Malcolm Turnbull’s question time youtube, hmm. Goes OK.
I do wonder though whether all this focus on new media interactivity … quick turnound question time video, Joe Hockey tweeting from the house, Malcolm tweeting from the bus to Bondi … is up to much.
It gives an admirable sense of bustle, it’s unmediated … which is a plus for a political message … but who is it getting to?
I wonder this myself about the likes of Twitter. It’s so circular at the end of the day. The conversation is lively, it all seems engaiging, but there’s a nagging sense in the back of the mind that we’re all just talking to ourselves.
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You could be right on both calls. Malcolm Turnbull almost has a spectral speech impediment, in as much that as soon as I hear his voice I turn him off. Whether it is a physical note in his voice which turns me off, or the fact he has looked straight into the camera in the past whilst lying his bloody head off, I do not know. I do know that Joe Hockey, Fran Bailey and Nick Xenophon can hold my attention. But not the man who thinks he was born to rule the Party that perceives itself to be born to rule the proletariat.
You would have to be right on the money re Twitter. It’s fun and I enjoy being a tweeter, but it’s the reverse of an iceberg: it’s seven eighths above the water, and in this case, nothing below. Which is a pity because it does have some very good things in it’s favour.
If you’re talking about the use of Twitter by MPs the I can understand the “talking to ourselves” line but not for your “average” twitterer. I read your Tweets as do many others, a number of Tweeps read mine and I’m nobody. I get responses when I ask a question, laugh’s if I tell a joke(sometimes) help or encouragement when a difficult situation arises and slammed when I talk crap. This often comes from people who hold views completely counter to mine, whom I would never bother normally to get to know or talked with.
Sure sounds like vibrant conversation to me, with many many people I don’t know(or know of) joining in.
Perhaps you should widen the number of people you follow to include people you don’t know anything about.