Australian Current Affairs
Story Comment Published – Levy
> > > Your comment has been published: > None of that alters the fact that the principle of imposing a levy instead > of repriortising is just simply wrong, and once again emotion rather than > rationality is ruling the day and once again an inept Government is > getting let off the hook, which it has been now since 2007. > > If the opposition cannot hold to them account then at least the media > should. > > “Comment is free, but facts are sacred.” — C.P. Scott, editor Manchester > Guardian, 1921 > > > > > To view your comment online go to: > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/cyclonic-stoush-unworthy-of-tiny-tax/story-e6frg6zo-1226001740909 > > Please note the Editor may have slightly edited your comment to be > suitable for publishing.
Story Comment Published -Bligh/Floods
> Your comment has been published: > Now what was all that hype about managing the crisis again, along with > cries of Anna for PM, comparisons with Thatcher and Roosevelt etc etc ad > infintum and ad nauseum? > > Will we ever grow up? Or will our journalists ever become anything except > sensationalist headline writers? > > To view your comment online go to: > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/queensland-floods/engineers-emails-reveal-wivenhoe-dam-releases-too-little-too-late/story-fn7iwx3v-1225991990957 > > Please note the Editor may have slightly edited your comment to be > suitable for publishing.
Story Comment Published -Aust/UK
> Your comment has been published: > Good news also as Cameron’s Government so far is showing itself to be one > of the few in the world where rationality is to the fore, and it certainly > cant hurt to have our politicians and bureaucrats mixing with them – maybe > some of it will rub off! > > To view your comment online go to: > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/partnership-reflects-australias-new-relevance/story-e6frg6zo-1225990618882 > > Please note the Editor may have slightly edited your comment to be > suitable for publishing.
Bligh
Sat 15 Jan 11 (03:22am)
Its not crass Peter, you are not casting aspersions on those who have suffered, you are merely trying to ascertain what the political implications of the disaster will be, and as the press in general has shamelessly mounted an undeserved ( in my opinion) how great is Anna campaign already, you are by no means the first to comment & at least you only commented and speculated (I agree with with your conclusion by the way) unlike others including Anna herself, who blatantly used it for politicking.
I actually live in Queensland & I see it differently – sure you will find quite a few others see it my way.
I thought both Bligh & Gillard showed (excuse the pun) that they were completely out of their depth, but then I dont see mother henning or emotive platitudes as leadership in circumstances where cool heads and hard decisions, not tears are required.
Quite a few of the journalists particularly female ones, were not much better, very long on isolated emotional circumstances and very short on overall facts, similar to CNNs amateurish coverage of Sept 11.
Obvious why they would relate to Blighs performance because they are shallow operators themselves, but I would have thought the voters would have learnt to be more discerning given recent events.
Newman was the one you wanted to listen to for reality as opposed to emotive spin, and it is people like Newman that Queensland and Australia need for the future, not lightweights like Bligh and Gillard, anyone with public speaking and microphone training can do what they did.
Before the feminists go ballistic I will point out that it was a female ex journalist and ex Qld country girl who wrote a very good piece for this paper which included logic, commonsense and as far as I have seen the only suggestion that has made sense as to why two little creeks in Toowoomba resulted in such disaster up there, so there is no reason females cannot respond with other than their first instinctive emotional platitudes, its just that the 3 who happen to be leaders right now Gillard, Bligh and Kenneally didnt.
Wish we would get some who can, in spite of many mentioning it – there are no Thatchers amongst this lot.
Photo ops and sound bytes mean nothing and its worrying that so many voters seem to think they do, as I said you would have thought that the last few months would have opened up eyes in that regard!
Story Comment Published – charging for online news
> Your comment has been published: > “Brad of Melbourne Posted at 12:29 PM Today > Quality news and reporting isn’t free” > > The real problem Brad is that there isnt quality and news reporting & that > is the inherent weakness in Murdoch’s model which only works if what is > being reported on the ‘pay for news’ model is far superior to what is > available elsewhere. > If you dont have a difference as large as the difference bewteen a Ferrari > and a mini moke, you do not get volume and even if you do you probably > will still not get volume. > > Reality is the standard of journalism and media is so low at the present > time no sane person is going to pay to read it on one model when they can > read a similar version of it for free on another. > > For the net the botton line is content has to be free, and then you have > to work out other ways to generate revenue from both advertisers who pay > for access to your traffic, and from readers who have come to your web > page i.e you have to sell them other goods and services but NOT news. > > > > To view your comment online go to: > http://www.news.com.au/technology/is-murdochs-the-daily-and-steve-jobs-the-dream-team-that-can-save-digital-journalism/story-e6frfro0-1225987579511 > > Please note the Editor may have slightly edited your comment to be > suitable for publishing.