Lexicon News The Third: Night 4: Rain and Raising

 A reminder: if you do too many burnouts on sand, you'll be digging your own hole.

Welcome to the fourth night of Lexicon News: and in case you have forgotten already...

Let's again go over the ground rules for Lexicon News:

The Ground Rules:

The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.

As it described:

"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."

Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for five nights:

-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.

-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.

-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.

-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.

In addition, we will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.

Tonight's tale...

What aired in regional QLD, will be bolded and in red.
We open up tonight's bulletin with a update on the Clack Island shark attack (although Seven's choice of reporter to cover this story would be awkwardly named...)

(unlike "Misin Peet": (a reference to former BTQ journo Peter Doherty, by the way), Garth Burley is a real journo!)
We then go to a story on storms last night and heat today, that somehow has the Auden cross retained in the regional cut, then more from a notable defamation trial, followed by a car crash on the Sunshine Coast, Stephen Miles's Canberra trip, some sort of cluck festival at the last sitting day of QLD Parliament for 2023, more on a Gaza truce extension, while Israelis touring Australia are sprung by a surprise protest in Melbourne, Federal housing plan is stalling while the Canberra crew in the lower house are clucking just as badly as those in Brisbane (HoR members incidentally have one sitting day left in 2023: next Thursday: the majority of next week is all senate business), a obituary for former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (passing away at the age of 100), the pay war engulfing netball in Australia, a car crash in Robina, while a bus is T'boned in Brisbane's outer suburbs, celebrations for Arnold Dix: currently the most popular Australian in India, complaints about a Palm Beach ratrun (Tahiti Avenue), A Dakabin robbery victim's plea, a helicopter crash in Japan concerning the troubled Osprey military helicopter, a building fire rescue in Britain, QLD cruise season kicks off, a gum tree falls onto a Melbourne house, as the owner looked on, a new beef/lamb marketing campaign, Childcare quality standards, the launch of the 2024 edition of RunArmy, and the upcoming premiere of Wagner's Ring Cycle in Brisbane.

The timing in Brisbane added up tonight to 28mins even.

The regional cut added up to 9mins 20secs.

Seven lexiconed out of their news tonight for regional Queenslanders: 18mins 40secs.

The amount of lexiconed content this week so far by Seven: 73mins 17secs.

Lexiconed content this week is unfortunately now tipped to be as long as a regulation soccer game... with a wee bit of injury time.

Tomorrow night, is the final night of Lexicon News The Third (the last weeknight of the 2023 ratings season), and a update on Monday night's bulletin's plug for a Heartkids fundraiser: their total is now over $1200 raised.

And, finally another reminder: OneQueensland's "Big Q" is being launched wider: the link to the survey is available here.

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