Hollowriteypeople
The ABC series The Hollowmen has only been running, what, five weeks? But it’s already become the journalistic cliché for all comparison to the goings on in government.
There was a comparison in the Australian yesterday by Caroline Overington in her opening paragraph. I’ve heard or read countless comparisons in the last few weeks. Hell, I heard Matt Abraham utter the sentence “It sounds like an episode of The Hollowmen” after only one episode had aired! I assume when he said ‘an episode’ he must have meant ‘the only episode that anyone has seen’. That said, he does work for the ABC, he may be privy to screenings we plebs (and ex-employees) aren’t.
Overington’s mention yesterday read:
So much of what happens in Canberra these days sounds like an episode of the ABC political satire The Hollowmen…
Can I just say, to every ideas-challenged journalist that makes the comparison: of course it is! That’s the whole point of the bloody show! It’s supposed to sound like the actual goings on of what happens in politics. That’s why it’s called political satire! It’s Rob, Tommy and Santo making the comparisons. Just because you write about it, doesn’t make you clever or even make good copy.
They’re the clever ones; you’re just stating the obvious.
