Through humorous portrayals of important issues, and clever imitation "Frontline" makes veiwers aware of ridicule towards journalistic integrity.

While current affairs programs are based on real life stories, which are enhanced to 'make good news', Frontline is based on the making of these stories.

Frontlines purpose is to inform the audience of the life behind a current affair program but more importantly its main focus is on entertaining the audience. This is achieved in many ways, primarily by bending real life situations out of contempt to journalists uprightness.

Current affair programs do not take stories as they are and simply present them with the facts, they are sensationalised and enhanced to bring more entertainment value to them, however this is not widely known throughout the general public. Furthermore it's exactly what Frontline did with "The Siege" and "Dessert Angel" when it complemented certain factors of the story to make them sound more entertaining than the boring facts. By 'enhancing' the facts and manipulating the truth it made the stories more presentable to the audience as a form of entertainment and

As a television comedy "Frontline" brings a specific set of formal properties and concerns which reflect on its ability to satirise. Through-out the episodes 'Frontline' constantly ridicules and exposes journalistic integrity and absence of ethics.

'We aint got dames' deals with a more light hearted topic, but the formula of imitating current affairs teams to criticise the lack of morals and ethics in current affairs journalists through humour remains the same.

The theme of the episode is the importance of ratings, the length that these networks 'flagships' will go to attract viewers. Another 'send-up' of current affairs shows, that criticises the fact they they provide 'entertainment pieces' rather than reports on 'serious issues'. The episode demonstrates that ratings are the one and only priority for current affairs programs again attacking their ethics or lack there of.

In 'The Siege', 'Frontline' again tackles an exceptionally topical issue, and interspersing ironic humour to signify their criticisms. A man takes his children hostage and the team at 'Frontline' set to work. Brooke interviews the gunman's mother and after the first take, exclaims 'again with more feeling'. On the spot re

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