Comments on: Memo to the Today Show and the Carbrook lynch mob http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/09/memo-to-the-today-show-and-the-carbrook-lynch-mob/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Blair Martin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/09/memo-to-the-today-show-and-the-carbrook-lynch-mob/#comment-529 Blair Martin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-529 It is disturbing to read the details of the ongoing farce that is the rehabilition of Dennis Ferguson. The manipulative support that the Murdoch press, along with the amoral producers of, Sunrise, Today, ACA and TT have given the people of Miles and Carbrook is what disturbs me the most. It is not just that the residents of outerlying suburbs and towns have risen to the distasteful level of fascist vigilantism akin to the Klu Klux Klan or the Brown/Blackshirt mobs of the 1930s in Europe but the cynical manipulation of the Ferguson saga by the media that has dismayed me the most.<br />The people that Today, ACA, TT, Sunrise and Murdoch's sub-standard Courier-Mail have focussed on at Carbrook are being exploited as much as Ferguson exploited his victims. To listen to these people speak with such one-level vitrol and ignorant rantings, you are only hearing words that they have been fed by the manipulators from the media outlets covering the story - a story that they have been largely responsible for creating. German Nazi Minister for Propaganda Dr Josef Goebels was endeared of the maxim that if one tells a lie often enough and loud enough the public will, through ignorance or sheer laziness, come to believe it. The irresponsible media outlets know that the public is lazy and cling to their supposed ignorance like a security blanket. They fuel the outrage the public feel when their ignorance is challenged. They hype the outrage into the sickening displays of base mob rule like the scenes the Today Show decided to carry in such graphic detail. They should be held to account and the misguided people of places like Miles and Carbrook shown what fools the media take them for and take them ever so gladly. <br /> It is disturbing to read the details of the ongoing farce that is the rehabilition of Dennis Ferguson. The manipulative support that the Murdoch press, along with the amoral producers of, Sunrise, Today, ACA and TT have given the people of Miles and Carbrook is what disturbs me the most. It is not just that the residents of outerlying suburbs and towns have risen to the distasteful level of fascist vigilantism akin to the Klu Klux Klan or the Brown/Blackshirt mobs of the 1930s in Europe but the cynical manipulation of the Ferguson saga by the media that has dismayed me the most.
The people that Today, ACA, TT, Sunrise and Murdoch’s sub-standard Courier-Mail have focussed on at Carbrook are being exploited as much as Ferguson exploited his victims. To listen to these people speak with such one-level vitrol and ignorant rantings, you are only hearing words that they have been fed by the manipulators from the media outlets covering the story - a story that they have been largely responsible for creating. German Nazi Minister for Propaganda Dr Josef Goebels was endeared of the maxim that if one tells a lie often enough and loud enough the public will, through ignorance or sheer laziness, come to believe it. The irresponsible media outlets know that the public is lazy and cling to their supposed ignorance like a security blanket. They fuel the outrage the public feel when their ignorance is challenged. They hype the outrage into the sickening displays of base mob rule like the scenes the Today Show decided to carry in such graphic detail. They should be held to account and the misguided people of places like Miles and Carbrook shown what fools the media take them for and take them ever so gladly.

]]> By: John James http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/09/memo-to-the-today-show-and-the-carbrook-lynch-mob/#comment-530 John James Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-530 You tell 'em Greg. Set a coffee shop in Carbrook with some tasteful Bill Henson prints on the wall, free copies of Art Monthly to browse through while their sipping their lattes( with skim!) and maybe a needle injecting room next door as a sign of your community concern and tell those poor b**tards they've got nothing to worry about. You tell ‘em Greg. Set a coffee shop in Carbrook with some tasteful Bill Henson prints on the wall, free copies of Art Monthly to browse through while their sipping their lattes( with skim!) and maybe a needle injecting room next door as a sign of your community concern and tell those poor b**tards they’ve got nothing to worry about.

]]> By: Connor Moran http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/09/memo-to-the-today-show-and-the-carbrook-lynch-mob/#comment-531 Connor Moran Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-531 Without the media's help there's a distinct sense that the law does not do enough with these people in the first instance.<br /><br />Ferguson is a re-offender, so there go your stats Greg.<br /><br />The argument that it's just as likely a family member is the offender does not preclude the law appearing to many to be too forgiving of this generational abuse. The cycle has to be broken. That goes for alcoholism, spousal abuse, child abuse and especially child-sex abuse. Those abused children go on to be the next generation of abusers, or at the very least deeply troubled individuals who drift from what society may have been able to offer them (they need help).<br /><br />To my ignorant, prejudiced and utilitarian mind these people are worthless. If we can't capital punish them, lock them up forever. 2 chances is 1 too many. Without the media’s help there’s a distinct sense that the law does not do enough with these people in the first instance.

Ferguson is a re-offender, so there go your stats Greg.

The argument that it’s just as likely a family member is the offender does not preclude the law appearing to many to be too forgiving of this generational abuse. The cycle has to be broken. That goes for alcoholism, spousal abuse, child abuse and especially child-sex abuse. Those abused children go on to be the next generation of abusers, or at the very least deeply troubled individuals who drift from what society may have been able to offer them (they need help).

To my ignorant, prejudiced and utilitarian mind these people are worthless. If we can’t capital punish them, lock them up forever. 2 chances is 1 too many.

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