Why does the media love Labor so much?

Question

I only watched the election coverage on TV for a minute but when I flicked through the channels, the only people talking were Labor personalities:
Ch 9 - Wayne Swan
Ch 7 - Peter Beattie
ABC - Julia Gillard
Sky - Bob Hawke
How is that for some one sided coverage? Was a "Fair Go" given to other parties?

Answer 1

Fair go? Fair go?! Are you kidding? It had nothing to do with anything on election night itself.
It was pretty darn clear that Labor were going to win so of course the media were more interested in the views of politicians who were about to be elected and they naturally had a lot more to say. They had finally earned their turn in the limelight. Who'd want to watch the losers biting their nails and complaining instead?

Answer 2

Was the same in 96 but the excitement was for the Lib's for pretty well the same reasons.

The focus will be on Labor for some time as the excitement of who's going to be on the Front Bench, particularly with IR. The Libs will have news focus on the leader situation and how quickly they can get on with being good opposition.

However the focus will remain on Labor for some months as people are excited and want to hear anything and everything about our new leader.

Answer 3

Fair Go..Rubbish.
One thing that you learn in life is that no one is partial. Everyone is biased in someway!
All of the media stations were biased to the hilt.
Someone mentioned about the ABC having the Liberal senator and Julie Gillard, what about the two commentators? No one can say that Antony Green (statistics man) on the ABC is Liberal, because its just not true. No one can say that Kerry O'Brien doesn't love the ALP because its just not true. His smirking all night and love affair with the roaring crowd over Julia Gillard was atrocious.

The majority of election night coverage was with aimed at Labor however, who had the more coverage pre election?

It is quite obvious that the ALP Unions spent a ridiculous amount on ADVERTISING? Who said that they were the economic conservatists? UM PM elect (Kevin Rudd) did. What a joke!!

Answer 4

My union dues were used to fund Labor campaign- I was even sent nice glossy brochures to give to my neighbourhood!! All without being asked if I consented of course..... bit bloody rude to assume I would (and before anyone jumps down my throat, I don't/didn't vote for any of them as I am in favour of voluntary voting).

So how much of a stretch to imagine the money poured into courting media types?? Lab has come of age in learning how to manipulate via technology, after muzzling/sidelining unsympathetic journo's (only select list gets "scoops" and interviews). Famous for it in SA

Answer 5

If you had watched any of the channels for more than a minute you would have seen that all the stations were politically correct and had equal representation of Liberal and Labor commentators. Maybe the Liberals were speechless or had nothing of value to say

Answer 6

No, there was no "fair go" unfortunately and I watched coverage of each channel through the majority of the night.

Answer 7

I was flicking stations too, all evening.

You obviously missed out on seeing Jeff Kennett, Senator Helen Coonan, Joe Hockey, Michael Kroger and all the other Libs I can't be bothered naming.

There were Libs on all the TV channels you mentioned.

We saw less and less of them as the night wore on, in fact, Joe Hockey kept disappearing somewhere.
Mel and Koshi would go to ask him a question and he would be gone, again.

Answer 8

Um, Julia Gillard was sitting next to a Liberal MP.

Answer 9

Maybe if you'd watched for more than a minute you would have seen that there were as many Liberals as Labors. But I think that as Labor won, they were probably the guys that the viewer wanted to see. I don't understand why there weren't any Greens.

Answer 10

You obviously didn't read many newspapers leading into the election.