tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post4059539931713495877..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: What changedAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-50613886340992066982015-03-15T07:40:38.479+11:002015-03-15T07:40:38.479+11:00Let's hope you are right Andrew.
I just wish...Let's hope you are right Andrew. <br /><br />I just wish journalists like Barrie Cassidy didn't dismiss remarks like 'lifestyle choice' as a gaffe. Such remarks are deliberately used to appeal to certain people and influence polls in the short-term.<br /><br />That is what we should be discussing instead of using words like 'gaffe'.<br /><br />You don't get to be PM by making gaffes.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-90933394729308650262015-03-14T11:56:22.273+11:002015-03-14T11:56:22.273+11:00As per usual from me, thank god (insert own mythic...As per usual from me, thank god (insert own mythical concept) you're in my online etherFreedom Cyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-89005153409708722222015-03-13T02:36:05.352+11:002015-03-13T02:36:05.352+11:00It's interesting that Patricia Karvelas' c...It's interesting that Patricia Karvelas' closing the gap series on rn drive has started to ask some interesting questions with Noel Pearson on this exact issue today<br /><br />I'm still not a fan of this womans work as a News Corp hack but at least she's trying..<br /><br />Any thoughts of her thus far being on the a.b.c?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-30970363075349998092015-03-12T17:38:36.299+11:002015-03-12T17:38:36.299+11:00MSM influence in Queensland went exactly nowhere. ...MSM influence in Queensland went exactly nowhere. Voters communicate constantly via Twitter/Facebook etc and it was obvious from them that Newman became deeply putrid within about 3 months of being elected. No-one needs idiotic old walruses like Houghton's sentences farting at us from the Courier Mail. We can work out what we think with the assistance of people like Andrew Elder, Peter Wellington, Margot Kingston & David Pascoe who tell us what is REALLY going on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-58959167751682253752015-03-12T16:44:37.382+11:002015-03-12T16:44:37.382+11:00Only investigative journalists go to prison. Press...Only investigative journalists go to prison. Press gallery lapdogs who reword press releases are free and clear - even dictatorships have press galleries Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-65147127913859766632015-03-12T16:42:42.167+11:002015-03-12T16:42:42.167+11:00A great example of why we need to call the traditi...A great example of why we need to call the traditional media out for its inadequacy. People are actively looking for this sort of thing, but the bums who run the media insist "too complex, the punters don't wanna know that" when it's their own shortcomings that are on display. Thank you.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-31023256766083229982015-03-12T16:34:51.037+11:002015-03-12T16:34:51.037+11:00Coming post on that one.Coming post on that one.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-53478070514704304352015-03-12T16:34:20.745+11:002015-03-12T16:34:20.745+11:00It has less power that it had, Joe, and less power...It has less power that it had, Joe, and less power than Abbott thinks. <br /><br />He can play what he likes, you have chosen to be played. I get it, I just don't respect it. The fact he's playing the race card is pathetic, it isn't the trump you (and he) imagine it to be.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-11707086164207288642015-03-12T09:58:32.342+11:002015-03-12T09:58:32.342+11:00Someone on Facebook pointed out that this was exac...Someone on Facebook pointed out that this was exactly the words used by South Africans wrt being "lectured to by the UN" on Apartheid. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-74134260231409298592015-03-11T17:29:32.114+11:002015-03-11T17:29:32.114+11:00(I've said this before)
It's racism, Andr...(I've said this before)<br /><br />It's racism, Andrew. You right wing converts to sanity - in pubs or on blogs - don't get its power.<br /><br />Not all right wingers are racist. But if you're a racist, you tend to pick one side.<br /><br />You utter inability to read what Abbott is doing interesting.<br /><br />You just don't get the card he is playing. <br /><br />Joe Fitzpatrick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-31073436342752750072015-03-11T11:48:10.842+11:002015-03-11T11:48:10.842+11:00I hope some journalist asks the PM what he means b...I hope some journalist asks the PM what he means by 'lifestyle choice'.<br /><br />'Lifestyle' is such a glib, glossy magazine word to use to describe a situation which has bedeviled this country for a very long time.<br /><br />No doubt some conservative polemicists will hail him for blunt speaking.<br /><br />Is the man performing for those ranters and their followers? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-54932666312204483972015-03-11T04:58:08.289+11:002015-03-11T04:58:08.289+11:00Completely off topic, but I am sure Andrew will fo...Completely off topic, but I am sure Andrew will forgive me, but where are the 47 seats the NSW coalition wins to form government? I can't find them, and I take an interest in such matters.<br /><br />As I said on Poll Bludger, "is Sean Nicholls some Idiot Savant that Fairfax has been hiding in Macquarie Street? The jury is still out on that one."Lachlan Ridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-29762570126436061672015-03-10T23:35:47.865+11:002015-03-10T23:35:47.865+11:00This easily one of favourite blog sites - skip the...This easily one of favourite blog sites - skip the MSM media just come here for concise political updates. <br /><br />But why has bloody Andrew Denton stolen your blog header, every time I type Politically Homeless in Google, damn Denton appears immediately below your site link, with rip off header saying Denton is Politically Homeless we need new political party blah blah...unoriginal bastard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-1118671284455270222015-03-10T22:23:59.069+11:002015-03-10T22:23:59.069+11:00Yeah I read Gordon's piece in Age too, and it ...Yeah I read Gordon's piece in Age too, and it was if all the events since last November in the Abbott train wreck had simply never occurred. It was frankly a quite bizarre read, and I couldn't come to terms with the full 180 degree spin occurring in front of me - hence I simply gave when he started on the fluffy guff about a new bipartisan Abbott led parliament...<br /><br />Who from Abbot?! The same guy that spent the entire Gillard years as parliamentary time's obstinate child, wasting the assemblies time with endless rhetorical stunts? Give us a break, Abbott is Abbott, bipartisan is hardly in his political makeup. Give Abbott a few months and we'll see just how well Gordon's claims of a 'successful reboot' are.<br /><br />Who is Abbott supposed to be suddenly successful with here anyway? The public still dislikes him and the budget is still going nowhere, that won't change now, the LNP's weakness and fear of dumping a sitting PM is not Abbott's success per se, it's cabinet inaction borne of fear. The didn't have the ticker to try another option so will grind on in pretence something has altered, err, press repeat!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-23681163460635180792015-03-10T22:07:14.653+11:002015-03-10T22:07:14.653+11:00It's called
PETTY POLITICS
Where's the v...It's called<br /><br />PETTY POLITICS<br /><br />Where's the vision?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-63261261804481846432015-03-10T03:00:57.413+11:002015-03-10T03:00:57.413+11:00'Most of the work of the press gallery consist...'Most of the work of the press gallery consists of building a simplistic consensus to describe complex issues. All too rarely is a consensus busted...Soon after a consensus is busted there is an outbreak of truth in reporting, much as there was in the few days after September 11, before a consensus congeals and the traditional media returns to business as usual.' <br />This is a sublime rendering of what we see in the news constantly. Whilst admittedly of T.A. topic, a recent example has been in Syria where the NATO and Gulf states all out attempts to oust Assad have failed but left that country in an ultra violent stalemate. As that reality was apparently sinking in across west, the western reportage started getting more complex, particularly of fact the west backed FSA morphed into a largely Islamist group with many mercenary members from across Northern most Africa paid for by Saudi cash. Indeed the Saudi involvement started to lead to queries that, hang on, aren't they really more repressive than Assad, you know no diversity, shooting live rounds at Shia minority protesters, no Christian worship allowed, monthly public executions etc. The there were stories about the complex Syrian sectarian divide and who was who, and how Shia Iran was drawn in and who exactly the Lebanese factions are...what internal divisions were emerging inEU's position...<br />But bang...then we had ISIS to render it all black and white again and to lead to politicians calls for more not less disastrous intervention. Now it's pretty obvious many former US backed FSA ended up in ISIS in Iraq and no less than the Jordanian Government was publicly dismayed that FSA units trained by US and UK advisers in Jordan ended up in ISIS attacking Iraq. But that is all too complex, its all back to good (west) vs. bad ( muslims) again. The mid east reportage axis is back on simplified rotation as usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-88198943972162869042015-03-09T16:46:15.480+11:002015-03-09T16:46:15.480+11:00classic stupid quote today by Abbott .."I'...classic stupid quote today by Abbott .."I'm sick of the U.N lecturing us about children in detention.."<br /><br /><br />loopy loopy loopy arrogance indeed.<br /><br /><br />WAKE UP fourth estateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-30429759990673949972015-03-09T12:36:25.286+11:002015-03-09T12:36:25.286+11:00I cannot agree more about that part - Abbott stood...I cannot agree more about that part - Abbott stood up and made a complete arse of himself: any woman hearing that little performance would have no doubt whatsoever that he thought the whole thing was a massive joke and could not give a shit about women's advancement, AND YET apparently he had 'turned the whole thing around brilliantly'??? What are these people on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-56581523003299926592015-03-09T08:44:28.323+11:002015-03-09T08:44:28.323+11:00The IG report had a few paragraphs laying into Lab...The IG report had a few paragraphs laying into Labor - that was the whole point,of the exercise.<br /><br />That's the whole point of this government - to stick it to Labor. We don't matter, policy doesn't matter. What matters most to Tony and his weirdo mates is sticking it to Labor. mattoxicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-87495000155896968462015-03-08T18:23:34.002+11:002015-03-08T18:23:34.002+11:00Your right about that Intergenerational report And...Your right about that Intergenerational report Andrew, what an opportunity missed. Did it talk about the social, economic, environmental, educational and infrastructure needs for our future? Did it meantion any way to improve any area of our lives? No. <br />It told us were all living longer and therefore we should wind back our social welfare schemes to save the government money. THAT'S the only thing I've heard Hockey bang on about. <br /><br />But, if I held a large property portfolio like Hockey I probably wouldn't want to tackle negative gearing, or a land based tax system or any other method of stimulating/ realigning the economy away form our current " houses and holes" strategy. <br /><br />No one in the MSM is addressing that room filling elephant ether. The close I've seen is an article in the latest Saturday paper. But is kind of confused as to who's fault the current land crises is, to the point of whinging about not being allowed to build on flood plains and endorsing the ludicrous position of unrestrained urban sprawl. <br /><br />You fail in all areas MSM. Sort of like the government that they hock... Hmmm.<br /><br />Bob Shamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10473919079853508493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-40691472803237180002015-03-08T15:39:51.587+11:002015-03-08T15:39:51.587+11:00It is a total mystery to me why political journali...It is a total mystery to me why political journalists seem to be so enthralled by Abbott. Maybe it is because it is because he is not challenging in that uppity Keating way and so does not threaten fragile self-esteem. Furthermore he repeats key sentences at least twice which I must be a great help to those with poor shorthand.<br /><br />I couldn't believe it when commentators hailed Abbott's rejoinder to Shorten about some conference concerning women's issues being held in a male only club as being a brilliantly witty and devastating point scorer. Dearie, dearie me. What a plodding lot they are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-38904059028212159932015-03-08T15:11:22.335+11:002015-03-08T15:11:22.335+11:00It seems like the shift towards Abbott occurred wh...It seems like the shift towards Abbott occurred when he was in New Zealand , it was as though that trip somehow spared his life . Its funny how normal people like us can clearly see the behavior you describe and the way the media has shifted back to supporting him . It was only one poll (fairfax) and that didn't put him in front anyway. The poll (essential) immediately after showed no difference to the polls before the fairfax .I know your going to bash you head against that wall and say that is what you are explaining in your article , but what do they (the media) actually get out of supporting Abbott? Watching Barry Cassidy this morning on insiders , you think , mate are you stupid ? what about last week so everything is ok now is it , its like groundhog day unbelivable how this weasel of a man continually gets let off . This period in politics is incredibly frustrating , we know the media is clearly bias .But why ?.Abbott want's to jail whistle blowing he wants to erode the rights of journalists , why in the hell would they support him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-42188328327801968492015-03-08T12:20:18.597+11:002015-03-08T12:20:18.597+11:00Peter Hartcher's career rests largely on anony...Peter Hartcher's career rests largely on anonymous quotes. In early February there was a plethora, a veritable spate, of stories that relied entirely upon this or that Senior Liberal Source. How can that be believed? I mean so often churnalists and stenographers state "people say, some people say, it is said, etc. Churnalist may not have had anyone say anything and just write his or her own views. <br /><br />I remember well George Negus opening a line of questioning and saying to Margaret Thatcher "some people say", she retorted with name me three who said in the some people say. Poor old George never went down the "some people" say path again with Thatcher. Taracumbinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-6878578374475449332015-03-08T11:40:22.311+11:002015-03-08T11:40:22.311+11:00They're just taking a breather, they'll be...They're just taking a breather, they'll be back in no time, don't worry. If we've learned anything over the last five years it's that once the press gallery get a sniff of some angst towards a party's leadership, they don't stop until they get a result (ie: a major change). They've been held at bay for the moment, but it won't last. There were months between Simon Crean's gambit and Rudd/Shorten delivering Gillard's coup de grace. <br /><br />The reason is simple: it's all so easy. You get the sense that the media were somewhat bereft after September 2013, no more sneaky chats at Aussies with disgruntled senior party members, no more putting themselves at the centre of all that colour and movement, potentially having to do some policy research. Hartcher himself was still flogging the 'what went wrong between Rudd and Gillard' articles well into 2014, he couldn't let it go. When it all started up again in early Feb this year on the other side, the mood was one of palpable relief: we're back, baby, we're back! This is what they're there for, this is all they're resourced to do. Report who's ahead in the polls and troll and troll and troll until a party chucks out its leader. If the Coalition had someone as doglike as Rudd within the ranks, Tony would have been gone before Christmas last year. As it was he came close to getting rolled without any challenger whatsoever. That's not sustainable. He would have to pull out a Howard-esque budget of Mother Theresa-like generosity to make up for last year, and he won't because first, he's too stupid and second, he doesn't have the assets to sell nor the mining boom that Howard did. <br /><br />Tony's done. He's gone. Dead man walking. Yes, the media love him and can't bear the thought they were wrong to prop him up for all those years, but the choice between that and the temptation of a year's worth of columns that will write themselves is an absolute no brainer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com