tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post4725604805857860934..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Poor journalism is a crimeAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-61966901386258758732014-07-20T21:26:07.341+10:002014-07-20T21:26:07.341+10:00Have you heard of a term being a "media whore...Have you heard of a term being a "media whore"<br /><br />Young liberals use it a lot.<br /><br />The charm offensive is to seduce them to your side.<br /><br />Be incredibly nice and polite<br /><br />Works wonders for many politicos...go out to dinner etc<br /><br />My theory. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-53378542347058184812014-07-19T21:23:54.780+10:002014-07-19T21:23:54.780+10:00Notus...
Greeces journalists held a protest by li...Notus...<br /><br />Greeces journalists held a protest by living in their offices that was similar to the Junta days in Greeces past.<br /><br />If that's what you mean....then I'd love to see that here!<br />SmirkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-56359484557531584322014-07-16T01:47:31.217+10:002014-07-16T01:47:31.217+10:00Thanks Andrew another insightful read , always lo...Thanks Andrew another insightful read , always look forward to your posts. . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-90282128252898886752014-07-15T11:37:40.591+10:002014-07-15T11:37:40.591+10:00Now the ABC is to make 80 journalists take a force...Now the ABC is to make 80 journalists take a forced redundancy, you can bet the government minions at the ABC will cull some of that "left wing chaff"<br />Almost time for a Greek solution over at our National Broadcaster.Notushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173819673356724711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-28945492100971296112014-07-15T10:37:40.678+10:002014-07-15T10:37:40.678+10:00Wonderful...however the polity voted the previous ...Wonderful...however the polity voted the previous government out as a protest ...<br /><br />I don't agree that they wanted this type of government anyway.<br /><br />It was a protest vote!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-74018708742218311232014-07-15T07:51:10.723+10:002014-07-15T07:51:10.723+10:00I have just read your last two blogs as one and it...I have just read your last two blogs as one and it appears to me that you have also missed something.<br /><br />Your commentary now looks relatively quaint with the hindsight of looking at Palmer sitting in the Abbott Government's lap yesterday in the House of Representatives, voting the way I always expected him to and the way he originally telegraphed he would before he saw the golden opportunity to have a bit of fun with the Climate Change Repeal legislation in the run-up to the Long Winter Break for federal parliament. <br /><br />I smelt a rat when #Cliev came out of his one-on-one meeting with Abbott saying what a jolly nice fellow he was! The fix was in from that point on. Clive Palmer sucked everyone in, and you too it seems.Hillbilly Skeletonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-46580715883330241242014-07-15T05:33:26.153+10:002014-07-15T05:33:26.153+10:00Thankyou too Andrew.
I still have absolutely no i...Thankyou too Andrew. <br />I still have absolutely no idea why journalists were so beguiled by Tony Abbott.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-55530411015410203462014-07-14T21:47:01.582+10:002014-07-14T21:47:01.582+10:00This struck me in Michael Gordon's version of ...This struck me in Michael Gordon's version of the oohaah it's Clive story: "a new chapter in the roller-coaster narrative that is Australian politics: one that promises to be just as unpredictable, and sadly potentially as unproductive, as the one just closed"<br /><br />http://www.theage.com.au/comment/palmer-drops-a-bombshell-and-abbotts-week-implodes-20140711-zt4k9.html#ixzz37RTmxv79<br /><br />But it is well-documented (e.g. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-18/hung-parliament-australia/4574884) that the previous parliament was productive of legislation......revisionism anyone? (One may see some or all of that legislation as not making a productive contribution, but that's a position which has to be argued for.)<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-87229416228973238692014-07-14T17:12:24.717+10:002014-07-14T17:12:24.717+10:00Thanks Andrew. I'll read this and the links mo...Thanks Andrew. I'll read this and the links more than once.Those who employ the persons who call themselves journalists, are also lazy and stupid and don't seem to care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-24990397621328862952014-07-14T16:07:49.342+10:002014-07-14T16:07:49.342+10:00Great analysis as usual Andrew. I would love to se...Great analysis as usual Andrew. I would love to see you dissect Emma Alberici's supremely lame effort in the Fairfax papers on Sunday - plenty of scope in that pathetic contribution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-65416803828095104992014-07-14T15:50:00.416+10:002014-07-14T15:50:00.416+10:00I second that. You should do for the press gallery...I second that. You should do for the press gallery what Australian Tumbleweeds does each year for shit comedians.Seanhttp://onepointzerosixtwofive.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-45605868819888646422014-07-14T13:39:18.163+10:002014-07-14T13:39:18.163+10:00I second Lachlan's proposal. Actually screw ju...I second Lachlan's proposal. Actually screw just having a solitary award. This could be the Australian press gallery equivalent of the Razzies. Have a series of awards: most confused analysis, worst use of metaphor, most tragic incident of groupthink, most embarrassing tacit admission of incompetence, most incredible inability to comprehend a science (with an equivalent award for inability to comprehend a social science), the golden "hey - that dog has a fluffy tail!" award for obsessive focus on trivia over substantive matters of policy, and the gala "worst press gallery journalist" award.<br /><br />Drum up publicity by having a series of like-minded bloggers serve as the awards committee, with each promoting the awards on their own blog (I'd like to say 'let readers vote on the awards', but, being the internet, that will rapidly deteriorate into a general 'which journalist holds political views most different to my own' v 'which columnist is it most fashionable to hate this month' v 'Andrew Bolt' contest - and given that all 3 of those refer to Andrew Bolt, it would be a very dull series of awards). I'd suggest Denmore from the Failed Estate as an obvious choice for the voting members of the awards committee, but it might be a little too vitriolic an idea for him (he does single out individual journalist ex-colleagues occasionally, but not quite as gleefully as Politically Homeless does).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-30678174945901021202014-07-14T11:17:51.436+10:002014-07-14T11:17:51.436+10:00To give the Brisbane Sun its due (apart from it be...To give the <i>Brisbane Sun</i> its due (apart from it being sacrificed at the Fairfax altar by Young Warwick) its editor during the Bjejke-Petersen years, Norm Harriden, exposed the absurdity of the Freedom of Association laws by marching his family up Queen Street before it was a mall, and being dealt with by the Queensland Police in the manner that Peter Beattie was a decade earlier.<br /><br />That said, Farr would give Brian Robins and Simon Benson a run as being the most egregious oxygen thief pulling down a paypacket in a press gallery.<br /><br />Which gives me a blue-sky moment! Why don't you start an award for the worst press gallery journalist - state or federal - around the nation Andrew? It's a promising field, to be sure. It's in keeping within the zeitgeist of this Academy Awards age. Get an unemployed person on a six month sabbatical from eating to present it. It would do wonders for the coven of Narcissistic Personality Disordered bloviators that spend their time failing to see the carbon based solid matter for the foliage based photosynthesis processing units.<br /><br /><i>Prizes, prizes! Everyone must have prizes!</i><br /><br />- Lewis Carroll, <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>Lachlan Ridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-53370497601371012392014-07-14T11:01:30.026+10:002014-07-14T11:01:30.026+10:00A phrase does not contain a verb, your “fine phras...A phrase does not contain a verb, your “fine phrase” contains three.Political Animalhttp://www.polanimal.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-43175943381385533472014-07-14T09:26:45.248+10:002014-07-14T09:26:45.248+10:00I am so thankful we have you to write so clearly h...I am so thankful we have you to write so clearly how we have been let down by a press.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-26743993452649831282014-07-14T08:21:49.744+10:002014-07-14T08:21:49.744+10:00Another great analysis, thank you Andrew. Another great analysis, thank you Andrew. Jannoreply@blogger.com