watching the tv breakfast programmes

makes me react like R did about TV generally. However it is a reliable source of "news" as it can generally be expected to tell me if something major had happened overnight. My Radio Australia reception wants to close down frequencies and open up other ones just before the news hour so i am left to frantically find the 12khz or 16.5kz and unscramble radio Australia from the host of other South East Asian programmes. I get troubled by the people they get to "host" these Tv shows - they are a bit like the homecoming miss popularity queens and captain of the First XV who haven't yet realised they are not still a school prefect and captain of the hockey team and member of the debating team. They giggle and flirt most of the time being gooey and touchy feely and then they put on a sad story and they become empathic counsellor - "That must be so hard?" "You must find that very difficult?" trying to milk the misfortune for all it is worth. They don't seem to have these same types on the Fox or BBC or SBS as the CH 9. And then they let out these little squeaks at State of Origin time - "Oh goody, go the blues!" as if they knew what the blues were and as if they cared. I'm sure my mate is right but TV helps relax me by reminding me of something of the known.