Comments on: Milne’s show and Tele just a grubby offering

By: meski

meski — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:24:19 +0000

Bernard, if you don’t think there was enough info in this article for google to work on, you’re sadly mistaken.

By: John Bennetts

John Bennetts — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:15:54 +0000

Lovely, James.

I now consider that I have read sufficient of Milne’s autobio.

And I am an amateur beekeeper.

Thanks.

By: james mcdonald

james mcdonald — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:39:57 +0000

For some reason, a relative gave me a copy of Milne’s autobiography for a present years ago. The story starts with his first day as a reporter, he sets off to cover a breaking story about a bee swarm somewhere unwelcome, comes back with his face all bee-stung, and that becomes the story. Bee stings reporter. That’s as far as I got. It was like reading the diary of a parking inspector.

Story of his life really. The more he tries to sting anyone, the more it’s all over his face.

By: AR

AR — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:28:48 +0000

And yet NewsCrap continues to pay him bigbuck$, just like Rusty & (both) Shananoos, the recusant Pearshape and thatcher’s love child Kerr.

By: bakerboy

bakerboy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:33:11 +0000

It was in the Brisbane Sunday Mail yesterday - Greg Combet and some MP chick from WA.

By: John Bennetts

John Bennetts — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:10:24 +0000

Inellectual, he certainly ain’t.

Good dinner party company? History suggests alcoholic and aggressive.

A good read? Only if you are after a bit of scandal built on a rumor and supported by nothing close to evidence.

If journalists only had a code of ethics which was enforceable, he would have to shape up or seek alternative employment.

By: baal

baal — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:32:43 +0000

Not exactly on topic, but anyway: Peter Costello has been placed in a position he can probably just about do (after all there are other board members involved and David Murray is no clown - so that’s a smart move. He might get bored if it doesn’t stretch him, but it won’t stop him writing columns and memoirs and picking up the odd consultancy and other small tasks he feels qualified to do.

Also very important that someone reminded us what a prat he is, so thank you Paul Keating, however, outrage at the job not going to a Labor mate should be ignored as sour grapes.

By: james mcdonald

james mcdonald — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:07:28 +0000

Maybe Keating is right about bracing up the privacy laws. If there’s a prima facie case for public interest (eg if the story raises a question of integrity or conflict of interest) then free speech needs to be protected from defamation torts, but if it’s an issue purely of taste or titillation, then the smut market is probably one of the factors keeping high quality people out of politics.

I basically don’t want anyone running my country who is that squeaky clean.

Reformed laws might be acceptable to the fourth estate if there’s a bit of give and take in it. More freedom from defamation suits (with retractions to have ten times the exposure of the original libel, instead of financial damages), and less freedom for irrelevant muckraking.

By: RaymondChurch

RaymondChurch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:17 +0000

Nothing surprises me any more when it comes to subject matter written by Milne. What does surprise me is News Ltd continues to employ him. Of course the standard they expect from their so called feature writers, is practically zero, so Milne joins a collection of no brain, tripe columnists, whose job appears to be, fill the space with whatever, regardless of quality.

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:58:05 +0000

Speaking of which just to add, Deb Cameron 702 late last week did Cormack McCarthy The Road on book club and followed up with survivalist emergency rations talk by Red Cross or someone. It’s on her blog, never read it either but I thought, uh oh, my politics is coming around the behind me like a wily dingo and surrounding me. I’m going to have to switch to frothing Alan Jones for some variety! You shoulda heard him criticising Turnbull about all the “illegals”. Is fatty Jones going senile from the chemo?

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:53:57 +0000

What I said on yer blog Mr Keane. Agree about little or no public interest, but for about 10% factor revealing toll of political life and implicit dedication to careerism. But also domestic stability in a high pressure job. So we are talking diverse real politik hunting dogs and same playing for keeps.

Indeed one can feel a sort of orgasmic crescendo in national politiks building up, or perhaps an orgy of violent re-set of equilibrium like after one of those Pacific Rim earthquakes which goes well beyond the actors referred to above.

Call it ecological unravel Aussie Style, or simply chapter 1 - Double Dissolution.