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Online paranoiac Tom O’Loughlin - recently invited by New Matilda to address journalism students, for some reason - impresses his young audience:
I trust an open inquiring mind even while 70% of Australians have limited education.
O’Loughlin is in the tiny percentage of Australians who maintain a website but are unable to search the Internet.
The small theartrette (sic) in building four was filled to the maximum with 100 students and the audience also included some professional journalists.
Non-English speaking students?
“Professional” journalists, with SAM amateurs.SAM’s editor went last and had the most formally prepared speech (tip for young players - speech written in 16 point triple spaced bold - it works!) and it seemed to go off okay.
Seemed to go off where?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 09 at 08:42 PM • permalinkTom Al-lard speaks of conservative, fierce critic, “bingo commissioner”, while the other nice people like islam.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 09 at 08:55 PM • permalinkI feel at times as if I live in a parallel universe. This bit about O’Loughlin has depressed me. Although, as pointed out by peter m at #1, they won’t get far using 15 years of NGO files as their source.
On a related issue, in an attempt to catch up with what’s going on in the world of entertainment, I last night watched “At the Movies” on Their ABC.
Extract from the review of Global Haywire, a mostly animated film by Australian filmmaker (and political cartoonist) Bruce Petty:
...a committee…has been set up to find out what has gone wrong with the world.
Notable thinkers like Arundathi Roi, George Monbiot, the journalist and writer Robert Fisk, Gore Vidal are interviewed…
This ambitious film wears its outraged heart on its sleeve as it points the finger at colonialism and capitalism as the source of the world’s ills...blending archive footage…with a committee made up of live actors – Robyn Nevin, Barry Otto - and dead people like Gandhi, Virginia Woolf and Shakespeare…
It’s exhilarating conceptually. You learn a lot, you laugh, you’re outraged…
Review by Margaret Pomeranz, of course.
(1) I suspect “dead people like Gandhi, Virginia Woolf and Shakespeare” would detest being part of this effort and, if alive, would possibly sue.
(2) Why no mention of despots and tyrants, murderous regimes, tribal hatreds, corruption, criminality, religious fanaticism and fundamentalism, maybe even terrorism as a source for the world’s current ills?
(3) Admittedly, I haven’t seen the film but I suspect that I will not be “exhilarated” - rather, repressed and even further depressed.
Recently a producer for Sixty Minutes said he was aware of SAM, as did an experienced reporter at NSW Stateline .
I’m sure those worthies are also aware of the existence of tentacle porn sites, although such awareness probably shouldn’t imply anything more than a horrified fascination that such a bizarre niche could find a market.even while 70% of Australians have limited education
I too am concerned about the poor quality of edumacation that our hordes of uni students are getting these days.
70%?
Pfft.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 09 at 11:29 PM • permalinkI trust an open inquiring mind even while 70% of Australians have limited education.
How come 90% of leftie graduates think they can lecture you on climatology, power systems engineering, and the political economy, despite having not done a single hour’s more science class than the average Year 10 student, while the only addition to their Year 10 economics was ‘writing from a Marxist perspective’ in their Creative Writing class?
#10 monaro
They’re entitled because of their “hard-earned” sense of “moral superiority”?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 10 at 12:01 AM • permalink
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Their target is big media. Their sources include 15 years of ngo files.
Good luck with that.