Those in Glass Houses...
November 2nd 2006 03:56
So, it’s to be the last year for the Glass House. Unfortunately for me, I only got into it quite recently. The official party line is that it has nothing to do with any potential changes in “editorial policy”. Of course, being one of the few – or only – effective political satire shows on television made it a pretty soft target. By comparison, the comedies on the commercial networks are inane and weak.
Any claims of a Labor Party bias on the Glass House are quite clearly unfounded. As Wil Anderson said, “I’ve got a whole lot of fat jokes just waiting to be used (if Kim Beazley becomes Prime Minister).” The conspiracy theorists are simply assuming that the office of the Prime Minister was somehow involved in the shows axing. It’s a less than convincing, yet tempting, theory. More and more the Howard Government seems intent on silencing critics.
Of course there was something of a left-wing feel to the Glass House. At the risk of jumping to incorrect conclusions, Anderson’s political leanings don’t come across as any sort of a mystery. And news that Corinne Grant was involved in a campaign against the government’s new IR laws didn’t come as a surprise, somehow. Any revelation that the hosts had left-wing leanings would hardly have been a revelation at all. But it shouldn’t matter anyway: they were (and are, until November 29) there to be funny. Perhaps those on the right just aren’t making political satire. At least we have the Chaser’s War on Everything to look forward to in 2007. Now there’s a show that can’t legitimately be accused of any sort of bias. Let’s see what the government has to say about it.
Any claims of a Labor Party bias on the Glass House are quite clearly unfounded. As Wil Anderson said, “I’ve got a whole lot of fat jokes just waiting to be used (if Kim Beazley becomes Prime Minister).” The conspiracy theorists are simply assuming that the office of the Prime Minister was somehow involved in the shows axing. It’s a less than convincing, yet tempting, theory. More and more the Howard Government seems intent on silencing critics.
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