Weird Al Yankovic - Couch Potato
Couch Potato (Parody of 'Lose Yourself' by Eminem)
Other Resources
Remotely Controlled: How Television Is Damaging Our Lives
by Aric Sigman
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/remotely-controlled-9780091906900
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/books/dr-aric-sigman/remotely-controlled/GOR001521626
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27493768?
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qx4MYGcrSjEC
AS10-V1 Aric Sigman “Remotely Controlled”
Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets
by Barbara Brock
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/605367.Living_Outside_the_Box
Angelica 'This book helped to open my eyes of how much time I spend in front of the television. TV can really suck you in and before you know it, hours have passed. While reading this book, I actually reduced the amount of television that I watched. What a great week! The activities that I did instead of watching television were very enjoyable. I think I am going to continue the amount of time I watch TV.'
Some of Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts:
"I purposefully spend a few weeks each year avoiding national and international news altogether, and attending only to the news of my own community, since that is the only place I can actually do very much about the falling-apart-things of the moment....I still listen almost daily to radio news...but I limit myself to one national newspaper per week....Here's a big secret I've discovered that I will share with you now: This strategy saves me the time of reading about the sports hero/politician/movie star whose shocking assault charge/affair/heart attack was huge breaking news in the middle of last week, because by Sunday he has already confessed/apologized/died. You'd be amazed how little time it takes to catch up...on all I really needed to be a responsible citizen."
Summary: TV Free Family Research
https://depts.washington.edu/uwcphn/news/summits/screentime_summit/brock_screen.pdf
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Living_Outside_the_Box.html?id=qDgEAQAAIAAJ
Book Review of Living Outside the Box: TV-free Families Share Their Secrets
Links About Reality TV
Season 2019 Episode 33 — Reality TV Survivors
The Feed
Thursday 3 October — SBS VICELAND
'I CRUMBLED BIG TIME': FORMER REALITY STARS CALL FOR MORE SUPPORT, INDUSTRY SHAKE-UP
"We use cushions with pricks." Reality TV producers share the tactics used to push contestants.
Other Links
Humans are hard-wired to seek out bad news, so much so that there is a term for it in psychology: Negative Bias.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/200306/our-brains-negative-bias
http://www.screentime.org/
Books
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled : Television and Contemporary Criticism, by Robert C. Allen
NLA link
How Television Shapes Our Worldview : Media Representations of Social Trends and Change,
by Deborah A. Macey, Jennifer Ellen Good, Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Stylés I. Akira, Lane Clegg, Cindy Conaway, Katherine A. Foss, Charity Fox, and Carrie Packwood Freeman
Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By (author) Noam Chomsky , By (author) Edward S. Herman
a pdf
chomsky.info
Feedback : Television Against Democracy, by David Joselit
Television Criticism by Victoria J. O'Donnell
Desperately Seeking the Audience, by Ien Ang
Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman , Introduction by Andrew Postman
Television and Its Audience, by Patrick Barwise and Andrew Ehrenberg
The Television Studies Book by Christine Geraghty, Edited by David Lusted
The Television Studies Reader, Edited by Robert C. Allen , Edited by Annette Hill
Journal Articles
Robert D. McIlwraith (1998) “I'm addicted to television”: The personality,
imagination, and TV watching patterns of self‐identified TV addicts, Journal of Broadcasting &
Electronic Media, 42:3, 371-386, DOI: 10.1080/08838159809364456
Hidden addiction: Television
STEVE SUSSMAN and MEGHAN B. MORAN
Journal of Behavioral Addictions 2(3), pp. 125–132 (2013)
DOI: 10.1556/JBA.2.2013.008
First published online June 14, 2013
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Nine Network Australia and Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3uDj223KtESEdcBTTRyNg The channel also had examples from other stations
Nine Network Australia didn't like certain videos that were put onto Youtube.
Possibly due to not wanting people finding out what their presenters are really like and the amount of fakeness in their news broadcast.
Which may or may not reduce the amount of time viewers waste watching their news program.
Nine Network Australia made copyright complaints to Youtube to get them removed from Youtube.
Youtube account then became disabled due to copyright strikes.
"Hi Behind Adelaide's Television News:
Due to multiple copyright strikes associated with the videos below, your YouTube account has now been disabled:"
Here is a listed of the titles and the URL's that were removed and explanations about the videos.
Video title: Tune by Kate Collins (2018, September 27)
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG2JTBZcmcI
An interesting tune made by Kate Collins while yawning. which probably was not even recorded by Nine Network Australia,
as it would not be useful in their broadcasts.
: How Television Is Damaging Our Lives
by Aric Sigmanhttps://www.penguin.com.au/books/remotely-controlled-9780091906900
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/books/dr-aric-sigman/remotely-controlled/GOR001521626
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27493768?
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qx4MYGcrSjEC
AS10-V1 Aric Sigman “Remotely Controlled”
Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets
by Barbara Brock
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/605367.Living_Outside_the_Box
Angelica 'This book helped to open my eyes of how much time I spend in front of the television. TV can really suck you in and before you know it, hours have passed. While reading this book, I actually reduced the amount of television that I watched. What a great week! The activities that I did instead of watching television were very enjoyable. I think I am going to continue the amount of time I watch TV.'
Some of Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts: "I purposefully spend a few weeks each year avoiding national and international news altogether, and attending only to the news of my own community, since that is the only place I can actually do very much about the falling-apart-things of the moment....I still listen almost daily to radio news...but I limit myself to one national newspaper per week....Here's a big secret I've discovered that I will share with you now: This strategy saves me the time of reading about the sports hero/politician/movie star whose shocking assault charge/affair/heart attack was huge breaking news in the middle of last week, because by Sunday he has already confessed/apologized/died. You'd be amazed how little time it takes to catch up...on all I really needed to be a responsible citizen."
Summary: TV Free Family Research
https://depts.washington.edu/uwcphn/news/summits/screentime_summit/brock_screen.pdf
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Living_Outside_the_Box.html?id=qDgEAQAAIAAJ
Book Review of Living Outside the Box: TV-free Families Share Their Secrets
Links About Reality TV
Season 2019 Episode 33 — Reality TV SurvivorsThe Feed
Thursday 3 October — SBS VICELAND
'I CRUMBLED BIG TIME': FORMER REALITY STARS CALL FOR MORE SUPPORT, INDUSTRY SHAKE-UP
"We use cushions with pricks." Reality TV producers share the tactics used to push contestants.
Other Links
Humans are hard-wired to seek out bad news, so much so that there is a term for it in psychology: Negative Bias.https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/200306/our-brains-negative-bias
http://www.screentime.org/
Books
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled : Television and Contemporary Criticism, by Robert C. AllenNLA link
How Television Shapes Our Worldview : Media Representations of Social Trends and Change,
by Deborah A. Macey, Jennifer Ellen Good, Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Stylés I. Akira, Lane Clegg, Cindy Conaway, Katherine A. Foss, Charity Fox, and Carrie Packwood Freeman
Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media By (author) Noam Chomsky , By (author) Edward S. Herman
a pdf
chomsky.info
Feedback : Television Against Democracy, by David Joselit
Television Criticism by Victoria J. O'Donnell
Desperately Seeking the Audience, by Ien Ang
Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman , Introduction by Andrew Postman
Television and Its Audience, by Patrick Barwise and Andrew Ehrenberg
The Television Studies Book by Christine Geraghty, Edited by David Lusted
The Television Studies Reader, Edited by Robert C. Allen , Edited by Annette Hill
Journal Articles
Robert D. McIlwraith (1998) “I'm addicted to television”: The personality, imagination, and TV watching patterns of self‐identified TV addicts, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 42:3, 371-386, DOI: 10.1080/08838159809364456Hidden addiction: Television
STEVE SUSSMAN and MEGHAN B. MORAN
Journal of Behavioral Addictions 2(3), pp. 125–132 (2013)
DOI: 10.1556/JBA.2.2013.008
First published online June 14, 2013
1001 🇦🇺
Nine Network Australia and Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3uDj223KtESEdcBTTRyNg The channel also had examples from other stationsNine Network Australia didn't like certain videos that were put onto Youtube.
Possibly due to not wanting people finding out what their presenters are really like and the amount of fakeness in their news broadcast.
Which may or may not reduce the amount of time viewers waste watching their news program.
Nine Network Australia made copyright complaints to Youtube to get them removed from Youtube.
Youtube account then became disabled due to copyright strikes.
"Hi Behind Adelaide's Television News:
Due to multiple copyright strikes associated with the videos below, your YouTube account has now been disabled:"
Here is a listed of the titles and the URL's that were removed and explanations about the videos.
Video title: Tune by Kate Collins (2018, September 27)
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG2JTBZcmcI
An interesting tune made by Kate Collins while yawning. which probably was not even recorded by Nine Network Australia, as it would not be useful in their broadcasts.
The image is a still frame from the video transmission that would have been watched by thousands of viewers across Adelaide, and is put there to show who made the tune. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: I swear all the time - WIll McDonald (2018 August 21) 4pm News Channel 9 ,Pirie Street, Adelaide
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALf8BLGYTF4
News anchor Will McDonald admits he swears and that he shouldn't swear.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: fucking hell, that was shit house Will, (2018 August 21)
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudS4ggWAHM
During this video news anchor Will McDonald can be heard swearing.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: nipples as a thermometer, 2018 October 1, Channel 9 Pirie Street Adelaide, after 4pm News
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-hQtVas24
On the audio can a heard a short lived controversy in the studio in relation to Will McDonald, that probably would not have been recorded Nine Network Australia, as it has no commercial value to them.
There is no visual images in this uploaded video that Nine Network Australia recorded or has the copyright to. It is a picture showing a buildings and a street in Adelaide anyone can take a photograph of. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres. The other audio channel is a repeat of the transmission of the audio from the microphone worn by Kate Collins.
Video title: f a duck, who writes that shit, far out Media Construction Worker, Will McDonald 2018 06 10 Cha
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKnIaKvHgo
News anchor Will McDonald can be heard on the audio swearing during the ad break and making a tune.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. One channel of the audio is recorded from the transmission designed to be sent to the people on the news desk (range about 100metres). This is a mixture of audio, and can include occasional comments and directions to the people on the news desk, automated countdowns to video, audio being broadcast to mount lofty and audio of microphones sent from the control room. The other channel is audio from a radio receiver that collected the signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: f----en hilarious Kate Collins 2018 08 17 Channel Nine Pirie Street
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4o1uAjTlE
On the audio Kate Collins can be heard swearing.
The video images in this are not owned by Nine Network Australia. They are recorded from a public area with a video camera pointed at their window, which they open up the curtains to during months where there is low levels of sunlight during the news broadcast for people in public areas to see and photograph if they they want what happens in their news room. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: 'these boots are made for walking' - Kate sings, silence on static, 2017, November 7
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ttSGzueP0
This audio shows that Kate Collins share traits similar to average people. It also shows how she like to sing. Of interest is also of what the news anchors said when the video transmission starts of the studio to Adelaide. The transmission to Adelaide viewers doesn't have certain audio of what they say when they talk to each other after the news opener.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. One channel of the audio is recorded from the transmission designed to be sent to the people on the news desk (range about 100 metres). This is a mixture of audio, and can include occasional comments and directions to the people on the news desk, automated countdowns to video, audio being broadcast to mount lofty and audio of microphones sent from the control room. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: then I dribble Kate's sensitive nose 2017 11 07 Channel 9 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcB-cR1HgCY
This audio shows an imperfection of Kate. Viewers might get the impression that news anchors may not have some medical problems that can be cause of some embarrassment. This video shows how Kate has to work around the medical issue to present the news. I could argue that there is lots of news broadcast today that is like dribble.
This contains a video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. One channel of the audio is recorded from the transmission designed to be sent to the people on the news desk (range about 100 metres). This is a mixture of audio, and can include occasional comments and directions to the people on the news desk, automated countdowns to video, audio being broadcast to mount lofty and audio of microphones sent from the control room. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: donald trump impression by Kate Collins, 2018 September 27
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwXd3DSdMYg
This is an interesting insight into comedy (not intended for widespread broadcast) created by a news anchor. It also means she is not a fan of trump, like a lot of people.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. One channel of the audio is recorded from the transmission designed to be sent to the people on the news desk (range about 100 metres). This is a mixture of audio, and can include occasional comments and directions to the people on the news desk, automated countdowns to video, audio being broadcast to mount lofty and audio of microphones sent from the control room. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: f_____ Kate Collins, 2018, September 27, after 4pm, Channel 9 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VI_YgG4hsw
This video has actual audio of a news anchor who has a tendency to swear. It also shows how on camera she falsely endorses the video package broadcast to television viewers across Adelaide.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. One channel of the audio is recorded from the transmission designed to be sent to the people on the news desk (range about 100 metres). This is a mixture of audio, and can include occasional comments and directions to the people on the news desk, automated countdowns to video, audio being broadcast to mount lofty and audio of microphones sent from the control room. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: maybe just maybe oneday I will grow a penis and then I can read the weather - Kate, 2018, August 10
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oKdBOtJA8
This audio gives an interesting and insight can happen between during ad breaks in the studio. The audio during the ad break would not have monetary value to Nine Network Australia if broadcast to a wide Audience and would not be put into any of their TV shows etc.
This contains video images, that was broadcast to Adelaide television viewers. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
Video title: As if anyone thinks I'm here at ten thirty - Will McDonald ,Channel 9 Pirie Street Adelaide
Video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBc5kBKNLw
This video shows that 'updates' are prerecorded and not live as Nine Network Australia news anchors often make out to be. Will McDonald can be heard joking about this false impression they give television viewers, with the quote 'As if anyone thinks I'm here at ten thirty'
This contains video images, that was broadcast to the whole of Adelaide, including their 'updates'. One channel of the audio is recorded from the transmission designed to be sent to the people on the news desk (range about 100metres).. This is a mixture of audio, and can include occasional comments and directions to the people on the news desk, automated countdowns to video, audio being broadcast to mount lofty and audio of microphones sent from the control room. The audio is from a radio receiver that collected the radio signal from the news anchors radio microphone that only goes for about 100 metres.
