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Just read in Saturday's West Australian that the current ABCtv
newsreader Deborah Kennedy is getting the arse from reading the
weeknight news bulletin in favour of Tom Baddeley (who appears on the
news currently doing the business reports and also anchors the WA
edition of Stateline on Friday nights).

Baddeley had recently resigned from the ABC to go work for the Aust
Financial Review but withdrew the resignation when he was offered the
newsreaders job by the ABC's WA boss Kim Jordan who said he didn't
want Baddeley to leave the ABC.

Jordan has offered Deborah Kennedy the jobs of reading the news on
radio, which I've already heard her doing on occasions, or becoming a
"senior tv reporter", whatever that means.

Apparently Deborah Kennedy is a bit pissed off and is thinking about
legal action, there's talk of a staff revolt at the ABC in Perth over
it and the Friends of the ABC are a bit against it also.

Rebecca Carmody will replace Baddeley but the article doesn't say in
which of his current roles, or both.

The crappy website for the West Australian newspaper,
www.thewest.com.au , doesn't have a link to the story.

Anyway I reckon Kennedy is by far the better news anchor of the two,
Baddeley is OK in the business report slot but he comes accross as a
bit of a geek in the Stateline job and is a bit of a dud interviewer I
reckon.  This is pertinent coz the article said he would be doing live
interviews with "the major newsmakers of the day" in the anchoring
role.  Why we need goofy live questions in the anchoring role I don't
know and can't see why Kennedy couldn't do it anyway.

A few people have registered their disapproval at the ABC's guestbook
site:
http://www2b.abc.net.au/perth/guestbook/default.shtm .