Comments on: Walkley Awards and the writing on the wall http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:26:03 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: pete from Sydney http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comment-14576 pete from Sydney Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14576 Ponder this Margaret, it certainly won't be a Walkley for a story from Crikey...Walkeys still go to proper journos Ponder this Margaret, it certainly won’t be a Walkley for a story from Crikey…Walkeys still go to proper journos

]]> By: Dennis http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comment-14577 Dennis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14577 I was not impling he be censored, I was critical of his personal vendetta against Hicks and the use of Insiders to air that particular hate campaign. It will benefit the fat fool not. I was not impling he be censored, I was critical of his personal vendetta against Hicks and the use of Insiders to air that particular hate campaign. It will benefit the fat fool not.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comment-14578 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14578 I remember that Coulthart story very well. I wonder how many saw it on Sunday 9 that first time. I remember my blog that day - 'this will run'. Well done Coulthard and colleagues. Well done brave victims overcoming their suffering to speak out. Talk about courage. That lady in the interview was awesome. Paradoxically the sensitive tone was like a lightning bolt demanding official action.<br /><br />As for Akerman on Insiders. I'm not convinced he should be censored. Just because he's opportunistic and calculating and cunning and very right wing he's got an argument. It's up to the progressives to meet his argument. Otherwise you are just wallowing in lazy morality and thinking. What indeed does David Hicks think of what's happened in Mumbai? Not shouting or accusations but simply providing his insights. <br /><br />On the weekend I blogged in this way - Prof Singer notes 27,000 children die from poverty every day, while 194 (estimated) mostly rich westerners including some Australians were murdered by fanatics. Somewhere between these two facts is probably the nuanced truth.<br /><br />And nor was Akerman the worst. His colleague Tim Blair used Mumbai to attack Antony Lowenstein in the Sydney Saturday Telegraph (News Corp) as if being a left wing Jew was akin to Carlos the Jackal. Talk about TB over compensating for his gun friendly Obama columns of the previous 2 weeks. <br />The irony is that in Israel Lowenstein's views are pretty mainstream debate but everyone has to be Yahweh's settler her in Australia? I don't think so TB. There really should be an injection for him. I remember that Coulthart story very well. I wonder how many saw it on Sunday 9 that first time. I remember my blog that day - ‘this will run’. Well done Coulthard and colleagues. Well done brave victims overcoming their suffering to speak out. Talk about courage. That lady in the interview was awesome. Paradoxically the sensitive tone was like a lightning bolt demanding official action.

As for Akerman on Insiders. I’m not convinced he should be censored. Just because he’s opportunistic and calculating and cunning and very right wing he’s got an argument. It’s up to the progressives to meet his argument. Otherwise you are just wallowing in lazy morality and thinking. What indeed does David Hicks think of what’s happened in Mumbai? Not shouting or accusations but simply providing his insights.

On the weekend I blogged in this way - Prof Singer notes 27,000 children die from poverty every day, while 194 (estimated) mostly rich westerners including some Australians were murdered by fanatics. Somewhere between these two facts is probably the nuanced truth.

And nor was Akerman the worst. His colleague Tim Blair used Mumbai to attack Antony Lowenstein in the Sydney Saturday Telegraph (News Corp) as if being a left wing Jew was akin to Carlos the Jackal. Talk about TB over compensating for his gun friendly Obama columns of the previous 2 weeks.
The irony is that in Israel Lowenstein’s views are pretty mainstream debate but everyone has to be Yahweh’s settler her in Australia? I don’t think so TB. There really should be an injection for him.

]]> By: Cathy http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comment-14579 Cathy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14579 Chronicling history, events and offering entertainment is professionally beyond media boardrooms these days and the Walkleys are like the fifties....the past. Radio, television and print can't achieve market leadership and profitability within the same de-regulated fiscal model that knobbled global markets. As skeletons of their former role they've discouraged millions of people from listening, reading and watching which makes Rupert Murdoch's moans about us being a nation bereft of communication expertise hard to fathom . He set up and encouraged the dumbing down of not just this nation but half the UK and US. Chronicling history, events and offering entertainment is professionally beyond media boardrooms these days and the Walkleys are like the fifties….the past. Radio, television and print can’t achieve market leadership and profitability within the same de-regulated fiscal model that knobbled global markets. As skeletons of their former role they’ve discouraged millions of people from listening, reading and watching which makes Rupert Murdoch’s moans about us being a nation bereft of communication expertise hard to fathom . He set up and encouraged the dumbing down of not just this nation but half the UK and US.

]]> By: mike smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comment-14580 mike smith Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14580 You just think it's bad this year, but at least there were good journos and good stories. What about next year? You just think it’s bad this year, but at least there were good journos and good stories. What about next year?

]]> By: Dennis http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/walkley-awards-and-the-writing-on-the-wall/#comment-14581 Dennis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-14581 For a person who advertises on his blog " a million hits a month ", where was the name Bolt in the finalists. One never expected the blob Akerman to rate a mention, I suspect incompetent fools are not eligible. Incidently perhaps one of the reasons Akerman will never reach such journalistic heights is shown by his disgraceful attempt on yesterdays 'Insiders' to attempt to link David Hicks with the murdering terrorists in India. To use the slaughter of innocents to push his own hate campaign against Hicks was a disgrace and an indication of the mentality of the Tele's chief Rudd hater. To his credit Cassidy declined to comment and moved on quickly. Insiders standing suffers badly when Akerman uses the programme to advance his hate campaigns. For a person who advertises on his blog ” a million hits a month “, where was the name Bolt in the finalists. One never expected the blob Akerman to rate a mention, I suspect incompetent fools are not eligible. Incidently perhaps one of the reasons Akerman will never reach such journalistic heights is shown by his disgraceful attempt on yesterdays ‘Insiders’ to attempt to link David Hicks with the murdering terrorists in India. To use the slaughter of innocents to push his own hate campaign against Hicks was a disgrace and an indication of the mentality of the Tele’s chief Rudd hater. To his credit Cassidy declined to comment and moved on quickly. Insiders standing suffers badly when Akerman uses the programme to advance his hate campaigns.

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