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CORRECTION!
In this piece, I’ve mistakenly attributed a quote – “Once we were larrikins with a taste of defiance; now we are lapdogs with a thirst for conformity” – to Greens senator Bob Brown. The actual author was Richard Neville.
Sounds like Tim is trying to set himself up for a position at Reuters.
However, before that glorious day, he will need to learn not to acknowledge his mistakes quite so readily…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 17 at 08:28 PM • permalinkspeaking about brown,seems he still thinks latham’s forestry
fuckuppolicy was a winnerCHRIS UHLMANN: For the last time the Labor Party took your advice on forestry policy it lost two seats, do you think that Kevin Rudd will be listening to you?
BOB BROWN: Well, he’ll need to, because even before the forest policies were announced, the polls showed that they were likely to lose three seats.
radio national ‘am’ programme this morning
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 17 at 08:38 PM • permalinkA perfectly understandable mistake Tim.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 17 at 08:39 PM • permalinkCan I just say that the red cross ambulance saga was a real turning point in my opinion of the mainstream media purely because Chulov, Smiles etc and their editors couldn’t admit that they had made a howler.
(Did I hear correctly that Martin Chulov won a Walkley for his coverage of the Israel-Lebanon conflict? What a joke. I hope Glen Milne presented it to him)
Be honest with your errors and keep your credibility I reckon.
i hope mike hudson sees this thread and realises just how much easier and more dignified it is to correct oneself than to dig deeper and deeper into shaky ground
onya tim
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 17 at 09:32 PM • permalinkQuick quiz Timbonauts: Who is attributed with this quote?
“A man’s height is the height of his thought.”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 17 at 09:32 PM • permalinkBut it bespoke reality so it must be right…
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 12 17 at 09:41 PM • permalinkOkay, and which dissent crusher is attributed with the quote: “Expect criticism”?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 17 at 09:58 PM • permalinkIt must be terrible to be Richard Neville, and to have to define yourself, every day of your life, in terms of what you did and who you were forty years ago. I saw him on the news the other night, expressing his relief that his home in the Blue Mountains narrowly missed being burned down in the current bushfires. Who is he to question the wrath of mighty Gaia? He should be happy to offer part of his carbon footprint as a toasty sacrifice to her.
Apologising for a mistake? What has happened to the noble perfession of journalism?
When we can handle the truth we’ll let you know, thanks.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 17 at 10:57 PM • permalinkNice to see the difference between Kiwis and Aussies highlighted though.
Us: Once were Warriors.
Youse: Once were larrikins.No wonder the haka causes so much consternation. I’ll consult with my countrymen and see if we can’t get it changed to chants of “Whaddarya?!” accompanied by suitable finger gestures.
Penguin, DO NOT turn the robe inside out. It’s a cruel hazing trick they play on newbies. The howls of laughter as you stroll through the Neo-Con Club wearing an inside out jacket, violent pink inner lining glaring, will scar you for some time. Believe me, please believe me.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 17 at 11:31 PM • permalinkThat’s how a journalist makes a correction. Simply state it. No “fake but accurate”. No “might not entirely accurate, but it speaks a truth”. Just “what I said was not accurate”.
Well done Tim.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 17 at 11:41 PM • permalink#29 “Seems more dangerous with the wallaby skin on the outside. I surmise blokes like CB are heavily armed and enjoy shooting at the fauna.”
Oh come on, ya shoot a few newbies in their brand new coats and ya get a rep. Sheesh, if you don’t want random shots heading in your general direction, then stay out of the post offices and supermarkets…
Incidentally, Freddies gone. Jones will go shortly.
I’m turning it into a cricket thread.
Unusually for Perth it’s as humid as an outdoor dunny in Thailand and the ball should be swinging like a rich man in the 60’s.
The English, as is their modern day wont, are showing all the resistance of Paris Hilton’s pants. In less than an hour the Ashes wil again be Australia’s and the correct order of things sporting will be restored.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 18 at 12:11 AM • permalinkI don’t see what the problem is. All Tim did is attribute a quote to the wrong plastic turkey. Anyone could make that mistake!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 18 at 12:15 AM • permalinkBut can anyone say for certain that Bob Brown did NOT at some stage utter that same remark? huh? huh? huh?
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2006 12 18 at 12:21 AM • permalinkYa know… it’s almost as if some journos take pride in getting things right, in matters big and small. They don’t pretend to infallibility, just reliability, and correct stuff with the same emphasis they put on the original report.
Even if it is a minor detail. Even if it is a matter of no great import. Because they try to report the truth, not truthiness. It’s a matter of principle, the ethics of the profession.
Hooda Thunkit?
Poor Tim. If only he were a failed journalist and self-described best-selling author, like Antony Loewenstein, he could refuse to do corrections. They are so…. Uncool.
#42
These guys are Pro’s, but I doubt that Neville is amongst them.This sounds like the “Me,Myself,I” mantra Kevvy Rudd seems to be adopting for the election: “Onc we cared about each other, now we only care about ourselves”. It’s sure to go down well with David Williamson and the other elitists, but I expect the rest of Australia will reject it as insulting, as John Howard has already done.
The Federal Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, says his new environment spokesman, Peter Garrett, was too busy to accompany him to Tasmania (from abc radio)-
perhaps he was washing his hair? isn’t that the traditional reason for standing a date up?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 18 at 02:17 AM • permalink#49
Reading between the lines:CHRIS UHLMANN: Well, if the Green vote was a big winner for Labor in Tasmania, surely then Peter Garret would be accompanying Kevin Rudd on this trip.
BOB BROWN: Well, what’s happened to Peter Garret? He’s been everywhere else, but he’s not coming to Tasmania.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Kevin Rudd’s office says there’ll be no announcements on this trip because it’s a listening tour. Harry Quick agrees that that’s a reasonable point of view but, like State Labor, broadly supports the Howard Government’s policy and he has firm ideas on who Mr Rudd should be listening to.
Tim is a bad bad man. It’s because of him, and the few like him, that I have to exercises some moderation when spouting off about the blood debt owed to the industry of journalism.
I hate exercises, makes me all sweaty and tired.
I don’t do moderation at all well. I tend to get lost in “yeah but” loops and end up all squishy-soft sounding.
Now, please, knock it off Mr. Tim. Either be a journalist or be honorable. Quit mixing the two.
It is rumoured that once they finally get round to inventing killer-droids well be able to explode their simple robot brains by simply presenting them with a circular logical conundrum. Their circuitry will overheat and their heads explode.
This I suggest someone scurry up to Mr Rudd and ask the following:
“You say we once cared about each other, now we only care about ourselves. But ‘ourselves’ is in fact a collective noun which could conceivably include each and every one of us. Thus is your statement not in fact a self-negating fallacy?”
Then run, and get behind something mush-proof before his head goes off like a blancmange hit by one of CB’s shells.
“Once we were larrikins with a taste of defiance; now we are lapdogs with a thirst for conformity”
#23:
Once we were parakeets with a taste of defiance; now we are lapdancers with a thirst for attention#53:
Once we were larrikins with a taste of defiance; now we are lapdogs with a thirst for bloodAny more, punnsters?
once we were lorikeets with a taste for de pine nuts?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 18 at 07:07 AM • permalinkgrimmy, will lap-laps with a burst of fertility do?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 18 at 07:17 AM • permalinknow we lack clogs our feet are corn city?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 18 at 07:20 AM • permalinklaplap=loin cloth worn in the south pacific
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 18 at 07:24 AM • permalinkNominations for Richard Neville’s best ‘Futurist’ moonbat prediction?
Hey, Kae!
Just about to be on holidays (tomorrow, yay!)
To answer your question: Bloody roos!
Last week I was driving in to work early (0530-ish) via Commonwealth bridge. Smack in the middle was this poor bugger who had just collected a large Eastern Grey kangaroo. The front of his car was wrecked and the roo was off to roo heaven. The drought is so bad here that the eastern greys are moving in to within a km of Parliament house looking for food.
The trouble is greenies. These wankers have bought ‘rural suburbs’ with houses on 5-100 acre blocks. Before this happened they were sheep pastures. So they took off the sheep but left the dams (water) and grass (feed). So the populations of eastern greys around Canberra have simply exploded. The greenies like to look at ‘em as they graze in a picturesque manner on their otherwise empty blocks.
The graziers are less enthused. So are the hundreds of motorists who hit the bloody things every year. Now it is summer, and the roos are starting to starve to death. But this ‘natural’ and horrible fate is MUCH to be preferred to culling the damned things with a rifle bullet. Just ask a greenie….
MarkL
canberra
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Well, that’s a relief. I knew Bob was stupid, but even I was surprised he was that stupid.