Comments on: Martin Place building evacuated

By: Alex T

Alex T — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:14 +0000

haha nathan, i couldn’t agree more.. except they still managed to fit in a damn infomercial thing..

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:59:46 +0000

I hated how they acted outside the studios.

… and it was reported but only the facts in a story lasting less than a minute on the evening news here in QLD.

Now waiting to see what Sunrise will bring…

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:34 +0000

So those saying this isn’t worthy news, who is that directed at? David or Seven, because it had to be reported one way or the other. Obviously one of the most well-known television studios with a mass evacuation, thats TV News, and belongs on a TV blog site. The Morning show & 7 News still had to broadcast, and what they’re just gonna ignore the fact that they’ve been forced to broadcast outside, it had to be mentioned. Though I agree they’re going on about it (Sunrise/Morning Show crew) like a bunch of school kids, like how we used to do at school fire drills!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:54:07 +0000

I watched the morning news with Ann Saunders,and with everything going on around her she remained a true professional as always,great work done by the lady with class.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:54:27 +0000

this makes the morning show actually interesting for once.

By: mac

mac — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:52:31 +0000

@ homer, obviously there is always going to be different opinions about what should be classed as news, lets just agree to disagree. i think we could both agree though that the morning show team where acting like a bunch of school children lol

By: Homer

Homer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:44:01 +0000

@mac People posted comments because David blogged about it. David blogged about it because this is a television blog site, not a news site. David isn’t blogging about the Oceanic Viking because that is a news story and not a television show. I am pleased you can concede that if this wasn’t at Seven’s studios it would have received less attention. My contention is that it would have received *no* attention, and deservedly so.

By: mac

mac — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:32:19 +0000

@homer obviously if this wasn’t at the seven studios it would have got a lot less attention and i do believe they went a bit over board but there is genuine interest in this story, which is why david has blogged about it and people have posted comments.

By: Reubot

Reubot — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:20:38 +0000

Was it an irate viewer?

By: JM

JM — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:17:24 +0000

@mac – building get evacuated all the time…… i hardly call 200 people a “large scale evacuation “

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:13:37 +0000

@Josh and Pete, you are not alone.

By: snickers

snickers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:10:59 +0000

Sunrise sucks.

By: Homer

Homer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:04:12 +0000

@mac You obviously don’t work in a city building, because this sort of thing happens all the time. Our building fire alarm goes off, falsely, about three times every year resulting in a complete evacuation of the building. I’ve never seen news coverage of a small fire in an office building where no-one was injured and there was almost no damage. I suppose you think it is newsworthy because there are pictures to go with it? That’s the very thing I was lamenting – that news editors decide on the basis of images or celebrity involvement that something is news. If this happened and Seven wasn’t in the building would it still be news? Should it be news just because Seven is there? No and no.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:48:04 +0000

@Josh: lol, you’re not the only one.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:33:59 +0000

Hahaha lol… I hate sunrise

By: mac

mac — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:30:38 +0000

although it was a small fire, it is still news because of the resulting large scale evacuation and disruption it caused. in saying that though the morning show did an awful job covering it, they sound like a bunch of school children i couldn’t even hear what they where saying because they were all talking over each other, ann sanders was a lot more professional and did a great job.