Brian McNair ( Cultural Chaos : journalism, news and power in a globalised world), Routledge 2006, has a powerful new theory to explain what is happening to traditional media and traditional "sources" in the 21st century ,under the impact of new media technology.
But is new globalizing technology enough, in and of itself, to dramatically change the way we find out about what is new - and from whom ?
Friday, July 6, 2012
News Story of the Century isn't inside their smoke-filled rooms, its "outside", in OUR smoke-filled world ...
If money-losing newspapers were serious about cutting costs and adjusting to new realities, they ditch all of their national legislative bureaus and engage much more seriously in citizen journalism.
Because this is a new century, not the 20th century, one where the non-actions of most political parties in national legislatures are of less and less interest to the public, as party membership numbers and voter turnout proves.
Because this is a new century, not the 20th century, one where the non-actions of most political parties in national legislatures are of less and less interest to the public, as party membership numbers and voter turnout proves.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
"CARBON LOADING" : 'Carbon ate my homework' replacing unions as Aussie all-purpose scapegoat
Birth of a MEME Alert: "Carbon Loading".
Truly "Greeds Never Sleeps".
No sooner did Australia announce that it planned to introduce a carbon tax, smart businessmen figured they could have "their bread and eat it too".
Truly "Greeds Never Sleeps".
No sooner did Australia announce that it planned to introduce a carbon tax, smart businessmen figured they could have "their bread and eat it too".
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
MODERNITY's 'change of climate' : modernism's doubters vs true believers
Appearances much to the contrary, I am NOT a defender of the viability of the theory of a sharp change in the physical climate, caused by excess human-originated CO2 in the atmosphere.
Rather, I prefer to see myself as first and foremost an attacker of the viability of the climate of Modernity. Its continued viability is what I choose to doubt.
Rather, I prefer to see myself as first and foremost an attacker of the viability of the climate of Modernity. Its continued viability is what I choose to doubt.
Three cords and a (broad) band : PUNK journalism
Once upon a time, long ago and far away, there was an orphan feller from way out in the country ; a yokel with a Gibson J-200, a boom box dreadnought with only three frets ,way up at the cowboy end of the stick.
Real dumb I know (!!!!!!) , but this musically-challenged rustic claimed that was all he needed to be a real big songwriter.
Just three chords and the truth.
Real dumb I know (!!!!!!) , but this musically-challenged rustic claimed that was all he needed to be a real big songwriter.
Just three chords and the truth.
DEANE PRIEST led to Canberra guillotine while pot-banging housewives jeer
Whoa Pony ! Not quite there yet , but there is no doubt Aussie housewives are hot to trot about the soaring prices at the outlets of the Brumby's Bakery chain.
I learned all this from Mike at Watching the Deniers who in turn got it from The West Australian, who first broke the story - kudos to them !
Deane Priest , the MD (boss) of the chain wrote a chatty little newsletter to all of the chain's franchisee telling them to jack up prices in July and just blame it all on the new Carbon Tax.
I learned all this from Mike at Watching the Deniers who in turn got it from The West Australian, who first broke the story - kudos to them !
Deane Priest , the MD (boss) of the chain wrote a chatty little newsletter to all of the chain's franchisee telling them to jack up prices in July and just blame it all on the new Carbon Tax.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
"Enough about Carbon worries" say Aussie papers in co-ordinated move," lets talk about deep SPACEY dreams instead"
Dreams indeed !
What better way to divert the minds of Aussie readers from deep thinking about the best way to reduce fatal excess carbon in our skies (carbon trading versus regulation versus revenue- neutral taxation for example) than some deep spacey dreaming.
Atta boy ! In times of deep trouble, don't worry, be happy : dream
deep spacey dreams.
Forget your bathing suit, come on in : the Acid has never been better.
What better way to divert the minds of Aussie readers from deep thinking about the best way to reduce fatal excess carbon in our skies (carbon trading versus regulation versus revenue- neutral taxation for example) than some deep spacey dreaming.
Atta boy ! In times of deep trouble, don't worry, be happy : dream
deep spacey dreams.
Forget your bathing suit, come on in : the Acid has never been better.
EPA is not required to reprove the existence of the atom every time it approaches a scientific question
Like most of you, I only know a few famous quotes concerning courts of appeal (life is too short, it is not ?)
There is Mr Dooley's devastating quip that "while the Constitution might follow the Flag , the Supreme Court follows the Election Returns".
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr 's clarion call to start the Holocaust, when in the infamous case of Buck versus Bell, he declared "three generations of imbeciles is enough" as the Supreme Court of America okayed the Science of Negative Eugenics and Hitler applauded.
Now a brand new quote is entering "The Book of Famous Law Quotes" .
There is Mr Dooley's devastating quip that "while the Constitution might follow the Flag , the Supreme Court follows the Election Returns".
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr 's clarion call to start the Holocaust, when in the infamous case of Buck versus Bell, he declared "three generations of imbeciles is enough" as the Supreme Court of America okayed the Science of Negative Eugenics and Hitler applauded.
Now a brand new quote is entering "The Book of Famous Law Quotes" .
Pierre-Simon Laplace & Denier-Determinism rebuked by US Federal Court of Appeals
It seems eternal vigilance is the price we must all pay for freedom from the scourge of Denialism.
Around the clock, around the world, thousands of ordinary citizens are scanning their newspapers, their computer screens and TV sets to catch the latest outrage of denialism and stem it before it spreads.
I didn't catch the recent decision of the US Federal Court of Appeals, in which it ruled that the EPA is not required to re-prove the existence of the atom , every time it approaches a scientific question.
But I subscribe to an email feed from Watching the Deniers (and so should you) and Mike there had caught the story.
Around the clock, around the world, thousands of ordinary citizens are scanning their newspapers, their computer screens and TV sets to catch the latest outrage of denialism and stem it before it spreads.
I didn't catch the recent decision of the US Federal Court of Appeals, in which it ruled that the EPA is not required to re-prove the existence of the atom , every time it approaches a scientific question.
But I subscribe to an email feed from Watching the Deniers (and so should you) and Mike there had caught the story.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Supreme Court rules: you have to be stupid to vote Republican, as 400,000 plan move to Canada to 'avoid socialized medicine'
Buzzfeed tracks the stuff going viral on the Net and it reports hundreds of thousands of Facebook "likes" and Twitter tweets on the idea that Republican Americans should head to Canada to "avoid the Democrats ' socialized medicine".
the Wild West of the climate wars: miners versus farmers
Think back to all those western movies of our youth : and envision today's climate deniers as the mining barons back then with today's climate renewers as the farmer settlers.
Farmers husband their soil , 'renewing' it and they expect to have at least a dozen generations of family occupying the family farm.
In a word, they settle - they commit to something and stick with it, fight hard to keep it alive forever.
Today's farm is Earth 1.0 : for the renewers, it is Life's only known foxhole in a hostile universe, and only "if you know a better 'ole , should you go to it" is their attitude to talk of Mars colonies if the Earth bellyflops.
Farmers husband their soil , 'renewing' it and they expect to have at least a dozen generations of family occupying the family farm.
In a word, they settle - they commit to something and stick with it, fight hard to keep it alive forever.
Today's farm is Earth 1.0 : for the renewers, it is Life's only known foxhole in a hostile universe, and only "if you know a better 'ole , should you go to it" is their attitude to talk of Mars colonies if the Earth bellyflops.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Aussies in YELLOW (PERIL) LEVEL moral panic over carbon tax, but BC is okay on its tax
Thanks to a world wide fifth column of denier-watchers, I can keep up with denier activities all over the world.
Mike at WATCHING THE DENIERS is full of vim and vinegar over the deniers there attacking the new carbon tax.
It seems to be that Aussie-land is reliving its WHITE AUSTRALIA moral panic mode, only this time over The-Carbon- Tax-Peril (color undefined).
Mike at WATCHING THE DENIERS is full of vim and vinegar over the deniers there attacking the new carbon tax.
It seems to be that Aussie-land is reliving its WHITE AUSTRALIA moral panic mode, only this time over The-Carbon- Tax-Peril (color undefined).
THINK TANK boards should reveal funding - or go to jail
Its getting hard for a selfish man to find a secret place to put his greedy gains to work ,manipulating public policy for profit.
Face it, more and more nations are forcing political parties to reveal their funding and spending. They are registering lobbyists. They are prosecuting companies for offering or accepting bribes.
Even the banks (!) are getting done for looking the other way with laundered money.
Thank God then for those people of the forthright and plain spoken advise, the think tank.
Face it, more and more nations are forcing political parties to reveal their funding and spending. They are registering lobbyists. They are prosecuting companies for offering or accepting bribes.
Even the banks (!) are getting done for looking the other way with laundered money.
Thank God then for those people of the forthright and plain spoken advise, the think tank.
who is WATCHING THE 63% of australians who are DENIERS ?
I will keep repeating it until I am not just red in the face, but a whale of a rainbow of colours in the face:
The true measure of the numbers of deniers in our world is not the number of highly vocal, well paid, loonies but rather it is the percentage of ordinary citizens (us) who deny we need real carbon taxes to actually cut global warming.In the Australia that is home to "WATCHING THE DENIERS" , that percentage is 63%, according to the latest polls from the Lowy Institute on the Gillard Government's new (& very modest) carbon tax. Green voters ? 38% of them are also opposed to this carbon tax. Weak reeds indeed !!
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