australia has a press worthy of vichy france - made up of all forms of collaborationists
i find it surprising that robert manne appears to have only recently found out - does it take mr manne, forty years to say something that was clear to the most stupid amongst us, that there is no foreign policy that is not decided in the corridors of washington,
that every, every other 'legislative' decision is run from wherever rupert murdoch & his minions are.
there have been no sovereign australian governments for a long long time, if ever.
what was done to australian soldiers in singapore & in new guinea, that is to say, sacrificed - is being done to them politically, over & over again, more brutally each time, with more open contempt, every editorial.
murdoch's commentators are quacks who know fuck all about almost everything. they are pitiable excuses for journalists, whatever that word means in a political culture so corrupt.
it is odd tht mr manne has been the principal defiler of wilfred burchett reputation & it is a little ironic that perhaps wilfred was the greatest journalist that country has ever produced. burchett saw & knew thing that the other just pretended to know, they didn't.
at least in that time there were people who tried but who were so weak, they were broken on the wheel, sometimes literally.
what australia possesses today is supine scum who scribble all form of excreta that they steal from such thoughtless thinktanks like the american enterprise institute or the heritage foundation who are almost completely constituted of morons. morons of a calibre it is hard to give word to without spitting out bile & they are mimicked by these caricatures of caricatures, morons completely without mind in australia.
you would think any decent human being would be ashamed of working for murdoch but apparently not so, he has them all crawling around the corridors their saliva matching up in some common putrid pool - these worthless people have helped create a worthless culture of complicity that would do honor to people like pinochet, videla or mobutu.
newscorp is filth of a genre without parallel. the german thuggish springer press was equally violent but limited in its power because it was transparently the apologist of the recent past. berlusconi a buffoon who simply wanted to line his pocket like the petit mafiosi he is & the monstrous murdoch fought him for the criminal coin
that is what marks murdoch, the origin of certain of his liquidities to the actual murders of working people, is his very great criminality
i am sufficiently fortunate to live far from this filth but even from far away you cannot stop the nausea such realities instigate
i grew up with a generation of scum, as far as journalists goes, they were already corrupted. o speak knowingly of my generation & in detail & if you would like, even on specific stories. nothing but shame, there is nothing but shame to mark them. younger people, no i don't know but what i read on line gives me no hope at all, they are scum. you will have to tell me who is writing substantial things, because i do not know about it & even though i also read french & italian - i am not unaware of what is being written now, this moment in australia. & of course their bosses reflect their reportage, how could it be otherwise in such a limited & limiting environment
it would appear that the commission on the catholic church was really started by the investigate work of a nsw policeman, not on the take, it was his just anger, & the absolute sense of criminality that brought that about.
the great majority of journalist are just capable of writing a lifestyle column on a dead culture. the foreign reporting abysmal & the recourse to syndication tell us the real story.
what you leave out my dear nephew, is that while i know the journalist are scum, there are some very great researchers who do a real work that often does not appear because it represents a real threat.
my generation of doctors, lawyers & teachers while being far from perfect, in the last analysis have done far less damage to people & the culture itself.
the police culture, the corrupt police culture within australia can only exist with the complicity of journalists & it seems from my own experience & what i read there are plenty, more than plenty, ready to surrender their complicity.
i want to make a point here, dashiel, i have never suffered under their stupidity ever, here or there, on the contrary, so there is no personal animus. i witness from friends & comrades, what i experienced & what i read, & that is what i tell.
a métier that is part, a distinct part of the moral maelstrom, of building a country without morality which they appear to have done as the policy towards the refugees exemplifies.
once the right wing catholic settles in, we will see the stories disappear & i would not be at all surprised to see the enquiry on the catholic church shafted & journalist will be busy but they will be quiet
dashiel, there is much a writer/researcher, like you can do.
a phd, that merits that name.
work, some of which you have already done of creating a media for progressive unions or organizations, they need them.
there is a role for writers but it requires that you follow your own path & not that of the bosses or their minions.
i am a simple poet & what has been done to my country requires that i never returnt
it is a barbaric burlesque that the so called 'developers' have used both political, media & police culture to destroy civic life in australia .
this too, for a very long time & in every state of australia. the criminality it initiated goes over the scale & very very little has been written about it & nothing has been done about it.
when public institutions became privatised, that corruption became exacerbated
what australian 'legislators did, was not to create policy for the future but to make deals, deals from which they & their friends would personally profit.
the two parties have embraced this for as long as i have lived & journalism, so called journalists have rarely confronted them & only at the point that it is so openly criminal it risks to give the game away.
a few articles in the national times decades ago but even then played very prudently (i understand that - we are talking about people who have been prepared to kill & we have demonstrable evidence, that that is true) & a case here & there but really dashiel, nothing for a 'profession' to be proud of. no that métier is finally a métier of shame
without even mentioning the most criminal act of developers/legislators - the intervention/land grab in aboriginal australia. australians ought to be ashamed of themselves, i am here, whenever the question is brought up - how people can live with that shame is beyond me, how journalists become complicit is in & of itself, a crime
one of the gifts of wikileaks was to expose the fraudulence of the so called liberal press, guardian, le monde, new york times, the age etc etc
what happened when the leaks came out revealed that this press serves as a buffer for the elites because the rags of murdoch (especially in britain) are not trusted even by fools.
the craven behavior of the so called journalists from this situation fills me with disgust, absolute disgust, ready to publish their 'books' for their own self aggrandisement , having them adapted for 'cinema' utterly scandalous
during that period, for the poem, i went back through archives into the wrongful imprisonment of irish people, the shoot-to-kill policy of the sas, the dirty blanket & hunger strikers & found that the so called liberal guardian screamed the same obscenities as the sun or telegraph.
their role in these & other affairs are ignominious, really ignominious.
it is necessary for community movements to have this press exposed, they are not allies of the people & in fact they never were. their real allies is the same as it was in the 18th century, the rich & powerful.
as jane pointed out above, sometimes these scribblers are just there at the proper moment for whistleblowers to speak - the source, the principal source for all the stuff about the murdoch phone hacking was a piece of shit from the murdoch press, aggrieved as they were, in this case paul mcmullen - someone i wouldn't piss on if he was on fire they are scum & the exceptions like seamus milne, john pilger, garry younge only underline that the others are filth - what is required is researchers
researcher who have courage
c b
oct 2013
i find it surprising that robert manne appears to have only recently found out - does it take mr manne, forty years to say something that was clear to the most stupid amongst us, that there is no foreign policy that is not decided in the corridors of washington,
that every, every other 'legislative' decision is run from wherever rupert murdoch & his minions are.
there have been no sovereign australian governments for a long long time, if ever.
what was done to australian soldiers in singapore & in new guinea, that is to say, sacrificed - is being done to them politically, over & over again, more brutally each time, with more open contempt, every editorial.
murdoch's commentators are quacks who know fuck all about almost everything. they are pitiable excuses for journalists, whatever that word means in a political culture so corrupt.
it is odd tht mr manne has been the principal defiler of wilfred burchett reputation & it is a little ironic that perhaps wilfred was the greatest journalist that country has ever produced. burchett saw & knew thing that the other just pretended to know, they didn't.
at least in that time there were people who tried but who were so weak, they were broken on the wheel, sometimes literally.
what australia possesses today is supine scum who scribble all form of excreta that they steal from such thoughtless thinktanks like the american enterprise institute or the heritage foundation who are almost completely constituted of morons. morons of a calibre it is hard to give word to without spitting out bile & they are mimicked by these caricatures of caricatures, morons completely without mind in australia.
you would think any decent human being would be ashamed of working for murdoch but apparently not so, he has them all crawling around the corridors their saliva matching up in some common putrid pool - these worthless people have helped create a worthless culture of complicity that would do honor to people like pinochet, videla or mobutu.
newscorp is filth of a genre without parallel. the german thuggish springer press was equally violent but limited in its power because it was transparently the apologist of the recent past. berlusconi a buffoon who simply wanted to line his pocket like the petit mafiosi he is & the monstrous murdoch fought him for the criminal coin
that is what marks murdoch, the origin of certain of his liquidities to the actual murders of working people, is his very great criminality
i am sufficiently fortunate to live far from this filth but even from far away you cannot stop the nausea such realities instigate
i grew up with a generation of scum, as far as journalists goes, they were already corrupted. o speak knowingly of my generation & in detail & if you would like, even on specific stories. nothing but shame, there is nothing but shame to mark them. younger people, no i don't know but what i read on line gives me no hope at all, they are scum. you will have to tell me who is writing substantial things, because i do not know about it & even though i also read french & italian - i am not unaware of what is being written now, this moment in australia. & of course their bosses reflect their reportage, how could it be otherwise in such a limited & limiting environment
it would appear that the commission on the catholic church was really started by the investigate work of a nsw policeman, not on the take, it was his just anger, & the absolute sense of criminality that brought that about.
the great majority of journalist are just capable of writing a lifestyle column on a dead culture. the foreign reporting abysmal & the recourse to syndication tell us the real story.
what you leave out my dear nephew, is that while i know the journalist are scum, there are some very great researchers who do a real work that often does not appear because it represents a real threat.
my generation of doctors, lawyers & teachers while being far from perfect, in the last analysis have done far less damage to people & the culture itself.
the police culture, the corrupt police culture within australia can only exist with the complicity of journalists & it seems from my own experience & what i read there are plenty, more than plenty, ready to surrender their complicity.
i want to make a point here, dashiel, i have never suffered under their stupidity ever, here or there, on the contrary, so there is no personal animus. i witness from friends & comrades, what i experienced & what i read, & that is what i tell.
a métier that is part, a distinct part of the moral maelstrom, of building a country without morality which they appear to have done as the policy towards the refugees exemplifies.
once the right wing catholic settles in, we will see the stories disappear & i would not be at all surprised to see the enquiry on the catholic church shafted & journalist will be busy but they will be quiet
dashiel, there is much a writer/researcher, like you can do.
a phd, that merits that name.
work, some of which you have already done of creating a media for progressive unions or organizations, they need them.
there is a role for writers but it requires that you follow your own path & not that of the bosses or their minions.
i am a simple poet & what has been done to my country requires that i never returnt
it is a barbaric burlesque that the so called 'developers' have used both political, media & police culture to destroy civic life in australia .
this too, for a very long time & in every state of australia. the criminality it initiated goes over the scale & very very little has been written about it & nothing has been done about it.
when public institutions became privatised, that corruption became exacerbated
what australian 'legislators did, was not to create policy for the future but to make deals, deals from which they & their friends would personally profit.
the two parties have embraced this for as long as i have lived & journalism, so called journalists have rarely confronted them & only at the point that it is so openly criminal it risks to give the game away.
a few articles in the national times decades ago but even then played very prudently (i understand that - we are talking about people who have been prepared to kill & we have demonstrable evidence, that that is true) & a case here & there but really dashiel, nothing for a 'profession' to be proud of. no that métier is finally a métier of shame
without even mentioning the most criminal act of developers/legislators - the intervention/land grab in aboriginal australia. australians ought to be ashamed of themselves, i am here, whenever the question is brought up - how people can live with that shame is beyond me, how journalists become complicit is in & of itself, a crime
one of the gifts of wikileaks was to expose the fraudulence of the so called liberal press, guardian, le monde, new york times, the age etc etc
what happened when the leaks came out revealed that this press serves as a buffer for the elites because the rags of murdoch (especially in britain) are not trusted even by fools.
the craven behavior of the so called journalists from this situation fills me with disgust, absolute disgust, ready to publish their 'books' for their own self aggrandisement , having them adapted for 'cinema' utterly scandalous
during that period, for the poem, i went back through archives into the wrongful imprisonment of irish people, the shoot-to-kill policy of the sas, the dirty blanket & hunger strikers & found that the so called liberal guardian screamed the same obscenities as the sun or telegraph.
their role in these & other affairs are ignominious, really ignominious.
it is necessary for community movements to have this press exposed, they are not allies of the people & in fact they never were. their real allies is the same as it was in the 18th century, the rich & powerful.
as jane pointed out above, sometimes these scribblers are just there at the proper moment for whistleblowers to speak - the source, the principal source for all the stuff about the murdoch phone hacking was a piece of shit from the murdoch press, aggrieved as they were, in this case paul mcmullen - someone i wouldn't piss on if he was on fire they are scum & the exceptions like seamus milne, john pilger, garry younge only underline that the others are filth - what is required is researchers
researcher who have courage
c b
oct 2013