tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post7766191826548493866..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Weighed in the balanceAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-19337343401114458802014-03-31T17:02:12.605+11:002014-03-31T17:02:12.605+11:00Under Maley's name on her articles, it states ...Under Maley's name on her articles, it states she is a "Parliametary sketch writer for the Sydney morning Herald".<br /><br />I sent her a tweet asking whether that meant her articles were supposed to be jokes. I added a :-) after it indicating that the tweet was tongue in cheek.<br /><br />Her response - she blocked me.<br /><br />LOL. Her job depends on people like me reading her crap.<br /><br />My job doesn't depend on her reading anything I write.<br /><br />Guess who is more secure in their job.Dan Gulberryhttps://twitter.com/Dan_Gulberrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-41893387338879423742014-03-30T13:59:38.187+11:002014-03-30T13:59:38.187+11:00Andrew
You silly old "Whitey"
It's...Andrew<br /><br />You silly old "Whitey"<br /><br />It's my right to be a bigot according to Brandis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-69629092642735596992014-03-29T03:51:58.298+11:002014-03-29T03:51:58.298+11:00Speaking of Maley, her latest "Downtown Abbot...Speaking of Maley, her latest "Downtown Abbott" is a vacuous concoction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-33438474833702702572014-03-28T21:03:26.038+11:002014-03-28T21:03:26.038+11:00I thought the Hipsters were the Activists.
Bloody...I thought the Hipsters were the Activists.<br /><br />Bloody hell!<br /><br />How smug and selfish have we become Andrew.<br /><br />Status Quo is corrupt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-52789539353671661102014-03-28T08:16:38.285+11:002014-03-28T08:16:38.285+11:00While we are on the subject of jernalisms .... A r...While we are on the subject of jernalisms .... A related matter.<br /><br />I was amused to see Terry McCrann and the crew hail the appointments of the Murdoch boys x 2.<br /><br />Hark! Am I confused? Are we not meant to worship appointments of merit, no matter how dubious the merit or if it is merit at all?<br /><br />Is the advancement of Lachlan and James an example of merit? A stunning manoeuvre to use the almost-words of T McCrann.<br /><br />Or ladies and gentlemice of the jury could it be considered plain old nepotism?<br /><br />Sort of goes with knights, ladies and dames doesn't it?<br /><br />Interesting too that News is now a public company in which lots of folk have non-voting shares. They have non-voting shares because the company believe that ensures stability and forward long-term planning.<br /><br />Yikes, I thought, I hope that company does not start promoting its corporate ethos as a cure for our political woes.<br /><br />All hail ye King Anthony, the Manly on his 30th year of ascendancy to the Bunyip throne.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-60156102982460732692014-03-27T00:35:13.403+11:002014-03-27T00:35:13.403+11:00Helen, to me that looks like News having a cheeky ...Helen, to me that looks like News having a cheeky jab at Fairfax, I note that they don't mention the sweeping cuts to their own staff. Also - DVDs, photo development, record stores and erm secretaries? No shit, really?Mattoxichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14552242601998972584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-44891185028112926342014-03-27T00:25:19.143+11:002014-03-27T00:25:19.143+11:00I actually really hate the citizen or "denize...I actually really hate the citizen or "denizen" of the internet label. It pretends that the internet isn't ubiquitous. That there are those pale, keyboard-tapping troglodytes who scurry around the "dark corners" of the internet, and there's everyone else who dips in for a quick tweet, or a bit of facebook time, but spends the rest of their day in happy sunshine.<br /><br />Like what person who consumes information, who has a -modern- job doesn't use the internet - constantly. <br /><br />Thanks for another great article AndrewMattoxichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14552242601998972584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-88815682152468040042014-03-26T13:44:18.410+11:002014-03-26T13:44:18.410+11:00Yeah, she surprised me with her radio spot this mo...Yeah, she surprised me with her radio spot this morning - she almost sounded nuanced and considered!David Irving (no relation)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05728918405973140125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-36355915877649265702014-03-26T10:09:13.085+11:002014-03-26T10:09:13.085+11:00Yes, the descent of political journalism into the ...Yes, the descent of political journalism into the realms of infotainment to amuse and pacify the comfortable, insular and smug middle classes. <br /><br />Maley astonishingly assesses the right of an event to get media coverage on how easily digestable, 'on message' and simple the message is. This is why the PR spivs are effectively running the country. "Journalists' like Maley appear to believe that public displays of dissaffection should be like some orchestrated performance piece - unified, homogenous, consistent, relentlessly polite. The Patronising treatment of Mr Pembroke is truly cringeworthy. Its like some stepford wives conception of the body politic. And this from somebody entrusted to capture, analyse and represent the political realm. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-16488071811234587192014-03-26T09:10:45.950+11:002014-03-26T09:10:45.950+11:00..aaaaand the link (sorry about that)
http://www.c.....aaaaand the link (sorry about that)<br />http://www.careerone.com.au/watercoolertalk/5-dying-industriesHelenhttp://castironbalcony.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-48659448982358452692014-03-25T16:09:25.606+11:002014-03-25T16:09:25.606+11:00Agree, Simon, it's not strictly passive voice,...Agree, Simon, it's not strictly passive voice, but I think Andrew has justified his use of the word.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-35347855436958770902014-03-25T11:16:36.975+11:002014-03-25T11:16:36.975+11:00Goodness, Journalism is number three on this list ...Goodness, Journalism is number three on this list of dying industries. I hope it's wrong.Helenhttp://castironbalcony.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-44348923889023371992014-03-25T08:59:52.130+11:002014-03-25T08:59:52.130+11:00I went to my local MiM (not in a capital city) and...I went to my local MiM (not in a capital city) and as an above comment suggested it was predictable and quaint. There weren't any offensive signs being held up at the event I went to. The attendance was an interesting mix of hippies (old and young), single parents, people with disabilities, refugee advocates, anti-Campbell Newman conservatives, trade unionists, and a few socialists and anarchists. With such a diverse attendance, the event was never going to have some kind of focussed 'narrative' (gawd I have come to hate that word) <br /><br /><br />I was trained in journalism, and feel this was all another victim of the constant desire to find an angle or a hook in every story. Rather than report what happened and the variety of reasons people had for being there, the limited coverage of MiM went for the easy hooks of picking out offensive signs and criticising the event for not having some kind of single focus. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17802560863115548436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-16996919338150520992014-03-25T02:25:02.608+11:002014-03-25T02:25:02.608+11:00In a shocking twist after reading this article Mic...In a shocking twist after reading this article Michelle Grattan actually wrote a fairly effective piece on the absurdities of our outsourced program of deliberate cruelty on Manus. <br /><br />If she can manage a half-decent article every now and then maybe there's still hope for some of the other press gallery lightweights! KnifeySpoonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269119030919065233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-67592249785111605402014-03-24T21:05:07.605+11:002014-03-24T21:05:07.605+11:00Journalism. What a great idea.Journalism. What a great idea.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-70034850696627285622014-03-24T20:44:19.945+11:002014-03-24T20:44:19.945+11:00It is, the preceding quote describes 'an atmos...It is, the preceding quote describes 'an atmosphere' which Maley helped create and for which she is dodging responsibility or examination.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-68266097546086750422014-03-24T20:42:38.130+11:002014-03-24T20:42:38.130+11:00Her coverage of the rally showed that she can'...Her coverage of the rally showed that she can't even do basic journalism properly. From what you've said, her lame and half-witted output actually represents her firing on all cylinders.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-42613932491671170712014-03-24T17:26:52.413+11:002014-03-24T17:26:52.413+11:00Oh Andrew, so many of the comments on your April 2...Oh Andrew, so many of the comments on your April 2013 blog about Maley, the press gallery and Abbott have come completely true. Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-55309172261040551652014-03-24T15:46:22.859+11:002014-03-24T15:46:22.859+11:00I believe our media are useless and have been sayi...I believe our media are useless and have been saying so since the absurd beat up of the kids unthrown in 2001.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-15480034579737716972014-03-24T15:32:53.664+11:002014-03-24T15:32:53.664+11:00"She covered it the way she covers Parliament..."She covered it the way she covers Parliament, as a theatrical production put on for her bemusement."<br /><br />Andrew, this - when generalised to apply to the coyly conceited posturing of contemporary journalists - is lapidary. Annabel Crabb is, in my view, the most insupportable (and increasingly unwatchable and unreadable) practioner of this form of faux-analysis: the strategy is to reduce (and therefore to distort and misrepresent) the objective seriousness of any topic or proposition either to the level of personal history and predilection or to entertainment, and then to commend oneself smugly for the superior perspicacity of having seen through the whole game. It is not an effort at understanding and communicating the result clearly and with adequate complexity, but an attempt to exercise power. The process is risible and the outcome negligable as political commentary because the power is entirely unearned. <br /><br />In what healthy and robust political culture would such journalists have the profile and explosure they do in ours?<br /><br />Thank you for your thorough diagnostic insights. Please continue wtih them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-52321716183549346652014-03-24T13:51:18.023+11:002014-03-24T13:51:18.023+11:00There's also an element of hipsterism in all t...There's also an element of hipsterism in all this cynicism. It's fashionable at the moment to be a world-weary cynic, rolling one's eyes and putting down any attemt at activism, anywhere, ever. Helenhttp://castironbalcony.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-25934071081174589872014-03-24T12:03:50.091+11:002014-03-24T12:03:50.091+11:00Another great piece. In time to come your posts, a...Another great piece. In time to come your posts, assuming they are preserved, will serve as an outstanding chronicle of the failure of media scrutiny through this era.<br /><br />At another blog I dealt with Maley's answer to Morley's public complaint. While she did seem to admit her original piece was petty and petulant, she has done little better in her attempts to engage with Morley.<br /><br />On the contrast of the Convoy and the Carbon Tax rallies coverage compared with the silence on March in March she has missed the most crucial point, and re-written history in the process.<br /><br />She claims that the bigger coverage given to the two earlier ones was due to the attendance of Abbott and some of his frontbenchers in among the offensive signs, making it a news item. And she has the gall to claim that the news coverage was because of that. Well, I'd like to have references to the news items pointing to the appalling lack of discretion and judgement shown by Abbott and his frontbenchers in appearing in front of those signs. I can't remember any. Certainly nobody dared raise the issue at his various stunts/announcements.<br /><br />You have reinforced it even more strongly in making the point that nobody really challenged Jones's Convoy lies about being locked out by the police. This is a public broadcaster with a large following, blatantly lying his arse off. The same one who made a career decision to label Gillard a liar. He could have been exposed for the bootstrapping humbug he was, even well before he finally blew the gaff at the Sydney University Liberals affair.<br /><br />If it's so important to have 'real' reporters, that would have been the perfect time to differentiate Jones from the rest of the pack. He uses that as an alibi when he is caught out that he's not really a journalist, just an entertainer. It was a perfect time for the Press Gallery to move beyond the Jones-Hadley bile by exposure. But they were as silent as they were all along about Abbott's fault-lines. It was no more newsworthy to them than Gillard's Misogyny Speech, which as we now know lacked what the Press Gallery called 'context'.<br /><br />Maley at least acknowledged that bloggers and protesters were out there, but she has shown a blindness equal to Murphy and all the rest.Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-86976438070431830982014-03-24T11:57:00.318+11:002014-03-24T11:57:00.318+11:00Like mammoths trapped in a tar pit, the old media&...Like mammoths trapped in a tar pit, the old media's struggles and bellowing are only speeding their demise.<br /><br />And like the extinct mammoths, their extinction won't mean much to the world at large.<br /><br />The Press gallery are the biggest pachyderms on the block, so expect the biggest bellows from them.<br /><br />They are so caught up analysing their own entrails for portents that they can't understand the reason why the protests are so diverse is that the only real plan that Abbott & Co. have is to antagonise everyone who isn't a LNP lickspittle.BigBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-21134283328049485802014-03-24T11:35:22.465+11:002014-03-24T11:35:22.465+11:00Great piece, Andrew. Just one query:
What did thi...Great piece, Andrew. Just one query:<br /><br />What did this refer to?<br /><br />"Note the switch to the passive voice as a way of deflecting responsibility or even consideration of the media's role in the last parliament."<br /><br />The preceding quote (That became the story, particularly because the atmosphere of the last Parliament was so precarious and febrile.) is not in passive voice. The following quote (remember how Alan Jones, enraged by the poor showing, claimed that hordes of would-be attendees had been stopped at the ACT-NSW border?) does include a passive clause, but it's not obvious that this is the one you mean.<br /><br />(I'm a linguist, I can't help myself!)Simon Musgravenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-63624418695650068612014-03-24T10:09:08.539+11:002014-03-24T10:09:08.539+11:00Terrific piece Andrew.
I sometimes think that Male...Terrific piece Andrew.<br />I sometimes think that Maley might be able to see clearly. She was one of the few journalists who stated that perhaps the press gallery group-think was wrong – published, it must be said, a day or so <i>after</i> the misogyny speech. <br />But most of the time, nah – her writing is as worthless as you have portrayed.<br />Why do these owners of newspapers think we only want opinion – is it really cheaper for them to run, or are they trolling?PeterHhttp://hillarchitects.com.aunoreply@blogger.com