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Last updated on July 14th, 2017 at 01:37 pm
Jonathan Holmes – not to be confused with John Holmes – takes over as host of Media Watch:
A four-time Walkley Award finalist and 1998 Logie Award winner, Holmes has been a full-time reporter with ABC’s Four Corners program since 2003 …
“I’m hoping we’ll be able also to expose the more egregious antics of the industry that all too often tries to sway, or mislead, or simply stonewall journalists who are trying to do an honest job: the army of ‘media relations’ people, employed by government and business at every level, which has so much influence these days on what we read and hear and watch.”
So it’s going to be PR Watch. Sounds exciting.
I’m hoping we’ll be able also to expose the more egregious antics of the industry that all too often tries to sway, or mislead, or simply stonewall journalists who are trying to do an honest job…
Holmes, translated: journalists are pure, innocent creatures, cruelly led astray and soiled by the malicious PR industry. If only journalists ran the country (and ABC journalists, at that), we would achieve utopia!
- With the veritable army of ALP PR flacks now floating around in the “industry”, Johnboy will be hard pressed to tell the truth from the well-embellished. After all, a majority of them are essentially mental clones of his own positions and attitudes.
Stick to what you know Homer, kicking Howard when he’s down.
Gee, as a PR person (amongst other things) I didn’t realise my former colleagues thought of me with such fear and trembling.
‘Cause, y’know, I have like soooo “much influence these days on what we read and hear and watch.”
Just like Wronwright and Paco, but more evil.
Just a heads up Tim, if I ever send you a media release, you’re quite free to ignore it if you want.
I wouldn’t want to, y’know, exert any influence or anything.
::roll eyes::Journalists of the ABC variety are so precious.
— Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 27 at 07:23 PM • permalink
I just hope thay change the intro music to some good 70s porn soundtrack.
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2007 11 27 at 07:35 PM • permalink
#15 If that’s Media Watch’s criteria then Johnno will be spending all his time on TT and ACA.
— Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 27 at 07:47 PM • permalink
I just thought you all should know that among my 75 emails this morning was one from Siegfried Klein entitled TamraMonstrousBodypart. Another from Parker Ladd introduces EdwinaFuckstickPuffy.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 11 27 at 07:53 PM • permalink
Media Watch will soon be including one of these in all their future press packs. For balance, you know.
#2 – If only journalists ran the country (and ABC journalists, at that), we would achieve utopia!
Maxine McKew will see to that TimT!
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 11 27 at 08:07 PM • permalink
Another typo- should be Wanker Award finalist.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 11 27 at 09:27 PM • permalink
Just like Wronwright and Paco, but more evil.
I don’t know Nora. Paco and I are very evil. Paco maybe a bit more so than me. Because of his business empire that strangles the world economy. I just control access to Karl Rove. And hold keys to the Tardis. And yes, the orbital space cannon. But not the Japanese weather machine. That’s been assigned to Michael Lonie. Since, um, 2005 or thereabouts.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 11 27 at 10:18 PM • permalink
He probably thinks that these media relations types he’s going to doggedly pursue are all Jews. They have their tentacles in everything.
From Bolta’s blog:
JONATHAN HOLMES: The President’s moral certainties are passionately shared by the so-called neo-conservatives. They’re a tight-knit and effective Washington network, with tentacles in the Congress, in think tanks, in newspaper offices and TV talk shows…. The young neo-conservatives were almost all Jews whose parents had emigrated from Eastern Europe.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 11 27 at 10:49 PM • permalink
#29 Are you sure about that Wron?
::puts on best Newman from Seinfeld voice::
He who controls the press release controls…. information. Bwwaahhhaahhaaa!
😛
— Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 27 at 11:42 PM • permalink
A four-time Walkley Award finalist and 1998 Logie Award winner
I don’t know about in Australia, but in Canada a logie is the slimy wad of phlegm you snork up out of your throat when you have a cold. Also referred to as a “hork” or an “oyster”. I would question the value of a “logie award”.
Incidentally, in a singular coincidence, hork has come up, so to speak, twice today. I work at a Starbucks and a very snotty woman from somewhere in Europe came in and petulantly, and loudly, demanded extra chocolate in her hot chocolate. She had earlier loudly berated one of my colleagues for some minor error and thus waived her privilege of my otherwise automatic respect.
I explained to her that, in North America, “hork” is Starbucks-speak for hot chocolate with extra hot chocolate in it, and in future she should order a hot chocolate with hork. I did this with a straight face, and she nodded, haughtily. Pray with me that she does this, and gets it.
Sorry for going so strangely off topic but when the subject of hork comes up twice in a day, I believe one should go with it.
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2007 11 27 at 11:45 PM • permalink
“not to be confused with John Holmes”
Although both are famous for being big dicks.