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Jamie.
... is that 15 minutes of a Today Tonight reporter bullying and gloating that the law is on their side it seems more like the kind of thing that The Chaser would play to humiliate Today Tonight, and not the other way round.
There must be plenty of people who think the opposite, so I guess it's a bit of a Rorschach test.
If you haven't seen the story, go here: Link.
(Thanks to Lachlan for the link, and everyone else who pointed out the story.)
Here's an observation I don't understand the meaning of.
Three leads from Australia:
The Age: "A popular children's toy found to contain a chemical that the human body turns into the party drug "fantasy", or "GHB", has been banned in three states..."
NEWS.com.au: "An award-winning children's toy has been recalled because it contains a chemical which turns into a dangerous party drug when metabolised in the body."
Ninemsn: "Concerns are rising that drug-users may flock to Victorian toy stores after that state's authorities failed to withdraw from sale a popular children's toy that metabolises into the party drug fantasy when eaten."
Contrast with these headlines and leads from around the world:
CNN International: "'Date rape' drug in children's toy"
International Herald Tribune: "Toy beads found to contain precursor to 'date rape' drug"
Wall Street Journal: "Retailers around the world scrambled to pull a popular toy called Bindeez off the shelves Wednesday after a chemical in some shipments of the Chinese-made product was found to mimic the effects of the so-called date rape drug."
Reuters: "Australia announced a nationwide ban on Wednesday on around 1 million Chinese-made toys after investigations showed they contained a chemical which metabolises when swallowed into a date-rape drug."
BBC News: "Australia has issued a nationwide ban on a Chinese-made toy after it was found to contain a substance linked to the date-rape drug GHB"
