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CibbuanoFrontline - Playing the Ego Card
February 21st 2007 12:27
Episode: 1.6 'Playing the Ego Card'
What Happens: Brian lets Mike do a week-long story in New Guinea so Brooke can host Frontline for a week. Egos get bruised all over the place.
The Issues/Cliches of Current Affairs television: Foreign correspondent – host leaving the desk to do an 'impressive overseas' story. Fill-in host.
Elliot-Watch:
MIKE MOORE: (laughs) He’s done it again!
Celebrities: None appear.
Celebrity mentions: Greg Norman. Wayne Gardner. Michael Hutchence. Peter Luck. Richard Carlton. Ray Martin. George Negus. Greg Evans.
Quotes:
BRIAN: For an overseas story to be worth running it has to have three things – good vision, good vision, good vision.
MIKE MOORE: Yeah, I know pictures are important.
BRIAN: Important? A pub brawl in Manly is better than a massacre of millions if you’ve got the pictures. And if you haven’t got the pictures it sure as hell better have Australians in it.
MIKE MOORE: Don’t underestimate our viewers Brian.
BRIAN: I’ve built a career on it mate.
FARMER: Mike Moore has the network’s 100% support. Right up until the day we sack him.
BRIAN: Why do you think 60 Minutes sent Richard Carlton to Baghdad?
EMMA: They wanted him dead?
BRIAN: The network spends millions each year on cockteasing an audience.
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