tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post2452396040967524248..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Yesterday's social media todayAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-75222250202241001882016-08-01T12:42:14.375+10:002016-08-01T12:42:14.375+10:00On another note, does anyone know who's respon...On another note, does anyone know who's responsible for online headlines (whether The Age or The Guardian)? It often feels like they set the agenda and spin more than the authors of the articles (after all, so many people don't really read, even among people who comment) but they skate past scot-free.<br /><br />During the last few campaigns, it has often seemed like the bias from headline writers was worse than the bias from writers (The Guardian continually got hammered for this this campaign, and at one point Gabrielle Chan had to venture below the line to say she didn't write the headline, stop blaming her). One of those sneaky avenues where bias can get in because there's no accountability. The person who writes that "Feeney's trainwreck interview" but Bishop was the victim of a "gotcha question" is truly faceless.<br /><br />This has actually come back to mind because of a completely non-political article. The Age's website front page currently declares that after 143 years, Horti Hall is closing its doors. The actual article says that Horti Hall is "ready for its close up", because after 143 years it is having an Open Day for the public- completely the opposite to the headline implication. Which makes me wonder if the headline writer has English as a first language, to confuse "ready for its close up" with "closing up".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-76350675358392382372016-08-01T10:31:56.434+10:002016-08-01T10:31:56.434+10:00I do wonder to what extent journalists are require...I do wonder to what extent journalists are required to limit their investigatory and genuinely explanatory efforts by the hierarchy above them - editors/ceo's/directors/owners. <br /><br />I suspect to a large extent the circulations/page views and attractiveness to advertisers are compelling considerations that must come into choosing the style of content, but also partisan political leanings of those who are in positions to demand a particular style - which would tend to exacerbate a dichotomy between "better" insider knowledge, as something to be miserly with for informed decision making for commercial advantage and dumbed down superficial knowledge for mass consumption.Ken Fabianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15774574952211541339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-14695946052200134912016-07-27T22:50:02.648+10:002016-07-27T22:50:02.648+10:00You reckon Chan is bad? On RN Drive Tuesday night,...You reckon Chan is bad? On RN Drive Tuesday night, Peter Hartcher supplanted Latika Bourke as the world's most expensive microphone stand. (The entire segment was an LNP press release about keeping terrorists in the nick after they'd served their sentences.)audioiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749850258643202118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-52426982144202196132016-07-26T18:29:24.789+10:002016-07-26T18:29:24.789+10:00"In other news, a Queensland Nationals MP say..."In other news, a Queensland Nationals MP says something profoundly stupid ...."<br /><br />I really do believe it is the heat up there that does it.derrida deriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01188777386180390172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-67650877350906293652016-07-24T04:12:44.353+10:002016-07-24T04:12:44.353+10:00What is the role of a real conservative? To rejoic...What is the role of a real conservative? To rejoice in the ethnic dispossession of their own country?<br /><br />That is what conservatives in America bought when they swallowed the proposition nation ideology. Trump is race blind just like Cruz but that doesn't stop him from having a few good ideas wrt immigration.wdawdawdawdawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602599078961480977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-87497420452646959982016-07-23T13:00:58.235+10:002016-07-23T13:00:58.235+10:00Christensen is wrong about it being "YOUR mon...Christensen is wrong about it being "YOUR money", of course. The taxation laws specify that a certain amount of your earning are the property of the State. If you don't pay this amount, then you will be prosecuted for (essentially) theft. It is never "your" money.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808416744757194189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-74256099969024531462016-07-23T11:27:49.511+10:002016-07-23T11:27:49.511+10:00Murphy's argument that the superannuation legi...Murphy's argument that the superannuation legislation will "need either Labor or the Greens to pass the legislation in the Senate anyway" and "is also highly likely to be referred to a Senate committee for review" rather dampens her breathless revelation in the same paragraph that having "the barest majority of 76 seats in the lower house ... the government would have to rely on an independent or minor party MP to get the legislation through the House if Christensen crossed the floor'" even if she does concede that's "before it even got through the Senate."Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-10349330624187510022016-07-23T09:16:09.302+10:002016-07-23T09:16:09.302+10:00Katherine Murphy is not a good journalist I have j...Katherine Murphy is not a good journalist I have just read a story she wrote about the supposed infighting within the Labor Party.When the real story is in the divisions within the government.goshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882716329597435398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-51827544915197067042016-07-23T01:49:13.172+10:002016-07-23T01:49:13.172+10:00Prime example of reader-repellent from Murphy toda...Prime example of reader-repellent from Murphy today:<br />"Hanging on to Kim Carr was absolutely necessary from Shorten’s perspective for a bunch of institutional reasons I won’t bore you with."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com