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Nine News leads with story on Gillard mob

Nine News gave viewers an extra insight into the reactions of Gillard and Abbott as protestors drew closer in Canberra on Australia Day.

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As News bulletins rushed to cover the shocking story of yesterday’s protest it was Nine News that got the “inside scoop.”

With cameras inside the Lobby Resturant in Canberra, Nine’s Lane Calcutt gave us vision -and audio- of the reactions of PM Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.

“We feel that the situation is deteriorating and can’t stay too much longer,” a security advisor told Gillard.

“Ok. What about Mr. Abbott. Where have you got him?” she asked.

“He’s over there,” said another advisor.

“We’d better help him through too, hadn’t we?”

For his part Abbott said, “I think it would be very easy for that glass to be smashed.”

It gave viewers extra insight into the personal feelings of the two leaders in an extraordinary moment.

Surprisingly, it even lacked the “First on Nine” watermark -a time when it would have been warranted to use it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndFC1c1SwQ[/youtube]

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  1. @David @Ann – it would seem that there was one additional link in the chain. Tony Hodges, a media advisor to Ms Gillard, apparently told “someone” of Mr Abbott’s future whereabouts, and that person then informed someone else at the tent embassy. Mr Hodges has resigned over the incident.

  3. ABC news just announced a Gillard staffer has been sacked for tipping off media or protesters that Tony Abbot was at the restaurant. Also after last nights great performance Nine Melbournes News was let down tonight with technical glitches.

  5. Nine did a very good job on their coverage of this. While I usually prefer the ABC for new coverage, Nine won this battle hands down. If Nine can provide quality coverage like this all the time (especially with ACA) they will contantly win. Also Nine News started a few minutes late in some cities but it was worth it to see the better coverage. I have heard plenty of positive comments on Nine’s coverage. 7 News has a long way to go to be as good. Their problems mainly lie in Sydney and Melbourne and the political coverage is not as trustworthy as the other networks.

  6. News Cameramen and women risk their safety every day to bring these images to our screens. If they didn’t record this yesterday we would never know the seriousness of this appalling behaviour. Well done.

  7. I normally watch 7 news but am not a tennis fan so have been watching Nine News this week. Glad i did and if they keep doing a good i might switch as 7 News is not a lot different to Nine.The way they used the captions was very creative. Keep up the good work Nine and this could just be the turning point you need. The old saying, win the news, win the night.

  8. I think Nine’s footage was amazing but on the other hand, how they were allowed to remain so close and listen to security conversations is slightly odd to me? I know we have far less security than Secret Service style but still, it all seemed to spiral out of control awfully quickly. Agent Ron Butterfield would not be impressed.

  9. a throwback to 9’s glory days…. and maybe a hint of better things to come…stop watching over your shoulder to see what the others are doing and just do what you do well….

  11. I saw it and was impressed by it. I heard an interview with the camera man this morning on 3aw and he said that ch 9 had 2 cameras at the scene ( 1 inside and 1 outside ) as the local news director thought the location being so close to the aboriginal Embassy was likely to lead to a confrontation.
    I bet the federal police which they had such a news sense.

    I also thought it was interesting the different size fonts that ch 9 used to caption the conversations

  13. i didnt see it because i gave up on nine news awhile ago because of the pointless live corss’s the final straw for me was when they had yet another pointless live cross to ross greenwood in pyrmont about finace that was it for me and nine news now watch 7

  14. I can’t help feeling that the media has been this year more than most playing in people’s fears – the whole ridiculous “flags on cars racist” story that was trotted out earlier this week seemed very left field and hardly newsworthy the response on social media seemed to bring out the worst in normally normal minded people – its scary to see this sort of subtle inflammation of this issue and how it got to the situation yesterday

  16. Much better than 7 who had their supers plastered across almost the entire screen, make it impossible to see the PM in the melee at all and therefore rendering their “First on 7” footage completely useless.

  17. No need for a new set if Ben Fordham is still there. Knows absolutely zilch about sport. That smug face is too much to take I’m the morning. He’s mini Alan jones. To make it more watchable they need to eliminate jokes & emails that take up 80% of show! The set is bad, but the people & show itself, worse..

  18. Yes.. at first I didn’t think Nine had this exclusive because it was lacking the appalling abusive of watermark logos. Refreshing to finally realize they did away with it this time. I was watching Nine last night and was amazed at the shots and angles 9’s cameras caught. On top of that the audio was extraordinary.

    At least Seven didn’t have their exclusive banner over the top of everything either. TEN on the other hand had next to no footage at all…

  21. Thanks for that, I usually avoid Nine but this coverage was good, I like they didn’t used the “First on Nine” watermark, it would have cheapen the story.

    It makes you wonder WTF happened to their security and no one saw this coming even after what Abbott said, which IMO as a white male wasn’t that bad but I’m hardly the same demographic as the mod protesting.

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