tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58617092011-12-01T09:45:58.747+11:00Our often excellent ABC needs friends, but not the sycophantic kind - friends who can tell it like it is.(Australia only) No fear,no favour.journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-61237396094328388502011-11-26T12:01:00.002+11:002011-11-26T15:30:19.097+11:00

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

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-50236710879007758312011-11-23T21:45:00.000+11:002011-11-23T21:45:49.808+11:00

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

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-50552156202007854122011-10-27T09:43:00.010+11:002011-10-27T11:15:44.946+11:00

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

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-45225143319745610162011-10-10T23:30:00.005+11:002011-10-27T11:01:10.382+11:00

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

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-19821878872826422482011-09-12T09:27:00.002+10:002011-10-27T11:13:10.173+11:00

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

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-36679372688214369832011-09-08T12:14:00.002+10:002011-09-08T12:18:58.213+10:00

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

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-50926793011485403712011-09-08T08:50:00.000+10:002011-09-08T08:50:06.950+10:00

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

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1341767808896296792011-06-20T23:42:00.005+10:002011-06-21T09:57:57.127+10:00

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

Johnniemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-10746194460923255702011-06-09T11:14:00.001+10:002011-06-09T11:23:06.156+10:00

Whtya expect when the polys dominate on Tony's carefully crafted collection . Go nowhere and stay stuck in popular prejudice and ignorance ( middle ground) No bigger hole was dug than when Tony Jones tries to use a clip of Tony Abbott to prove his pathetic pedantry and less obvious ignorance in economic and intellectual matters  . Yes, Tony Abbott did talk about a carbon tax; but he wasn't like

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-54410033129791433382011-05-25T15:24:00.000+10:002011-05-25T15:24:23.761+10:00

I will start taking the ABC ( and its partners on the left ) seriously on science when they take themselves seriously on the subject - and allow scientists to run proper panels on the subject --esp of what polys think is science (not a gambling man but it might be up there with brilliance in business). In a week when everyone in Australia is confused by polys playing football promoting their own

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-80118380348018890312011-05-06T11:34:00.001+10:002011-05-06T11:37:01.306+10:00

Mark Scott, ABC TV producers and Film Australia do not get it --do they - they have been funding home grown indulgence and tragedy ridden, conflict avoidance and  dumbing down stuff for decades .Go visit some real worlds .  The children are in charge because the adults haven't grown up and got some guts ( esp in thinking about true toughness) . The 4 corners program and revisit to  arakun ( try

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-49632052402127958192011-03-15T11:29:00.003+11:002011-03-15T11:38:31.237+11:00

Simply because it is increasingly alienating and opposing sound scientists. Typically ABC cut the address on BIG IDEAS when it got too hot to handle ( suzuki 's speech ) Any effective political ambition in a democracy must be rooted in a consensus amongst a wide range of practical people who have trained and proved their training on the ground.Environmenatalism is a faith that has extended

Johnniemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18149735103253911440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-14642023550774042612011-03-14T22:41:00.002+11:002011-03-14T23:15:46.911+11:00

Since we posted the note here we note that the PM, while avoiding projection can't help using the fear triggers in her speech on Qanda.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-19557728574071419772011-02-20T23:21:00.000+11:002011-02-20T23:21:06.089+11:00

Scott Stephens has started something that is very welcome with Matt and hopefully his next guests (Compass 20th Feb ).Without adding to the rhetoric , Scott presents the points well enabling both guest and audience to fully participate . So how big are the questions and how good are the answers ?  Going on the lack of depth in the answers , the questions were really big . Great because this

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1973246874832199972010-10-18T22:53:00.001+11:002010-10-18T22:56:41.793+11:00

What a waste of time qanda is - too many polys and not enough scientists means Tony Jones is incompetent . Tony Jones doesn't realise that unless he puts someone other than Flannery in the science seat not only he is not credible . -all lthose young questioners who squeezed through his carefuly designed defence and then the whole country will finally realise that the Flannery file is fulla holes

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-73764292228363717342010-09-07T00:05:00.000+10:002010-09-07T00:05:15.384+10:00

People like Katter wouldn't have to wait for decades to be heard . Would he be right to get everything he wants ? Probably not , but to blast him as though everything he does/ requests  in this period will be to demonstrate that reporters control the ABC and not those who would seek to represent the people - as he does .   Look how well those 3 have focused first on the parliamentary problems -

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-21204811075917762982010-08-12T23:03:00.002+10:002010-08-13T07:15:20.118+10:00

Guilt and blind prejudice were the elephants in the room. That's why,  apart from a  few unexpected moments when guilt and fear wasn't being passed around (the man next to Flannery who talked about real economic matters ) the heavenly and emotional focus of the depressingly ignorant and deterministic dogmatists never hit the ground .   Fear prevents people really facing the issues and there was

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-67102881974056164402010-08-09T22:43:00.000+10:002010-08-09T22:43:39.250+10:00

 Tweets are more interesting than the feeds to the screen . If the ABC were serious the bottom of the screen would be seen - not in line with what the producers prefer .What did we think of julia ? Here  I

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-26011677475549686692010-07-27T08:24:00.001+10:002010-07-27T08:45:50.963+10:00

Qanda Julia Gillard is right about one thing ( would have set the other girls on the panel straight , me thinks)- there is no consensus,  and talk of mandate by Wong is wrong - ( should you need a real basic reason - for no other reason than she's not sure what she'd use the tax for!.) The boys ( none more than Tony who has stood by while she tried to talk herself out of trouble on many long

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-62978377980098937182010-07-14T09:48:00.003+10:002010-07-16T09:44:22.719+10:00

Jennifer Byrne wasn't the only one surprised by her Book club guest Christopher Hitchens. He was supposed to be a member of the congregation and therefore " quite safe" to take the lectern  at ABCCHURCH-infact he's seen to be "one of the latest and greatest" - But he said things that surprised us. Jennifer  was even worried  . She called him a racist ! Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised - he's

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-31974003643305547082010-06-28T22:50:00.005+10:002010-06-28T23:14:55.075+10:00

Virginia may not welcome another stint on qanda but we all will . Unlike the controlling Jones , she let the discussion happen . Mind you, after last week,  no leader could keep order over what was on the publics mind over Julia . Looking deeper into this nonsense of Shortens about thinking deeply, its only a week since Rudd ran all over O'Brien - "lighten up mate !". And Shorten  wants us to

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-91357155751747537112010-05-24T23:32:00.002+10:002010-05-24T23:44:54.287+10:00

It would be interesting to know , as it always is in human dilemma discussions( brief health and education care discussions)  what J R Saul and Lionel ( Outsiders on the left from the Americas)  would say about Australains all on the right. What do they really think ? How well are we Aussies are ready for the future . The great Australian stupor . I have no doubt they would say -you have much

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1572585299237133582010-03-23T10:18:00.000+11:002010-03-23T10:18:00.795+11:00

Another round of the best on the Test at the ABC ( qanda) More here

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-21384136486534041642010-03-18T23:34:00.005+11:002010-03-24T12:34:39.261+11:00

LATELINE Penny Hackett (CSIRO chief ) presumably doesn't disagree that science is increasingly politicized;  its just that she isn't the person to say so,     nor is she the person to prescribe the way out . Ticky did a good job with some good questions but no answers came " I don't know of any dissent,  except we do whatever we do to a very high standard " might just go down as political not

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-12545109207777933672010-03-15T22:54:00.000+11:002010-03-15T22:54:02.717+11:00

Conservatives or progressives . The discussion on qanda tonight pushed the limits in a good way . For too long the left have characterized the right and the right ,the left and w'eve all gone home happy with old prejudices. What emerged from the welcome honesty was a recognition that we ignore the areas of  agreement with members of each others congregations at the peril of the power for good; at

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-24552907472770202682010-03-15T07:07:00.006+11:002010-03-15T09:40:53.446+11:00

ABC news SUNDAY of the world conference of Atheists in Melbourne this week made for lively controversy in the news . We want this . We are concerned about that ; about them!. What though are we to make of the media correction attempt dominating the report( "I'm not vehement, am I?" ) Paraphrasing Richard Hawkins .Looked more like a talk about others than about AFA; looked more like denial too.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-44404055761443331302010-03-10T09:15:00.002+11:002010-03-11T13:35:44.615+11:00

Qandas lineup on Monday night reminded me of the scene at some coluseum in the 2nd century. Emperor Julian, to this day, would be wondering why he couldn't kill em all- and their wacky ideas. Not sure that our modern ABCTV program setup supported the suggestion that this program was somehow a evolutionary improvement on that old theatre( why always the polys and spin mercahnts when we are

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-29788032887458461862010-02-16T00:04:00.009+11:002010-02-17T15:56:48.947+11:00

Except at some of your late night parties. Why does ABC management think its good to put them to air ?QANDA Tony's attempt to embarrass the outsider to his well controlled party lineup backfired; The other guests enjoyed the freedom of an honest discussion too much and the required level of "sophistication "( Lindsays new cover word )was not shown by the host. Exploring rumor and innuendo

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-40201321050610958122010-02-11T22:53:00.004+11:002010-02-17T14:42:36.886+11:00

Thanks for letting Joe Hockey show up the shallow and pathetic focus of those who think they know something about numbers .The program was clearly good promotion of the Opposition, and as Joe says - the people will hopefully see past the mud slinging . Shocking waste of time is Lateline and Jones

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-2552417818988552782010-02-04T16:41:00.005+11:002010-02-04T16:54:55.636+11:00

7:30 report on Lord M tour Typically The ABc were so busy finding fault with the oppositions campaign that they failed to make a dent in the really big question Why all the interest in Lord M ? is it That we don't trust polys ? that we don't trust the ABC? That ABC/ left still have a cringe mentality when it comes to taking seriuosly our own experts .( after all the biggest credibility crunch on

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-54517670134526493452010-01-29T08:10:00.001+11:002010-01-29T11:27:55.253+11:00

Matt Peacocks attempt to tell us his own story using experts of his own choice is not good enough . What i saw on the first night was all over the place running simple monistic scaremongering stuff across a wide range of "should be dealt with singly issues " . I Don't watch 7;30 report much ; will watch it less .

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-83294300231538599082010-01-19T23:12:00.001+11:002010-01-19T23:30:49.084+11:00

It used to be that only quick fix commercial news reports came from polys and people happy to stand infront of camera and complain ; It used to be that only quick fix commercial news reporters used more emotion than fact in their reports. It used to be that OBJECTIVE reports of persons on how to help were used to DRIVE an effective response . Is THE ABC is so moribund that it does everything

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-50979831535763079972009-12-18T23:06:00.006+11:002009-12-18T23:37:05.765+11:00

Copenhagen non event - ABCTV will clearly be remembered for being part of the problem - not part of the solution.On the eve of the greatest moral imperative of the century, the ABC puts a proud blogger up against a highly qualified scientist who lists references on very page of his very big book. 2 nights in a row. Andrew Revkin doesn't undertstand about deduction, so he is happy to stick

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-84898641095425925362009-12-15T22:59:00.005+11:002009-12-15T23:37:13.697+11:00

How does our public broadcaster get away with allowing journos and polys to run the discussions on current affairs ( 7:30 report and latelinetonight ) . Let alone the science ones !!! Tonight we learn nothing but that those who run these shows are mainly interested in point scoring- not the issues of truth that go beyond the games of those speculators and nonscientists who get to join them to

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-6563354445337610712009-12-08T11:25:00.004+11:002009-12-10T14:26:56.122+11:00

RE lateline with Tony Jones : The man from NASA undermines the super trade talks . The man from NASA is not playing the game, or is he ?. So now Copenhagen is not trying to do what's needed. If Politics is about compromise, it is also in this case about being totally ineffective - let alone totally incredible . Like Rudd, these quick fiz merchants and fearmongers are prepared to

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-40081704758048676362009-11-26T23:24:00.004+11:002009-11-27T00:08:03.295+11:00

Leigh Sales seemed reluctant to accept tonight that politics can be more than bluff and bluster. Does it come from being in church too often, or is the possibility of some truth telling just too much of a shock. Fortunately the democratic spokesperson was a little less interested in the tealeaves and like the other guests , made the real position of representatives a lot clearer. The

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-68248137768100137842009-11-16T22:26:00.000+11:002009-11-16T22:26:46.380+11:00

I wish I could do this more often, ...but the ABC have done very well to bring us LILIES -the reason for this post; its so good because it doesn't make light of personal challenges to change and review and its heroes are young people . Keep up the good work. While I am at it thanks too for GEORGE GENTLY,COLLECTORS , MIDSOMER,THE WIRE. reruns of old movies on ABC2 and quite a few other things.

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-86426617464735970532009-11-12T10:21:00.009+11:002009-11-26T14:25:29.944+11:00

Mark Stone might be congratulating his team for being adventurous at the Andrew Olle lecture, but I've seen much better entertainment for YOUNG PEOPLE than the ABC provides at the school concert ( yr 8,9) this week .Its time Mark Stone got serious about dealing with the cynics and wooses in his highly predicable and reactionary old spaceship I will call RAGE on indefinitely. The compares on the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-41686979511204789932009-11-11T23:05:00.010+11:002009-11-12T08:14:22.067+11:00

Sarah Ferguson's interviews with the malcontents on FOUR CORNERS on Monday night threw up something quite unexpected; esp to those who fancy themselves as agents of the predictable; the sure bet ,the need for change; the need for hype - the happy hedge merchants of the team. Short term gain mate -long term pain . Here we have .....a party that THINKS ; now wouldn't that wake up a few marginals

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-87978342059059855122009-10-29T22:34:00.010+11:002009-10-29T23:57:44.359+11:00

On a day when Ray Martin has followed George Negus into rejecting much that Current affairs so called " problem solving" has done, Tony Jones keeps alive the old format; hunting the poly/bad guy with pay up now questions. At 9:30pm he would do better to try something new, He'd have some chance of getting to a decent subject and some "drawing out" time before time is up. Instead he wastes 30

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-37256866062468575562009-09-19T11:41:00.006+10:002009-10-06T14:39:47.068+11:00

LATELINE can be good. On Thursday last they reported a range of views at Ryde protests over having a convicted man living in the neighbourhood. What commercial media would let the man be properly heard ? Letting the "exterminate" advocate speak is part of recognising what starts trouble and exactly where it starts . As a result, Australians are reminded that we do have people( incl non muslim's

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-80721138802452209872009-09-13T22:50:00.013+10:002009-10-06T13:37:55.827+11:00

COMPASS -so disappointing and so distracted. Same old same old, 30yrs of reactionary medicine that has no balm.Nothing proves that going back some new version of the Platonic is dead, than when some reactionaries try to revive it. Typical reactionaries - don't know the difference between a long term good idea and one that's come around again, but is just old and inadequate For those who ,

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-70363639969897863812009-08-13T22:23:00.007+10:002009-09-19T11:07:05.016+10:00

Tony Jones is unaware that all his efforts at control tonight on Q&A gave the people's vote to Christopher Pyne and Piers Ackerman and those who would never get to speak on his shallow, overcontrolled show. He was also clearly unaware of the answer to his own question - why this alignment between the radical elements should occur .Maybe it has something to do with the churchiness of the ABC ?This

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-10339434397905537442009-08-06T22:53:00.011+10:002009-08-07T17:55:21.279+10:00

Attempts by non ABCchurch members to gain a credible hit on ABCTV have in large measure been comfortably dealt with by carefully editing after interview, or discrete painting of portraits with out of place mouth actions. This is news to the high priests - what opposition is there? The ABC doesn't need a war on everything program because it largely runs a war on everything nonchurch .Not so QandA

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-46907543618023054572009-07-14T10:14:00.004+10:002009-07-14T10:34:07.760+10:00

Got to hand it to Jennifer Byrne( Bookclub intro this week ) - her honesty is refreshing .Why? The mood is one of , if not paranoia , depression? Someone has to say it - "we're stuck !" Depression is hard to admit, but if you are in a cul de sac , maybe just maybe , there is a way out ! Logically though , you have to acknowledge what signposts you were ignoring on the way in !!! Like Emperor

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-57092377628965768142009-07-13T23:53:00.005+10:002009-07-14T00:45:23.890+10:00

The most ridiculous thing about the ABC's over promotion of the grand agendas is that they don't realise, if SCIENTISTS were really seriuos about influencing any needed change debate - they most certainaly wouldn't do it in the same old ways that they have been led to do it by the new damnation and salvation sellers - for what is now 4 or so years? The fearmongers haven't got it have they - a

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-79413297078968572232009-07-02T10:22:00.004+10:002009-07-02T10:46:16.145+10:00

When you are on a good thing ( as S&S and rockwiz is), find out where the good bits come from- otherwise it tends to be inflated rhetoric from inside yourself ( ask anyone who knew the real Michael jackson.etc...)The holey infatuation that went on last night ,spoils the spicks and specks that we try to enjoy. When Its often not much beyond fart jokes for adults ,its weak as piss and just as

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-69006304563631999132009-04-24T13:41:00.004+10:002009-04-24T14:12:59.462+10:00

Jones may not be aware of it yet, but the genre of his high brow conversation starter is all the more entertaining than its relation (the footy show) because of where it starts ......and where it finishes. The structure means the audience gets a look in and the truth, sometimes, comes out . The idea is great especially because Jones is not really in charge and those in the chairs are

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-15282567156363861912009-03-11T10:22:00.002+11:002009-03-11T10:25:37.507+11:00

Sycophantic old Jones spends YET another half hour asking Ms WONG another set of SOSO questions he's asked many times before - not a single answer worth listening for . " I said as I said before" she said - nothing , but that we are masters of naming the best intentions.Mistaken value systems are the depression pills of the modern west. depressingly real nonsense that bears no real connection

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-50614526246298213112008-11-06T10:46:00.005+11:002008-11-06T13:25:55.638+11:00

What's new ? Well we hope the ABc catch on before its too late - before the news team and there same old same old view of other people's stories gets the axe .Many of us clearly have been looking to find something far better and more real in the way of reporting between 6:30 and 8pm for years! Reality TV--- we can't get enough of it . As for reporteres telling us what the reported are

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-18526453454103964292008-11-05T20:54:00.009+11:002008-11-06T08:01:44.138+11:00

Obamas victory speech . Unreported !Why waste time watching the ABC NEWS? They struggle to find a good story ( cf SBS)and they manage to miss reporting the story on this day of all days - Nixon and Brumby got the time Obama should have got - and for why - she's leaving!!!!How long to give the highlights (Obama's speech was only 14 minutes long and we had to go to America to get it!) I'm

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-54239520468049143142008-08-14T23:36:00.018+10:002008-08-18T10:53:41.020+10:00

QANDA High priests: Bob Carr and Germaine Greer 14th AugustWhen is a visit to ABCchurch good for the soul? When you, despite all the fun of lampooning some other person or idea , go away thinking; "I need something more substantial ". I am sure I wasn't alone after qanda last thursday. Pontification, while funny to watch,..is dangerous pedantry.ABC's splashing around in a sea of predjudice

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-11795820250247209272008-08-01T10:11:00.011+10:002008-08-01T11:43:22.152+10:00

But it was good for a laugh! While qanda is a great idea, Tony Jones needs to take his own rhetoric seriously if he really wants to make QANDA a vehicle for conviction ; to make it more than entertainment, a good laugh at the compliant choir, and great free publicity for aspiring prime ministers . Turnbull did well because Flannery was all over the place as a scientist. Surely you can find a

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-45742162678072840832008-07-07T22:43:00.008+10:002008-08-01T12:15:15.226+10:00

Penny Wong was totally unconvincing on Lateline . Virginia was on the ball with her simple question about cost - The answer ? There was none - there are huge costs and the greens think a tax on everyone is fair - Like a pox on everything ? ? Perhaps its a bit like - when you can't see the target shoot the messenger or just anyone in the direction that upsets you ? Got news for the gun lobbyers.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-35329601103300930322008-07-04T08:10:00.010+10:002008-07-07T22:22:55.656+10:00

QUANDA and THE FOOTY SHOW have much in common (Thursday nights ). They are about exposing prominent people and their ideas ; really exposing them. Its all good, cause there is just so much political correctness out there . Sam Newman, for all his faults, is not afraid to call out in church and call a spade a spade . How refreshing. The dumb questions also have away of exposing the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-3957279725835239452008-06-14T15:23:00.005+10:002008-06-14T16:07:56.781+10:00

The trouble with Jones church (Qanda )is, its oh so boring and predictable,( even the audience react in a predictable way say to charlies outrage ) The younger chasers war is even about the same old , same old: aid to church schools . Me thinks he protestith too much.....maybe he is indeed a protestant by nature ? Thankfully Prue was there this time to put the record straight , but if it takes

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-80484551702663647022008-06-06T22:41:00.006+10:002008-06-06T22:57:09.533+10:00

Virginia TONIGHT on LATELINE. She's seriuos -its a powerplay that's as big as ben hur . Will the public vote for higher taxes on fuel or not? The government are up to the challenge - they think its seriuos too (and so does bob brown). So the govt send in the Minister for childrens services to put the story........... Don't think so Miss . Maybe you/we would have a better idea of whose serious

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-89665067086820096512008-06-06T20:55:00.003+10:002008-06-06T20:58:50.238+10:00

When they see everyone laughing at the Emperor with no clothes on as they did on TV tonight . Who started the laughing ? Who were the magicians who told him to talk trading schemes ? mr garnaut and the very idea of carbon trading schemes goes happily out the window .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-66287191993015345562008-06-03T23:34:00.006+10:002008-06-06T20:52:21.257+10:00

Thankfully the atmosphere is not always cool -FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB You see there is nothing like dissent to spice up the predictable old ABC . You are getting a bit too keen on comfy conversation mate - save that for home - your home? Well done Peter Fitzimmons . Got me really interested in listening for more - but only with the proviso that you keep the strirrers on . I bet there is more on

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-69862114972216916902008-06-03T22:34:00.013+10:002008-06-14T15:23:00.851+10:00

The dreamy ,but very flat , world of media wannabes.QANDA is So dull and predictable that even Jones wanders off into "when will you become PM" speculation . QANDA - Don't the abc CA producers realise how dumb and otherworldy the very idea of QANDA is ? What real world question would ever get very far with a tired old format that will so predictably generate nothing but angst amongst the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-53070581569760849502008-05-12T22:21:00.003+10:002008-05-12T22:28:46.940+10:00

FOUR CORNERS Another great report on some Australians who are doing far far more than their fair share of genuinely mind and body breaking caring. Surely in this day and age Governements can provide relief ( if not the sort of devotion that was evident there) RUDD, ROXON and MACKLIN - put in place the mechanisms that should be there to give relief – and make sure they are effective and build

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-16226714937191576252008-04-22T21:53:00.008+10:002008-04-22T22:42:37.327+10:00

Berner does great job of making the ridiculous sound good . The INVENTORS boasts a funny man too to sell what appears to be the stuff of new knowledge . What's really going on here? Is straight science too serious? The shows are good entertainment but not if you are a scientist and like to see scientists embarrassed. Its a party and we are all invited? Berner can be so funny and reedeming,

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-28682301235163913872008-04-11T08:41:00.003+10:002008-04-11T09:02:53.834+10:00

Tony Jones is not one to shirk a tough question - or so it seems? . The trouble with the ABc is celaerly that they ( unlike Brockie ) think that real discussion ( is a luxury - something to only do when the sitauation is really bad .Their ecozone credentails shown to be suspect . Like a nicer version of 60 minutes, the ABC probe the very private lives of others with persoanl with the "how

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-65966709135077537482008-02-18T20:58:00.008+11:002008-02-18T23:34:18.527+11:00

Comeon fellas, The new ABC 1 is intrusive and unsubtle - a logo it is not. The winding symbol is excellent and irreplacable. So why not use it . My version is not finished add some shadow and see through pin holes and you have a least 3 easy adaptions that can be very easily used for identification . ABC 1 2,and 3 . Send any commissions to Empire awardees. Copyright Emperors Academy February

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-84107924578936689542008-02-18T15:44:00.000+11:002008-02-18T15:45:16.297+11:00

First class reporting – give them another assignment . They certainly know how to take the job seriously --by reporting people------ not reporters.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-38066625247438238272008-01-16T22:40:00.000+11:002008-01-16T23:01:13.379+11:00

What a welcome surprise from the BBC ( only ever seen tonights edition on the "it must be football related" scenario ). Someone over there in Wales can still write sound drama without getting lost in the soup of personal ( The -new- Bill) and the drab of dissection( so much other stuff) . Where are the australian writers who can report the stuff of dilemma and paradox in our own worlds? ABC ads "

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-21131799459235526882007-12-14T09:47:00.000+11:002007-12-14T10:32:10.056+11:00

Really enjoyed Henry V and Compass stories of real people in monasteries, but what a drought during the week. Worse , it goes from drought to desperation.Australians are very good at getting the technical bits right; they know from the yin pedants, that reality is tops , but they forget that, on the yan side, some reality is really the pits and we already spend enough time there . Watching

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-34176285973063656852007-11-05T15:54:00.001+11:002007-11-06T08:40:58.906+11:00

---Both in cloisters-one group just doesn't recognise it Political discussions affecting farmers are all around the subject, but not on it . The terrible tragedy for rural producers is that noone on LANDLINE (ABCTV) yesterday ( even the reporters on Landline) was aware that they MUST get beyond the uneccesary and relentless pressure of dumb simplicities ----to what really threatens farmers

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-88328057032743718372007-10-23T06:44:00.000+10:002007-10-23T07:53:19.757+10:00

John Hartigan ( Andrew Olle's memorial lecture Sunday )gave a very entertaining and exemplary testimony to the mystery of authorship in the real world. It was amazing to hear,despite all the noise of mere words that surrounds him, to have him picture with some clarity ,the business of purpose and perspective for witnesses; Like Hughes had done in documenting/ reporting Tom Browns schooldays in

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-69138992108527302072007-09-08T07:38:00.000+10:002007-09-08T07:50:40.173+10:00

It was the 3rd item on the news on friday, but was it news? The reporter on this most seriuos issue of climate change and its implications on Rivers was a retired expert from business . Presumably retired experts from business have more credibility on salinity and risk management than anyone else in the State. Not sure what he was worried about but he better hope his boat is ready for the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-37459216980369586952007-08-28T23:29:00.000+10:002007-08-29T18:19:07.989+10:00

Cousins and his page limited colegues are losing the battle because they have forgotten where real credibility on the environment comes from . The real world is 3 dimensional, but most arguments about the environment are 2 dimensonal- superficial ( Julia G and G cousins speak on lateline in last few days )Labor would win hands down if they stopped playing dumb falt earth games on complex

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-52379358511554923362007-08-10T13:42:00.000+10:002007-08-10T13:46:18.992+10:00

It seems it takes a commercial rerun like midsummer murders to get ABC Tv management to stop preaching at us on sunday nights . Great to hear the ABC public telling (ON 774) that they feel starved of substance on sunday nights ( and the traditional sat and sun nights) . Boy have we been waiting for a while! Not a ABC limpit in the country has been happy with the stale old cynical church service

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-48507208679842731482007-07-28T08:24:00.000+10:002007-07-28T10:39:40.379+10:00

Thwaites and Bracks resignation is interpreted by ABC Lateline panel last night as "good timing" - not even a hint from the cool cats club of “political realists” that "something is wrong" .Why? Does it not disturb the thinking public that men say they want to leave politics for the same reason they appear to have been there in the first place –personal reasons - the high values in our society

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-30299252700160669482007-07-13T08:07:00.000+10:002007-07-13T08:43:30.216+10:00

Tony and Robin have reason to panic1. --if they threw all they could at the the swindle film , their panel of supporters was not convincing2-- Popular maybe? they so like so many our society are vulnerable to simplicities and the desire to simplify-- In relation to 2 they need to read the maladaptive tendencies of the modern media age ( outlined in the towards 2000 telecom report)--In relation

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-39583018495417762722007-07-12T19:38:00.001+10:002007-07-12T19:38:52.990+10:00

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-45394709517037107872007-07-12T14:32:00.000+10:002007-07-12T19:36:37.380+10:00

Much is expected of Tony Jones tonight . Will he bring the ABC back from the brink of predictability. When will ABC managemnet stop the ageing reactionaries from their withering vines of pedantry: from stifeling us with the same old same old .ABC managemnet seem at last to be stopping the wannabe prophets of the future from getting their way - when will the ABc realise we the audience, are

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-30966578956706795992007-06-27T08:47:00.001+10:002007-06-27T08:48:03.395+10:00

Your beauty mate . It wasn't racist but respectful truth telling and about time !

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-89200656272709039522007-05-21T23:15:00.000+10:002007-05-22T00:13:05.563+10:00

The home of sell, sell sell is no place for any of us to easily overcome our fear of people who come across too strong. Those who by their very vehemence can be expected to ignore people, logic and reason . Denton could well have presented a case that they are all mad, and got away with it . Yes, Faith people are dangerous especially those “Christains” who “ believe the impossible-“ - and can

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-40569054326678611072007-04-21T16:48:00.000+10:002007-04-21T17:03:54.492+10:00

O Brien ( 7:30 report) asked the question of the century , but Chaney didn't really answer it .I wished for a moment that we had Carleton back. Australias bureaucarcies and the change for changes sake merchants need a big bomb under them - noone seems game or competent in their questioning, even when given a good lead like Chaney gave. We don't need change; we need competence and consistency

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1176119691262995252007-04-09T21:24:00.000+10:002007-04-09T21:54:51.276+10:00

Every thinking person since the dawn of history knows that good intentions provide the fodder for the greatest waste and disaster .When ministers of the people play merry careless hell with tax incentives its even worse because they start a drip feed they can't stop .Sure they get results but not ones that put plannattaions where they make the most sense. The market will decide they say

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1175603067632761372007-04-03T22:16:00.000+10:002007-04-03T22:24:27.643+10:00

I used to think Foreign Correspeondent checked whether they were running hype instead of real reporting. I won't watch it as much now knowing its wastes listeneres time by not listening close enough when they go visisting islands overseas . supporting sensstaionalist trivailiazation and plain ignoring of tentonic activiy on the pacific faults . The flooding or sinking of islands is all down to

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1173469965145772342007-03-10T06:45:00.000+11:002007-03-12T09:03:19.566+11:00

Lateline . Unable to address the proper processing of accusations and deal with the issues -Lateline forum FRIDAY was little more than a vehicle for a noise fest from an incompetent wannabe trying to get her word in edgeways - and in the way of anything deep, she got !This is a woman who aspires to be attorney general!??

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1171892743901413722007-02-19T23:49:00.000+11:002007-02-21T22:43:00.333+11:00

(McMullan gets the experts to solve the watercrisis all in 60 minutes - a mirror of the quick fix going on the election stage at the moment . Crisis driven consensus- using pressure but not one that would offend our new Pc way of working ? If such resolutions happened at your home it would seem too good to be true.perhaps these stage sets are for fantasy distraction and entertainmnet . We

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1162943010185597262006-11-08T10:37:00.000+11:002006-11-08T10:43:30.200+11:00

RE Making poverty history in semi arid areas The question: What stands in the road of the future? The glass is certainly more than half full, but if we are going to kep the momentum going ---lets be realistics the glass does have some leaks .What stands in the road of the future? Sometimes the audience themselves. That means aid agencies and the media don’t even know what they do wrong . I know

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1162785992500744742006-11-06T15:03:00.000+11:002006-11-06T15:14:03.030+11:00

Hopefully the city will learn to cope with the drought STATELINE Friday --While Ted came out tops, he did it for a reason - he was more reasonable . Bracks, and top of the tops ABCites were not tough enough or targeted enough to touch base with the real world as well as he did .It didn't matter that the questions were toughly put - the substance on water conservation ,for example, was shallow,

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1160012636795123702006-10-05T11:36:00.000+10:002006-10-05T12:34:46.756+10:00

The too simple ABC's of ABC BUSINESS are too much . AS is too often the case on this shallow look stuff, Hon Coonan and the presenter were smiling too much to convince us the discussion was focused on real issues of eco sustainability.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1159799480850901092006-10-02T23:21:00.000+10:002006-10-05T12:48:42.396+10:00

RUDD surprises the ABC, most irreverently. "Surely your'e not taken in by all this anti-intellectual stuff, Kevin "? Surely you are still a secularist.......aren't you ? please tell us we are not being surrounded by .....by something we don't understand " Tony jones was a bit shocked , and so he could be expected to be . ABC church has been happily ignoring the great variety of keen Christians

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1159049711898959752006-09-24T06:03:00.000+10:002006-09-24T17:27:22.000+10:00

Peter Costello CHURCH STATE ACL Peter Costello used an important bridging concept in his speech to those "overly religious folks" at ACL conference yesterday; The word “science”. More here. What keeps our religious worldview in tune with reality is its ability to deal with facts. A good test of how effective your particular worldview is , surely is how effectively it works for you. Nothing

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1158448963411046342006-09-17T09:18:00.000+10:002006-09-24T06:02:33.266+10:00

We'll all be rooned, said the chicken ?Has MR GORE really added any credibility to the circus of filmmakers and fearmongers who play up to the people's fears? - I think not ; Rather the reverse. Panic merchants who peddle facts as fears ( can you visualise the falling glaciers filling up the big bath of the world ?)risk the true sustained and economic benefits of reality therapy. The annoying

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1156550597373884592006-08-26T10:01:00.000+10:002006-08-26T10:03:17.383+10:00

IDEAS ARE EVERYTHING Grahame morris made the point very well, but is anyone in the major parties really listening .Not a chance as both he and Rod pointed OUT!Even Ms MCue was concentrating on pressing HER view . Maybe people who KNOW are not being heard? . There have got to be areas of "on the nose" ideas and actions that don't work--- why haven't the stunned mullets across state and fedaerl

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1154438442428922052006-08-01T23:07:00.000+10:002006-08-01T23:29:24.993+10:00

Zee Tuesday Book Club. Peter Cundal said it all,just OLd trash .The young girl has moved on, but was afriad to overstate it lest she break ranks on the silly old chorus of ABC church worshipers . This new moral stance or ignorants surprises the chief chanter, cause she wants to belive noone ever moves on from the 70"s. To talk of morality.. cut that stuff short! Don't waste our time jennifer.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1153664095102532952006-07-23T23:24:00.000+10:002006-07-24T00:14:55.136+10:00

At least when ABC or SBS does history - some reality has to come forward . Don't watch the ABC much these days on Sunday nights cause it so timid about REPORT%ING the worst and the best of history in a way that HONORS what they did and doesn't pretend too much about what they thought in doing it . Piss off all those film makers waiting at your door ing to tell youthere version of history- its

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1151925572245840962006-07-03T21:17:00.000+10:002006-07-03T21:19:32.246+10:00

4 corners top the list of good reporting this month .Chris masters does it again or should we say Canadians have done it again . Understand health care risks before we kill medicine and risk takers. see more cuttingedgecare

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1148392854460669922006-05-23T23:56:00.000+10:002006-05-24T00:00:54.473+10:00

Lateline RE : - The festering sores and blame game centres like WadeyeI d wonder whether the ABC will survive - its now so predictably the same as itwas world view wise as it was 30yrs ago . HOW I WISH BEFORE I DIE that ABC Report the story ( a Foriegn Correspondent type story from someone else ?) of our own indigenous people properly with the ideological implications of all sides thrown

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1142286257801114132006-03-14T08:37:00.000+11:002006-03-14T08:48:22.543+11:00

Denton is one ABC presenter who takes his job seriuosly, and does it well. One way to avoid the percieved danger of singing only one tune in church or the equally woosy ban on all singing is to let the guest do it .( Bono last night)

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1140785973866161512006-02-24T23:54:00.000+11:002006-02-24T23:59:33.866+11:00

RAGE Letting the children do what they like - What a disgrace the ABC has to run a monocultural drone into the morning = what for? the good of the kids. Can't teh ABC find something different for kids on saturday mornings . You Don't win any points by playing the same old same old they get on radio - in case you haven't noticed , children need and respond to a challenge .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1140784530756515472006-02-24T23:21:00.000+11:002006-02-24T23:53:25.113+11:00

LATELINE friday SO SHALLOW i won't wait around for judith or gerard again . The discussion on Howards success was about as deep as the proverbial birdbath;judith brett having to be propped up by affirmations and explanataions from Ms Mckeew.the left needs all the help it can get . Most intellent austarialns as opposed to that fictional airy group mentioned by Judith Brett, know that the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1140611489276321712006-02-22T23:27:00.000+11:002006-02-22T23:31:29.286+11:00

the ABc maybe wanting us to switch to SBS on wedneday nights by forcing on us excessive and goulish, but the 4 corners program on the PPP rhetoric about the sydney tunnel gives the ABC big points sfor good reporting on critical areas of current crap ( watch water industry contracts for example ) .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1139751390184019712006-02-13T00:32:00.000+11:002006-02-14T09:34:20.680+11:00

Never learn much watching ABC Current A (CA)anymore- well esp early in the day/evening . Hosts control the debate to the point of protecting the comfort zone of their ageing and dwindling audiences .Stateline host FRIDAY did'nt even let Feilding make HIS points on RU486 .switching questions and calling in time . well we have no more time either for the ABC CAoldies we seldom watch CA on

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861709.post-1137624465219009232006-01-19T09:44:00.000+11:002006-01-19T09:47:45.233+11:00

Lawrence of Arabia's depression- good program Depression can get to the sword carrier after the last deaths don't make the needed difference. For more on good governance and how to avoid depressed leaders and develop realistic ones.

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