Media Watch fix-ation.

Media Watch, I'll admit it needs a few changes, like the following:

• Needs to have 2 to 5 episodes per week, not 1.
• Needs to be at least 1 hour long, not 15 minutes.
• Probably needs more media-watching staff to fill the extended air time.

Are these plans in place? No. Mark Scott claims the following:

• Media Watch is much loved and respected. (Agreed.)
• It will be on the ABC for a long time, I hope. (Agreed, on for long, on for longer!)
• But there is a lot of contention … about what constitutes a good media performance or a bad media performance. (Agre… wait a minute, that doesn't mean anything.)
• There are a lot of different views about media policy and regulation and I would like to see that reflected in Media Watch. (There are? Like what? Who has these different views on media policy? A large number of people?)
• Insiders is a great example as it really does allow that range and plurality of views to be heard … and it doesn't suggest in its style that there is one view that is right.

Former host David Marr summed it up quite well: "When you look at it dispassionately, there isn't much to debate. When you catch somebody plagiarising, what's to debate? When you catch someone faking their sources, what's to debate? When you catch someone telling porkies in the press, what's to debate?"

WHAT IF....

Good evening and welcome to Media Watch. I'm Monica Attard.
And I'm Andrew Bolt, here to provide view plurality.
Journalists at 2GO say they've noticed the repetition of some of their stories on their commercial rival Star 104.5.
Oh come on, the left has a history of plagiarism that stretches back to the days of Nazi Germany, so give it a bone you hypocritical socialist tart.

(later...)

Here's where freelance journalist Tom Winterbourn took the exact same words and sentences from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has become a widely used online research tool even though its information isn't always correct or even verifiable. But cutting and pasting it, word for word, is plagiarism.
Here's another perfect example of the left...
... who's 'the left' Andrew?
You, Monica, are a left winger, ergo you hate Fox News and the Herald Sun, ergo you hate Rupert Murdoch, ergo you hate all of News Limited publications - and any complaints you make of Winterbourn, who writes for Murdoch's WA's Wanneroo Times, are meaningless.
But he directly copied Wikipedia word for word.
Doesn't matter.
Without giving any credit.
Doesn't matter.
Why not?
Because you don't like Rupert Murdoch.
And how do you know that?
Because you just questioned one of his publications, conclusive proof.
I'd like to remind viewers that I have two Walkley Awards, a law degree, and a Medal of the Order of Australia, I don't need this shit. Next up, a spray moulded fake crocodile on Fraser Island confuses Queensland's Fraser Coast Chronicle. But let's skip over that, it was obviously just a subversive attack by communists to ridicule the Australian media.
Finally, the truth!