I was sucked in by the 9 Network marketing for A Current Affair last night. The promotional script sounded bad for newsagents and bad for scratchies. The story itself was a dud, a waste of time. The “shock” of the show was that spending $2,000 on scratchies produced around $700 in prizes.
The odds for scratch ticket games are readily available. They are produced and sold as a commercial enterprise and overseen by government. There is nothing to see here except for poor journalism.
Dont worry Mark you werent the only one sucked into this story. They have been flogging it on the radio in the lead up so I made sure to tune in. At 7.00pm I paused watching Sons of Anarchy and switched over to channel nine…..what a waste of time that story turned out to be…..if thats a news worthy story I will stick to my netflix !!!!!
wonder if it would have aired had there been a major win ?
Shock Horror, if you gamble the odds are stacked against and you can lose money, who would’ve guessed?
“and overseen by government”
Allegedly!
Just like they allegedly look after punter’s interests in horse racing, dog racing, lotto, casket,
casinos, poker machines & keno.
‘A Current Affair’ ……………enough said…….
No better or worse than several others being broadcast.
Mark, mate……..
they promoted,
you watched,
they win……
ACA = 1
Mark, and others = 0
Sorry 🙂
Yeah, I never watch the show. I did for this episode only because several newsagents told me about it.