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It's funny the way different media outlets cover the same story.

This video is pretty old news in the world of the intranet. Hundreds of Filipino prisoners recreating the dance routines of MJ's Thriller. Trained, filmed and uploaded to YouTube by their prison warden.

Channel Ten News used it as their feel-good closer to the evening bulletin. The anchors smiled and suppressed giggles, shaking their heads in gee-whiz enjoyment of the footage.

Meanwhile, earlier that day Triple J covered the prison dance program as a possible human rights issue. Were the prisoners being forced? Being humiliated? The reporter relayed the details of his visit to the prison; the exhausted, dominated convicts being forced to train for hours at a time on one meal a day. They had tattoos of the warden and his family on their bodies, and were reluctant to speak to the media. There was a small and hostile interview with the prison warden himself, the mastermind of the dancing program. His love of the media attention it was creating was discussed. His smiles and laughter for the cameras. Were the prisoners 'his little dancing monkeys?'

The media are often much more interesting that the news that they cover.