guilty party was a sports reporter who claimed Mike Tyson was told to seek help from a psychiatrist. This is a long way from the fact that he was asked to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. In the days of George Donikian, the news was presented straight without the drama and opinions that have crept in of late. Note the handling of the Bill Clinton coverage. High drama accompanies each story instead of just dealing with the facts.

I know it's tempting to push your own Pre-Match Problems WHY did the AFL bother to ask so many wonderful performers to take part in the pre-match entertainment for the Grand Final when the music was so obviously pre-recorded! To watch a great live talent like Mark Seymour rise on a wobbly dais and lip-sync the words to Holy Grail was more embarrassing than any number of dancing goal umpires. Pete Fldler, Heidelberg Calling The Election YES, there is bias in the media. All sections, including the ABC, report the election like an event in the Commonwealth Games or a stage show, with sports commentators reviewing the stars' performance. And there is some fuss about how to pay for the next three years' performances. Players and reporters seem to ignore the awful problems the next government will face, with no apparent policies to try to prevent them or at least cope with them.

If counting time-spent-on-what is a way to assess media election bias, count the time spent on sport, the time spent showing Pauline Hanson, the time spent on polls, pollie beatups and guff, and the time spent on actual policies beyond the GST. I'd like to see that. Valerie Yule, Mount Waverley Brace's Baby I THINK if Bruce McAvaney wants to Hunters and llp-syncers? barrow in the media but surely the best venue is those awful radio shows where people want to hear opinions. Leave the news presenting to people who are happy to just READ the news. Peter McCarthy, Lara The ABC Of Budgets THERE has been a considerable outcry about the end of Good News Weekend.

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