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Labor party bore Barry Jones will speak tomorrow at the National Press Club. His topic? “The State of Labor. A message of hope.” Perhaps he’ll produce another of his election-winning scribble charts:
Colour key:
Red: Rusted-on Labor voters
Blue: Aspirational conservatives swarming over marginal seats
Black: Inner-city Melbourne types
Yellow: Vaguely recall Jones from dawn-of-TV quiz programs
Red/brownish: Always wanted Jones to lose
It took me all of about 10 seconds to see the bacon, eggs and mug of coffee optical illusion. Freaky!!
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 07 11 at 05:05 PM • permalinkReaders might be interested to know that Mr. Knowledge-nation Barry Jones - who wrote a book called Sleepers Wake, about the need to embrace new technologies - is easily the most computer illiterate person I’ve ever had the misfortune to deal with. Jones was in my place of work and needed to use a computer database that plenty of punters with only secondary school education master within minutes. After prolonged coaching, he still couldn’t do the simplest thing with it, and even expected me to press the keys for him. It really did get down to the level of me saying “Now put your finger on that key with the word ‘enter’ written on it and push…” No kidding.
o/t
abc a.m.
“Having just returned from the British bombings President Bush has wasted no time using them to justify his war on Iraq, in a speach to the F.B.I.
Patriot act . Some worry about checks on library cards etc but Bush has no such qualms.“Presenter Michael Rowlands.
Then indigenous mortality and infant mortality, homicide and suicide etc but does not mention the horrific domestic violence rates.Anyone who’s ever done design and produced diagrams of complex interactions will have immediately spotted Barry’s famous Spaghetti ‘n Meatballs diagram as simplistic, confused and basically pointless.
Perhaps it was intended to have the Emperor’s New Clothes effect. Those who couldn’t comprehend it assumed it must be really smart.
Warning, people. Don’t try to follow those lines: they have a weird hypnotic effect. I did and suddenly I have this weird urge to eat tofu and overtax the working classes…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 11 at 08:50 PM • permalinkNo no Tim the yellow is the media.We met Barry when visiting new parliament house.At that stage being wide eyed labor supporters,we ventured to say hello, we think you’re all terrific but the great man hurriedly nodded and walked off.
“Dang,he already KNEW he was wonderful of course.”
o.t.
Isn’t it good that the abc is abstaining from using emotive language and attempting to moderate the language of its “guests”.
Adele Hodge-“Labor ACCUSED the pm of historical revisionism.”
“Costello TOOK A SWIPE at the media.”
‘ALARMED OPPOSITION DEMANDING AUSTRALIA RULE OUT more troops to Iraq.”
“Kevan Rudd who WAS IN LONDON LAST WEEK WHEN THE BOMBS WENT OFF IN THE UNDERGROUND”.
(Oh, that Kevan Rudd?
“JOHN HOWARD CUT AND RUN FROM AFGHANISTAN”.
Good news though, accident prone Fran let a former head of Scotland Yard,John O’Connor on to speak about the bombings and terrorist threats and he gave her a right shaking up.Absolute down to earth commonsense there and stuff political correctness.sigh- Guess that’s why he’s not there now.Don’t you buggers laugh. The University where I work would pay top dollar for this. We received another “good news” story about our ever increasing collection of art this morning. UWS now has three art galleries as well as numerous staff to “co-ordinate the collection”
We can’t afford lecturers or students but from my office I can see the piece of shit that won our most recent $25000 art prize.As someone wiser than me said: “The difference between art and shit is that you don’t need a degree to recognise shit.”
Barry Jones wrote “Sleepers, Wake!” - a book forecasting the massive socio-eco effects of the info-tech and networking revolution - in 1982. More than a decade before Al Gore “invented” the internet (or at least since the Right-wing echo chamber invented that quote). And more than 20 years before young Timmy got his blog, in fact.
It is now in its 26th impression, which certainly makes it the most widely read book published by any AUS politician. And a better runner than most journalists hackery, whose work mostly winds up wrapping tomorrows fish and chips. Jones certainly has a communication problem, but no one can doubt that he got the message right.
But it seems that someone is always going to muck about at the back and disrupt class.
Laugh at Barry Jones by all means, but chimpanzee art deserves more respect. It isn’t just random lines and colours: we can recognise attempts at qualities that we recognise as aesthetically relevant - such as compositional balance. And we can see that they improve with practice. It’s pretty amazing that a creature with only a very distant genetic connection to ourselves, and absolutely no culture of aesthetic creativity (in a visual medium), when given the opportunity, displays an aesthetic sense that we can recognise. It makes you wonder about the objective or subjective nature of beauty.
Hmmm. you mean that internet that I was using back in the late 1960s? Or some other internet that came about around 1980 or so? Of course, your and Jones’ hoity-toity internet used computers and phone lines while ours had to get by on waxed string and tin cans, but I can still see Jones’ brilliance in figuring out that, much like the telegraph and the telephone, this new-fangled form of communication would have “socio-eco” (does the eco stand for economic or ecological or what?) effects. What a brain!
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 07 11 at 10:53 PM • permalinkThose National Press Club lunches that the ABC loves to televise and screen in the small hours of the morning, somewhat like spakfilla between the movies and Rage, are full of self-important, fatuous media bores, flatulant over the port and cigars, as they ask tedious idiotic questions of safe, unspiring guest speakers, so Barry Jones should feel right at home.
Now why don’t they invite Mark Latham instead, to talk on the State of Labour: a meaasage from the Grade A arseholes. He’d have the Canberra press gallery spluttering into their demi-tasses, and their bosses might actually get some real news stories to justify the expensive lunch.
Speaking of the ABC’s emotive language (# 14 & 15), the Telegraph is reporting that the BBC regards the word ‘terrorist’ as a bit too strong for usage in relation to the London bombings.
Clearly the Brits are more stiff-upper-lip than I thought.
Little Jacky Boy (to adopt your vernacular):
If I revised an essay or article 26 times would that make it a best seller? (Of course I understand I’d have to print a few copies each release.)
I thought writing books was all about communication. Otherwise, what’s the point?
And what did he get right, Wee Jack? Or do we need a diagram to understand?
(I hope the smug, condescending tone meets your approval, Jacko Ol’ Stick!)
Barry Jones used to frequent Kuni’s when it was in Crossley St, to hoover up raw fish (brain food) while reading A Big Fat Impressive Book Showing You Are An Intellectual. On the odd occasion when he was with an acquaintance, the whole sushi bar would be treated to booming demonstrations of the great man’s intellect, showing how his interlocutor had, being of meaner intelligence, got it wrong, whatever the subject under discussion. Much like the way he used to lecture Bob Dyer on Pick-a-Box. A better display of pompous windbaggery you couldn’t hope to see.
A good essay in Tech Central Station on Muslim terror: Terrorism Lessons From 1870 - here.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 07 12 at 03:11 AM • permalinkOT -
SBS Had planned to screen the delusional crockumentary “The Power of Nightmares”, the central thesis of which is that the GWOT is a neo-con conspiracy used to tighten their grip on power.Don’t believe me? see the BBC blurb
In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.
SBS appears to have decided that screening “D-Day to Victory” was more appropiate. Is sanity starting to break out at Milson’s Point?
Tim——Four Corners via the Bbbc last night.
You being from the fourth estate n’all can you investigate how the camera crew and sound people just accidentally happened along with the injured survivor who “wandered ” into a mosque.
He recounted his story to a bemused looking cleric while clutching an eyepad to his face.Several children stood looking on.
Did the bbc WAIT for a survivor to walk into the mosque,did they ASK someone who wanted to help moderate moslems appear compassionate to go in or what???
I am not the only viewer to be asking that question.PLEASE do a little detective work for us all.Thanks for that article Walter. Not sure that the parallel holds up, but interesting even so.
As for SBS and their programming rethink - good one!
Again I ask you: why are our national broadcasters allowed to remain in thrall to the Arty-Left Complex. They persist in thinking that they are there to oppose and thereby balance the right wing elements they perceive in the media generally. I will continue to assert that they are there as national broadcasters to be simply good broadcasters and not to lean too far in either direction. That does not mean they cannot present a left-leaning program, but I expect to see some more right leaning stuff than is evident on any of the usual suspects - ABC, SBS, BBC, NPR.P.S.
From the Telegraph
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/12/nbbc12.xmlBBC edits out the word terrorist
By Tom Leonard
(Filed: 12/07/2005)The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as “terrorists”, it was disclosed yesterday.
Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC’s website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as “bombers”.
The BBC’s guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the “careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments”.
Consequently, “the word ‘terrorist’ itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding” and its use should be “avoided”, the guidelines say.
Rod Liddle, a former editor of the Today programme, has accused the BBC of “institutionalised political correctness” in its coverage of British Muslims.
A BBC spokesman said last night: “The word terrorist is not banned from the BBC.”
Fingers crossed Blogstrop.Counting on Tim.
All Terrorists great and small in Yorkshire now,according to anty.Anniversary of Srebronitza.Dreadful events that should be commemorated.
Silly old sbzzzz and anty news forgot to mention that the evil Amerrikka actually stopped the carnage against Bosnian muslims while the u.n. stood by and watched.
Christians checking christians by golly.
Did they get any thanks for it -noooooooo.
Incidentally,why would we want to watch a program about grumpy old women when we have Grumpy old Kerry O’Brian.Blogstrop: Terrorists are now just bombers because
The BBC’s guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the “careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments”.
Consequently, “the word ‘terrorist’ itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding” and its use should be “avoided”, the guidelines say.
... ‘emotional or value judgements’? I thought terrorist was a noun, appropriate for those who indiscriminately destroy lives.
... what’s to understand?
BBC = wankersCrash:
A recent study has shown that the publicity of skin cancer is finally working, we are now seeing cases of vitamin D deficiency. And it’s more common in women who cover up for their religion.
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Wow! Superbrainwisdom indeed. Heh heh.
Hey wait! It’s a veritable Jackson Pollock masterpiece.