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We talked, this week, about OJ Simpson’s plans to write a book and do a show on “If I’d killed my wife, this is how I’d have done it.”
As much as there’s sure to be insights that might lead to some new examinations to “Find the real killer”, some haven’t been so pleased to hear the news.
Check in the more section to get Fred Goldman’s take (he’s the father of Ron Goldman – one of the victims).
To answer a question from last week’s show: When I click the “TV” button on my bookmarks toolbar it takes me to e-broadcast. More specifically it takes me to the Melbourne night-time schedule.
I said I’d post it and this time I actually lived up to my promise.
Check out the Simpsons TOH XVII edit your own promo thingy. It’s a little bit of website fun.
Because of time constraints on the show, I didn’t get a chance to fully cover my feelings on the new ABC policy so I thought I’d put it here for the record. You can read the extract from Mark Scott’s speech at the Sydney Institute below if you’ve missed it in the media feeding frenzy over this week.
The critics that Mark Scott speaks of are, invariably, right-wing, conservative supporters of the Howard government – people like Andrew Bolt, Gerard Henderson (who is the executive director of the Sydney Institute – who happened to host the speech) and Piers Ackerman – people who support Australia being part of the invading forces in Iraq, the locking up of asylum-seekers in detention centres, the denial of climate change and the refusal to sign the Kyoto agreement, the new “work choices” industrial relations legislation that reduces the pay and conditions of Australian workers and the reduction in public funding for the ABC.
And the reason why they are loud, bully-boy critics of the ABC is because the ABC hasn’t played the part of a cheer squad on each of these issues as they’ve arisen and they don’t like being challenged. Mark Scott’s new policy simply panders to these thugs and gives them more air time than they already have to spout their lies and to proselytise for their church of the far right… not to mention the more extreme groups of the right who will be compulsorily included so that we “hear the full range of voices” “on contentious matters”.
For example, this means that if there’s a program that deals in evolution – say Walking With Dinosaurs – which some claim is a contentious matter, the ABC would have to give air time to creationists to argue their case for creationism or, as they’ve repackaged it, Intelligent Design. A similar thing has happened in various states in the US in the schools’ curricula with ‘Intelligent Design’ being taught in SCIENCE classes, in order to refute Darwin’s theory of evolution and consolidate the belief that the Genesis book of the bible is a literal document of how God created all life.
Already, even without any new policy, 774 radio in Melbourne has filled their afternoon and drive programs with Richard Stubbs and Lindy Burns – two presenters that distinctly lack the intelligence of their predecessors who present programs that waste two and three hours every day covering crap like world massage day and whether footballers should be held up to greater accountability because they’re role models.
Already we’ve got Helen Razer cutting off guests because they say that newly appointed, conservative ABC board member, Keith Windshuttle’s denial of the Aboriginal stolen generation is akin to holocaust deniers – because she’ll lose her job.
The new ABC policy marks the beginning of the end of the ABC being anything but an excuse for dead air that acts merely as an exercise in covering its own ass, lest the vocal, far-right, conservatives be offended.
Now let’s take a look at who’s at the controls of the ABC: Mark Scott is the Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was previously the senior political adviser to former NSW Liberal education minister, Terry Metherell.
According to a report by Crikey.com.au, while editor-in-chief of metropolitan newspapers at Fairfax, Scott overturned a decision by the editorial staff at The Age newspaper’s to call for a change of government at the 2004 federal election. Accoding to Crikey, “a decision was taken to call for a change of government. That decision was then overturned by Mark Scott, Fairfax’s head of metropolitan newspapers, who apparently made the rather extraordinary claim that backing [Opposition Leader Mark] Latham wasn’t in the commercial interests of the company.”
This clears up the teaser I mentioned from Crikey on the show this week… or does it?
I have not been boned, says Nine’s McGuire
By Brooke Williamson – October 20, 2006 12:00am – Article from: The Daily Telegraph
CHANNEL 9 chief Eddie McGuire yesterday denied he was out of favour with senior PBL management, despite being a notable omission on the new company’s board.
Continue reading “Eddie Boned? No…” »
Just thought I’d post a screen cap of Mark Foley as a Democrat – he’s admitted to being an alcoholic homosexual with mental problems so, of course, he MUST be a Democrat!
I remembered I promised this little link for you guys…
It’s the Orson Welles outtakes for some Californian champagne he was shooting while, perhaps, having sampled too much of the client’s product.
Click the more link to see the clip.
Here’s a bit more info on the state of Richard Hammond after the accident that we mentioned on the show this week:
PRESENTER of British motoring program Top Gear Richard Hammond suffered a significant brain injury in a high-speed crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the program, a hospital spokesman said today.
“He has suffered a significant brain injury,” the spokesman said.
“It is still giving cause for concern as it is still early after the injury. However, we are reasonably optimistic that he will make a good recovery.”
I assume there’s some sort of football game on at the MCG tonight so we in Richmond are privileged enough to get a good buzzing from the airship that I mentioned on the show a couple of weeks ago.
It’s more cigar shaped than previous blimps around Melbourne have been and the screen looks like it’s just a rear projection system onto the side of the balloon. That’s a lot less interesting than the report sounded. Not to mention it’s just on a loop of ads for Commodores.
And it doesn’t even look that big and I’m looking at it almost directly overhead.
There’s a word that comes to mind and that word is LAME
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I’m sorry, I was a bad Boxcutter last week and I promised this would be up and I didn’t get around to putting it up. It looks like the clips are going to stay up despite MS’s protests but if anyone gets a bad link let me know and I’ll upload the MP4 versions.
Here’s the first part and Part 2 is over here.
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