Reporting of Terrorism: Real Agents of the Fourth Estate or just Greedy Real Estate Agents8/28/2015 The public’s hunger for every image and piece of information about terrorist acts and mass-murders does not always need to be sated. I question the effort of the media to feed this hunger with endless detailed national coverage. Do they not realise that this is the exact reaction the awful perpetrators are hoping for, or are they so greedy for ratings they do not care? Would a more restrained approach to these types of attacks make society even a few percentage points safer or am I missing the crucial importance of an uncensored media?
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I was leaning towards the giants pre-game, based on only reports that Essendon’s form line was flat-lining quicker than respect for Nick Krgios. However this was without having seen either team actually play (still that is more than enough knowledge of a situation for Tony Abbott to try to tell qualified scientists about renewable energy and climate change, so maybe I was giving myself a hard time).
More Gillon McLachlan took over as AFL Commissioner at a fairly challenging time and has been a skilled media performer to this point, but I felt his recent foray into the discussion over a Tasmanian team seemed a little insincere.
Read more Nobody loves Nick Kyrgios.
Why is that? If he played cricket, soccer, football or any other sport where sledging is pretty common and almost condoned, would there have been the same reaction then? Read more Richmond made a dream start to this game. They scored their first goal quickly, ripping the ball out their defensive 50, running and handballing through the centre of the ground before a kick inside 50 allowed Vickery to mark ahead of his player, before handballing over the top for Lloyd to run into an open goal. They quickly goaled again when Maric won a free in the ruck and kicked long, where Riewoldt’s quick handpass released Lambert to kick a goal on the run from the pocket.
The Collingwood defence was leaking like federal cabinet and it was starting to look ominous soon after, when Hunt chopped off another clearing kick and kicked to the goal square where Lloyd marked in the pack and goaled again. Collingwood weren’t as bad as the scoreline suggested though. Read more I've written about the intellectual poverty of the arguments against Marriage Equality elsewhere, but the issue continues to amaze me. This week’s antics by Tony Abbott, made me wonder is anyone actually advising him at the moment with an eye to public perception.
Aside from alienating members of his own party with his staunch refusal to allow a conscience vote and his insistence that National Party MPs be included in the party room vote to bolster his numbers, Abbott also comes out again looking like a liar. Only a few months ago, after Ireland’s successful referendum, he was asked if he would consider a similar referendum in Australia and replied that under the constitution parliament was the proper forum to debate any change to the Marriage Act. Now, seeing that he does not have the support in parliament, he has turned back towards a referendum. More I don’t normally find Sam Newman funny (probably because I finished puberty some time ago) but he pulled out some of his best comedy last week.
As part of a humorous monologue where he lambasted AFL players for wanting to use their status to promote progressive issues such as inclusion, he kept a perfectly straight face as he said, “I am a white, Anglo Saxon, male, Protestant, heterosexual and I am waiting for my day to come, and when it does I will be first in line to say how stupid is this?” Then someone told me it wasn’t a joke and it became much less humorous. Actually it was sad. More |
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