It’s one of those “what-ifs” of history. You know – what if the Japanese in World War 2 had modern fighter planes, what if the Romans had tanks, what if the Spanish Armada was composed of steamships. But another version involves communications. What if the internet, mobile phones, twitter and email, digital still and video [...]
Posts Tagged ‘television’
Fiddling while Rome burns
Posted in Media, politics, tagged history, media, Syria, television on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Ignorance is strength
Posted in Education, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Climate Change, conservation, creationism, education, elections, george orwell, history, media, public schools, religion, science, television on January 30, 2012 | 21 Comments »
How can every human being on the planet not spend their days being puzzled about pretty much everything? Every day I ask myself questions like: How does that work? Why did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What was the purpose of that? Where did that come from? Constantly, one or more of the [...]
Where the pine-clad ridges raise
Posted in Environment, Media, tagged australia, Cattle in high country, conservation, ecology, environment, man from snowy river, mountain cattlemen, nsw politics, science, Snowy river, television on January 15, 2012 | 9 Comments »
This morning (15 January 2012) I experienced an unpleasant sense of deja vu as Australia’s tv channel 7 ran a propaganda piece for the so-called “mountain cattlemen” who are battling the federal government to once again allow their cattle to smash up the national parks of the high country. The new conservative Vic state government [...]
Fit to print
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australia, Climate Change, education, elections, media, media inquiry, newspapers, press council, television on November 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Much talk about the Australian media inquiry lately, and the inquiry into Murdoch’s activities in Britain. Calls for regulation on the one hand, outraged reaction about government control of a free press on the other. Fairfax Media chairman Roger Corbett said limits on media would be a ‘terrible mistake’. The Right emerged blinking from Think [...]
That’s Entertainment
Posted in Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Brendan Nelson, elections, federal election, julia gillard, kevin rudd, malcolm turnbull, media, television, tony abbott on October 16, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Long long ago, as the oldest of my Watermelon friends may just remember, there used to be talent competitions in community and media. At Eisteddfords performers performed, judges judged, winners grinned, losers were praised and encouraged, audiences applauded loudly in appreciation. Then the geniuses who produce tv programs decided this was all wrong. In the [...]
The loaded hot dog
Posted in Economics, Media, tagged alcohol, australia, drugs, education, food, health, junk food, media, television on October 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Did you see where Denmark has placed an extra tax on fatty foods to try to begin reducing obesity problems in their society? Don’t know why the Scandinavians are so much better at this kind of thing than we are. Yes I do. The other day an expert suggested raising the tax on soft drinks, [...]
Odds on
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australian election, Carbon Tax, economy, elections, federal election, infrastructure, julia gillard, media, television, tony abbott on September 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
There is a curious political narrative (I could write a book on curious political narratives) beloved not just of journalists but of political commentators, supposedly a much more serious breed of political observer. A discussion will be under way about, say, leadership questions, or the date of next election, or the winner of a bye-election, [...]
You give me fever
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australian election, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, economy, history, iraq, media, religion, science, television, tony abbott on September 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When you have a fever your perception of the world gets distorted, your brain cells manipulated by virus and high temperature to see all kinds of things that are not there. Chemotherapy is similar. After you have it you are left not knowing what changes to your body are the result of the illness, which [...]
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