Hamish

Time to lose the ‘news’ from the title. This show used to be informative- if you flicked on for 10 minutes before work, you stood a good chance of picking up useful information, on a local, through to international level. Virginia Trioli would hit all interviews with veracity and trickery that left all in her path to a transparent mess. 
If I leave news breakfast on for an hour now, I am always guaranteed this from Giggles Miller and Chuckles Rowland.
 1. The same four stories every fifteen minutes, for the whole morning. 2. A live cross and conversation with the Sydney correspondent on issues which if ever relevant to anyone outside Sydney, cannot be justified at repeated being repeated every twenty minutes. 3. Sports sports sports! Not just the results every quarter hour, but deep dives into sports politics, personalities- I get that Australia is preoccupied with sports, but christ, there are other things going on. Maybe a little bit on great power politics, advances in medical science, business, welfare, something, but no, it’s “I handled that ball, it’s a great game”!
 4. That’s Entertainment! A happy chat about the latest movie or ABC tv show- this can chew up a good half hour every morning. Great, Naomi Watts is back again? Now I know how to invest my money and how the spread of coronavirus is affecting Africa.
 5. Personal interest stories. This isn’t Australian story, it’s the morning news. Every day now there’s someone from rural Australia strumming a guitar with a 15 minute happy chat, talking about how they had to sleep inside a suitcase when they were seven and how that led them to do acoustic covers of Shania Twain, over-layed with a shot of them squinting wistfully at something off camera. Sure, interesting, but not helpful to your day in any way, and it’s every morning. Is it too much to ask that reporting informs people's understanding about the world and helps them in their decisions and day to day life? Theres a place for what is going on on news breakfast now, but if their recipe for news was for a cake, they’d be serving up a cup of flour. Unsifted. 
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!