Although this morning's Anzac Day Dawn Services were very well attended many people (especially the aged, ill and infirm) were not able to to get to a service.
Hence, one has to ask why the national broadcaster, the ABC, did not see fit to provide a live television broadcast of a service.
Surely, it's not beyond the ABC's capacity to cover at least one of the services. Pay TV provided coverage of the service conducted in Sydney's Martin Place, but the vast majority of persons who may have been keen to watch a service don't have pay TV.
Hence, one has to ask why the national broadcaster, the ABC, did not see fit to provide a live television broadcast of a service.
Surely, it's not beyond the ABC's capacity to cover at least one of the services. Pay TV provided coverage of the service conducted in Sydney's Martin Place, but the vast majority of persons who may have been keen to watch a service don't have pay TV.
Gallipoli's Lone Pine Cemetery - floodlit as workers prepared for today's dawn service.Photo: Penny Bradfield (The Age, 25 April 2008)
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