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On 8 Feb 2004 06:36:20 -0800, rosswa@my-deja.com (Ross) - in a
blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:

>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 .

Been gone from Perth a few years now, obviously, but what happened to
Verity James and Peter what-his-name?

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