Media Watch

Labor, Liberal, Greens, Democrats? Here's the place to discuss.

Re: Media Watch

Postby mick » Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:38 am

Leaping Lindner wrote:
Squawk wrote:
redandblack wrote:As an exercise, Wedgie and Squawk, perhaps you could list those media outlets and reporters who yu think are biased towards Labor.


Unfortunately I dont get to read as much media reporting as I'd like to, and typically my intake is on-line rather than hard copy which means you dont see it all. I'd like to take in more TV and radio too, but regrettably can't fit that in much at the moment either.

What I will say though is that Labor has one thing going for it. Most of the Australian Education sector is left-minded, and especially universities. Their academics should be called indoctrinators by and large. Any dissenting view of the Left is rarely welcomed, any complementary view is often rewarded. I'd love to see a breakdown of the voting patterns of people say 18-25 and compare them with other age cohorts. I guess that can only be guesstimated through polling 500 people at a time though.....

Anyone who goes to University seems to grow up drinking Coopers at the Uni bars and listening to the left half of the country wax lyrical.

I'm still getting over my results from that automatic polling tendency thing we did pre-election, where I was almost equal across the line of the three major parties!


Then they graduate, get jobs as Lawyers,accountants, doctors, start wearing blue and brown and complaining about bloody radical uni students. :lol:


As someone who spent 8 years in two Australian Universities during the golden age of left wing radicalism in the 1970s the above is a good assessment by Sqauwk and the reason why I think Brendan Nelson as education minister abolished the compulsory student fee, this converted the universities from vibrant institutions to glorified high schools. Leaping is also right nothing like a little a little cash to convert a socialist to the "right way" ;) :lol:
User avatar
mick
League - Best 21
 
 
Posts: 1639
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:34 am
Location: On the banks of the Murray
Has liked: 1 time
Been liked: 0 time

Re: Media Watch

Postby redandblack » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:52 am

I see that well-known Victorian moderate, Andew Bolt, who somehow gets a regular column in the Murdoch Advertiser, thinks the Independents should support Abbott.

I'm shocked :shock:
redandblack
 

Re: Media Watch

Postby Ronnie » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:49 am

its a big generalisation of course but as a block of voters labor would be heavily represented in the educational sector, journalistic ranks, and public sector employees.
They tend to be average to well paid and in many cases are not exposed to the realities of a turbulent economy in the way that private sector and small business people are. In my opinion they're the kind of people who are more interested in saying the correct thing than taking a good hard look at what policies actually work in the real world without betraying our Judeo/Christian values.
In my time at Uni the philisophy department were avowed Marxists which was kind of funny as the Berlin wall was about to come down.. Some of them quite frankly had their head up their arses.
Anyway, most left wing parties have moved to the centre in recent times so the differences are not so great and as a society we aren't so tribalised anymore.
Ronnie
Reserves
 
Posts: 809
Joined: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:57 am
Has liked: 8 times
Been liked: 91 times

Re: Media Watch

Postby redandblack » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:26 am

I see (through blogs) that Katter gave the media a huge spray yesterday about their reporting of the campaign.

It was barely reported, but the headlines today are about an old story where Katter threatened a Lib MP.

Obvious coincidence, of course.
redandblack
 

Re: Media Watch

Postby topsywaldron » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:28 pm

Here's one of the better pieces I've read about the election. If the crypto fascists who post here :D ignore who it's by even they might find it entertaining. She seems to hate both sides. :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... of-Oz.html
'People are not stupid. They know when they are being conned. And two reserves teams operating in a League competition will reduce it to a farce, a competition without a soul.'

Dion Hayman 24th July 2013
User avatar
topsywaldron
Veteran
 
Posts: 3512
Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:16 pm
Has liked: 21 times
Been liked: 218 times

Re: Media Watch

Postby am Bays » Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:16 pm

Ahh Germaine Greer, didn't know she still had a pulse. Germaine the looney left's Pauline Hanson. Didn't think anyone took any notice of her, apart from the British Murdoch media who wheel her out when they want to sink the slipper into Australia.
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
User avatar
am Bays
Coach
 
 
Posts: 19758
Joined: Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:04 pm
Location: The back bar at Lennies
Has liked: 184 times
Been liked: 2128 times

Re: Media Watch

Postby topsywaldron » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:42 am

am Bays wrote:Ahh Germaine Greer, didn't know she still had a pulse. Germaine the looney left's Pauline Hanson. Didn't think anyone took any notice of her, apart from the British Murdoch media who wheel her out when they want to sink the slipper into Australia.


So you read as far as the byline then?
'People are not stupid. They know when they are being conned. And two reserves teams operating in a League competition will reduce it to a farce, a competition without a soul.'

Dion Hayman 24th July 2013
User avatar
topsywaldron
Veteran
 
Posts: 3512
Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:16 pm
Has liked: 21 times
Been liked: 218 times

Re: Media Watch

Postby Wedgie » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:50 am

Even though thr Poms gave us all their crims I reckon we're in front after giving them Greer. :lol:
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
User avatar
Wedgie
Site Admin
 
 
Posts: 51721
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:00 am
Has liked: 2153 times
Been liked: 4093 times
Grassroots Team: Noarlunga

Re: Media Watch

Postby mick » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:58 am

Not a bad read, with plenty of gratuitous cruelty and character assasination. I found the description of Gillard's boyfriend particularly bad but I suppose he's collateral damage, suprisingly (maybe not) Abbott's wife and daughters escape (because they are female? :shock: ). It is, apart from the nastiness a fair assessment of the last 4-6 weeks, although not suprisingly I disagree with the one line conclusion. :lol:
User avatar
mick
League - Best 21
 
 
Posts: 1639
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:34 am
Location: On the banks of the Murray
Has liked: 1 time
Been liked: 0 time

Re: Media Watch

Postby Magpiespower » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:20 am

'The Better Self', Louis Nowra's recent essay on Greer in The Monthly is a better read...
Everyone can eat s#!t! A big bag of s#!t! I'm the greatest man in the world!
User avatar
Magpiespower
Coach
 
 
Posts: 6292
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:12 am
Location: Salisbury
Has liked: 0 time
Been liked: 125 times
Grassroots Team: Salisbury

Re: Media Watch

Postby am Bays » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:41 am

topsywaldron wrote:
am Bays wrote:Ahh Germaine Greer, didn't know she still had a pulse. Germaine the looney left's Pauline Hanson. Didn't think anyone took any notice of her, apart from the British Murdoch media who wheel her out when they want to sink the slipper into Australia.


So you read as far as the byline then?


Nah I read it, similar rant to most of her articles of recent times, meh....
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
User avatar
am Bays
Coach
 
 
Posts: 19758
Joined: Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:04 pm
Location: The back bar at Lennies
Has liked: 184 times
Been liked: 2128 times

Re: Media Watch

Postby topsywaldron » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:57 am

mick wrote:a fair assessment of the last 4-6 weeks


I've come over all giddy.

Next I'll be agreeing with Andrew Bolt. :D
'People are not stupid. They know when they are being conned. And two reserves teams operating in a League competition will reduce it to a farce, a competition without a soul.'

Dion Hayman 24th July 2013
User avatar
topsywaldron
Veteran
 
Posts: 3512
Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:16 pm
Has liked: 21 times
Been liked: 218 times

Re: Media Watch

Postby Wedgie » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:18 pm

How's the photo on the front page of th Advertiser today?
Is Swan going to:
a) Get on his knees to Katter
b) Kiss his hand
c) Curtsey
d) Suck him off
e) All of the above
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
User avatar
Wedgie
Site Admin
 
 
Posts: 51721
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:00 am
Has liked: 2153 times
Been liked: 4093 times
Grassroots Team: Noarlunga

Re: Media Watch

Postby JohnnyG » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:25 pm

Wedgie wrote:How's the photo on the front page of th Advertiser today?
Is Swan going to:
a) Get on his knees to Katter
b) Kiss his hand
c) Curtsey
d) Suck him off
e) All of the above



At least any of those options above are rather more civilised than raping us up the arse as Abbott would
User avatar
JohnnyG
Rookie
 
 
Posts: 125
Joined: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:59 pm
Has liked: 138 times
Been liked: 12 times
Grassroots Team: Kenilworth

Re: Media Watch

Postby Wedgie » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:29 pm

I love it when raping up the arse and civilised are used in the same sentence, Im guessing you're not a Liberal voter mate? :lol:
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
User avatar
Wedgie
Site Admin
 
 
Posts: 51721
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:00 am
Has liked: 2153 times
Been liked: 4093 times
Grassroots Team: Noarlunga

Re: Media Watch

Postby JohnnyG » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:36 pm

Wedgie wrote:I love it when raping up the arse and civilised are used in the same sentence, Im guessing you're not a Liberal voter mate? :lol:



liberal - yes
Liberal - no

Let me just add that i have never had as much disdain for a party leader in Australia as much as i have for Abbott (and that includes such illuminaries as Bjelke & Pauline Hanson) :)
User avatar
JohnnyG
Rookie
 
 
Posts: 125
Joined: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:59 pm
Has liked: 138 times
Been liked: 12 times
Grassroots Team: Kenilworth

Re: Media Watch

Postby redandblack » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:05 am

Watch The Australian do everything they can to try to force a new election.

They're supposed to be a national newspaper, not a Tony Abbott cheer squad.
redandblack
 

Re: Media Watch

Postby Psyber » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:45 pm

redandblack wrote:Watch The Australian do everything they can to try to force a new election.
They're supposed to be a national newspaper, not a Tony Abbott cheer squad.
If there were a new election I'd expect the Labor voters who voted Green in protest to flock back, and the ALP to win.
[Unless of course something else comes out of the woodwork before it happens to scare the centralist swinging voters off the ALP.]
EPIGENETICS - Lamarck was right!
User avatar
Psyber
Coach
 
 
Posts: 12247
Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:43 pm
Location: Now back in the Adelaide Hills.
Has liked: 104 times
Been liked: 405 times
Grassroots Team: Hahndorf

Re: Media Watch

Postby Dogwatcher » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:11 pm

JohnnyG wrote:
Wedgie wrote:How's the photo on the front page of th Advertiser today?
Is Swan going to:
a) Get on his knees to Katter
b) Kiss his hand
c) Curtsey
d) Suck him off
e) All of the above



At least any of those options above are rather more civilised than raping us up the arse as Abbott would


f) Anything of that nature that Abbott hasn't already done.
You're my only friend, and you don't even like me.
Dogwatcher
Coach
 
 
Posts: 29318
Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:29 am
Location: The Bronx
Has liked: 1425 times
Been liked: 1152 times
Grassroots Team: Elizabeth

Re: Media Watch

Postby Q. » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:10 pm

User avatar
Q.
Coach
 
 
Posts: 22019
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:16 pm
Location: El Dorado
Has liked: 970 times
Been liked: 2397 times
Grassroots Team: Houghton Districts

PreviousNext

Board index   General Talk  Politics

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests

Around the place

Competitions   SANFL Official Site | Country Footy SA | Southern Football League | VFL Footy
Club Forums   Snouts Louts | The Roost | Redlegs Forum |