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The media liftout from the Australian
Date
September 9, 2008, 2.18 am

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"Victorians see thier own gangland drama Underbelly at last", by Milanda Rout and Amanda Meade

Quick comment
This article is about the Australian television program, "Underbelly" which was banned from being screened in Victoria due to speculation that the program may cause prejudice againt "the trail of a man accused of murdering gangland figure Lewis Moran". However, the ban was actually lifted in May 2008, following the jury verdict of Evangelos Goussis being found guilty of murdering Moran in March 2004. It can be seen that individuals take what they see on television very seriously, for such a drastic measuring to be taken for this incident. The article also states that "what is seen on television enters directly into the mind of the audience with little opportunity for analysis", (Rout.M and Meade. A, 2008). In conclusion, the firts five episodes which were specially edited for the case were allowed to run on channel Nine and audience rating appearded extremely high Australian wide.

Concepts from my course work that inform my perspective on this item
The idea that people are easily influenced by television programs relates to how narrow minded some people can be, however, it can also be identified that when designing and producing a television serioes the enccessary legal procautions nedd to be taken into account, just like when designing documents, the relevant professional design theories need to be seriously considered.

Showing off my expertise/wider reading/ability to match up issues, theories and concepts with a longer comment, hyperlinks and references
This article can be viewed on the following link for further reading-
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24316279-30540,00.html

Genre change assignment audio source hyperlink: http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/content/2006/s2335194.htm