I'm talking about last nights Sunday Night on channel 7 that was unceremoniously ousted in the ratings by Random Acts of Kindness on channel 9.
Did we really need to see Mike Munro drop his trousers and have his doctor do a rectal examination to prove the point that prostate cancer is a disease that should not be ignored? Since when did the reporter become the story? I don't care about Mike Munro or his healthy prostate and I certainly didn't need to see him grit his teeth and "think of something pleasant".
Note to self Mike; the story would have been just as effective had you not been the centre of attention or, dare I say it, used a diagram to explain what a non-event having an examination for prostate cancer actually is. The point was that the examination is not "as bad as you think" right?
Even more disturbing though, was the fact that I switched over half way through the story and was wondering what Mike was getting up to - so I went online a little later to figure out if there was anything else in the story besides Mike's digital examination and was confronted by this grotesque affront to all things holy;
Much more disturbing than Mike's lily-white legs (and face - as it happened). Although Alan Jones comparatively makes a prostate check seem quite pleasant, perhaps that was the point.Please note: Wil Anderson's brilliant tweet - "Mike Munro films prostate exam. Doctor says test was easy, he has never seen a bigger arsehole." - comedy gold.
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