Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 3: Try Hard with a Kengeance

[Lagooner]

Some journos are f@#kin pigs with no regard (or perhaps appreciation) for the damage they do in their jobs.

 

[chiwigi]

Some journos are f@#kin pigs with no regard (or perhaps appreciation) for the damage they do in their jobs.

I agree quite often, but their job is to report the news and in this case this is what they are doing.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Journalists aren't paid to think. They're paid to muck rake, after all - it's what pays their salaries.

If people stopped reading it, they would be forced to change. Alas, there are more than enough intellectual cacti in the world to fuel the machine.

 

[Schulzenfest]

A reporter for Fairfax media, took a photo of the offending sight, writing: “There is a POO on my train. It smells.”

Pulitzer worthy.

 

[Lagooner]

I agree quite often, but their job is to report the news and in this case this is what they are doing.

Yeah but what they decide is "the news" and how they report it is questionable on a daily basis.

 

[chiwigi]

Yeah but what they decide is "the news" and how they report it is questionable on a daily basis.

The market decides.

Hackett was a government funded superstar, anything he does is potentially news.

 

[Lagooner]

The market decides.

Hackett was a government funded superstar, anything he does is potentially news.

Schadenfreude is big business.

 

[CharlieKelly]

Schadenfreude is big business.

that's exactly how Adelaide's football media operates

 

[chiwigi]

Schadenfreude is big business.

It certainly is.

It's how Facebook works and how we can remain interested in footy once our team is out.

 

[Steve Dore]

The market decides.

Hackett was a government funded superstar, anything he does is potentially news.

I agree it is news and should be reported but the circumstances don't warrant a front page spread. But then I suppose nothing more newsworthy happened in the world yesterday.



I'll admit that when I saw the headline "Power Tools" I did wonder what Jarman had done now.

 

[chiwigi]

I agree it is news and should be reported but the circumstances don't warrant a front page spread. But then I suppose nothing more newsworthy happened in the world yesterday.

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I'll admit that when I saw the headline "Power Tools" I did wonder what Jarman had done now.

Oh how they like to have a sideswipe with the Power headlines.

 

[1954]

Journalists have been the same the world over for decades, often looking for an angle to a story that isn't even there.

I saw an old Beatle's doco a few days ago from when they arrived in the US in 1964, and many of the questions they were asked by mid to late 30's reporters, were of kindergarten playground quality.

All four handled themselves extremely well, particularly Lennon, who virtually smacked every banal question aimed at him out of the park, and the dumb septic tank reporters didn't even realise he was taking the p*ss.

Eg `how do you find America? '
Lennon's response `turn left at Greenland. '

 

[shotgun_blues]

Next reality TV hit show "Hanging With The Hacketts". Would be a riot.

New Aussie lexicon..
"Getting Hacketted!" = Big night or bender of biblical proportions which results in a) an injury or b) an arrest.

 

[CharlieKelly]

transcript of Billionaire owner who's taken over Tribune newspapers in America at a meeting with journalists in Orlando...

"My attitude on journalism is very simple, I wanna make enough money so I can afford you, it's really that simple, OK? You need to, in effect, help me by being a journalist that focuses on what our readers want and therefore, generates more revenue."

"But what our readers want are puppy dogs, and I mean, we also need to inform the community..."

" I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't -- you know, you're...you're giving me the classic, what I would call journalistic arrogance of deciding that puppies don't count. Hopefully we get to the point where our revenue is so significant that we can do puppies and Iraq, OK?.....**** you!"

 

[Steve Dore]

Journalists have been the same the world over for decades, often looking for an angle to a story that isn't even there.

I saw an old Beatle's doco a few days ago from when they arrived in the US in 1964, and many of the questions they were asked by mid to late 30's reporters, were of kindergarten playground quality.

All four handled themselves extremely well, particularly Lennon, who virtually smacked every banal question aimed at him out of the park, and the dumb septic tank reporters didn't even realise he was taking the p*ss.

Eg `how do you find America? '
Lennon's response `turn left at Greenland. '

I was talking about being in the USA a few years back and I was asked how'd I find New York city. My response was "I got off the plane at LaGuardia". I thought I was being original

 

[Doctor Feel]

> John Oliver

 

[finbarr]

Ok, so just caught up. Edgie broke into the house of some girl who denied him sexually and rummaged through her stuff before going to her balcony to admire the vista. I am not shocked at all by this news.

 

[Far Kern]

You're kidding yourself if you think Adelaide's public transport has a poo-free record...

lol, "Things you never expected to read."

 

[Steve Dore]

lol, "Things you never expected to read."

Well it's not as if it is a Princess Cruise

 

[chiwigi]

I was talking about being in the USA a few years back and I was asked how'd I find New York city. My response was "I got off the plane at LaGuardia". I thought I was being original

Ecclesiastes
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

 

[Far Kern]

Well it's not as if it is a Princess Cruise

I couldn't imagine a worse thing to choose to do for a holiday, then: "We had cabins all around us being cleaned by people in hazmat suits."

 

[finbarr]

Oh, and edgie apparently looks like Ethan Hawke......I'm assuming if Ethan Hawke was cast in Rivers Edge instead of Crispin Glover.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Oh, and edgie apparently looks like Ethan Hawke......I'm assuming if Ethan Hawke was cast in Rivers Edge instead of Crispin Glover.

He looks like Edgie and doesn't sound like a stalking sexpest despite the usual verbal diarrhea from Janus

 

[Portology]

Sooooo....it turns out the oft repeated story of German women being r*ped by refugees on New Years Eve last year was a hoax, you know the stories your racist mate on Facebook probably shared or your Grandma forwarded to your email? The Bild (Germany's national tabloid) has admitted fabricating the story

Fuuuu

In case anyone thought #fakenews is mostly a problem for the US. That story and the subsequent hysteria littered my FB feed for weeks. A horrific bogus story circulates for a year before police investigation knocks it on the head. Meanwhile, one country shrinks away from a continent and another elects a loon, partly on the backdrop of hysteria out of the infectious spread and long ferment of such a story. Well done to the police... but it's not their job to sort our inability to think critically or our susceptibility to biases. This story has contributed to two historic elections and IMO has damaged lives en masse.

See how we go when Hanson, Bernardi & Leyjo get a run at upcoming elections as fully unhinged independents, versus say Mr X who is balanced on a hinge by visual design All of whom are massively experienced in the design of power grids, the making of electricity markets and the "dancing on the edge of a wall of international law" school of immigration policy construction. And none of the indies know **** about getting the right entities to pay a decent share of tax, while the two major parties know, but don't have the balls to lead... Ken Henry, you are not forgotten

See there's #fakenews and then there's #difficultnews. You are what you eat, kids... use your nose.

NB: no intent to breach Forza's "Executive Order" on this thread. Inserted reference to random Ken to prove it

 

[SgtSchulz]

The Carlton Draught has overtaken Titus O'Reilly.

Not hard.

tbh I'm not a fan of elitist Melbourne supporters. Toff.