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I’m sure anyone who was watching 60 Minutes last night was as disgusted as I was by the first two disgaceful stories and the way they were presented. Dolly Parton was the third story and while she is an ABSOLUTE GENIUS whom I WONT HEAR A WORD AGAINST, she wasn’t exactly the hard news story that could have saved this dismal episode.

The story on the NSW Public Order and Riot Squad which was a very thinly veiled recruitment video. I wonder how much they were paid to run that story. It was an absolute embarrasment that glorified violent thuggish behaviour, not from the public but from the police themselves. Trying to soften their image by focusing on one of the two women in the PORS unit failed embarrasingly when they showed the pitiful way that particular woman was treating the public.

While they had attempted to give the PORS unit a public face and a bit of sympathy for what a shitty job it is, they really lost any respect in the last piece of footage where one of the officers was getting all shovy and violent in the faces of two guys who had done nothing. He was shouting at them to get away from the lady officer (they were seemingly just asking her a question) and shoved them both down the street, knocking one over. This was after half the story was spent establishing that this lady officer can handle her own on the street. Sigh. I am deliberately being patronising with the phrase “lady officer” by the way.

Here is the story blog and here is the transcript fromt the 60 Minutes site.  There is footage on there as well.

The next story was some terrible bullshit about cougars (women who date younger men) that was real Today Tonight material and a fucking disgrace. I was going to write more about that but I’m all mad now after watching that terrible footage again,

60 Minutes, you should be ashamed. How embarrasing for wonderful journalists who previously worked on the show to be watching that episode. They must be wondering where it all went so wrong. Perhaps next week you can do an episode about Chinese people taking over Australia, Sydney grocery prices and perhaps the Dave Hughes/ Eddie McGuire feud.