Comments on: Will Aussies pay for Murdoch’s news?

By: RICK68

RICK68 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:05:05 +0000

HALLELUJAH! Andrew Bolt on ABC Insiders this morning Sunday February 7. Watch him tell the story to his bosses requirements — -Murdoch the man who renounced his Aussie citizenship for American Capitalism. Regards Richard Ryan.

By: harrybelbarry

harrybelbarry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:27:49 +0000

Twobob , iagree , but don’t pick on dogs and geese.

By: tigerchelle63

tigerchelle63 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:21:45 +0000

So you stroll into your local Woolies and speak any one of the number of lingos listed above to the tellers do you SWIFTI? English is the official language spoken in Australia.

By: Swifti

Swifti — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:52:09 +0000

Oh and MPM..

” This is Australia We speak English here? “

1 Who is we? Indians? Lebanese? Muslim? Christian? Chinese?

2 In the 2001 census, 2,843,851 Australians reported speaking a language other than English at home, including 50,978 speakers of Indigenous languages.
Chinese (all): 371,357
Other or unspecified: 363,062
Italian: 316,890
Vietnamese: 278,236
Greek: 252,220
Cantonese: 244,553
Arabic: 243,662
Mandarin: 220,601
Serbian: 95,365 (2006)
French: 93,593
Spanish: 78,878
German: 76,443

Macedonian: 67,836
Croatian: 63,611
Polish: 53,387
Turkish: 50,693
Hindi: 47,817
Maltese: 41,393
Netherlandic: 40,188
Tagalog (Filipino): 39,643
Korean: 39,529
Indonesian: 38,724

Other Chinese: 36,764
Russian: 36,501
Japanese: 35,111
Persian: 25,238
Hungarian: 24,485
Tamil: 24,074
Portuguese: 23,688
Samoan: 22,711
Sinhalese: 20,600
Unspecified South Slavic: 14,606

Other languages spoken in Australia, according to Ethnologue, include Adyghe, Afrikaans (12,655 speakers), Basque, Western Cham, Estonian, Scottish Gaelic, Fijian Hindustani, Hebrew, Indo-Portuguese, Northern Kurdish (11,000 speakers), Cham, Latvian (25,000 speakers), Lithuanian (10,000 speakers), Cocos Islands Malay, Mambae, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (30,000 speakers), Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Nung, Piemontese, Pukapuka (140 speakers), Romanian, Traveller Scottish, Senaya, Slovene, Sylheti, Tai Dam, Tongan, Turoyo (2,000 speakers), Unserdeutsch, Uyghur, Northern Uzbek, and Eastern Yiddish.

Yeah it is okay for you to scrutinise everyone elses contribution isn’t it? Or is it?

MPM is a goose!

By: Swifti

Swifti — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:47:09 +0000

Why do people bother trying to answer this question, discussion over. It was summed up in the first comment by nugget NO!

and MPM is a goose

By: kuke

kuke — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:14:26 +0000

Who wouldn't pay for this? Man opens bag of Cheese Rings, finds one In other news, this may spur the paywall: Can Apple's tablet do it again?

By: philiseedogollomoo

philiseedogollomoo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:32:59 +0000

Kevin,
I don’t think poor is an appropriate adjective.
If media ownership is concentrated then it doesn’t necessarily challenge societys’ establishment order unless it suits the bottom line.
Threrefore it could be left/right or both wings depending on which way the wind is blowing.
And MPMs a goose.

By: twobob

twobob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:22:45 +0000

I wont pay, I wont pay, na na no way,
cos ruperts Australian’s a dog

And MPM’s a goose

By: Kevin Herbert

Kevin Herbert — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:43:25 +0000

Those plebs who breathlessly expose the media as ” inherently left wing” are showing their total lack of appreciation of the modern world. Most of the above comments sound like an undergraduate political science tutorial.

Of course the media is left wing……if left wing means challenging any society’s establishment order. The terms ‘left’ & ‘right’ become interchangeable.

And it always will be…despite an obvious contradiction such as Fox News USA…Rupert’s ultimate pander to the US right wing establishment (make that any right wing establishment anywhere in the world who has money to advertise)…only for a return on his investment…Rupert is apolitical, and couldn’t give a shit for your carping on right versus left….he sneers into his breakfast cereal over such simplistic views…

But still, even though I admire his perspicacity…and his embodiment of someone who was born with ink in his veins…his time is up. The net is ending/severely amending many an institution globally…and Rupert’s unique pre- internet empire happens to be one of them.

By: Kevin Herbert

Kevin Herbert — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:23:00 +0000

Poor old Rupe…..the locomotive of reality has taken him out..but he doesn’t know it yet.

By: Elan

Elan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:54:28 +0000

Oooooooohhhhh me too!!

By: nugget

nugget — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:32:07 +0000

Neither can I, conservative superiority or leftist elitist whinging.

By: bennpackham

bennpackham — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:27:04 +0000

Nugget, I can’t bear either - conservative superiority or leftist elitism.

By: Elan

Elan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:19:01 +0000

I’m thinking mpers;-would you like me to spell it out? You appear to be struggling.

By: Elan

Elan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:17:44 +0000

mpm

This is Australia.

We read English here.

I have already asked it.

Hello??

(This is going to be fun).

By: Most Peculiar Mama

Most Peculiar Mama — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:02:54 +0000

@elan

This is Australia.

We speak English here.

Did you have a question?

By: Elan

Elan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:36:21 +0000

Yeah but,.. no but,… yeah but,.. no…

You write such flowery twaddle MPM: ‘media myopia’ / ‘petri dish’ !! Oh I say!! How fraightfully fraightfully!!

But….howsabaht an answer, not a discourse on how clever you think you are.

(Or are ‘you’ appearing on various topics in your bog standard ‘I’m a cut above’ type flowery rhetoric, simply to generate a flow of responses).

‘tis more common than tha thinks, tha knows.

By: rossco p coltrane

rossco p coltrane — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:32:10 +0000

Ummmm, yes, and I was never ever ever ever going to pay for TV either..now, god bless Foxtel IQ, couldn’t live without it, just goes to show, with the right ingredients and a bit of time, things can change.
I’d happily pay news corp a fee, say $100, per year, for the access to a bundle of content.
How about the WSJ, The Australian, The Times, a movie or two and a book or two from their publishing house, all delivered on my spanking new iSlate or Que reader or Sony ereader thingyee.

By: Most Peculiar Mama

Most Peculiar Mama — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:41:48 +0000

@ Elan

“…It occurs to me MPM that you give a great deal of attention to an irrelevant Crikey…”

As a cure for your media myopia might I suggest you venture outside the Crikey petri dish occasionally for a little conversational variety.

Big world out there….lots going on.

You sound a little claustrophobic.

By: Elan

Elan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:42:44 +0000

Nice one Alan!!

‘Rupert has one thing Fairfax and Crikey don’t and that’s reach…and that means relevancy to the global conversation.’

(‘Rupert’. How sweet. There’s a fella elsewhere who always refers to one Thatcher as: “dearest Margaret”. Even sweeter!!).

It occurs to me MPM that you give a great deal of attention to an irrelevant Crikey.

I wouldn’t bother, if I were you. It only adds to the irrelevance.

By: alan tidwell

alan tidwell — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:17:02 +0000

The suggestion that we’re only now paying for Murdoch’s news is a misnomer. We’ve been paying for it for years, it’s just he’s finally gotten around to taking it out on us financially.

By: Most Peculiar Mama

Most Peculiar Mama — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:06:17 +0000

“…You’re obviously better informed…”

Obviously.

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-australias-fairfax-open-to-pay-wall-talks-with-news-corp/

By: Perry Gretton

Perry Gretton — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:14:03 +0000

Leaving aside the subscription-based, online AFR, I wasn’t aware that Fairfax was proposing a paywall as well. You’re obviously better informed.

By: Most Peculiar Mama

Most Peculiar Mama — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:04:14 +0000

I love how the ideological mavens here rail against Murdoch’s talk of paying for content, yet conveniently ignore Fairfax’s mainc pursuit of the same financial lifeline for itself.

Hilarious stuff…and oh so predictable.

Rupert has one thing Fairfax and Crikey don’t and that’s reach…and that means relevancy to the global conversation.

But of course that’s all a VRWC.

By: nugget

nugget — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:12:38 +0000

Johnny B G did you fart in this chat room or do I detect the air of conservative superiority?
Don’t develop a persecution complex, what you are feeling is something called a conscience, somewhere amongst the doc martens and goose step.