I don't pay all that much attention to Sunrise, although I do usually see/hear about 20 mins of it between 6.30 and 7am.
What I want to know is this: why has the show gone so thoroughly populist Rght wing? The guest commentators I have seen a lot of in the last few months are social-conservative-failure-in-his-own-life Barnaby Joyce, now-hates-every-single-person-in-the-Labor-Party and Pauline-Hanson-sycophant Mark Latham, ex rampaging Liberal Premier Jeff Kennett, and from the purported Left, but wants to be part of the Right, Joel Fitzgibbon.
Sure, they dumped Pauline Hanson herself but Latham is there anyway.
This is the show that popularised Kevin Rudd to the Prime Ministership (another bad political call on their part, I reckon.) Now we have Samantha Armytage (well, actually, I see that she is taking time off due to illness, apparently) who seems to me to very snidely Right wing populist in most of her quips.
The internal dynamics between producers and hosts on that show would be good to know.
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Maybe its because the left has gone so stunningly crazy? Perhaps Rupert doesn't want total collapse during his lifetime? People do like the left because of all the insincere promises to make things better for the rest of us. But if they act too nutty eventually people get jack of them.
who watches TV in the morning?
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