Oh, Naomi ...

Permit me to suggest that this is one of the most hilarious news stories of all time. This is why Channel 10's new current affairs pastiche show is a failure. You don't need to send up Australian current affairs. It does too good a job itself. Oddly, the only comedians who have realised this is the boys from The Chaser and Working Dog Productions, whose seriesFrontline remains the reference point for all dodgy Australian miracle-diet-solution-to-back-pain-nasty-neighbours-welfare-cheats current affairs programmes.

The saddest thing is that a true journalist who actually did make it to West Papua might actually have an important story to tell, as SBS journalist John Martinkus has already demonstrated. It may only be me, but there's something at best annoying, and at worst, sinister, at news programmes that actually have no news, especially when they profess - and in some cases, do - set the agenda.