Wheelies

Most western news is tailored to sell advertising time/space.

Even one of our local channels has the slogan "The news you want to
see" whereas I'd rather just see the news that is.

Thank Gore for the internet.

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...
http://toosmoky.d2.net.au

http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/
http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/
http://www.iraq-iraqis.blogspot.com/
http://www.roadofanation.com/
http://www.messopotamian.blogspot.com/

http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves/
http://tinyurl.com/3rs6x

http://moorelies.com/
http://www.moorewatch.com/
http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com/

http://www.jihadwatch.org/
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/

 

Sure, but are you aware of the active editorialising over content - it's
not just what sells ads (which I can cope with) it's when senior manager
s and the proprietor cast aside any attempt at being unbiased or
providing a balanced view point and selectively and deliberately report
only one side of the news. You put in your links below stuff criticising
Moore for being one sided yet Murdoch has been systematically doing so
on Fox for over a decade:

"On 23 October 2003 Charles Reina, a former [fox] employee, blew the
whistle on just how shamelessly Murdoch's number one American propaganda
outlet, Fox news - the [self proclaimed] "fair and balanced network" -
corrodes the democratic pact between government and governed:

The roots of fox news' day to day on air basis are actual and direct.
They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically
each morning, addressing what stories will be covered and often,
suggesting how they should be covered. To the newsroom personnel
responsible for the channel's daytime programming "the memo" is the
bible. If on any given day you notice the fox anchors seem to be trying
to drive a particular point home, you can bet "the memo" is behind
it......and, intentionally or not, has ensured that the administration's
point of view consistently comes across on Fox news.....for instance
from the march 20 [2002] memo "there is something utterly
incomprehensible about kofi annan's remarks in which he allows that his
thoughts are with the iraqi people. One could ask where these thoughts
were during the 23 years saddam was brutalising those same iraqis" (1)

And if you think Reina is just one disgruntled former employee, how
about our very own Max "the Axe" Moore Wilton, Johnny's right hand man
until very recently:

"In terms of what the Fox network has done during the whole security
debate issue, the way in which the australian has refocussed itself in
the last 12 month, the impact is enormous...I think Murdoch's power goes
well beyond covert....The biggest change has been the way Rupert has
harnessed his TV networks on issues in the last 12 months. He has
harnessed them very brutally"(2)

There's a big difference between say reporting only your local issues
because as an American you don't care about anything outside your own
country, and deliberately slanting what is reported to serve a political
purpose. Just about everything owned by Murdoch suffers from it to some
extent. Packer isn't as blatant but there's a bit of it happening.

Democracy needs a free press, Australia has the highest media ownership
concentration in the world and it removes the ability of dissenting
voices being heard, it allows our prime minister to ignore the people
(as both Howard AND Keating were/are happy to do).

It's not a Liberal thing, Labor is also guilty, but it's up to us to not
stand for it.

JL
(1) http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=53018
(2) Australian Financial Review 1 October 2003
--
http://www.johnhowardlies.com/
The lie:
"We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans."
John Howard, September 2002
The facts:
But one year earlier John Howard offered George Bush a blank cheque just
two days after September 11, 2001 when he said: "I've indicated
Australia will provide all support that might be requested of us by the
United States in relation to any action that might be taken."

 

Thanks Doug, it is interesting to see that in some respects, Iraqis are
as divided as we are here. I was particularly taken by this: "Well; one
may argue that the Philippinos realised their size at last! They
discovered that the Ants are unable to join the Elephants for a walk! On
the same time they learn that the Bats are incapable to face the day
light and the heavy weight may only be carried out by the Camels not the
Rabbits!" Almost on-topic here in aus.moto...

This is good too: "yesterday, the ban on Muqtada’s radical paper got
removed. Is this how we are going to build democracy?!" Well that's sort
of how it works in the established democracies... "free press" means that
you can be free if you have a press.

But since you don't have a quote from John Winston Stalin, that's a blue-
ribbon "whoosh"

Gary

--

"My Government will always seek to be truthful and open with the
Australian public."

John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia

"According to Hitwise, JOHNHOWARDLIES.COM is the number 1 Australian
political website visited by Australian Internet users as of 16th July,
2004."

http://www.johnhowardlies.com/

 

As opposed to Osama bin Latham?...

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...
http://toosmoky.d2.net.au

 

X-No-archive: yes

Good work!
I find it's much easier to start small and increase until you're where you
want instead of starting big and backing off until you are!
Clem
("speed up until you start to crash and then back off a little.....")

 

I wasn't familar with Fox until others in others threw the accusation
that I was a compulsive Fox watcher at me... Seems it's the west's
answer to Al Jazeera... http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

Maybe we should ask Richard Branson if he can break the two party system
with a low cost political party. The VirginPollie Party perhaps...

--
Toosmoky.
Ride the Penguin...
http://toosmoky.d2.net.au

http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/
http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/
http://www.iraq-iraqis.blogspot.com/
http://www.roadofanation.com/
http://www.messopotamian.blogspot.com/

http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves/
http://tinyurl.com/3rs6x

http://moorelies.com/
http://www.moorewatch.com/
http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com/

http://www.jihadwatch.org/
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/

 

I think you'll find that Al Jazeera are actually trying very hard to
present both sides of the story - which is exactly why the US hates them
so much - they keep presenting the views of people they would prefer to
be muzzled, as well as the views of the whitehouse (some of the
incumbents of which should be muzzled).

Go watch the movie "control room" and tell me if you still think they're
a propaganda outfit, or just simply an Arabic news channel trying to
present both sides.

Heheheh

JL
--
http://www.johnhowardlies.com/
The lie:
"We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans."
John Howard, September 2002
The facts:
But one year earlier John Howard offered George Bush a blank cheque just
two days after September 11, 2001 when he said: "I've indicated
Australia will provide all support that might be requested of us by the
United States in relation to any action that might be taken."

 

Virgins?

Are they still making them?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:09:34 +1000

Yup. any university computer terminal room after 9pm is full of them.

Zebee

 

That¹s, what, the third time you've used that joke? Almost as good as
breast cancer jokes.

Hammo

 

Yep - and we still keep fixing them

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

~
Yes; I can only imagine it.......
Clem

 

When I was young...a long time ago....I had a t-shirt with "virgin
conversion unit" printed on the front.

The only virgin I had converted at the time was me.

 

Mate; RESULT!!!
If only I'd had that t-shirt from 1973 to .... ummm.... [checks
calendar]......
Clem

 

Spoken like a true Tasmanian.....

--
Yours Fraternally
Unclescum
It's a lot easier to get forgiveness
then it is to get permission.
The truth revealed by Tim Moran

 

Yairs, I think I've got a similar problem at the moment - top speed is
down to 120kph (downhill) and it has similar acceleration to my truck!
:-(

The RII model is definitely the go-faster version, it even has an
alloy brake pedal and gear shifter (which presumably saves massive
amounts of weight over the plain old R model's steel fittings!)


BTH

 

The lying, incompetent, destructive prick we'll be trying to kick out in
3 years time? Yeah, go for it...

Gary

--

"My Government will always seek to be truthful and open with the
Australian public."

John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia

"According to Hitwise, JOHNHOWARDLIES.COM is the number 1 Australian
political website visited by Australian Internet users as of 16th July,
2004."

http://www.johnhowardlies.com/

 

Maybe Faux News won't be deluding its viewers much longer:

"Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel is being taken to the federal trade
commission over claims that its boast of being "fair and balanced" is a
fraud."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1265619,00.html


Gary

--

"My Government will always seek to be truthful and open with the
Australian public."

John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia

"According to Hitwise, JOHNHOWARDLIES.COM is the number 1 Australian
political website visited by Australian Internet users as of 16th July,
2004."

http://www.johnhowardlies.com/

 

Go on BT,complete the set...


Postman Pat

 

Ow! Ow! My arm! OK, OK, I'll do it! ;-)


BTH