On Tuesday night, viewers watching the ABC’s flagship current affairs programme, 7.30, saw everything that is wrong with the organisation encapsulated in one excruciating interview. The moment came when presenter Leigh Sales was supposedly interrogating Defence Minister Kevin Andrews about the dispatch of a new joint Australian-New Zealand training contingent to Iraq.
Yet Leigh Sales thought it important -- and funny -- to reduce the interview to farce.
The panting excitement, obvious as she awaited the exact moment to inject the irrelevancy of her gotcha, was eclipsed only by the look of unsuppressed triumph as her target failed to provide the correct answer.
Her beaming exultation at the successful springing of her trap produced the desired “look at me” reaction, effectively making Sales, rather than her subject, the focus of her interview.
That this was conceived more to impress her fellow workers and the fawning acolytes of the Sydney Morning Heraldhas been proven by the formers' rush to include the minister’s "gaffe" in this morning's radio news bulletins, and theSMH's splash in print and online.
She is an absolute disgrace and should be sacked
Now, she reveals herself as a silly, spoiled little girl -
On Tuesday night, viewers watching the ABC’s flagship current affairs programme, 7.30, saw everything that is wrong with the organisation encapsulated in one excruciating interview. The moment came when presenter Leigh Sales was supposedly interrogating Defence Minister Kevin Andrews about the dispatch of a new joint Australian-New Zealand training contingent to Iraq.
