Barra's Bits - Pitch It At The Lowest Common Denominator

So I, I, I, we decided at Seven that, you know, we'd have a royal commission into television-

[laughs]

... news language really, 'cause honestly some of the expressions we use, fair dinkum.

Yeah.

And, and we, and, and nobody, people don't understand what cliches are sometimes, and I didn't really.

And it's lazy language.

So let's start in sports.

Say, I, I think there's a bit of a network-wide ban going on on referring to the AFL Grand Final as the Big Dance.

Ugh.

Okay.

Yeah.

I, I-

Do you like that sort of-

No, I'm over that one.

[laughs] That one?

Well, that's just an old saying, isn't it?

It is.

But it's an American saying.

It's an American saying too.

Okay.

Yeah.

I didn't know where it came from.

Yeah.

And it sounds stupid, but I didn't wanna say anything.

We pinched it, like, and then the other one we use a lot is 8:00 AM in the morning.

So I, I, I, we decided at Seven that, you know, we'd have a royal commission into television-

[laughs]

... news language really, 'cause honestly some of the expressions we use, fair dinkum.

Yeah.

And, and we, and, and nobody, people don't understand what cliches are sometimes, and I didn't really.

And it's lazy language.

So let's start in sports.

Say, I, I think there's a bit of a network-wide ban going on on referring to the AFL Grand Final as the Big Dance.

Ugh.

Okay.

Yeah.

I, I-

Do you like that sort of-

No, I'm over that one.

[laughs] That one?

Well, that's just an old saying, isn't it?

It is.

But it's an American saying.

It's an American saying too.

Okay.

Yeah.

I didn't know where it came from.

Yeah.

And it sounds stupid, but I didn't wanna say anything.

We pinched it, like, and then the other one we use a lot is 8:00 AM in the morning.