International news bloopers tend to be small slips in a ruthless professional operation. But when they happen in Australia, they’re phenomenal
There’s nothing so compelling as watching things go wrong. This is especially true in a world as serious and self-important as broadcast news. It’s the moment where we peel back the facade, the limelight fades and suddenly the slick and confident hosts become as scared and human as the rest of us.
The Australian news blooper is a unique beast in itself. Internationally, bloopers are mostly slips of the tongue or unintentionally funny graphics. A small slip in a ruthlessly professional operation. An Australian blooper, on the other hand, is closer to the kind of fiasco you’d usually associate with a school theatre production where the backdrops crash to the ground and Peter Pan is left dangling helplessly forever. Indeed, sometimes this is much more literal than you’d think.
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