Wednesday, September 09, 2009
There's only one word for it.
Labels: Listening to some people is worse than having a colonoscopy., People wot have a way with words., Skum
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Guess who's having a lend of himself?
Herewith an amusing selection of News Ltd CEO John Hartigan’s bon mots at the National Press Club.
That explains the business case to some extent but what about the journalism?
If I had a Power Point presentation I could summarise this whole speech with two points on one slide:
1. If you want to attract readers, break stories people want to read.
2. Give them something they can’t get anywhere else, make it relevant and useful and let them get involved.
Then there are the bloggers. In return for their free content, we pretty much get what we’ve paid for – something of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.
In the blogosphere, of course, the mainstream media is always found wanting. It really is time this myth was blown apart. Blogs and a large number of comment sites specialise in political extremism and personal vilification.
Radical sweeping statements unsubstantiated with evidence are common.
Now let's have a look at what Mr. Hartigan's own beloved publications are doing to fulfill those requirements. Remember them? Breaking stories people want to read, relevant and useful stories, something they can’t get anywhere else.
Not a sign of any of that "limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance" Mr. Hartigan see in blogs.
"Radical sweeping statements unsubstantiated with evidence are common."
Anyone care to remind me which one of those "limited intellectual value" blogs published those "unsubstantiated with evidence" phony photos of the naked Pauline Hanson?
Labels: Listening to some people is worse than having a colonoscopy.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Vomitous.
TRIBUTES are already flowing for Richard Pratt – billionaire, arts patron and Carlton tragic – who is gravely ill.
Sydney shock-jock (of course that's not a pejorative term, Herald Sun) Mike Carlton’s (apparently not a Pratt or Carlton - no relation - tragic) sliming (of course that's not a pejorative term, Herald Sun) of Pratt this week was disgraceful – as bad or worse than the attacks on Samuel.
In 2007, Mr Pratt was fined $36 million and branded by a judge as Australia’s worst price-fixer. He subsequently surrendered his Companion of the Order of Australia – the nation’s highest civic award.
Premier John Brumby said Mr Pratt was a “great Victorian and a great Australian” despite his recent controversies.
“He came to this country with not much and made a lot of it and built a huge business,” Mr Brumby said.
What are the odds that Brumbles will kite fly a Kerry Packer like state funeral for Dick the Prat.
And what are the odds that John the Brumble will appoint Bernie Ecclestone and Ronald Walker as co-promoters of this special event and then tell us that the event will attract squillions of overseas vistors to Melbourne?
Labels: Listening to some people is worse than having a colonoscopy.
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