As composers, Sitch et al present a constructed view of the media, a representation. While commenting satirically on both the role of the media producers, especially in current affairs programs, and the duplicitous, egotistic and unethical nature of television presenters, they are also being selective themselves - intending to shape meaning in their text and influence the responders. Sitch et al cleverly position their responders to realise the complication of believing what the media tells us to be "true" by constructing a parody, with the assistance of techniques such as verisimilitude, caricatures, mis-en-scene and irony.

The series parodies the current affair program and in many ways blurs the distinction between the artificial world of Mike Moore and the real world. Even the opening credits of the program blur this distinction as the rapid music, montage of quick glimpses of national and international figures suggests a real-life current affairs...