Thanks to Amber Sherlock, viewers saw how entertaining TV can actually be
I'm not the only who was utterly sickened by the footage of Nine newsreader Amber Sherlock berating her colleague Julie Snook for not wearing a jacket. When the clip of the off-air exchange leaked, it filled me with the kind of rage I can usually only summon in response to lamb ads.
Thanks to the mysterious leaker from Nine, we got a window into the internal workings of the television industry, and what we saw was far from pretty.
I had no idea this sort of thing was going on behind the scenes. Frankly, I think it's an outright disgrace that what happens off-air is so much more entertaining than what happens on-air, and that the networks have been hiding this from us for so long.
Sure, the Sherlock palaver was just a single clip: but where there's smoke, there's entertainment; who knows what other gems they're keeping from us?
Every night now we're expected to sit through the news – which is, let's be blunt, both dull and depressing 100 per cent of the time – and accept what we're given, knowing that something fantastic is happening in the bits we don't see.
Newsreaders bitching at each other about jackets, attractive people hurling insults, the air thick with passive-aggression?
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