tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post6529062467590550387..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Leadership as distractionAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-43801815499299954052014-11-27T01:52:31.871+11:002014-11-27T01:52:31.871+11:00Another great article, thanks Andrew. While on the...Another great article, thanks Andrew. While on the subject of Fairfax could you provide your hyperlinks as canberra times urls rather than as smh ones. At this stage the canberra times still provides unmetered access unlike the smh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-85050617136863344692014-11-26T20:28:45.669+11:002014-11-26T20:28:45.669+11:00I bet world leaders are being briefed on the demis...I bet world leaders are being briefed on the demise of the co-payment as we speak.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-50221914914266454062014-11-26T20:26:33.839+11:002014-11-26T20:26:33.839+11:00But she can't, she never could. It's why s...But she can't, she never could. It's why she's the world's most expensive microphone stand. Journalists hate palaver and go hunting for the substance behind it; Bourke and most of the press gallery go for the palaver because they think that <i>is</i> the substance.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-61646724947999653932014-11-26T20:24:10.106+11:002014-11-26T20:24:10.106+11:00I'm still reading the QE on Aboriginal recogni...I'm still reading the QE on Aboriginal recognition. Abbott has never had a coherent agenda and only press gallery mugs believed otherwise.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-41979321862519615442014-11-26T20:18:13.895+11:002014-11-26T20:18:13.895+11:00I agree, Joe. Even dictatorships need some sort of...I agree, Joe. Even dictatorships need some sort of connection with the people, and the link between media and democracy isn't as strong as some journalists might claim. Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-36398051085591066792014-11-26T20:11:17.345+11:002014-11-26T20:11:17.345+11:00Gah! FixedGah! FixedAndrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-91519100650683427592014-11-26T15:08:09.735+11:002014-11-26T15:08:09.735+11:00I find it useful to have a bucket handy when readi...I find it useful to have a bucket handy when reading Fairfax these days. So Julie doesn't think Tanya's up to the job? <br /><br />POW!! Take that Plibersek you got served by Latika.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-64335338193472850332014-11-26T08:31:59.042+11:002014-11-26T08:31:59.042+11:00Thanks for the Michael Cooney link, Andrew.
I had...Thanks for the Michael Cooney link, Andrew.<br /><br />I had quite forgotten that Abbott had used an earlier out-of-the-ordinaire occasion to behave like an aspiring Mayor of Kalamazoo to complain about potholes. <br /><br />The Cooney piece reminded me that as Opposition Leader Abbott used an Obama visit to lash out at the Gillard government's handling of certain matters and that he had been roundly criticised for his parochialism.<br /><br />As we know, in Brisbane he was dragged down once again my his small town mayoral chains when he whined to world leaders about his legislative difficulties.<br /><br />He will not change. What we have seen to date is what we will get in trailer loads in the foreseeable future. Unlike most of us he does not care if he is disliked. He needs to be in a permanent state of conflict.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-44967841837030719302014-11-25T21:55:50.557+11:002014-11-25T21:55:50.557+11:00Latika Bourke " is not an honest trier having...Latika Bourke " is not an honest trier having a go, but the world's most expensive microphone stand."<br /><br />As it happens, I'm a sound engineer. I wouldn't trust even my cheapest mic to something so unsuited to the job.audioiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749850258643202118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-40968395739705755712014-11-25T21:37:01.893+11:002014-11-25T21:37:01.893+11:00It was funny to see K Murphy try to dismiss you as...It was funny to see K Murphy try to dismiss you as a proforma takedown polemicist a few days back, but not nearly as funny as your razor sharp description of Latika Bourke in this piece.<br />Every post on your blog offers something uniquely useful - thanks so much for your efforts Andrew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-42146868662021971602014-11-25T17:21:46.839+11:002014-11-25T17:21:46.839+11:00What is it about the journosphere, and the press g...What is it about the journosphere, and the press gallery in particular, that avoids calling a spade a spade, Andrew? Preston writes well about trade and foreign policy, you are right. But it can't be especially difficult to make those observations, can it? His writing about the Oz and its editorial is really about the Government and its agenda (same same). But he doesn't fall into the trap of reporting "US government sources reacted to the allegations of Obama insulting the Australian Government, saying the President had a right to express is personal views, and anyway, countries like Australia don't really figure in US foreign policy.'<br /><br />The idea of Obama 'insulting' Australia with that speech is absurd; Latika Bourke needs to realise a few of the absurdities she reports, instead of trying to give credence to the bat-crazy ideas from the likes of the Oz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-80425797339831194352014-11-25T16:07:28.957+11:002014-11-25T16:07:28.957+11:00I asked the puffy Latika when Abbott won if he had...I asked the puffy Latika when Abbott won if he had found a policy yet and while we are still looking around for one she comes up with more puffy stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-7528408340617666832014-11-25T07:43:03.891+11:002014-11-25T07:43:03.891+11:00Thanks Andrew for your amusing/disheartening take ...Thanks Andrew for your amusing/disheartening take on the next bout of the Great Leadership Game. <br /><br />Here we go again it seems.<br /><br />The role of Jooliar will be filled by Twister Abbott and joy oh rapture the role of Ambitious Foregn Minister will again be played by Kevin Rudd. Andrew you are correct. JB-High-In-The-Sky appears to be channelling her great mate Kevin 07. That tweet says it all. Deliberate geekiness will win hearts.<br /><br />I do not think I have the stomach for another round of this silly game of endless leadership speculation. The real story, that Australian politics is in crisis hisses away in the background but is ignored for the most part by the MSM. <br /><br />Maybe acknowledging that crisis would mean a bit of self-examination. Too confronting?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-49677628084801016822014-11-25T07:05:38.078+11:002014-11-25T07:05:38.078+11:00Thanks Andrew, having given up on the MSM I hadn&#...Thanks Andrew, having given up on the MSM I hadn't heard their grooming Bishop. Who would vote for someone that dragged out the court cases of asbestos victims deliberately, waiting for the claimant to die? You could brush that off as a lawyer doing their job for the their client, but that defence didn't hold for SS officers after WW2.<br /><br />As a slide note, have a read the latest Quarterly essay? Do you take a similar view that under all the showmanship and horse trading he has a coherent agenda other then revenge? The idea that he is the opposition to the current government more so then the Greens or Labor is something that got me to pause then quietly nod. Poor Bill strikes me as a man promoted out of his depths and the Greens seem too busy flailing around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-59462147190802864902014-11-25T01:37:28.478+11:002014-11-25T01:37:28.478+11:00I suspected you had gone a little too early in pre...I suspected you had gone a little too early in predicting pro-Bishop language in coming weeks, but Latika Bourke's journalism certainly has an agenda about it. Her latest effort, published on Monday, is close to grovelling in its lack of scrutiny or analysis. <br /><br />(http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/nothing--except-a-handbag--gets-in-julie-bishops-way-20141123-11rqle.html)<br /><br />" "It's just like Sleepless" she exclaimed excitedly taking a quick photo snap of the illuminated Empire State Building with her iPhone 6. " <br /><br />That sort of crap might pass muster in a Sunday magazine profile of a young, attractively quirky folk singer with an unexpected hit song; it's not really the stuff of a senior political correspondent. Especially after Bishop deliberately issued a diplomatic rebuke to Washington. Like the Immigration portfolio, Foreign Affairs strikes me as the easiest area in which to appear "strong" whilst not actually doing much at all except being contrarian.<br /><br />Nevertheless, Andrew, something seems to be up with the electorate right now and I'd be interested to see if you agree. A significant number of Victorians are likely to change their vote and throw out a first-term government. That's unusual, so why? Because they didn't keep their promises. The seats along the Frankston train line, and the residents of the Doncaster region probably made up their minds about this a long time ago. It doesn't matter that the Herald Sun publishes a front page of Daniel Andrews with the headline, "Don't trust him". The more the Murdoch press campaigns, the more they entrench the perception that they cannot be trusted in any criticism, no matter how valid.<br /><br />The big challenge for government is implicit in many of your posts - there's not only a disconnection between politicians and voters, but also a growing disconnection between the media and voters. That can be a good thing; I suspect the electorate is more volatile and judgmental than ever before, but we only get to glimpse that on election day. <br /><br />- Joe FitzpatrickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-79905941521681032872014-11-24T23:53:12.749+11:002014-11-24T23:53:12.749+11:00"The structural weakness of conservatism is t..."The structural weakness of conservatism is that they can't distinguish between an emerging trend. "<br /><br />Seems to be missing a comparison here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com