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INTEGRITY RETAINED
“Despite being part of the NineMSN stable, and despite Tim Blair, The Bulletin retains some integrity,” writes a grumpy old man in Surry Hills. He’s talking about Paul Daley’s excellent cover story on the ABC, which is generating widespread media reaction. Also in The Bulletin:
* Tony Wright chats with Julia Gillard;
* Bernard Lagan reflects on fatherhood in his late 40s;
* Laurie Oakes analyses Labor infighting;
The interview on Al-Jazeera with the Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan was riveting. Here in part is what she said: “The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilisations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilisations. Civilisations do not clash, but compete.”
And mentioned in this week’s Continuing Crisis column are Germaine Greer, Lara Bingle, Suzie Wilks, Roy “Chubby” Brown, Robert Fisk, George W. Bush, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Prince of Wales, Basil Fawlty, Giancarlo Fisichella, Todd Walsh, and Kevin Rudd.
UPDATE. I am a river to my people.
I think Gillard will have a tilt at the leadership during the early days of the commonwealth games.
2007 is already lost for Labor.
But in 2011 ? a Gillard with 4.5 years and 1 consolidating election as ALP leader vs a Costello or Turnbull with 1.5 years as leader and fresh blood on their hands?
This would be a good contest.
While the media is otherwise distracted by the games she should have a go!
Posted by knuckleheadwatch on 2006 03 15 at 01:08 AM • permalinkWhy would advertisers want to buy spots on a network with what I gather are ABC’s abysmal ratings? Or is that SBS?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 15 at 01:36 AM • permalinkPW — How much money is there under the Sahara? Maybe we could borrow some of Beazley’s weapons of mass immersion and look for them.
Wait, wasn’t that a Penelope Cruz movie?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 15 at 02:39 AM • permalinkANy chance you can send Laura Bingle over to North Hollywood to explain that commercial? Slowly? In great detail? She can take all the time she needs…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 15 at 02:49 AM • permalinkI heard Coonan on Lateline last night bemoaning the slow uptake of digital FTA television, and her answer was to give free set-top boxes away- no doubt to anyone registered with Centrelink.
Brilliant- give the bastards a few more channels to drive the couch in front of rather than actively seeking employment, and have sods with jobs pay for it.
What a delightfully whimsical parody of a conservative government.
Maybe if they got their flabby superannuation-anticipating arses out of the road and let anyone with the dough and the inclination to set up a broadcaster, there’d be none of this bullshit about needing diversity and funding for the ABC etc.
When are we getting our own Reagan/Thatcher revolution? We’re in dire need of one.
Amen Habib
The government has stuck its nose into broadcasting/telecommunications of all types for too long.
Radio license costs are prohibitive (when they are actually auctioned) so only stations that will have broad appeal can survive. No room for niche providers.
TV media rules seem to be designed to ward of the onset of the internet age like some sucker with a homemade crucifix trying to stop nosferatu.
It’s good to think that developments like the internet have the capacity to undercut the old telecoms and broadcasters simply by doing what the government should be doing; ie letting the market determine who gets watched/listened to and by what medium.
So Germaine Greer says that nothing like the Holden ads would run in the UK. She knows this is hogwash. It’s the equivalent of your mum saying “Cousin David wouldn’t do that sort of thing, would he?”, when in fact, despite Cousin David getting good marks at school, he’s really just as naughty as you are—she knows it, but you don’t.
Habib says:
>When are we getting our own Reagan/Thatcher revolution? We’re in dire need of one.You’ll have to wait. Europe needs one first (and the UK needs another one before Australia needs one).
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2006 03 15 at 04:17 AM • permalinkRoy chubby Brown is a legend. makes rodney rude look like a blushing quiorgirl. Good fun putting one of his tapes on in the background of a party and watching most people gravitate to watch the “fat twat” on TV.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 03 15 at 04:22 AM • permalinkRob Read
Is that true… My god how tragic for them bothPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 03 15 at 08:07 AM • permalinkRe my previous item about the Feds handing out set-top boxes to welfare recipients- a bit of a waste of time, seeing as most of them have already wisely invested their multiple baby bonus slings into HD widescreens and a lifetime sub to Foxtel.
These rule-happy social engineer turds are driving me to distraction.
Thankfully other correspondents are probably correct and broadband web-casting will probably fuck it up for all broadcasters big time, and about time; Kerry Packer lost a lot of credibility with me over his protectionist bullshit for the media. Why should the market be restricted because he didn’t have the ‘nads to follow Rupert’s lead and go offshore?
BTW did anyone catch Chalabi tear George Fungus a new arsehole on the appropriately named Dateline? Funnier than if the huge roost of incontinent fruitbats resident in the park next to the MCG had’ve been sent batshit by the fireworks and invaded the hideous opening abomination for the Commonwealth Games, showering guests and participants with warm, sticky guano.
(Or maybe not; most watching would have thought it was part of the program).
#11, if you listened to Coonan on other media, she was actually talking about the elderly, who far outweigh those bloodsucking single mothers turning out the next generation of Australia’s workers, while also providing jobs for all those child care workers when they’re on Work For The Dole programs.
The elderly, you know, those old people who worked hard and paid taxes all their lives and are now bleeding the country dry with their demands for....free healthcare and....not getting raped when they’re packed off to old folks’ homes.
I think Murdoch/PBL would be Stoked if they handed out free digital boxes at Centrelink, but only if digi-interactive has online gambling and news.com as the host screen.
It’s about time the ABC dropped their left wing bias and started showing some good quality American programming like...oh Christ, The West Wing? Blurrch!
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 15 at 01:21 PM • permalinkAds on the ABC - out with Donald, in with Ronald.
As for bias - it is endemic and ruins what should be our benchmark organisation for balanced reporting. Appoint an overseer to make sure all of them don’t keep on asking their favourite “experts” to appear on air.
Look at the practises in News & Current Affairs, whereby stories are given too much prominence (repeatedly) on the basis of their likelihood to damage the government while more important stories are missed or downgraded.
I don’t recall the ABC being any where near as critical of the government during the dreamtime (1983-96). Nor did they question all the PC dogma concerning aboriginals. We have had to wait not only for the Howard Government, but also for leaders like Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine to appear and blow the whilstle on all that wrong thinking. It has now become harder for the ABC to maintain those positions once gospel-like in their broadcast-universe.
Treatment of Liberals or Nats is appalling. These days on AM you will regularly hear interviewers cross the line into rude and agressive assertion when dealing with government ministers.
They do not deserve to get one cent more until they cure the - bleeding obvious and everyone knows it - bias problem. Denial will not suffice.
Gerard Henderson did an amusing article recently in the SMH on Howard Haters’ ability to get through the day without hearing a contrary opinion. The ABC was an important component in his outline of their daily media diet.
Frank Devine has done extensive surveys, and Janet Albrechtsen had plenty ot offer on this subject until she had to cease on joining the board. Andrew Bolt has given chapter and verse, and our Tim has personal experience on the inside.
Board stacking - time honoured, done by both complexions of government, perhaps still the only effective engine of change.We could have told them that, and paid a consultation fee. Nah...It’s the religion_Islam overpowering the ideology of others.
WE ARE LEVELS AND LAYERS OF LANGUAGE IN TIME>
That’s why deprogramming is essential within our Australian matrix. Police admit it. However, the police are intwined in the Islamic thinking and therefore may not be able to see it.
We have so much riding on Harmony, tolerance, and funding to keep them from really thinking about the true reality. That is we are all controlled to match the reality. Including corporate greed and it’s bullying tactics.
Also, Aussie media need to be vigilant from a perspective of reporting. It’s evident the cultural political correct ideologies are really mindless and boring which is the plan. It would be good to have reporters identify their religion or who owns their companies ( eg Egyptian muslim owning a french socialist newspaper) to not cloud perceptions or cultural perceptions.
WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH ...
Posted by doleblogger on 2006 03 15 at 08:33 PM • permalink"Communism won’t work because people like to own stuff.”
- Frank Zappa
Posted by doleblogger on 2006 03 15 at 08:35 PM • permalink#20- I don’t think anyone warrants $100 of my money for a device they can buy them bloody selves. How many OAPs have been big taxpayers, or taxpayers of any kind? Most are old bats who’ve only either worked for a short time or not at all- most geezers who’ve been substantial taxpayers are self-funded retirees (all in the case of people I know, with the exception of a couple of old diggers on repat pensions) who are STILL paying tax and paying their own way.
Sweeden of the South is looking more accurate by the day.
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Re the grumpy old Surry Hills guy and his apparent liking for Red Kerry, is it just me or is the Red Terror just as aggressive verging on discourteous with Kim B as he is with the PM? Further evidence of the “left of everyone” culture? I guess from Kezza’s pov, Kim is “just as bad as Howard”.