Talking pictures (and cartoons, videos, memes, etcetera)

Title
Talking pictures (and cartoons, videos, memes, etcetera)
Publication Date
2023-08
Author(s)
Leon, Lucien
Scully, Richard
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4012-4991
Email: rscully@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rscully
Editor
Editor(s): Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer and Jill Sheppard
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
ANU Press
Place of publication
Canberra, Australia
DOI
doi.org/10.22459/W.2023.08
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/56794
Abstract

On the morning of Sunday, 10 April 2022, viewers of ABC TV's weekly current affairs program Insiders received a very rude shock: the 'Talking Pictures' segment was dropped from its sacrosanct place in the last 10 minutes of the show. Mike Bowers' regular run-through of the week's cartoons and pictures was shunted in favour of footage of Scott Morrison in transit from Sydney to Yarralumla to ask Governor-General David Hurley to prorogue parliament and dissolve the House of Representatives and half the Senate. Thousands flocked to social media, where fans of all things cartoony could not only watch the unaired segment but also troll away to their hearts' content, questioning the national broadcaster's priorities.

Link
Citation
Watershed The 2022 Australian Federal Election, p. 145-178
ISBN
9781760465827
9781760465810
Start page
145
End page
178
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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