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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 28, 2012 20:27:17 GMT 10
*yawn* Yeah, bolt links it ... This man is now deciding on tighter controls on who can own media outlets and possibly what those outlets can say: It's too good to be true, bolta's buying it, I figure ... this is probably bulltish. And sure enough: Start at 4:45The real pity is that turnbull didn't smell it. He should be smarter than this: His comments were derided by Opposition spokesperson for Communication, Malcolm Turnbull, who said his speech showed he was a "control freak". The context is obviously an explanation of the power of the minister in australia (when I first saw the snippet, I figured that it was probably a hypothetical, leading to a case study - anyone who's ever sat in a lecture theatre - and paid attention - would have spotted the style). He's pointing out the power that our constitution gives the minister in regulating telecommunications. He's not demanding anything, he's just explaining to americans something that is very different to what they're used to. That's all. Are we going to see a lot more of this out-of-context gotcha crap? And once again - checking it out. It's not that hard.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 28, 2012 20:32:48 GMT 10
As for this: Watch dog bitten:THE Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has rapped television watchdog Media Watch over the knuckles for breaching the ABC’s code of practice.
ACMA found the ABC breached its own code of practice during the September 19, 2011, episode when it failed to give The Daily Telegraph or its state political reporter, Andrew Clennell, a chance to respond to a Media Watch report into Norwegian gaming machines. ACMA announces:The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that the ABC breached its Code of Practice in an episode of Media Watch broadcast on 19 September 2011.
During the broadcast, Media Watch’s presenter named a journalist in connection with a claim that an article published in a newspaper had failed to ‘tell all sides of a story in any dispute’ as required by the newspaper’s Professional Conduct Policy.
Under standard 5.3 of the ABC Code of Practice 2011, where allegations are made about a person, the ABC is obliged to make reasonable efforts to provide a fair opportunity for that person to respond. Yeah. I recommend that people read the actual findings: www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib410172/abc-report_2730.docxYep. They definitely got the ABC on the failure to seek comment. But the rest of it .... all the stuff about the accuracy of the story ... oh, dear.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 28, 2012 20:35:59 GMT 10
One more:
That vast anti-Slipper conspiracy vanishes. Ashby wins
If the settlement was $50k, then I wonder how much the recipient will be partying. That case went on for weeks, and he seems to have retained some high-profile lawyers. Does $50k even pay the legal fees?
Let's see how the other bit goes.
As for what actually happened ... yeah. I think it's as obvious as the nose on my face what happened, and I can't imagine I'm alone. And that's all I'm saying about that.
Best of luck. Everyone.
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Post by tewiremu on Sept 29, 2012 21:10:39 GMT 10
The Death of My Town: an exercise in sententious hypocrisy. Bolt's 'town' was Tarcoola where he was brought up for some years. Even then, he tells us, he was one of only two Year 7 students. In fact, Tarcoola has never been anything more than the product of a short-lived mining boom- an ironic history for someone with a fondness for brown-nosing miners. But the best hypocrisy comes in this line: No work left, so it’s empty.
I think of Tarcoola when I read about Aboriginal bush settlements where there is no work, either. Just lots of welfare. No you don't. You don't think of Tarcoola at all. You certainly don't give a fiddler's feck about jobless Aborigines. The only use Tarcoola is to you now is as a convenient vehicle for some aimless and fact-free whining about 'joblessness' being caused by Teh Gillard Gubmint. If you truly cared about Tarcoola, you would sell up from leafy East Malvern and go back there to lend a hand.
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Post by angra on Sept 29, 2012 22:00:21 GMT 10
tewiremu - quite right. Tarcoola was f***d in the 1950's when the gold ran out. Had a bit of a revival as a railway junction - left to WA, right to the eastern states, north to Darwin, south to Adelaide.
I bet Blot's never been back there. His faux concern is complete tosh.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 30, 2012 9:30:31 GMT 10
I'm only posting this here because this thread lets me upload an image. Those wonky guys are doing alright. The Bugle is fine company - another podcast that was cut loose from its original host. The bugle guys did try very, very hard to tick off their old boss - their last few episodes at The Times were basically about how they're still there and haven't been sacked yet, then they'd put the book into murdoch over corruption and pone hacking some more. Attachments:
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 1, 2012 10:37:10 GMT 10
Bolta's got a little amazon "carousel" spruiking some books today. So I was curious, clicked, had a look at the URL, had a think I believe he is an amazon affiliate: reverseinternet.com/amazon-affiliate/andrewbolt-20Which also means, I think, that he gets referral fees. Aah - commerce.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 2, 2012 8:20:29 GMT 10
The quote of the day, possibly the week. Werner responds:
Hi Andrew,
Philip Werner here about whom you wrote this.I just read your blog post and I wonder if you read this one of mine? It explains where I’m coming from and what my motivations are.
All the women I have ever photographed in the Shibari bondage work have been friends and have done so willingly. Adults should be allowed to express their sensuality and sexuality without judgement so long as no one is hurt.
For you to compare one of my clay photos to a woman having been dug out of a grave is incredibly offensive and insensitive in this situation. Honestly I think that will offend more people than my photos will. I really have the sense that your intention is to incite strong reactions and divide people, rather than contribute to a peaceful and just society for which the march was intended.
I totally respect your right to try and expose people who in your view are doing the wrong thing, but a little more research, and perhaps a conversation with me might have been in order before assassinating my character.
Kind regards,
Philip I dare say, I think the man's got it. Incite strong reactions and divide people. Could just about be a manifesto.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 4, 2012 8:07:49 GMT 10
Ha! Brilliant! Let's use reverse psychology! George Will says the true sign the US is color blind will come when voters are as ready to sack Barack Obama as they were to choose him ...
Original Article Here
... Likewise in Australia with Julia Gillard. Her election was hailed as a sign we weren’t sexist. Even better proof of that will be when we can criticise her performance without being damned as misogynists. Yeah. Right.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 4, 2012 8:52:43 GMT 10
What IS this man going on about? www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/communications-minister-stephen-conroy-boasts-about-his-power-to-make-people-wear-red-underpants-on-their-head/story-e6frfifx-1226487653412Pre-GoogledExtra points to anyone who can work out how he's managed to link our UNSC bid to conroy's underpants joke (and yes, it was a joke - the hint is that people laughed). Somewhere in the middle of all that he seques ... somehow. Where ARE these totalitarian media restrictions? We keep hearing about them, but they keep not appearing. They always seem to be just over the horizon - are we seriously expected to believe that an unpopular government would seriously try to do something like that right before an election? You know - piss off the media? No, I don't think so either, which makes ... The Government privately warns it will indeed do "something" about the media by year's end, and few media executives would doubt this is meant as a threat.... just a tiny bit less than credible. But ok, let's suppose that they DO enact (magically, without having to put it to a "vote" in "parliament") nazi-green-leftist measures to make andrew bolt say whatever ginastephen conroy wants ... how the hell do they expect to enforce it? They'd be out on their ear at the next election, and tony will swoop in and make sure that the restrictions are immediate repealed in relation to NEWS. Any government trying to pull off a stunt like that would need a massive majority and a pretty good shot at the next election, to be able to burn the press and get away with it. And this government isn't one of those. It isn't going to happen. Get a grip. In any case, the proposals in that review aren't anything like what bolta darkly suggests. And the fact that he can put "mistakes" in scare quotes is going to have me chuckling for the rest of the day. Nobody's going to put you in prison for your "mistakes" andrew (not the written sort, anyway). Who else would we make fun of? Have we, or have we not, the most moany, whingey, weepy press in the developed world? One company in particular has wrapped itself in victimhood, and invokes it whenever they're caught out and criticised for trying it on. Oh, man, it must be tough. Those russian journalists don't know how easy they've got it. I think everyone should go back to complaining about how we've got the worst economy ever. They've been at it for a few years now, and if they keep it up long enough, they might be right one day. And just for reference, here are the articles that merely "offended fair-skinned aborigines" and can't be published (because they're illegal). Feel free to read them where they've been (apparently not) published all along: It's so hip to be blackWhite is the new blackWhite fellas in the black
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Post by angra on Oct 4, 2012 9:27:32 GMT 10
And "Silencing Jones is all politics. DON’T be fooled. This vicious campaign to silence Alan Jones isn’t to stop him from ever again being rude. No, it’s to stop the 2GB broadcaster from attacking the Left."
So that's what it's all about. Not maligning deceased parents, or incitement to take part in a riot, but attacking the left.
Sheesh.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 4, 2012 20:04:14 GMT 10
Bolta's been posting some very fine words this week, in defence of a colleague. For example: Rather Jones than his hatersPaul Sheehan says it well about the Left’s santimonious vilification of Alan Jones:Most Australians do not like a brawl involving 100,000 people against one. Nor do they like disproportion. And here we have an attempt to ruin someone over an impromptu remark, made at a private function, on the spur of the moment and later withdrawn, together with a public apology.
On Tuesday, the retail magnate Gerry Harvey, after ordering his company, Harvey Norman, to pull its advertising from the Jones show, put the question: ‘’You have to ask are you part of a lynch mob?’’
This campaign, supposedly in the name of tolerance and decency, is no longer an attempt to rebuke, or even shame, but to destroy a person because of his views. It has become a show of power, a warning, a precedent.
The campaign is being directed at one man who nobody has ever been obliged to listen to. I would much rather have the emphatic biases of Jones, the gauche excesses of Kyle Sandilands, the squadron of earnest progressive clones at the ABC, than this gutless, sanctimonious wash of collective, opportunistic blackmail. Very freedom-oriented, too. But was it always so? So let's have a trip down memory lane. Shamed into (temporary) silenceShame is not entirely dead: THE Kyle and Jackie O radio show has been suspended indefinitely after last week’s lie detector stunt, with host Kyle Sandilands declaring he is unable to go on air.
There have been calls for 2Day FM’s Kyle and Jackie O breakfast show to be axed by the station’s owners, Austereo, since Wednesday when a 14-year-old girl was strapped to a lie-detector and asked on air about her sexual history… Tell the sponsors you careTo repeat, go for the sponsors, and don’t rely on the regulators: THE scandal which cost Kyle Sandilands his $1 million Australian Idol job is hitting his radio bosses where it hurts the most - the bottom line.
Two key advertisers yesterday pulled the plug on deals with the Austereo network… Austereo sales staff were in crisis yesterday, as American Express and Optus joined Qantas and Channel 10 in pulling advertising dollars from the show. Optus is understood to have cancelled its sponsorship after customer threats of a boycott.
American Express also pulled its online advertising, telling Austereo to remove a banner campaign running on the 2DayFM website by close of business yesterday. An American Express spokeswoman said community outrage forced a review. Go the sponsorsLate, but at least they figured they couldn’t get away with keeping him: The Ten Network is set to announce today that embattled host Kyle Sandilands has been stood down as a judge on Australian Idol.This decision was reached after consulting the true moral arbiters, in order…Senior executives from the Ten Network have spent the weekend deliberating whether they should act in response to mounting pressure from sponsors, viewers and listeners ... Note that order, the next time you want a TV station to do the right thing
One more ...
Forget complaining to the authorities
Just another confirmation of who you must go for to drive trash off the air:RADIO outcasts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O have had their show pulled from prime time in Melbourne after a backlash from advertisers.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 4, 2012 20:28:14 GMT 10
A choice one about Deveney: Me for Deveny is no fair exchangeI AM told I’ve engineered the sacking of The Age’s most popular columnist, noted barbarian Catherine Deveny.
But I’m told that for this service to the state I must now be sacked in turn.
The Left demands it. To even the score.
Yes, that really is how adolescent and tribal are the howlers who, like Deveny, have drowned out so much civilised debate. But first the background.
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Still, it wasn’t until two days later that Deveny was fired, with Ramadge declaring it was because “the views she has expressed recently on Twitter are not in keeping with the standards we set at The Age”.
This startled me, I admit, because until then I had no idea The Age kept any standards at all.
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The tribe rages for the loss not of a principle, but of a fellow barbarian.
And for the civilised, that’s one thing to fear, and another to almost cheer.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 4, 2012 20:48:02 GMT 10
And then there this oldie: Boycott New IdeaRoberta Williams goes to a hairdresser for two hours just after hearing her ex-husband, serial killer and drug trafficker Carl Williams, has been murdered. The reason she need to look noice? Yesterday, she was interviewed by New Idea, which is believed to have paid her up to $250,000 for her story. Utterly revolting. Depraved, even. A fortune paid for a convicted criminal to tell us how nice her murderous ex really was. Boycott New Idea. Don’t reward it. Don’t finance criminals and don’t reweard those who so suicidally promote them.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Oct 5, 2012 8:35:09 GMT 10
This is odd ... Carr accusedForeign Minister Bob Carr probably had other things on his mind - like sliming Tony Abbott and weeping with Bob Ellis: THE aid worker Pippi Bean endured a seven-day nightmare last week at the hands of Libya’s shadowy security forces - but it was Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, who delivered the ‘’lowest point’’ of her ordeal.
Ms Bean was questioned by Libyan investigators under threat of arrest, pressed to admit to a fictional rape or sexual affair with a senior government member, and repeatedly asked to sign a statement in Arabic that she was unable to read.
When she refused, then tried to leave the country on a scheduled business trip for her employer, the International Organisation for Migration, she was detained by seven men in a downstairs room at Tripoli airport and her passport taken away.
Not long after this, when she was still under threat of arrest, Mr Carr commented on the ABC program 7.30 that Ms Bean did not ‘’require further [consular] assistance’’.
The comment came when, in fact, her requirement for assistance could not have been greater. In an exclusive interview with the Herald, she said the comment had made her feel abandoned by her country. First question: Do they get the ABC in Tripoli? Was she actually watching the program? Did she even know about those comments before she returned to australia, or was she perhaps more concerned with the things that officials closer to the action were saying? I wonder ... because it wouldn't be like an australian newspaper to sort of juggle things a bit to create a tidy narrative, not a bit. As for what Carr actually said: LEIGH SALES: Senator Carr, can you please give us the latest information that you've got about the Australian aid worker who was detained in Libya?
BOB CARR: Yeah, I understand that she was questioned by police as she was attempting to leave Libya. She lives there. She works for a non-government organisation that works on migration. They've not detained her, but they've prevented her leaving the country. They want her - they want to question her more. She's had contact with our consul in Cairo and he's reported that all the representations he's made - the conversation he's had with her indicates that she's in good spirits and doesn't require further assistance, but we stand ready of course to provide any level of consular assistance that she needs. Come on, guys. It was a crappy situation. It sounds like DEFAT's perceptions of the situation were at variance with the detainee's, and it's possible that going to the media did stir things up and force australia and the UK to jump in (which doesn't necessarily mean that it was the right thing to do). But if we're going to go on a blame-fest, at least quote the things that people actually said. If somebody wants to criticise defat's conduct, go right ahead - but it would be constructive to talk to defat and find out what was going on from their side, otherwise it's just fiction.
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