Comments on: Crikey says: the Murray-Darling’s time has come http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/22/crikey-says-the-murray-darlings-time-has-come/ now with extra source Thu, 23 May 2013 01:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: AR http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/22/crikey-says-the-murray-darlings-time-has-come/comment-page-1/#comment-229250 AR Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:15:35 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=332738#comment-229250 The single, simplest & most effective action would be to breach each & every dyke, diversion channel and dam on Cubbie. Not sure how our new, chinese Overlords might react though. Anyone over 16 read Marsden's "<i>TOMORROW</i> series? The single, simplest & most effective action would be to breach each & every dyke, diversion channel and dam on Cubbie.
Not sure how our new, chinese Overlords might react though.
Anyone over 16 read Marsden’s “TOMORROW series?

]]> By: CliffG http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/22/crikey-says-the-murray-darlings-time-has-come/comment-page-1/#comment-229224 CliffG Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:29:43 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=332738#comment-229224 "There will be howls of criticism this afternoon; they will dominate much of the media coverage. Maybe it's time to ignore them and focus on the facts, the options and the art of the possible." We've been ignoring the shrill, negative focus of media coverage of most things for some time now. Just like the electorate did in the recent US election. But if the media don't present the "facts" where are we supposed to find them? And how do we make the media accountable and stop their perpetual wanking? Even when you change channels now you see the same thing. SBS World News last night (6.30pm in Adelaide) had exactly the same verbatim reports, exactly the same image for image items which occupied the first 12 minutes of ABC TV News at 7pm. Talk about sharing the load! Even the sources we could once rely upon are failing us now. And then there's News Ltd!!! “There will be howls of criticism this afternoon; they will dominate much of the media coverage. Maybe it’s time to ignore them and focus on the facts, the options and the art of the possible.”

We’ve been ignoring the shrill, negative focus of media coverage of most things for some time now. Just like the electorate did in the recent US election.
But if the media don’t present the “facts” where are we supposed to find them?
And how do we make the media accountable and stop their perpetual wanking?
Even when you change channels now you see the same thing. SBS World News last night (6.30pm in Adelaide) had exactly the same verbatim reports, exactly the same image for image items which occupied the first 12 minutes of ABC TV News at 7pm. Talk about sharing the load!
Even the sources we could once rely upon are failing us now.
And then there’s News Ltd!!!

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