How many times can ACA talk about Salt Therapy?
Meet Cheryl, whose bronchitis condition was improved by salt therapy stories in September 2010, March 2011 and again this week on ACA.
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How many times can A Current Affair file stories on Salt Therapy rooms?
Never too many it seems.
Cheryl, a bronchitis sufferer featured in this picture, featured as part of ACA‘s promo for a story tonight, has previously featured in ACA stories on September 2010 (Reporter: Nick Coe), then again in March 2011 (Reporter: Martine Alpins).
Salt Therapy, or Halo Therapy as it is known, featured again in August 2011 (Reporter: Margueritte Rossi) making it twice with host Tracy Grimshaw and once with Leila McKinnon. All three reports featured the same business offering the treatment.
Ironically even Media Watch got stuck into both ACA and TT for doing Salt Therapy stories, which were first filed by KABC TV in Los Angeles six months earlier. Now I don’t know that a local show filing a topic already covered overseas is necessarily a hanging offence, but it does beg the question why are we getting it a fourth time, five months after the last story?
Doesn’t Leila McKinnon remember what she told us last time? Has there been a development in the story or are we just going to hear about what a whiz-bang treatment it is, how it first started with miners working in salt mines and how Cheryl’s bronchitis has dramatically improved?
Must be a slow day for red-light cameras.
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20 Responses
Good grief!
It was on again tonight.
A goldfish will open and close its mouth gormlessly all day. It also has a memory retention of 5 minutes. Do TT & ACA viewers have the profile of a goldfish…if so these stories could and should be repeated once a month.
Anyone can be on Tv now days. Just mention the smallest neighborhood issue to Aca and they’ll be out in a flash to give you your 10 minutes of fame.
I can’t believe anyone watches these LCD infotainment “we get our ideas from the sunday papers” “shows”. Both ACA and the other one are worthless as they report on nothing important.
ACA viewers (which probably isn’t anyone here) don’t watch every episode every day.
There may have been some viewers, who may benefit from the treatment, that only saw the story for the first time last night.
The media cycle is nothing more then media releases now a days in order to create so called “real news”. For most of thses type of shows their stories are nothing more than marketing puff stories with someone trying to flog something down the viewers’ throat. Don’t forget their other regular ones on getting you a fair deal with the banks, fuel prices, Coles & Woolies price watch and of course the latest ladies fashion under $20! I felt sorry for Alicia Gorey filling in and reading this crap on ACA as she used to anchor ABC news in Perth!
I always like exclusive the best by both shows when that particular type of story was only sourced from a media release invitting everyone to rock up to their road show to get the story. While we are on the commercial networks, I still can’t also work out the lack of news worthy stories in their news breaks, always before the weather on a celeb, human interest story or a funny youtube clip. Not on ABC or SBS!
Seems Cheryl was in the promo but not the story, which did feature new footage and another reporter. But I think we’re done on this subject.
Yet people still watch these shows in droves.
Negus got axed beacuse people prefer to watch this crap. Honestly, australian audiences baffle me.
oh tracey, what are you doing to yourself? Can’t you see you’re killing your career ?
The type of bogans that what this show (and Today Tonight) wouldn’t have the intellect to remember from one month to the next anyway, so why are we worried?
@michael – well like I said I avoid TT & ACA, like has been posted here before both shows follow the some formula when it comes to content. I’m sure they’ll have some other consumer advice on big screen TVs or the best air-con in the next few weeks if they haven’t covered then in Dec.
Don’t suppose the company involved happened to supply Nine with a bit of money in exchange for these hard hitting, deeply journalistic exposes?
It’s probably time either TT or ACA went down to K-Mart and/or Target for about the 10th time this year and showed us how to get great quality fashion for under $20 dollars. If this current affairs then this world must a boring place.
@ Craig Today Tonight had the bad tenant vs landlord story last night (the landlord being a former male model and tv host)
I think it’s almost time to revisit those people who win lots of competitions!
How pathetic… This is why I’m watching The Project now, they actually offer real news, actual current affairs and they don’t quadruple-dip
Thanks for this David, someone needs to put this junk in its place!!
I just say the promo for this as I was fast forwarding through last nights Undercovers I recorded. I must be out of the loop because I never heard of it before, but I do try and avoid ACA & TT as much as humanly possible.
But I agree David it must be a slow news day, guess the bad tenants v landlord stories must have dried up over the holidays as well. Given parts of the east coast are in heat wave maybe they sound be covering that instead?
I don’t even watch the show yet I have caught them talking up that shoe website so many times I have lost count, obviously someone at 9 has a stake in that business.
Last night the lead story was about a guy having his rear view mirror damaged in a car wash. All concerned with this show should be ashamed with the absolute drivel they serve up each night.