Comments on: GetUp: not even Stokes could get our ad on air http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/12/getup-not-even-stokes-could-get-our-ad-on-air/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Greg Angelo http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/12/getup-not-even-stokes-could-get-our-ad-on-air/#comment-516 Greg Angelo Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-516 Again why would one be surprised. Commercial television is not about justice and fair play. It is about brainwashing pure and simple. How do you soft soap the masses into mindless programmed consumption if they might have to face the possible reality of political repression in Tibet. It's enough to put you off your chicken meal deal or your fat laden hamburger.<br /><br />Expecting any sense of moral credibility from commercial television is an oxymoron in itself and "Get Up" was naive in the extreme to assume that the Olympic juggernaut would in any way tolerate dissent In the advertising breaks. We are all about harmony here even though China is a politically repressive regime suppressing dissent in its own country, and arming Robert Mugabe's thugs. <br /> Again why would one be surprised. Commercial television is not about justice and fair play. It is about brainwashing pure and simple. How do you soft soap the masses into mindless programmed consumption if they might have to face the possible reality of political repression in Tibet. It’s enough to put you off your chicken meal deal or your fat laden hamburger.

Expecting any sense of moral credibility from commercial television is an oxymoron in itself and “Get Up” was naive in the extreme to assume that the Olympic juggernaut would in any way tolerate dissent In the advertising breaks. We are all about harmony here even though China is a politically repressive regime suppressing dissent in its own country, and arming Robert Mugabe’s thugs.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/12/getup-not-even-stokes-could-get-our-ad-on-air/#comment-517 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-517 Yeah rolled gold censorship, and the systemic blow back is under way from their peers with the opinion page in the Sydney Daily Telegraph today. Brett Solomon obviously very fatigued gave the interview of his life after 7 am last Saturday on 702 abc radio. Well done champ. So articulate for such a worthy cause. Now seven are being pilloried for every infraction as if it's open season - and it's hard to feel much sympathy for them. Adam Spencer 702 abc has been letting it rip 3 days running now - about AFL coverge during Olympic events, commentators ignorant of the sport on screen, and so on. Keep going Get Up. Yeah rolled gold censorship, and the systemic blow back is under way from their peers with the opinion page in the Sydney Daily Telegraph today. Brett Solomon obviously very fatigued gave the interview of his life after 7 am last Saturday on 702 abc radio. Well done champ. So articulate for such a worthy cause. Now seven are being pilloried for every infraction as if it’s open season - and it’s hard to feel much sympathy for them. Adam Spencer 702 abc has been letting it rip 3 days running now - about AFL coverge during Olympic events, commentators ignorant of the sport on screen, and so on. Keep going Get Up.

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