tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58818992012-01-23T12:58:08.679+11:00Australian Broadcasters- Competency in reporting particularly non ABC sourcesjourneymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-28723721099506745822012-01-23T12:40:00.002+11:002012-01-23T12:58:08.853+11:00

774 interview with Jonathon Lyn today provided an opportunity to explore what's missing from our sense of humor . Lyn provided a few clues of merit . You need to be angry . With abcchurch and our culture stuck in the new morality of "anger is a sin" we are cultivating  depression . Our heritage as Westerners was clearly not to make anger a sin  but to deal with anger in its various forms and

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-38151087599788364832012-01-11T12:45:00.002+11:002012-01-23T12:27:24.911+11:00

The new opportunities presenting themselves to the info age are positive and challenging - esp for old control agents within the etsablishment ( see previous posts and here ) . New niches deserve exploring. McLullan must be turning in his grave. Positives  1. Repetition with updates abcnews24 provides news when you want it, but is not suitable for long term viewing because stories are repeated .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-33730614139638847462010-05-25T21:55:00.001+10:002010-05-25T22:01:57.773+10:00

Insights program SBS on RE in schools tonight proved one thing very clearly: Many,  if not most  people,  are very passionate about religion . Australia must be a truly wonderful democratic place-- to think all that passion can be channeled into an agreed syllabus,  to be taught by the passionate . On consensus then , it would be wrong surely for one religion to teach only one faith in the most

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-25933678626879147902009-10-28T16:29:00.005+11:002009-10-28T23:12:51.205+11:00

RE Parliamentary committee spokesman says coastal areas which are now highly funded, will need more money and will suffer more damage . The runaway ocean sea level and , you guessed it , climate change is to blame. In true post modern style, a force unknown or far enough away to avoid guilt to those here present, is again to blame. Apparently the problem of damage has nothing to do with how

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-56893688139041797822008-11-06T08:03:00.005+11:002008-11-06T10:45:38.173+11:00

Never have I been so embarrased to be Australian, than when the ABC failed to report the news of the day: Obama's victory speech .What are journos worried about ? The threat to the Secularist state?" How do churchmen like Rudd and Obama get to run things??"" - doesn't make sense, or does it in a weird sort of "we know more than the public do" type of abcchurch sense. A man's words are the best

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-22300381161143432832008-06-12T07:42:00.004+10:002008-06-12T07:56:18.099+10:00

SBS does it again 10th June 2008 5 stars !!“Sick around the world ‘ shown Australia SBS TV 10th June 2008 Inspirational inspite of the challenges. Where is australia going wrong? - slavish addition to a cringe mentality in regard to its own ability ? The documentary on Mongolian family - wow what a night out . The voice and the violin ---how much good can we can do, if we put our minds to

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-70343740334346227302008-02-18T15:45:00.003+11:002008-02-18T15:59:43.627+11:00

Luxlucis let the people speak. First class reporting on COMPASS 17th. Grace's team certainly know how to take the job seriously --by reporting people not reporters. To survive the popularity drive - by ignoring it - (that wonderful MR AVERAGE on SBS on sat ) ABC management need to put diversity on screen an outsiders view - lots of people on the margins ,even in australia , like " mum" in

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-71857099594572145292007-07-30T22:34:00.000+10:002007-08-01T08:28:05.594+10:00

Not much ---if the lack of discussion about Thredbo on its anniversary is any indication. QUESTION What have the Tasmanian and Nsw government got in common on this day ( in the last days of July 2007 )ANSWER Lessons for all thinking Australians about the incompetence of env planning in Australia.The Same avoidable snowing, stupidity, distraction, ignorance and crying wolf, 10 years on .How do

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-56412261850545826342007-07-12T19:39:00.001+10:002007-07-12T19:53:45.227+10:00

Nothing casts a greater shadow over the debate tonight than the poverty of understanding amongst journos about who has the right to set the scene over the scenario of the future pressures on our earth .The Age misses the inrellectual boat by making the silly assmption that only wel l funded uturologists ( metrerologists) should get the nod( the 5 agents) .leaving the gelogsists and remoete

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-14052640173193535052007-07-12T14:19:00.000+10:002007-07-12T14:31:09.075+10:00

The big challenge for the ABC and the AGE ( before we finally see it ) Will its reporting of the Climate change debate be a little more reasonable than its resistance to it . The limitations to resisting the change agenda agents ( who are clearly in a powerful majority in power terms) are almost insuperable – after all you need a lot more money and political support than most way ward

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1173080634514265002007-03-05T18:37:00.000+11:002007-03-05T20:55:33.023+11:00

We used to subscribe to the Age .But they lost their way and then words had less meaning reporting became retorting. Went to the newsagents today wondering ; Is The Age worth buying TODAY ? Only had to see the front page to know You had 3 people passionately push a personal beef about Rudd .What causes the intelligensia at The Age to club with the libs? to call for crucifiction ? wouldn't be

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1170449978694909172007-02-03T07:54:00.000+11:002007-02-03T08:05:48.880+11:00

Desperate for news of the latest person to agree with their latest piece of non scientific fanaticsm the ABCTV are reduced to quoting a Un resolution as top news on friday night ( 2nd february ) - The UN report was, as is so often the case, a jumble of incomprehensible mumbo jumbo and had enough hedges and sub clauses to enable every signatory to get out jail free - but noone in the ABC

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1163063965597422632006-11-09T20:14:00.000+11:002006-11-09T20:19:25.606+11:00

leongatha reporter is allowed to use use words "fear" and "warning" ( without reporting by whom and only a poster to talk to her) in her report about the water shortage in leongatha today . the milk factory is clearly not desperate or silly enough to move on the strength of the situAtion, as suggested . Desperaition too appeasr in showing other posters of other allied papers ( the age) in the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1162326720661611702006-11-01T06:49:00.000+11:002006-11-01T07:49:04.966+11:00

On 30th october 2006 it seemed the whole ABC celebrated world warning day ."Global warming is really very very seriuos " was on the news, lateline , even mediawatch piped in with its own interesting piece of tighty worded logomachy. The euphoria of the chorus on climate change was loud, unambigous and strong unlike the verses which sort of missed the point - they were going overboard

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1162065802183547472006-10-29T06:57:00.000+11:002006-10-29T07:15:38.866+11:00

cringe as they might at the AGE , the strength to tell it like it is is being lost from the age .Who reads The Age anyway? The Ageing reactionaries don't get it do they . They are desperate; desperate enough to get an audience with plagerism - not challenging those who keep their minds going by their own reauthoring of history . Desperate enough to feed the frenzy with a fire lit with matches

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1161217879018464992006-10-19T10:23:00.000+10:002006-10-29T07:09:15.280+11:00

Have the lefties got bigness= badness stuck on their brains?Preoccupied with preddjudice it seems the public missed the opportunity to hear a decent punchy debate on the biggest interest of the day--- media ownership. seems they left it to steve F - a bit of a big ask!Hopefully the predicatable wave of asset stripping that presumably drives this great interest of the moment will fade and despite

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1160015501308444522006-10-05T12:31:00.000+10:002006-10-05T12:31:41.320+10:00

The Simple ABC's of ABC BUSINESS. Please remove this dangerous gospel of growth from our screens, before it doesn't know what the truth, or the future is . This up beat sales focus for lovers of the quick fix curves of the sharemarket is an offence to those of whose business focus is longer than a mere day. Hon Coonan and the presenter were smiling too much to convince us the discussion was

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1158449579236549142006-09-17T09:32:00.000+10:002006-09-17T09:32:59.253+10:00

Too many flood film fears in the one week ! Has Mr Gore really added any credibility to the circus of fearmongers who play up to the people's fears? - I think not .Rather the reverse for "the big cause ",dear old aunties reputation as getting under things and Denton a bit too . You've got to wonder what has bewitched so many of our shallow journos to dissolve their long diffident relationship

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1156550935823971302006-08-26T10:08:00.000+10:002006-08-26T10:08:55.836+10:00

IDEAS ARE EVERYTHING Grahame morris made the point very well on LATELINE last night , but is anyone in the major parties really listening .Take the public expenditure on environmental and health care mangement. ITs all over the place like a dogs breakfast and just as appetizing . Needs some ideas some cutting edge ideas

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1155466535857536682006-08-13T20:50:00.000+10:002006-08-13T20:55:35.866+10:00

Barrie Cassidy might be highly regarded. But his hatchet job of the migration debate on Sundays insiders puts him back in the abc church brigade . Clearly disciples often only talk about things they themselves can manage . Not good enough - limits abc to abc . no wonder we switch off.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1154439878967652612006-08-01T23:29:00.000+10:002006-08-01T23:50:44.513+10:00

Thanks to Tony Jones ( Lateline tuesday) persistence, the leadership , while they they may be still winning votes in Europe, are losing credibility with thinking people . If your insurgents don't have your support, why don't you deal with them. You mean too that that you, as a government, are too weak to stop "the innocents" being killed ?to do anything much at all? Next question Tony . What

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1151925398155942552006-07-03T21:04:00.000+10:002006-07-03T21:16:38.170+10:00

Chris masters does it again or should we say Canadians have done it again .4 corners July 3Understand health care risks before we kill medicine and risk takers. see more cuttingedgecare

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1150935662826353352006-06-22T08:58:00.000+10:002006-06-22T10:21:02.896+10:00

You'd think the Age would realise than Political Correcetness is a big stumbling block to improving community services - wouldn't you - those brainy types in the big smoke. Why don't they add to the great weigh of evidence that 4cnrs, lateline and the fed ministers are contributing by conducting a poll on PC driven govt incompetence as it applies to aboriginal communities .Now wonder they are

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1147786111853023972006-05-16T23:00:00.000+10:002006-05-16T23:28:31.866+10:00

SBS TOPS in STORY TELLING What a feast on SBS . OPUS DEI VS Protocols of ZION What a great story starter is Marc Levin. His willingbness to go and ask the people and report them sweeps over us like a brilliant piece of evening air. What a contrast to the many public purse pedlars who can't seem to help themsleves to demonise one group or another - missing the point week after blatant week

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1147390366533327422006-05-12T09:24:00.000+10:002006-05-12T09:32:46.543+10:00

Dancing with the Stars has provided the young audience of Australia with a very important lesson . Like a mirror to their own excuses they watched grown men and women capitulate to some force of evil not identified and not rational . They made up some story about Todd and co being not good enough . The mirror on the screen said it all - That life is not always fair and that even judges can

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1144725317446464142006-04-11T12:31:00.000+10:002006-04-11T13:15:17.490+10:00

STULTIFYING thats how I would describe living in melbourne and trying to get a reasonable discssion going of worldviews and choices available to young people . Might as well call THE AGE , THE AGED thats the only navel gazing group they seem to cater for-- and a cynical anti christain bunch of old recationaries they are at that . I trust young people have more choice in sydney - at least they

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1140611612798358722006-02-22T23:31:00.000+11:002006-02-22T23:33:32.810+11:00

The 4 corners program on the PPP rhetoric about the sydney tunnel gives the ABC big points for good reporting on critical areas of current crap ( watch water industry contracts for example ) You heard it first on ABC reporting blogger .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1137155432400236312006-01-13T23:29:00.000+11:002006-01-13T23:32:37.683+11:00

So predictably Anti establishment Never heard so much petty nonsense said about Narnia by the oldies at the ABC and the Age. They don't like it because they are by nature anti-establishment ( nowonedr they don't produce much worth watching or reading) and so they find fault - its too violent - get real mate life is full of violence and it can be useful to review it

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1129684621626043252005-10-19T10:48:00.000+10:002005-10-19T11:17:01.666+10:00

Similiarly SBS's showing of the story of CHARLIE CHAPLAN was great . The lifelong tension between a craft so well done and the message so mixed was so powerful - every student should see it so they know better what they are watching and what is woth watching. If SBS had less self indulgent navel gazing and navel exposure would it attract more viewers looking for something other than the broadly

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1129602741670026972005-10-18T12:30:00.000+10:002005-10-18T12:32:21.676+10:00

NOT everything good is on the ABC . 30 DAYS -showing on Channel 10 (AUST) thurs at 10 . Living with the working poor was very powerfulbut why hasn't some ABC jouno done the same . All those who trust the economy of the market should first prove they have statistics, not on employement, but on the basic wage for the basic couple - let alone family !!!

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1126531852725865692005-09-12T23:28:00.000+10:002005-09-12T23:30:52.730+10:00

BACKGROUND BRIEFING : One of ABC 's best programs , does it again this week by introducing us to Hon B Jones. very well done

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1125713889108840492005-09-03T12:04:00.000+10:002005-09-03T13:06:42.830+10:00

LATELINE FRIDAY Really missed the point-- didn't you !Ho hum Fiddle with your own fascinations while your reputation as reporters burns.It was a big week but you wouldn't know it, listening to sifting through the same old speculation stuff esp listening to RON HOWARD drone on forever about something other than facts. ( some researcher)Really Maxine, this was very poor -not confusing the real

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1125546408821142922005-09-01T13:33:00.000+10:002005-09-03T13:01:47.646+10:00

SBS way out infront on current affairs Dateline, Brockie and Cuban history ( last night) While ABC news and reviews hosts cut and paste to their hearts content in ways that paint the perfect picture. SBS goes right on telling it as it is .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1123116210435974912005-08-04T10:42:00.000+10:002005-09-01T13:32:29.216+10:00

Nostalgia or Really still living in the past ? Spicks, specks ABC TV We enjoy it, mostly !Nostalgia is fine as long as it doesn't reflect a childish mentality. I don't mind the trip down memory lane as long as we don't get stuck there. Perhaps we all bring our predjudices with us but as an unexpected reminder of cul de sacs ,it would be great if just for 30minutes we had some relief each week

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1119491585722882692005-06-23T11:52:00.000+10:002005-06-23T11:59:52.890+10:00

Asset sales . Anyone allowed to mention asset stripping these days ? spud sales go to NZ. maybe you failed to make the connection that NZ NOW own some of our value adding industries and are in a good position to "advertize" just how few cents for a piece of spud /milk you now have to pay .the economy is booming so they tell us. what -----in the sales of assets column ? Yes ! Pat Mcnamara’s happy

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1119437329668334392005-06-22T20:47:00.000+10:002005-06-22T20:48:49.673+10:00

Will Media be banned from AFL Clubrooms -as from Today !

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1118989651827828342005-06-17T16:27:00.000+10:002005-06-17T16:27:31.833+10:00

What a scoop (a great point of High political juggularity )if some non conformist in sleepy hollow woke up to WHY we waste so much money on the environment . Simililarrly it would be a great waste if all the noise about that fantastic story on Peter Andrews ( Australain story ABCTV this week) got no further than a slanging match about " who knows best " . A few clues will be handedout on

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1118401598885432442005-06-10T21:00:00.000+10:002005-06-10T21:14:08.946+10:00

Silence ----the real news is that you are unaware of how widespread quick fix is ! There is no news rsally - noone's talking to either the media or the polys . We tried that and wore ourseleves out. You can have as any ABC offices in rural ares s as you like but burnout and notalk is the result of non compus mentus - you percieve the problems before you document them . We all stop talking when

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1116938626530274182005-05-24T22:32:00.000+10:002005-05-24T22:43:46.533+10:00

Add value news services . Whale noises really -ABC radio news Tuesday after 6pm .Arrogant and unchecked interference too common across public broadcasting services. "The reporter" doesn't like people killing whales. Put your ideas into print under your own name .Don't meddle with the news with emotion to add weight of your own .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1116373095394345072005-05-18T09:32:00.000+10:002005-05-18T09:39:45.806+10:00

(ABC radio yesterday) More quick fix from the well intentioned, but obvoiusly well removed . Now while farmers have managed to sell the sheep and keep the soil and the pasture potential, the wentworth group play into the hands of the quick fix merchants and talk up change NOW. Where do they want the new goiter line ( it was Ok then it is still the outer ) perhaps they want it at bendigo or

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1113833479153009212005-04-18T23:57:00.000+10:002005-04-19T00:11:19.156+10:00

Geraldine Brooks came as close as anyone I know in recent times to challenging some tired old local reactionaries doctrines about good writing. While I enjoyed Andrew Denton's and 774's engagement with her, I feel , as a succesesful outsider, she still had much more to give to shock us out of our complacency over the doldrums in reality dramas. Andrew is good, but he could be better at

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1110427321267192112005-03-10T14:55:00.000+11:002005-03-10T15:07:49.503+11:00

The World Today Hooray .well done people and guests ! Could we now get down to the real challenges - finding time to talk about OECD view of our trading views and how to fill out all the forms to get a rebate !!!! According to the some stats -----the whole world is upside down Subject :The Australian's story on OECD report taxation levels. The opposition is very vulnerable to the quick fix

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1107828835818071942005-02-08T13:07:00.000+11:002005-02-08T13:13:55.820+11:00

The old foggies at the ABC Young people are told its only normal to " play around " Everyone does it according to the ABC 774 program last week . Another of their ABC church self promotions? The bad boys are ahead of the game and no media press has picked up on the scoop - These over 16 yold sare rejecteing the faith of their forebears- they want to wear white too! What are these TOP blokes

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1101808922049340122004-11-30T20:48:00.000+11:002004-11-30T21:09:04.436+11:00

TIME MAGAZINE REPORTS THE NEWS Not exactly high performance media when something ho hum gets under the radar screen of Austrailas reactionaries see Times article below The radar screen missed the scoop because the PC doctrine amongst media people had it that God was dead. If small numbers were the issue, the ABc wouldn't report the greens as often as they do .But the greens are new and

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1100759415826583222004-11-18T17:27:00.000+11:002004-11-18T17:30:15.826+11:00

Paul Collins wanted to say something on ABC radio . He got prime time. I wonder why because he , with the help of the journos, painted a popular old predjudice all over what was really said by what he percieves to be "the other side"of the Christian world - Family first . That other side are unthinking and extreme...? There are, after all, only two ways to go - two neat camps and two subjects:

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1097806553491992012004-10-15T13:13:00.000+10:002004-10-15T12:15:53.490+10:00

The absolute facts are that too many at the ABC are completely behind the times . They need an education and some inspiration to avoid the cynicsm that so easily envelops , prescribes and limits their worldview. http;//users.gsat.net.au/tuf

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1097462681326341802004-10-11T13:39:00.000+10:002004-10-11T12:44:41.326+10:00

Why did the media miss the family first story before the election, having to talk about it only when Forced to by the democratic process they wax lyrical on . One truth the media knows is that any publicity in the post modern world is " good" publicity. As control agents in their own predjudiced world view their only option was clear ? No much of an option really! Major parties are just as "

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1095249201392948952004-09-15T21:44:00.000+10:002004-09-15T22:28:48.930+10:00

Regional papers do it best eg Geelong Advertiser this week . Serious fun and good reporting see Pollywaffle , Extensive analysis of the greens failure to stop moving the goalposts around . The Age would appear to believe that the country is full of red necks and the sooner the greens close it down the better? just a little too closetted ? GA is more practical about politics because columns

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1095248392572731632004-09-15T21:35:00.000+10:002004-09-15T22:31:29.976+10:00

There is nothing worse than not being understood . the city doesn't really understand the rural situation . This makes the up coming election a farce because the country is worn out calling for a real one nation and a real rural voice. we no longer have the energy to fight and one day the city will be more aware of it ! After a while when the family leaders do not listen, its no talk and high

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1092102192271650112004-08-10T11:05:00.000+10:002004-08-10T11:43:12.270+10:00

Life matters or just More shock jocks on the ABC 10th august Marriage Political Schoolteachers I question whether despite all the rhetoric such programs get people really thinking . julie controls to make it all happen in the time and , only if you are lucky, do the sparks fly . She asks very good questions and had good reflections, but you'd have to be churchill to manage a real world

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1087429537500308302004-06-17T09:43:00.000+10:002004-06-17T09:45:37.500+10:00

Pin the tail on the donkey, anyone ? Politicians rush to outdo each other this week with religious like doomsday stories on the grand design and the great damnation risks from "global warming" . Have they had just walked out of the day after tommorow . Has politics come down to believing its own hype?. Most scientists are starting to realise that most of the talk is completely careless,

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1086873525193268552004-06-10T23:11:00.000+10:002004-06-10T23:18:45.193+10:00

Excellent meet the person Kerry have stopped watching 7:30 report regularly - but i thought the pointed questions and time in talk from kerry tonight made for an excellent engagement with the man we probably all need to get to know. Garrett

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1086073581260506502004-06-01T17:03:00.000+10:002004-06-11T20:59:35.313+10:00

Switching to radio national - what a relief Ockhams razor time though "life matters" moved into cutting edge social policy instead of satisfying comfortably 20 years of blinkered reactionary stuff in safe boundaries . No wonder the british eclipse us with their comedy about serious cultural matters . Mr Bean is obscene but at least the brits have a means of admitting to individual self

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1085366417983196162004-05-24T12:36:00.000+10:002004-05-24T12:40:17.983+10:00

I was disturbed to hear the ABC 774 participants today tending to limit the discussion about the origins of violence to external sources. Blame the TV . Blame the computer games . Blame our genes , blame someone and it will all go away ? Sure! Put the subject in the too hard basket - we'll research it more said the health minister. http://daddydaycare.blogspot.com Notably life matters mentor

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1084718966710611952004-05-17T00:41:00.000+10:002004-05-17T00:49:26.710+10:00

Top marks to Background Briefing for class reporting of the diversity of insights into a modern Islamic state . Cairo conversations was outstanding and will be heard again on tuesday nights by more listeners again . Some of us are no longer lulling ourselves out of an increasingly uncomfortable coma on sunday mornings ABC --we've switched channels.

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What sweet relief with Dianne on ABC local radio today Jon feine conversation hour For a few brief moments, we didn't have to hear the reactionary lefties droning on in a careless imprecise manner about how terrible western civilisation is and all the mistakes we have made- Do we need outsiders to nhelp us or can we mange on our own http:/cringenomore.blogspot.com Monistic mindset issues?-

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1083547748616269412004-05-03T11:29:00.000+10:002004-05-03T11:33:30.360+10:00

On fair trade and fair dealing with rural issues Great to see some talk on the ABC about these issues. John Cleary Sunday nights The Old cultural cringe though is still very evident . "What would hick country people know "( esp Katter - "he hasn't even got a passport") john Cleary was asking the good questions, but they were too deep for most superficial political commentators of today . Take

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1082645719393497832004-04-23T00:55:00.000+10:002004-06-11T21:15:07.510+10:00

Indigestion needs a cure Sorry Red (simmons) but you are talking about technology...NOT ..science in your program promotion on 774. The distinction is important because technology doesn't need promotion- the promoters often need prosecuting!. Science, by comparison cannot be dreamed up and provides some stability in a world where genuine progress can actually be delayed by wastage of all

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Don't forget to get deeply behind the farmers blockade story . depression goes deeper than ever because the feeling amongst them is that " well what can we do about it " and patronsing nonsense and irrartionality is rife in the ciities view of ag imperatives - lucky there is even a few people on the road - many just fall by the wayside like that sugar grower in Tully in Qld last week ???? just

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1082343244908021942004-04-19T12:54:00.000+10:002004-04-19T13:00:03.560+10:00

The expert on british governance on 774 sunday night said the shock jocks overestimate their power and influence while governments and long termers undertestimate it Here here! . Great reporting but lets have less talk and more commitmet to independance and permanenece in the court - truth without fear or favour > the best bits of the ABC The comedy non festival atmosphere someone on the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1080332743456496572004-03-27T07:25:00.000+11:002004-03-27T07:29:14.076+11:00

World Today yesterday 774 - world class!!! Thanks team . Faith restored . Excellent reviews of the questions raised by Latham’s apparent outburst on Iraq ( see Canberra.blogspot.com ) and very stimulating research pieces on local government . ( emperorscourt.blogspot.com ) There is probably lots of good stuff on the ABc but many of us are not listening > jon feine and 774 have the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1078749509737630092004-03-08T23:38:00.000+11:002004-03-08T23:48:36.420+11:00

100 Monday 8th -Enough ropeABC reporting celebrity at its best Enough rope-- Parkinson was very welcome entertainment building with Denton's skill a warm appreciation of openess and" Letting the public decide" " 50 Lateline -well done reporting . Hewson on issues not so much personalities . why do we have to wait for elections to find out whats happening behind the scenes.a

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1077666245011081272004-02-25T10:44:00.000+11:002004-02-25T10:46:52.936+11:00

though jon feine did well to cover some critical aged care issues last week in the time available . Ok so few of us have time to follow the details but if we wanted to - where do we go after the shock jocks shows over - where are the threads for these critical discussions ?The debate and the education has just started but the end should not be ABC silence - give us a tag to followup each

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1075161106714181002004-01-27T10:51:00.000+11:002004-01-27T10:53:55.420+11:00

Will the ABC get to the heart of the shallow political gains made over values talk this month .Will the courageous lefties challenge the hypocrisy over tolerance talk?

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1070843561577526342003-12-08T11:32:00.000+11:002003-12-08T11:39:01.800+11:00

Sunday ABC local 7th December . Some news services are so predictable and missable . So Bob Browns in the news again ( ho hum) , talking about something overseas again -- far enough away to keep the facts and other green bandwaggoners at bay?. At least its his own backyard this time . Great that Latham is interested - maybe he would like to see mainland old growth forests as well? Its just

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1069284796034863772003-11-20T10:33:00.000+11:002003-11-20T11:12:43.510+11:00

Who really needs help ? Jon Feine, on ABC radio today, is happy to seek some influence with the Feds to help the VNPA? with the "enormous burden of their administrative costs" a figure of $80000 was mentioned ( per State?) . Lots of community groups don't get anything , let alone a group who think leasing a small area of public land within a National park is " not secure enough? " what Island

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1068444659106159512003-11-10T17:10:00.000+11:002003-11-10T17:11:03.680+11:00

If its not popular you don't say it -unfortunately the common recipe for success in broadcasting is undermining its effectiveness in some areas - helping the people recognise risk and respond to it before it kills and maims the innocent Is there enough talk on any station of the credit squeeze to come, and how to avoid it.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1068442654416832692003-11-10T16:37:00.000+11:002003-11-10T16:37:38.723+11:00

Good to see Barry Cassidy trying something different on Sunday mornings ( and elsewhere ) on the ABC .Though he did a good job as mediator, his energetic panel of "now, now tut"religoius left ,defenders of the antics of bob brown helped to make the calm rationality of bolt very obvious .The same old same olds were trotted out by ageing lefties -does it take twenty years and only one dissenter of

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1068442203238469022003-11-10T16:30:00.000+11:002003-11-10T16:30:07.603+11:00

Channel 7 is asking itself why fewer are watching their slow slide towards the lower bottom line . short term gain, long term pain buddies . Don't be like the polys and fall for something simple like that all business success is the same and that all businesses and sports and brains play the same game. Time to dig a bit deeper fellas - formulae, form and faithlessness haven't saved The Bill -

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1067169945844616372003-10-26T23:05:00.000+11:002003-10-26T23:05:46.623+11:00

Did the Australian media anywhere ask the question , I trust our school teachers will ask this week? "Did Bob brown or President Bush show more respect for democracy in the way they conducted themselves in our house of parliament?. In your house is it ok to break in and break the rules, ignore the rights of others to be heard by butting in when not invited or when your turn has not arrived

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881899.post-1064960667552827742003-10-01T08:24:00.000+10:002003-10-01T08:24:27.466+10:00

Neither Bob Brown or Hugh Worth bleating over some happy sheep half way around the world is really top news material - day after day all wannabes expected to speak on local issues . Whose controlling our news ? ABC news and current affairs falling well behind in its credibility and independence ( cf SBS) Its incipid, predicatable and missable( 730) and often irelevant because its too

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