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May 8th, 2007

I just want to say that Today Tonight on channel 7 is a slurry of a show, their story tonight titled “Vietnamese Sting” targeting a dodgey Brisbane business man with a sweeping title like that is just stupid and wrong, bordering on racism. How can you generalise a whole community like that and focus on one person? It opens the doorway for misconceptions and I feel the behaviour of one man does not represent a whole community. I’m just offended. Investigate this man all they want and expose him, I’m not against that at all, dodgey people deserve the full force of the law onto them, don’t bring racial background into it. TT = Tabloid Trash.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 6:52 pm and is filed under Happenings.

6 Responses to “Today Tonight”

  1. Kumi Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    I totally agree! In fact, I deliberately spent time searching for a blog entry about the “Vietnamese Sting” story of Today Tonight. Ah…Kevin is it? You must be Vietnamese too. ^^

    Wow I just did a quick search and realised that…somebody even managed to set up a blog against the story: http://www.againstracist.blogspot.com/

    (P.S. Also, random: Did you know that the man is northern Vietnamese?)

  2. nivek Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    I don’t care wether his north or south, he could be anything, I”m just offended by the wrongness of the title. Haha, seems like other people are pissed off about it too.

  3. nivek Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    I accidently deleted this comment.
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    Author : Axe Today Tonight
    Comment:
    Yes, the heading of this story was totally inappropriate for what they were reporting on.

    I think they just want to spark another Cronulla riot. Good on ya, Today Tonight.

  4. Kumi Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Yes indeed. Anyway, if Today Tonight don’t offer a public apology…the VCA (Vietnamese Community in Australia) would be pretty pissed. My parents heard of it via Vietnamese radio. (And many many parents listen to Vietnamese radio.)

  5. Axe Today Tonight Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 12:23 am

    We should have a full show dedicated to the discussion of this issue. We can’t let it go so easily.

  6. Ronchy Says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    Did you watch MediaWatch last night kev?
    they were talking about the vietnamese sting on today tonight

    read the transcript
    http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1935709.htm