Comments on: New media lessons from Election ’07 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:03:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McL http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/#comment-20088 Tom McL Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20088 Which part? That Lachlan Harris had Rudd's early morning media troubleshooting shift from 4am during the election? Or that Rudd's parent was DLP and likely to think the same way? Or that all the press gallery treated Laurie Oakes Sunday 9 cruncher interviews, final in the line up of 4 talky shows, as gospel and thus as his interview goes, so goes the tone of the big media in the week following? I can but only agrees this is all very much an acquired taste. But it does also affect reality. Which part? That Lachlan Harris had Rudd’s early morning media troubleshooting shift from 4am during the election? Or that Rudd’s parent was DLP and likely to think the same way? Or that all the press gallery treated Laurie Oakes Sunday 9 cruncher interviews, final in the line up of 4 talky shows, as gospel and thus as his interview goes, so goes the tone of the big media in the week following?

I can but only agrees this is all very much an acquired taste. But it does also affect reality.

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/#comment-20089 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20089 Good and interesting piece by Margaret Simons. I've got no idea what Tom McLoughlin just said but he obviously thought it highly important. Good and interesting piece by Margaret Simons. I’ve got no idea what Tom McLoughlin just said but he obviously thought it highly important.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/#comment-20090 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20090 This issue of gatekeeping which is actually corporate fascism in disguise came up at the ACIJ function at UTS also hosted by centre lefty New Matilda. One example - APEC protests Sept 2007. The Big Media mostly ran stereotypical conflct and police power images. But the eye witness participants (likely around 7,500 on the big rally day, coppers predicted 20K in evidence to the supreme court, then Police Media Unit megaphone stated a mere 3K - hows that for police integrity ... not) saw for about 95% of the time in fact an amazingly colourful, profound, festival style, all ages, ethnicities, beautiful people. 99% you would take home for dinner no worries. So my collage online showed that theatre and the under cover coppers etc. About 40 images. Really good feedback. The Big Media by comparison looked like 1. liars 2. fools. 3. both. And they deserved it too for being so utterly cynical and captured with some honourable exceptions eg SMH rogues' gallery of badgeless coppers, some tv. This issue of gatekeeping which is actually corporate fascism in disguise came up at the ACIJ function at UTS also hosted by centre lefty New Matilda. One example - APEC protests Sept 2007. The Big Media mostly ran stereotypical conflct and police power images. But the eye witness participants (likely around 7,500 on the big rally day, coppers predicted 20K in evidence to the supreme court, then Police Media Unit megaphone stated a mere 3K - hows that for police integrity … not) saw for about 95% of the time in fact an amazingly colourful, profound, festival style, all ages, ethnicities, beautiful people. 99% you would take home for dinner no worries. So my collage online showed that theatre and the under cover coppers etc. About 40 images. Really good feedback. The Big Media by comparison looked like 1. liars 2. fools. 3. both. And they deserved it too for being so utterly cynical and captured with some honourable exceptions eg SMH rogues’ gallery of badgeless coppers, some tv.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/#comment-20091 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20091 Another thing 'James K' while I'm in bolshie mode, you present like a condescending cynic from the Big Media or Big Govt, anon surname and all: "I've got no idea what Tom McLoughlin just said but he obviously thought it highly important.". Are you that? One of those guys that working with or for is a whole hierarchical overpaid showbag of fun (not)?. Dedicated practitioners in the 5th estate over time grow accustomed to this haughty impertinent attitude, from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th estates, while knowing at heart many of us, though perhaps lacking in writing skills, are better educated, more honest, commonly more intelligent and easily more idealistic. Rankism just doesn't cut it. We do get the last word usually as per my 20K pageviews per month blogger stake in this my democracy. The point like Bob Dylan actually is: Don't make snide criticism of what you don't really understand, like my 2 examples of the real impact of this interwebby thing on the result of the federal election, no less. Another thing ‘James K’ while I’m in bolshie mode, you present like a condescending cynic from the Big Media or Big Govt, anon surname and all: “I’ve got no idea what Tom McLoughlin just said but he obviously thought it highly important.”. Are you that? One of those guys that working with or for is a whole hierarchical overpaid showbag of fun (not)?. Dedicated practitioners in the 5th estate over time grow accustomed to this haughty impertinent attitude, from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th estates, while knowing at heart many of us, though perhaps lacking in writing skills, are better educated, more honest, commonly more intelligent and easily more idealistic. Rankism just doesn’t cut it. We do get the last word usually as per my 20K pageviews per month blogger stake in this my democracy. The point like Bob Dylan actually is: Don’t make snide criticism of what you don’t really understand, like my 2 examples of the real impact of this interwebby thing on the result of the federal election, no less.

]]> By: TomMcL http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/#comment-20092 TomMcL Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20092 As for the election itself, for the record getting up most mornings at 5 am for 6 months and deconstructing the press with my 15 years ngo experience, 2 years at Media Monitors etc, as the ALP machine ground out its own Opposition from behind their phalanx of computer screens there in Surry Hills innner Sydney, distilling lines of attack on the evil Howard monolith ....well you could say the result was satisfying. As also revealed by the somewhat shocked joyful expression of such as MP for Sydney, Tanya Plybersek ALP on the tv election night coverage internalising on screen that they actually won seemingly against her own expectation. Was good. Thus ended a 3 year journey from Not Happy John days in 2004 in Bennelong. See ya John. Don't hurry back. Take a holiday in the middle east while your travelling. Be sure to visit your share of the war dead graves while there. As for the election itself, for the record getting up most mornings at 5 am for 6 months and deconstructing the press with my 15 years ngo experience, 2 years at Media Monitors etc, as the ALP machine ground out its own Opposition from behind their phalanx of computer screens there in Surry Hills innner Sydney, distilling lines of attack on the evil Howard monolith ….well you could say the result was satisfying. As also revealed by the somewhat shocked joyful expression of such as MP for Sydney, Tanya Plybersek ALP on the tv election night coverage internalising on screen that they actually won seemingly against her own expectation. Was good. Thus ended a 3 year journey from Not Happy John days in 2004 in Bennelong. See ya John. Don’t hurry back. Take a holiday in the middle east while your travelling. Be sure to visit your share of the war dead graves while there.

]]> By: TomMcL#2 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/new-media-lessons-from-election-07/#comment-20093 TomMcL#2 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20093 One other indulgence - fateful morning 6 am Sunday, newsagent, Sunday Telegraph front page blowtorch via Col Allan sourced hatchet job on Rudd at stripper bar in NY. So I blog an analysis by 6.30 am prior to usual Sunday tv talkies round up 3 hours later. This is atypical but the Ruddster could be buried on this. Headline reads 'Uh oh Rudd vote goes up on stripper scandal'. Why it goes up turns on a fine tuned sense of my DLP old man laughing at Alvin Purple 30 years ago and lots more beside wonky obsession. I still wonder to this day whether Lachlan Harris took this first draft when Beattie 90 min later on MTP 10? from memory said "shows he's got red blood in his veins" (one of my metaphors), and Rudd himself 180 minutes later fronted with Laurie Oakes on 9 to grovel contritely fully accepting responsibility. His vote duly went up as flagship 60 Minutes@9 noted a few weeks later in a face to face with Rudder. And all the water under bridge since. Like in China telling the truth today. One other indulgence - fateful morning 6 am Sunday, newsagent, Sunday Telegraph front page blowtorch via Col Allan sourced hatchet job on Rudd at stripper bar in NY. So I blog an analysis by 6.30 am prior to usual Sunday tv talkies round up 3 hours later. This is atypical but the Ruddster could be buried on this. Headline reads ‘Uh oh Rudd vote goes up on stripper scandal’. Why it goes up turns on a fine tuned sense of my DLP old man laughing at Alvin Purple 30 years ago and lots more beside wonky obsession. I still wonder to this day whether Lachlan Harris took this first draft when Beattie 90 min later on MTP 10? from memory said “shows he’s got red blood in his veins” (one of my metaphors), and Rudd himself 180 minutes later fronted with Laurie Oakes on 9 to grovel contritely fully accepting responsibility. His vote duly went up as flagship 60 Minutes@9 noted a few weeks later in a face to face with Rudder. And all the water under bridge since. Like in China telling the truth today.

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