Seriously, I can't get enough of the terrifying abc tony tells Malcolm give em cash
The ABC’s managing director Mark Scott made an important point this week when he emphasized the distinction between a public broadcaster and a state broadcaster. The ABC was part of Team Australia, he said––repudiating Tony Abbott’s slur––because it played the necessary role in a democracy of providing a forum for debate free of political interference.
Former Liberal Staffer, Mark Scott fires back I hope no one wants the A B C to be a State broadcaster
A week is a long time in politics ...Last week Tony Abbott stood in Parliament grinning, his arms raised to the heavens, and said five words most observers thought would never pass his lips: "Thank you to the ABC." ...
"From time to time, I’m asked to speak to journalism students about what it’s like working in a news room.
I often reflect that for all the planning you can do around big news events—an election, a budget, The Olympics—almost by definition, the biggest stories are those you can’t predict, you didn’t know were about to erupt. These kinds of stories are sometimes fascinating, sometimes appalling. But they get the adrenaline running in the newsroom.
Thinking about it now, I suspect that those of us running corporate affairs, as you do—or running a corporation as I do—don’t hanker for the adrenaline rushes quite so much!
But things happen. As Harold McMillan said when asked what were the greatest challenges a leader faces in public life, “Events, my dear boy, events.”
Tony Abbott and the ABC the love affair that couldn't last
From time to time, Junkee’s exhaustive and rigorous coverage of Education Minister Christopher Pyne has strayed into the personal — mentioning his odd texting habits, his unique Twitter presence, and his vast array of smug facial expressions, for which we are profoundly regretful. Journalism is a serious business, and must never cross the line into personal attacks and childish name-calling.
Christopher Pyne the boy known as The Fixer
[Charles Murray, author of the newly published By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission] rocks ... Earlier on Murray’s new book here and here.
Julia Gillard said the way she became prime minister in mid-2010 gave her a “long shadow” and steps were taken to “make that shadow darker and darker”.
Thats the sort of things assassins say ...From time to time, Junkee’s exhaustive and rigorous coverage of Education Minister Christopher Pyne has strayed into the personal — mentioning his odd texting habits, his unique Twitter presence, and his vast array of smug facial expressions, for which we are profoundly regretful. Journalism is a serious business, and must never cross the line into personal attacks and childish name-calling.
Christopher Pyne the boy known as The Fixer
[Charles Murray, author of the newly published By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission] rocks ... Earlier on Murray’s new book here and here.
in US: Slept through the insults, awarded $500,000
Patient undergoing sedation for colonoscopy leaves cellphone recording, which picks up a string of insulting remarks made by anesthesiologist and others while he was under. The comments alleged to be defamatory were mostly heard only by other health workers present, so reputational damages are at best uncertain, but a Northern Virginia jury valued the sheer indignity of it all at $500,000. [Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel]
