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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning, Satam.

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Speaker 2: It seems that every time you turn on the TV,

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Speaker 2: the news is shifting. It's almost frightening times. A voice

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Speaker 2: of reason and the man who actually delivers all this

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Speaker 2: news to us every night on Channel seven News is

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Speaker 2: Mark Fergus, and he joins us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Mark, Good morning, Amanda, Good morning Jonesy.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Mark, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. I'm doing alright. As you say,

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Speaker 1: they're very very strange times, but traveling ok at this state.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember a time at all like this? I

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Speaker 2: know September eleven and you were working through that, but

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Speaker 2: this just seems otherworldly, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: You're exactly right. No, I don't remember anything like this

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Speaker 1: at all, because I don't think any of us have

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Speaker 1: been through anything like this before. It is truly extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: When you look back at other things you've covered and

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Speaker 1: big stories, they were never so close to your front door,

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Speaker 1: and there was never so much of a chance the

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Speaker 1: story was going to come through your front door so

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Speaker 1: close to home, and is so extraordinary. As you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: it is changing so quickly, so these really are unshattered waters,

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Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 3: And is it hard these days, we'll be in discussing

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Speaker 3: about swine flu in two thousand and nine, and that

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Speaker 3: had quite a toll in this country, with something like

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Speaker 3: six hundred cases a week coming through hospitals with swine flu.

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Speaker 3: But back in two thousand and nine, social media wasn't

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Speaker 3: what it is now. And I've noticed lately mainstream media

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Speaker 3: seems to be taking its cues from social media when

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Speaker 3: it should be the other way around.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't agree with that. Wholy, We certainly are

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Speaker 1: operating sort of as per normal and chasing as many

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Speaker 1: relevant facts out as we possibly can, listening to the experts. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: social media is playing a very very big role, some

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Speaker 1: of it misleading, some of it very helpful, I've got

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Speaker 1: to say. But as far as our broadcasts are concerned,

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Speaker 1: and our news is concerned, and our role in coverage

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Speaker 1: is concerned, we're going through traditional sources and making sure

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Speaker 1: the information we're handing out is accurate and correct.

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Speaker 2: And how rapidly is it changing?

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Speaker 1: Do you?

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Speaker 2: Is there a bulletin prepared and then ten minutes before

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Speaker 2: you go to where they say no, no, no, this

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Speaker 2: is new, go with this.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Look, just the other day I'm sitting there

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Speaker 1: and we get a press release from the premiere with

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Speaker 1: some big developments, and within about two or three minutes,

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Speaker 1: I'm on the air and we've got a reporter in

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Speaker 1: place out in the front of the Quarry Street and

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Speaker 1: we're doing a two or three minute life cross and

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Speaker 1: giving that information out as quickly as possible. So things

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Speaker 1: are changing minute by minute, hour by hour, and it

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Speaker 1: is putting a hell of a strain on media rooms

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Speaker 1: and newsrooms around Australia. But we're certainly doing our best,

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Speaker 1: and we're certainly just one of many industries that are

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Speaker 1: having to step up and do the best we can

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Speaker 1: under these circumstances.

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Speaker 3: You know what they should bring back.

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Speaker 1: Waiting for James? What is it?

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Speaker 3: They should bring back the telephone on the desk. Remember

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Speaker 3: when Roger Clemson, Brian Henderson they'd be reading the news

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Speaker 3: and then they'd stop and they go, hang out, I've

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Speaker 3: just got to take this, and then they just talk

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Speaker 3: on the phone and they go okay, and then they

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Speaker 3: deliver whatever information on the phone.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I do like because I could see

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Speaker 1: that happening. Maybe one of those very big Acme type

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Speaker 1: cartoon time maybe you could call it.

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Speaker 3: I say, hey, hey, pretty boys, stop being pretty on

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Speaker 3: the news.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of social media, I didn't notice you posted something

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 3: Well, when we're in Channel seven, wanted me to come

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Speaker 3: and do your job. I don't want to tell you

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Speaker 3: that because you were. I don't want to make you film.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember the details.

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Speaker 3: They had been come along to have a go at

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Speaker 3: being a news reader and it's easy just read the

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Speaker 3: odd AQ.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your your memory is a little bit different to mine.

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Speaker 1: I think I was. I was spending a bit of

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Speaker 1: time with you guys, and we had a contest to

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Speaker 1: see who could who could do the other's job the better,

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Speaker 1: with a little prize at the end. And like a

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Speaker 1: few contests you and I have had over the years, Jones,

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Speaker 1: I think I want you're going.

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Speaker 2: To bring up the roller skating and blading. I can't remember.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, it was roller skating. Roller blading is for losing.

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Speaker 1: Someone crashed and hurt themselves in the cars and someone

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Speaker 1: failed the victory across the line. You can just go

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Speaker 1: on YouTube and have a look at that one and

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Speaker 1: you'll see who won the other.

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Speaker 3: And maybe you don't need to do that. Mark ferguson

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Speaker 3: watching tonight on Channel seven's News at six o'clock. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for joining us, Thanks

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Speaker 1: Guys joining the and Amanda in the morning at one

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Speaker 1: point seven, tell you