Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Orcon IRL 5: Media and Journalism

Sacha

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:27:13 +1200

Patrick Gower who states he is an entertainer in a pantograph interview

must be different to this one, then, where he denies everything he does.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:00:24 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFGUEUVweU
Now that's entertainment – Who needs books?

Alfie

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:36:32 +1200

This stupidity is neatly encapsulated by Patrick Gower who states he is an entertainer in a pantograph interview.

Entertainer? I guess that's mostly true.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:55:40 +1200

I love the news…
‘Pining’ for the old days…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR3b2ZQ5p84

Been checkin’ out the news, Until my eyeballs fail to see…
‘Frank’ news coverage…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girnJH7tvpM

Josie McNaught

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:50:23 +1200

Well it certainly means that "journalism" (crickey – whatever that is these days) is not valued like other professions. So it's not the talk it is the content – look at how much 'free' content you get in a paper these days – in the Herald from the Rant and…

Kevin McCready

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:31:26 +1200

Wouldn't it be nice if the conference agreed that the single biggest media problem, and by extension that of the world, has been the childish attachment to relativism – thus a journo's job is not to find and report truth, but to report "sides" and give them equal weight? This…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:19:58 +1200

so what message is that sending folks???
...Talk is cheap?
;- )

Josie McNaught

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:03:40 +1200

Well gotta say – freshly empowered with my LLB – and about to embark on a new career – I have had some interest from employers BECAUSE I have worked as a journo so I'm maybe more hardened to the world (I can interview clients that's for sure) and I…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:58:08 +1200

aah!
Reggae Accessed Memories...
I'll be part of the vaster raster colloquium!
Reespek!

Russell Brown

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:29:16 +1200

Old man question...
... what's a RAM DANCEHALL?

It's a reggae colloquialism for a crowded and popular venue :-)

Jeremy Andrew

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:05:51 +1200

A shiny gem from in the comments on John Oliver’s video:
"Funny, isn't it, that our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman."

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:12:10 +1200

Old man question...
... what's a RAM DANCEHALL?

Russell Brown

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:43:04 +1200

Oh, if you're wondering where that pic comes from, it's John Oliver's 20-minute epic epic from last week about the state of journalism. The two journalists in our house were just lying on the floor moaning by the end of it ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ

Public Address

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:43:04 +1200

Discussion from blog post.