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"Ross" <rosswa@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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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 .