I’m sorry but i’m not going to reply to such venomous posts

Chicken

I think Crikey should cultivate that kind of journalism which would attract Ministers to give them interviews and stories.

Actually, a blog here actually tried to do an article on the NT intervention and the Minister’s office knocked them back for comment saying they don’t talk to gossip websites.

Let’s mark this as the start of the Bloggers’ Coming Of Age.

talkingpointsmemo won a Polk Award in the US for its journalism. They get their posters to do some of their work for them on any given topic, eg finding out what the evidence is for alcohol being a problem in indigenous communities and what possible solutions there are.

I think Crikey should cultivate that kind of journalism which would attract Ministers to give them interviews and stories. You just need a critical mass of interested posters on any topic to prepare the groundwork to get it off the ground.

you know this (and I assume you’re a Greens member) but the general public doesn’t and I didn’t (despite the fact that the issues you refer to are ones I’ve been involved with in the past).

I was arguing against Tom’s assertion that the Greens having members in the Upper House has raised their profile in a way which will lead to swings electorally.

It hasn’t (if anything, it’s been portrayed negatively).

Thanks, anyway - now I know what their names are!!

Mate, you have NO understanding of the media coverage in QLD and trying to take Steve to task on something that he is more than well informed on, only demonstrates either your ignorance or you are back on your usual trick of baiting every other poster here to get a reaction.

I’m sorry but i’m not going to reply to such venomous posts.

This time it automatically switched from an open tab of the Australian Home Page to “Video Game Downloads”.

I clicked the “back” button a couple of times and it went back to the OZ web page but before it could download fully it switched back to the “Video Game Downloads” site.

There must be some way that they can be taken to task over this blatant high-jacking.

http://www.filefront.com/

Do you think they’re the only news outlets?

Mate, you have NO understanding of the media coverage in QLD and trying to take Steve to task on something that he is more than well informed on, only demonstrates either your ignorance or you are back on your usual trick of baiting every other poster here to get a reaction.

Just for you, I will give you a run-down on the QLD media. News Ltd publishes the “only” daily and Sunday news paper in Brisbane which feeds throughout the State outlets.

Every single Regional Newspaper is owned by the same operator and they feed off News Ltd primarily, which means that you read the same National & State “news” articles (slightly adapted sometimes) in every newspaper in the State except a handful of “free’ ones.

If that is not “control” of information and opinion, I don’t know what else it could be!

The Commercial TV networks with the exception of Channel 10 sometimes, present QLD centric News and Current Affairs Programs which means that they omit material that southern viewers get exposed to.

This was very evident after the e-mail was exposed as a fake and 7 & 9 virtually ignored the dust-up that followed with at best, a light air-brushing. Thanks to posters on PB for keeping Queenslanders up to date with what was being aired further south.

Just further evidence of control of information in order to try and shape public opinion in a manner favourable to the Coalition or conversely, to limit damaging fall-out from adverse issues.