It's meaningless in terms of providing news - asking random people on the street their opinion of a topic is not newsworthy, and does not add meaning to the story.
It does sound like pretty good PR (which is great thing for Alex and his company), but pretty poor news.
Imagine if they'd interviewed a marine biologist about this species of jellyfish instead? It would have been even better PR (expert confirms they don't sting, are abundant etc), but it didn't happen because it's always easier to ask two people in front of the ABC building what they think.
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It's meaningless in terms of providing news - asking random people on the street their opinion of a topic is not newsworthy, and does not add meaning to the story.
It does sound like pretty good PR (which is great thing for Alex and his company), but pretty poor news.
Imagine if they'd interviewed a marine biologist about this species of jellyfish instead? It would have been even better PR (expert confirms they don't sting, are abundant etc), but it didn't happen because it's always easier to ask two people in front of the ABC building what they think.