7.30 Report or Entertainment Tonight?

I am slightly concerned about the direction being taken by The 7.30 Report in recent times.

Are we having some slow news days? Perhaps the team needs some story suggestions? This is what I would like to see.

Red Kez skewering The Ruddster over poorly publicised chats with senior Chinese officials.

Or perhaps asking Stephen "I am the epitome of 'unrepresentative swill'" Fielding about his very existence.

How about trying to explain what the fuck is going to happen with the world's economy or why we have had three 30 degree days in a row, in Melbourne, in April?

By the way, I pray on every warm day that the air conditioning has broken down in Andrew Bolt's office. Getting warmer is it Bolts? Melt you bastard, melt. Sorry somewhat tangential there.

What have I been getting instead? Puff pieces with actors and comics. Ricky Gervais, Bill Nighy, Dylan Moran.

I'll admit that I have watched and enjoyed them all but this Kerry O'Brien, Red Kez, the man we all look to when we feel the need to watch a senior politician squirm on national television. We need him doing what he does best.

Why was Wayne Swan on Lateline with Tony Jones admitting that Treasury had cocked up their forecasts? Even for a news junkie like me that is on too late. How about doing it in prime time when the nation is watching with one of our most respected journalists?

What would I know? I am only a second year journalism student. Perhaps they teach us that in third year?