Media blitz...
This week was supposed to be the calm between the storms. How wrong that turned out to be. The University distributed an e-mail to all students highlighting the changes that will occur once VSU comes into effect. By some method, The Australian newspaper managed to get wind of the closures of 2 bars in our university. They came over on Wednesday to get interviews and photos. This is a pretty big thing since this newspaper is a national one meaning you can get it all across Australia and it is one of the more reliable newspapers as opposed to our "tabloid-like" local paper.
The article appeared today in the papers and all the other media outlets jumped on the bandwagon. I was woken up by a call about media contacting the office. As I was getting ready to go, I was barraged with non-stop phone calls requesting interviews. I did a phone interview with Radio Adelaide and the ABC. ABC Radio then contacted me for an interview to happen in 30 minutes in the bar! I had to reject it as it was just imposible for me to make it. All the other calls arranged for an interview later in the day. I got to the office and had another interview on the phone. Then I headed off to the City West Campus for interviews with ABC News and Channel Ten. I still cannot understand why the ABC need 3 different interviews with me. Pretty silly in my opinion. Anyways, we had both interviews consecutively and it was good that the bar was pretty well patronised and the students they got gave good comments. Overall, the interviews went well. It's unfortunate that the scope put on the issue focused on the loss of cheap beer. There's so much more that's going to disappear! At least ABC News managed to get in some comments about the loss of our non-commercial services. Still, it would have been better if they didn't make it seem as though all that is important revolves around beer.
All this was crammed in with 3 other meetings for the day. Then I came home to record my news interviews. The thing is, I don't have a VCR or something to record off the tv. The only option was to record the tv from my digital camera. It worked ok. For some reason though, the tv image was clear but the viewscreen for recording was flickering. Magnetic interference perhaps? Oh well, I had to make do with what I have. I uploaded both the interviews on YouTube. Here they are:
Channel Ten News coverage on bar closure at UniSA City West campus (click me)
ABC News coverage on bar closure at UniSA City West campus (click me)
I don't listen to the radio so I couldn't get those interviews. Anyways, there's my 15 minutes of fame. Though not exactly 15 minutes!
The article appeared today in the papers and all the other media outlets jumped on the bandwagon. I was woken up by a call about media contacting the office. As I was getting ready to go, I was barraged with non-stop phone calls requesting interviews. I did a phone interview with Radio Adelaide and the ABC. ABC Radio then contacted me for an interview to happen in 30 minutes in the bar! I had to reject it as it was just imposible for me to make it. All the other calls arranged for an interview later in the day. I got to the office and had another interview on the phone. Then I headed off to the City West Campus for interviews with ABC News and Channel Ten. I still cannot understand why the ABC need 3 different interviews with me. Pretty silly in my opinion. Anyways, we had both interviews consecutively and it was good that the bar was pretty well patronised and the students they got gave good comments. Overall, the interviews went well. It's unfortunate that the scope put on the issue focused on the loss of cheap beer. There's so much more that's going to disappear! At least ABC News managed to get in some comments about the loss of our non-commercial services. Still, it would have been better if they didn't make it seem as though all that is important revolves around beer.
All this was crammed in with 3 other meetings for the day. Then I came home to record my news interviews. The thing is, I don't have a VCR or something to record off the tv. The only option was to record the tv from my digital camera. It worked ok. For some reason though, the tv image was clear but the viewscreen for recording was flickering. Magnetic interference perhaps? Oh well, I had to make do with what I have. I uploaded both the interviews on YouTube. Here they are:
Channel Ten News coverage on bar closure at UniSA City West campus (click me)
ABC News coverage on bar closure at UniSA City West campus (click me)
I don't listen to the radio so I couldn't get those interviews. Anyways, there's my 15 minutes of fame. Though not exactly 15 minutes!
posted by Lä§t_H¤Pê at
10:15 PM
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