{"id":3043,"date":"2011-05-16T20:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2011-05-16T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:05:18","slug":"channel-seven-please-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/05\/channel-seven-please-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Seven &#8211; Please Get It Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Channel Seven Melbourne was heavily promoting a &#8220;special report&#8221; to be screened on this evening&#8217;s nightly news bulletin, extolling the virtues of living in Geelong instead of Melbourne, and commuting into Melbourne for work.  About how &#8220;easy&#8221; and &#8220;relaxed&#8221; this commute is.<\/p>\n<p>I regularly do this commute, and I can warn the people of Melbourne thinking about it &#8211; don&#8217;t!  What you might have seen in Channel Seven&#8217;s report tonight is far from true.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CZlF1dKqr18\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the house prices are much better down here, but an &#8220;easy&#8221; and &#8220;relaxed&#8221; commute?   Spare us!<\/p>\n<p>On the preview of the report over the weekend, one woman travelling by train was even heard to say &#8211; &#8220;oh, you always get a seat!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh really?  If I&#8217;ve had a seat 50 times in the last five years, I would be stunned.  It just almost never happens.<\/p>\n<p>The service is often lousy, and often runs 15-25% late, if it even runs at all.  Cancellations and alteration to road coach are fairly common.  Anyone who follows the #vline tag on Twitter can see how bad it gets, and how regularly.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t just listen to me &#8211; just ask any regular V\/Line commuter!  This is what it often looks like (not the almost empty off-peak service shown in the story):<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So, Channel Seven and City of Greater Geelong &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to do a promotional &#8211; (and probably paid for) &#8211; fluff piece, try being honest.  It is hard enough for people already doing the commute to get a decent run into Melbourne without encouraging more people to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Doing it by car is no doddle either, regularly taking even longer than a delayed V\/Line train.<\/p>\n<p>Do some actual journalism Seven instead of regurgitating crap like this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Channel Seven Melbourne was heavily promoting a &#8220;special report&#8221; to be screened on this evening&#8217;s nightly news bulletin, extolling the virtues of living in Geelong instead of Melbourne, and commuting into Melbourne for work. About how &#8220;easy&#8221; and &#8220;relaxed&#8221; this commute is. I regularly do this commute, and I can warn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[162,249,572],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-commute","tag-geelong","tag-vline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}