Rockheads on Parade, aka The Breakfast Show

I won't say that Fran Kelly has ruined the Breakfast Show (ABC-RN) by turning it into a petrifyingly boring competitive sports show, but she has. All by herself, in just a few weeks in the chair.

It's appalling. I'm almost speechless. This morning I was going to give her a bouquet, not a turtle (truly), then suddenly the program descended into rugger buggery.

It would help if she could do hard-hitting interviews, but to be perfectly francis they're never as good as touted by the Auntierati. Today she let John Stanhope, Chief Minister of the ACT, walk all over her while she hit him with a blancmange. One had the feeling she was dying to get to the News, or else to a "real" interview about competitive sports. Let's have stories about the negative impact of competitive sports on Australian society. Now that would be a scoop, but one feels it's way above Kelly's head.

Yawn!

Tagged: progressive, broadcasting, abc, radio+national, radio, sport, australia, competition, cooperation