Comments on: Saturday Salon - 2006 edition

By: Bill Posters

Bill Posters — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:27:12 +0000

each of them offers quite a broad range of views about Packer and none of them purports to sanctify the guy.

If you don’t think this is hagiography, then you didn’t read through to the end:

Then, 6½ years later, you switched on the TV to watch the second day of the Boxing Day Test and there were stills of Packer on the screen and Peter Harvey, who was doing the voice-over, spoke in the past tense. Kerry Packer was dead. There was a minute’s silence at the MCG. Then Mike Hussey, wearing a black armband, set about slashing and finessing his way to an improbable century. Packer, you mused, would have admired the way he went about it. It would have reminded him of him. Once there were giants.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:07:17 +0000

John Quiggin has a good post on Packer, and this comment is a gem.

By: R.H.

R.H. — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:54:57 +0000

Listen, I tried the bite on KP once.
I wanted two bucks to get The Age and he told me to piss off.
So is that being generous?

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:43:51 +0000

No Bill. Doing an index rundown doesn’t work. You’re actually supposed to read the articles. If you did, you’d find that each of them offers quite a broad range of views about Packer and none of them purports to sanctify the guy.

I think you’re confusing saturation media coverage - hardly surprising in the circumstances - with eulogy.

By: rog

rog — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:55:13 +0000

I know a few people who have met KP and I have only ever heard praise for his generosity nature. He made his own way, a successful individualist.

Why is it that the Left are collectively so ungenerous?

By: R.H.

R.H. — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:08:34 +0000

R H will nevver get ticked off for not speaking proper. Because he knows a professor is always watching.

And how strict professors are.

And how important it is to be a professor.

By: Lefty Elitist

Lefty Elitist — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:57:25 +0000

Dear me, where are my manners! In all the excitement of new year I forgot it was politically incorrect to criticise Australia’s economic elites.

Anyway, Im sure I speak for all of us when I say I look forward to James bringing the same business acumen to PBL that he brought to One-Tel.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:14:05 +0000

Nice to see the RWDBs in typical happy and festive holiday mode! The right really should practice being relaxed and comfortable!

By: J F Beck

J F Beck — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:12:54 +0000

Lefty Elitist looks to be a graduate of the Sheil School of Smug Superiority, Syntax and Spelling. He should go for the advanced degree in comment manipulation.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:10:11 +0000

Hope everyone had a great night last night!

Unfortunately Newman Campbell (or whatever the Lord Mayor’s name is) spoiled it for me and my friends by not having fireworks at Riverside - and so we traipsed up to the park overlooking the Story Bridge for a distant view of the Southbank fireworks obscured by city buildings!

But a few gin and tonics restored festive spirits!

By: C.L.

C.L. — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:37:28 +0000

I saw of comment of LE’s on a blogg: “I saw of speech of his on telly and he could hardly string two concepts together.”

By: Lefty Elitist

Lefty Elitist — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:24:00 +0000

See the endless pages of sycophantic hype about that 2nd-rater James Packer. I saw of speech of his on telly and he could hardly string two concepts together. Today we’re told he’s moving PBL more hevily into gambling. Great! Something even more socially useless than his old man. Are we supposed to be impressed?

By: Pretty Boy R.H.

Pretty Boy R.H. — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:59:07 +0000

He’d be stunned by the media frenzy? And what- from the Packer media too? Come on now! If there were no frenzy he’d be rolling in his grave - to kick all their arses!

By: Bill Posters

Bill Posters — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:13:12 +0000

The coverage is far from hagiographic

Ahem.

KERRY PACKER
1937-2005
PACKER PHOTO GALLERY
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Bulletin Editor-in-Chief Garry Linnell recalls his first encounter with the ultimate boss.

A GIANT AMONG MEN
On a good day, Packer made John Wayne’s screen characters seem wishy-washy, writes Les Carlyon.

A CRICKET WAR DECLARED
WSC was one of Packer’s greatest coups. Ian Chappell remembers the man’s passion.

JANA’S CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
In the presence of a giant, it was easy for a young reporter to feel insignificant, says Jana Wendt.

GREG NORMAN REMEMBERS
He says the ‘tough’ man taught him not just about business but about the great game of life.

THE MAGIC MOMENTS
Packer would be stunned by the media frenzy surrounding his death, says his mate Alan Jones.

By: Shaun Cronin

Shaun Cronin — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:28:50 +0000

I just want to say thanks to Mark and Robert for all their LP efforts in 2005. And cheers to Ron for his help onwards. I am glad to be part of the LP collective.

And while New Years is an arbitrary celebration it is a worthwhile one. There will be a bin outside for the broken resolutions. For the achieved ones a great well done.

A happy and prosperous 2006 to all LP bloggers, commenter,s readers, lurkers, lover, haters and casual fly bys. God knows how I am still standing (and typing).

By: Texas R.H.

Texas R.H. — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:53:12 +0000

S’aloony salon.

I’ll settle for that.

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:02:36 +0000

Yeah, yeah, Bill. Wicked Tim Blair and all that shit. Did you actually read the Bulletin? No, I thought not. The coverage is far from hagiographic - and hey! The guy owned the magazine -but that’s not really your point, is it?

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:50:09 +0000

I think that should be “I don’t know where…” and I acknowledge an embarrassment of m riches in respect of commemoration.

By: Bill Posters

Bill Posters — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:49:40 +0000

Well, that worked in preview… Try this one.

By: Bill Posters

Bill Posters — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:48:58 +0000

I don’t where you guys do your browsing but I ‘ve not read a single word about Packer that aims to “sanctify�? him.

02/$file/cover.jpg”>A sad testament to the continuing irrelevance of The Bulletin.