Comments on: Marxist blogger fired

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:19:59 +0000

Phil and Everyone:
What’s say we quantify IRRELEVANCE in journalism with a brand new unit of measurement …. the Stripclub.

For example: Free public transport or preventing back injuries or grocery price rises or mortgage rate increases would score Zero Stripclubs.

Hearings into the use of unseemly words in the middle of a football game – 3 or 4 Stripclubs.

Kevin Rudd’s unremarkable night out in New York = 8 or 9 Stripclubs …. . And …. wait for it …. Paris Hilton’s comings and goings hits the jackpot with TEN Stripclubs.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:55:36 +0000

Censorship seems written large at the moment. Media Watch showed Oz not only refusing to apologise when caught red-handed “verballing” a nuclear expert for the government’s benefit, but then actually rubbing salt in to the wounds in perversely repeating the misrepresentation a couple of days later.
Elsewhere, SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis is being put through the wringer for opposing the dumbing down of SBS news and current afairs by the new brownshirts in charge there.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:12:26 +0000

No probs Pil !

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:49:41 +0000

Got that Joe2, unless the paycheck looks good, then it’s sellout time for me and I won’t even remember your names. Of course that’ll never happen.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:41:42 +0000

Nice work Phil, that interview link with Marx is great. Not sure how he survived the ‘domino effect’, up until this point, anyway.

“Blogs” from MSM are not ‘Blogs’. When bloggers move from blogging to MSM they cease to be bloggers and become ‘columnists’.

Got that?

By: Lomandra

Lomandra — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:02:40 +0000

Marx is too ‘tawdry’ for the online Fairfax papers? Half the content is ’sex in the city’, ‘ladies lace’, ’sex toys hit the high street’ etc etc. Please.

Please indeed, kymbos.

They’ve been moving into British tabloid territory for a while now, but since their recent design change, there seems to be little pretence of actually reporting news. It’s there, but you have to dig to find it, underneath all the articles about breast implants, drunken starlets and whose marriage is ailing in Tinseltown.

Perhaps they’re trying to push their serious readership back onto the dead tree version of the paper and leave online content to the bogons and bimbos.

By: Zarquon

Zarquon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:54:22 +0000

Memo to Alex. In the books, the violent drunk little Hobbits save Middle Earth.

But the ~~Milnes~~ Sackville-Bagginses ruin the Shire under ~~Murdoch~~ Sharkey.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:58:15 +0000

Jack Marx can be heard here at the Podcast Network discussing his sacking. Jack makes some interesting and valid comments on the MSM blogging business and Fairfax, I think the words he used were the Mongoose and Cobra. Nice.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:30:37 +0000

“As for freedom of the press well it just means that Marxie goes back to blogging some where else and probably for more money. Vive la intertubes.”

Are you sure Bill?
Where are these big paying Oz sites that will compete for this clever wordsmith?

By: The Devil Drink

The Devil Drink — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:08:42 +0000

Milne is a violent drunk little Hobbit in my opinion.

Memo to Alex. In the books, the violent drunk little Hobbits save Middle Earth.