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ABC REVEALS, CONCEALS
The ABC’s Rafael Epstein asks a question of former UK environment minister Elliot Morley:
When Downing Street hears Australian ministers now saying that a global trading scheme, a version of Kyoto part II, they’re very difficult things to get to. China and India, everyone has to line up together before Australia will jump. What do you think their attitude would be?
Audio at the same ABC link reveals an identically-worded question. But an archived transcript held at the Parliamentary Library (no link available as yet) reveals that a line from Epstein may have been edited:
When Downing Street hears Australian ministers now saying that a global trading scheme, a version of Kyoto part II, they’re very difficult things to get to. China and India, everyone has to line up together before Australia will jump. Do eyes sort of roll to the heavens in Downing Street? What do you think their attitude would be?
The ABC—its AM program specifically—has form when it comes to cover-ups.
But apparently there’s no bias in the ABC. Lucky, that. Can you imagine what it would look like if there was? Oh, actually, it would look like SBS.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 11 01 at 09:25 PM • permalinkMaybe they hired Kerry’s writers? “I know I had that transcript around here somewhere… gimme a couple of days… ” clicketyclicketyclickety…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 01 at 09:38 PM • permalinkWhile we can read at: news.com.au - Forget global warming, ladies, the man drought is getting worse.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 11 01 at 09:49 PM • permalinkYes its all about manufacturing consent so that we can allow our homes to be examined for illegal light bulbs.
And in today’s cut,n paste Australian, Robert Manne accuses John Howard of using Grimscian subversion to orchestrate a long march towards the “right” through its establishment.
What a hypocrit!
it’s nice to think The implementation of Grimscian subversion is not the exclusive property of left wing activists and intellectuals and that consevatives can also make use of these techniques of soft coercion to manufacture consent in Australian society.Since he is not named Jones, non-story at news.com.au - Roberts assaulted lover, court told.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 11 01 at 10:19 PM • permalinkAlthough I have not agreed with everything John Howard has done as PM, I must commend the stirling job he has done in axing The Glass House and getting Benny Hill back on free to air TV.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 01 at 10:31 PM • permalinkDamn it, this kind of blatant bias has no place in MSM. I want whathisname’s letter of resignation on my desk anywhere from 3 pm to 5 pm tomorrow! On my desk! I mean it! I’m using exclamation marks! They’re a buck a ! That shows that I mean it!
Ok, yes, it’s 1 Australian buck a ! But that costs at least 50 cents a ! Right? Right!!!!
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 01 at 10:53 PM • permalinkI heard this in the morning as well and nearly choked on my breakfast… when I looked on the ABC website later to see if I had dreamt this comment, it wasn’t there. Thanks Tim for exposing it. The whole tone of the interview was shocking. The correspondent asked really leading questions (especially the ‘eyes rolling one’ - hearing the tone of the orginal interview makes it even worse), and really sounded like an expat, arrogant aussie embarrased by his government. The ABC management should be held to task over allowing this to have been filed as a story -let alone go to air!
#9 - He’ll get my vote when Kingswood Country is back on air and when anyone who makes a show like Tripping Over is executed before a baying crowd at the MCG.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 01 at 11:01 PM • permalink1 Australian buck a ! But that costs at least 50 cents a ! Right? Right!!!!
Steady on, wronwright, those !s are in short supply.
Go bold. Ever since Webdiary folded, the bold price has sunk out of sight.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 01 at 11:03 PM • permalink#9, Benny Hill is back? WOOOHOOO
[Puts on zany music and chases scantily clad women around the house…]#12, It is on Fox. After all, ‘A man is not a wallaby, you know.’ - Ted Bullpitt
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 01 at 11:09 PM • permalinkHas it folded, or am I just thinking wishfully?
Tell you this much though, I walked out the front door this morning and the front lawn was littered with bolds. Poor homeless bolds with no hope of ever being employedworthlesslygainfully by Margo and Co. How could I harden my heart against them? ‘Come here, little bolds,’ I said. My eyes brimming with tears I opened my arms unto them and…
Oh Christ, do I need a coffee.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 01 at 11:14 PM • permalinkCuckoo - I wish Habib were here to give his dissection. Although doubt he would have watched it.
Writers in Australia have no idea about suburban life or real Australian’s anymore. It features evil capitalist lawyers and merchant bankers. Struggling actors (not really a stretch). Young men embracing there newfound homosexuality. Every leftist stereotype has been included except for an Aboriginal flatmate, but it’s early days.
I’m sure that these people exist in a microcosm somewhere, but how about writing a show that the majority can relate to.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 01 at 11:51 PM • permalinkInfidel Tiger, the blonde chick looked pretty good with her clothes off though.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 01 at 11:59 PM • permalink#18 - One good thing about progressive arty types is there not afraid to get thir norks out to support a weak story line.
The character that had me reaching for my luger was Rebecca Gibney’s.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 02 at 12:04 AM • permalink#20, just tell them that it’s ‘art’ and they’ll do anything!
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 02 at 12:41 AM • permalinkIf you employed someone to take out all the gratuitous Howard-bashing, sycophantic lefty sucking and peurile opinion out of the ABC transcripts, you wouldn’t be able to fill a page.
Still, its a start to cleaning up the bias - destroying the evidence. Perhaps now they can look at the actual broadcasts.
OT for your ABC’s abuse of power, but OnT for Stern and Down Under places:
Attack of the kiwifruit moralists
By Peter Foster; Financial Post; Published: Wednesday, November 01, 2006...This week, the U.K.‘s review of the alleged economic consequences of climate change, chaired by Sir Nicholas Stern, suggested that new taxes be introduced to discourage the long-haul of exotic fruits. Public Enemy Numero Uno was identified as the New Zealand kiwifruit. Former British Cabinet minister Stephen Byers claimed that every kilogram of kiwifruit flown into Britain was responsible for adding five kilograms of carbon to the atmosphere (presumably the same equation applies to every pound of UN bureaucrat so transported, the only difference being that people willingly pay for kiwifruit)....
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 02 at 01:05 AM • permalinkWhen you look at a budget and seek to trim expenditure, do you concentrate on the little “1% of outgoings” items, or the larger ones?
With so much fuss being made by Epstein and his cohorts at their ABC, it is easy to forget that reductions in Australian Greenhouse Gases pale into insignificance compared to the looming increases in output by the new engines of growth, China and India.
So many spurious arguments are being thrown around, such as the one where India & China get to play catch-up until they all have portico-fronted brick veneer houses and a three car garage, and the one about us being really bad because we are big per capita, that I am forced to the conclusion that it is all politics. Stern is political and economical but not scientific.
US senator James Inhofe gave an interesting address here.#25:
In other news, anthropologists have determined that the importation of bananas by the Incas is the cause of the Bering Land Bridge disappearing. Additionally, Gilgamesh’s sweet tooth which fueled the trading of sugar cane between Mesopotamia and India resulted in the portal collapse that formed the Black Sea. Oh, and Moses didn’t really part the Red Sea. Instead, as the Hebrews had developed a taste for Athenian olives, there was a massive heat-wave that flash-evaporated the entire body of water.
OT but commenters at award winning website webdiary are electing not to mention Tim Blair lest it causes a deluge of traffic this way. Damn fine idea and I would encourage others to follow this example.
Oh - and apparently there has been a nasty biting incident in Dave Roffey’s spare bedroom…
A word of advice for Margo - do not drink the orange cordial.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 02 at 02:01 AM • permalinkHey anyone else notice something odd about Tony Blair’s speech, other than the fact it was filled with the usual eco doom-mongering ?
I noticed a distinct lack of headlines in the media complaining that a foreign leader is interfering in our local affairs !
Strange .. I guess only when Pres Bush says something positive about John Howard before an election, then its called interfering in our affairs.
But when Tony Blair and Al Gore give long diatribes about how Gaia will punish us for our blasphemy, its called “raising awareness”.
O/T, but. Sometimes a middle-aged bloke wishes he could be 21 again. Just for a week. First, there’s the man drought, now this:
Sleeping around can improve a female’s chances of having fitter offspring, new Australian research has shown.
Promiscuity results in competition between sperm, with the winner having the best genes.
This in turn increases the chances of producing a healthy baby.
The discovery was made by scientists studying a carnivorous mouse-like Australian marsupial, Antechinus stuartii.
But the same evolutionary principle may also apply to other mammals. Whether or not it has any relevance to humans is an open question.
The new research, led by Dr Diana Fisher, from the Australian National University in Canberra and reported today in the journal Nature, relates to so-called ``sperm wars’‘.Transmitting radio and TV broadcasts requires electricity. Running big studio cameras and kleig lights and all the air-conditioning to cool them requires electricity.
The production of electricity generates greenhouse gases. These gases are evil. Big consumers of electricity that has been generated by coal are evil.
Ergo, the ABC is evil.
I suggest the ABC converts totally to using solar power. At least then they will only be able to pollute the airwaves when the sun is shining. I will come home from work after dark and channel 2 will be nothing but a welcome blast of hissing static. I might just sit down with a drink and enjoy the static. That is my idea of bliss.
So, let’s all start campaigning for the ABC to make a complete and utter switch to nothing but renewable energy. And force them to make say 30% cuts in power consumption. I look forward to all the buggers in Ultimo sweating through a nice hot summer.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 11 02 at 06:02 AM • permalinkRe all those curious about that abortion of modern “drama” known as Tripping Over, the promos are enough to have me reaching for the bucket.
I was also unfortunate enough that I caught the first minutes of an episode the other night.
It was horrible, I tell you, just horrible! IT was worse than Damon Dark!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 02 at 06:38 AM • permalink#34 - Buggers? You don’t mean…
Yes. You don’t get (or retain) a berth in the ABC unless you’re pillow-biting hippie. Ditto BBC.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 11 02 at 07:52 AM • permalink#33 stackja1945 Koperburg smoke screen?
In a two horse race always back self interest. It’s always trying. Phil has obviously done the maths and found the Parliamentary super scheme is better than the Firefighter’s.
To a self promoter like Phil though the switch will be easy. But getting out of heading up the RFS on the brink of one helluva destructive bushfire season just about says it all. Self interest writ large.
I fear the Blue Mountaineers will put him in though. I think you need several brain cells removed to pass the residency test up there.
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Yep, I heard that “live” while having my morning walk. He definitely made the “eyes roll” comment—the neighbours heard me swearing halfway down the street!