http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/28/the-whos-who-of-rudds-spinners-sorry-staffers/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/28/the-whos-who-of-rudds-spinners-sorry-staffers/#comment-19696 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-19696 Cranking the latest moral panic like alco-pops, or fizzy mixers, or the latest snappy 'binge' tagline might keep the 24 hour meeja cycle churning out .... pap, hand wringing, ritual inadequacy and gratitude for Daddy govt. But what it won't do is sound leadership and strategic direction in a rapidly foreclosing ecological imperative. I suppose the spinners will say it's our job to keep the machine busy while the helms(wo)men build the architecture of the budget on March 13. Well are they builders? Or chief panel beaters remaking the corp convertible so it looks good while oil heads to $200/$300/$400 per barrel, global population 9 billion, and loons like Costa in NSW are desperate to repeat the 20C model with a $5B truck tunnel from Port Botany to western sydney. Sad. Sad too the Oz exposing another Bourke man in WA ALP Ministry understudy to Gallop and ABC PM tonight preferring a tawdry story about the WA Lib leader? WFT editorial choice is that? Cranking the latest moral panic like alco-pops, or fizzy mixers, or the latest snappy ‘binge’ tagline might keep the 24 hour meeja cycle churning out …. pap, hand wringing, ritual inadequacy and gratitude for Daddy govt. But what it won’t do is sound leadership and strategic direction in a rapidly foreclosing ecological imperative. I suppose the spinners will say it’s our job to keep the machine busy while the helms(wo)men build the architecture of the budget on March 13. Well are they builders? Or chief panel beaters remaking the corp convertible so it looks good while oil heads to $200/$300/$400 per barrel, global population 9 billion, and loons like Costa in NSW are desperate to repeat the 20C model with a $5B truck tunnel from Port Botany to western sydney. Sad. Sad too the Oz exposing another Bourke man in WA ALP Ministry understudy to Gallop and ABC PM tonight preferring a tawdry story about the WA Lib leader? WFT editorial choice is that?

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