While I really welcome another news source ( ABC24) , esp arts etc, . its very frustrating as a resilience planner to watch sensitive matters of environment risk and impact being handled quickly in 15 minutes. In order to build a more sound response to the NET and the need for fuller discussions, I hope ABC (inc radio ) add more URL'S to their reports as a matter of course
Many recent short circuit news grabs make serious errors and presumptions -eg reasons for the bushfire in WA ( some of the reports on Fires , floods ( Bangkok QLD) are misleading and one sided talk. Better in 15 minutes to identify and promote local sources and reports from people ( incl net) . "ABC quarters " and others in abc24 should be counselled to report LOCALS, name URL sources locally and resilience experts to avoid quick fix journalism and editorializing that is so common elsewhere .
That way they can be ahead of the game and capture the AUDIENCE desire for both quickfix with quickfollowup as well.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Finally ABCTV lets us hear from experts on the Green Economy
Well done Ullman
The experts on the program on ABC3 tonight ( green economy-future forum) quietly reminded thinking Australians why a price on carbon is as popular as it clearly is ( Its just so simple!) .
Most importantly they said that,generalized innoculation type carbon taxes are wrong because they don't target inefficency and because new energy demand competes directly with agriculture and the poor.
SO the dummies are targeting the poor and vulnerable .
The greatest evil is often done in the name of the best intention.Time the Fabians read their own heroes (.GB Shaw )more closely.
The experts on the program on ABC3 tonight ( green economy-future forum) quietly reminded thinking Australians why a price on carbon is as popular as it clearly is ( Its just so simple!) .
Most importantly they said that,generalized innoculation type carbon taxes are wrong because they don't target inefficency and because new energy demand competes directly with agriculture and the poor.
SO the dummies are targeting the poor and vulnerable .
The greatest evil is often done in the name of the best intention.Time the Fabians read their own heroes (.GB Shaw )more closely.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
A great celebration of good taste
Last nights ABCTV tribute to David and Margaret was a celebration of much that is very good about our engagement with good writing and good movies. Thank you all.
The tough stuff was well symbolised by David's choice of LANTANA because indeed, everybody has something to hide. That Aussie icon is a foreign weed ; a plant with good looks , poisonous leaves and hiding of vermin . It is a very apt choice of a name - esp in our dry country places ( like LOVE SERENADE) where you have to seek to find shelter and refreshment, and where what looks bad can hide a purposeful place. As we were reminded this week by Dr Phil -- if you can't see it in yourself ( or in movie? ) you can't really see it at all.
In a great tribute , Cate and Geoffrey celebrated the real people we meet through the Movie Show : like mums and dads of the screen, D&M sit through so much rubbish , so we don't have to.
The best part of the night for me was the concrete artistic assertion that the search for "truth and beauty " is often stalled because the truth is not always beautiful (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) .
Some Maturity in our appreciation of life is great to see because everywhere you look there is, as Ronald Conway says, a sense of stupor here in the sunshine states .Thankfully though , there is ALSO often, some truth and beauty in the pile of ........ if we are prepared to look and listen for it .
On that note , I do believe our while our young people have to test ,tear down to build up something worth while , they ALSO desperately need inspiration and respect shown to what is good in all the rubbish. Time the ABC kicked out the worm eating nest birds for whom " noone can do anything right and who know nothing but how to make wars on everything " .It is no coincidence that the role of women and the growth of a more mature mindset is on our minds in modern film because there are a lot of children not growing up in our culture .
The review reminded us that beauty is often anything but (SWEETIE )and the place for love strange, lonely and rare ( LOVE SERENADE ).
Celebrating their good taste, I thought the best thing was that , in my choice of the best in a long while-GRAND TURISMO, truth and beauty had to be sought for and found with body mind and spirit all engaged in order to prove these things can really work in some dark places !
The tough stuff was well symbolised by David's choice of LANTANA because indeed, everybody has something to hide. That Aussie icon is a foreign weed ; a plant with good looks , poisonous leaves and hiding of vermin . It is a very apt choice of a name - esp in our dry country places ( like LOVE SERENADE) where you have to seek to find shelter and refreshment, and where what looks bad can hide a purposeful place. As we were reminded this week by Dr Phil -- if you can't see it in yourself ( or in movie? ) you can't really see it at all.
In a great tribute , Cate and Geoffrey celebrated the real people we meet through the Movie Show : like mums and dads of the screen, D&M sit through so much rubbish , so we don't have to.
The best part of the night for me was the concrete artistic assertion that the search for "truth and beauty " is often stalled because the truth is not always beautiful (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) .
Some Maturity in our appreciation of life is great to see because everywhere you look there is, as Ronald Conway says, a sense of stupor here in the sunshine states .Thankfully though , there is ALSO often, some truth and beauty in the pile of ........ if we are prepared to look and listen for it .
On that note , I do believe our while our young people have to test ,tear down to build up something worth while , they ALSO desperately need inspiration and respect shown to what is good in all the rubbish. Time the ABC kicked out the worm eating nest birds for whom " noone can do anything right and who know nothing but how to make wars on everything " .It is no coincidence that the role of women and the growth of a more mature mindset is on our minds in modern film because there are a lot of children not growing up in our culture .
The review reminded us that beauty is often anything but (SWEETIE )and the place for love strange, lonely and rare ( LOVE SERENADE ).
Celebrating their good taste, I thought the best thing was that , in my choice of the best in a long while-GRAND TURISMO, truth and beauty had to be sought for and found with body mind and spirit all engaged in order to prove these things can really work in some dark places !
Monday, October 10, 2011
Charles Darwin wouldn't believe anyone in this Age could be so dumb
Charles Darwin did the initial research on atolls over 150 years ago . His research and conclusions in this area of science was thorough and those conclusions still stands today with subsequent verification from plate tectonics , volcanism and weathering . I have to say it is not at all clear the same can be said about science in practice, and "Questions without Answers" at ABCTV.
ABC TV on Sunday night , did a report on the Kiribati islands, suggesting the sea level is rising on them .( after 9pm 9th October 2011) The reporters collected all the information that suited their theory in a way which reminded me of Margaret Meads mistaken efforts some decades earlier on an island nearby - Conveniently in both cases , these real situation is some distance away from the audience.
The clever reporters have ignored Darwin's discovery - the atolls are formed by subsidence
The ABC presumably dug up this report in preparation for this week in parliament( with its grand ambition of changing the world with yet another tax) ,
The greatest environmental risk on Tuesday morning in Parliament was the risk from Carbon Dioxide.
By Tuesday evening " the greatest environmental risk ever " has been changed to oil leaks from a ship near New Zealand .
Does anyone believe the reporters at the ABC? More quickfizzers here
ABC TV on Sunday night , did a report on the Kiribati islands, suggesting the sea level is rising on them .( after 9pm 9th October 2011) The reporters collected all the information that suited their theory in a way which reminded me of Margaret Meads mistaken efforts some decades earlier on an island nearby - Conveniently in both cases , these real situation is some distance away from the audience.
The clever reporters have ignored Darwin's discovery - the atolls are formed by subsidence
The ABC presumably dug up this report in preparation for this week in parliament( with its grand ambition of changing the world with yet another tax) ,
The greatest environmental risk on Tuesday morning in Parliament was the risk from Carbon Dioxide.
By Tuesday evening " the greatest environmental risk ever " has been changed to oil leaks from a ship near New Zealand .
Does anyone believe the reporters at the ABC? More quickfizzers here
Monday, September 12, 2011
Tough questions- is the ABC up for it?
Tonight's panel and today's issues( report on our kids) suggest we could be in for a good start, one that maybe will go to the heart ---- but in the end will the program just be one big "blast away" as usual.
Without an " after panel" or online and no innovative ( cf SBS) any so called ABCTV/774 commitment to be up to date and interactive is hypocritical . The ABC looks more like the public version of 60 minutes every week ----only bunchy , crunchy but without tears and trauma.
The point is , Parliament have to call this matter to order - instead of constant name changing to save nothing, they need to get on with saving what we do know to be under threat - the traditional tenets of marriage. Should there be no vehicle for the public discussion ( list eme here) he is one .
Without an " after panel" or online and no innovative ( cf SBS) any so called ABCTV/774 commitment to be up to date and interactive is hypocritical . The ABC looks more like the public version of 60 minutes every week ----only bunchy , crunchy but without tears and trauma.
The point is , Parliament have to call this matter to order - instead of constant name changing to save nothing, they need to get on with saving what we do know to be under threat - the traditional tenets of marriage. Should there be no vehicle for the public discussion ( list eme here) he is one .
Thursday, September 08, 2011
ABC news
Will lose if it puts as news ( 12.00am) yet another report from UN speaker on sea level change ( rising or lowering., ..
Need to get out and do more reporting before they they find the UN like the Age is not reliable - the island they refer to is probably subsididing .You heard it first from anywhere but the ABC news service
Need to get out and do more reporting before they they find the UN like the Age is not reliable - the island they refer to is probably subsididing .You heard it first from anywhere but the ABC news service
Any progress amongst Journos
Robert Manne's latest attack on the Australian ( and defence of the Age ?) sounds like "takes one to know one" There is a disease that needs training in the camp - editorialising and moovingon ( really staying put)
Journs rattling around in a small box they call reason is not worth reading .
Many need to get out and do more reporting.
Readers of this blog will note my laments about the limits of qanda.
Has anything improved of late? - Yes The Drum is often worth watching -well half the time .in my opinion . That's a lot better than the Age on the environment , where it is almost none of the time WW( Manne clearly doesn't know that - his recent article trying to shore up its unreliable reporting )
Journs rattling around in a small box they call reason is not worth reading .
Many need to get out and do more reporting.
Readers of this blog will note my laments about the limits of qanda.
Has anything improved of late? - Yes The Drum is often worth watching -well half the time .in my opinion . That's a lot better than the Age on the environment , where it is almost none of the time WW( Manne clearly doesn't know that - his recent article trying to shore up its unreliable reporting )
Monday, June 20, 2011
GenY is trying to break out
qanda tonight .
Did you notice the young geek who dared to speak heresy in church last night - couldn't close him down even with an angry boy. (" don't look at me" the blessed saint of ABC gen Y said)
In the occasional glimpses of straight talking that can happen when you have an audience that talks back, gen Y showed what they think of the baby boomers whose lack of moral moorings is covered up by empty emotional niceties .Tony treading so lightly!
In the occasional glimpses of straight talking that can happen when you have an audience that talks back, gen Y showed what they think of the baby boomers whose lack of moral moorings is covered up by empty emotional niceties .Tony treading so lightly!
Adults now move, not the left, like they like to think , but to mere emotion; their children are smart enough to move to the right because such superficiality is so pathetic.
As usual it was a child who put the adults straight about what science and truth telling is all about,
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