Comments on: Well, there’s your problem! http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/ even black birds must die Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-88 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:48:44 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-88 ps

if you think watching the media is bad, try working for it… yeesh. a Bex and a good lie down all round, I reckon.

]]> By: Anonymous http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-87 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:46:44 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-87 on passion

y’know, I totally get where you’re coming from.

]]> By: kirstynmcdermott http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-86 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:49:33 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-86 Oh, I’m sure once Our Heath wins the Oscar, I’ll feel so much better about everything. We all will.

]]> By: kylaw http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-85 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:04:07 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-85 There, there, I do understand. What this same exercise (give or take a stint as Media Officer for the local Greens during the last election) eventually taught me was that “news” is a genre, just like any other kind of writing/filming. A newspaper or broadcast is a template which must be filled by whatever comes to hand. Not particularly diverse facts are subject to standard treatment, producing that mix of Serious News Relevant to All Australians, followed by Interesting Australians Do Things, Interesting Americans Do Things, Strange Things Happen to Uninteresting People and Men Kick Ball Around. Which has evolved to attract the widest possible audience. It’s not an illusion: it really is the same every day.

Of course, having come to this conclusion I now tend to not watch or read any kind of news. Or I could still be suffering from the trauma of reading every issue of the local paper for a solid year.

]]> By: benpeek http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-84 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:29:44 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-84 yeah.

i think i might go take a moment to lie down, too.

]]> By: kirstynmcdermott http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-83 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:27:57 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-83 True. On SBS at least you get a little more of an idea that stuffs happens outside of Australia and the USA. A very little more. But you’re right, they are starting to whack off almost as much as the commercial networks these days. I think it was the SBS Gaza coverage to tipped it for me this time.

Oh yeah, it actually was. The night they spent more time covering the fact that Heath Ledger won a Golden Globe or whatever the fuck it was, and would thus probably win an Oscar. Wow, like, that really puts the whole Israel/Palestine thing back into perspective!

Plus, every motherfucker is starting to use those stupid disclaimers: warning, the following story may contain images which some viewers might find disturbing. Because, heaven forbid we might actually be disturbed by something awful and complicated and tragic, let alone have to consider why we are disturbed, let alone maybe, just possibly have to do anything about that. Fuckers. (And I include myself in that last, me who does nothing except switch off.)

Ahem. Kirstyn needs to go lie down now.

]]> By: benpeek http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-82 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:10:09 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-82 ;p

the depression thing is actually something i have to watch, and that stuff is one of those things that can set you off, you know?

but outside that, what’s with the sbs news nowadays? man, it’s nearly as bad as the commerical networks.

]]> By: kirstynmcdermott http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-81 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:06:25 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-81 You, angry and depressed? Gosh, really? :-)

But yes, add frustrated and cynical to the mix, and that about covers it for me as well. I wean myself down to ABC and SBS to start with, and when I still want to throw things at the screen, or feel the urge to strangle a puppy, I know it’s time to tune out for a bit.

Until the leftist guilt kicks in. Ah, Ouborous, how I adore thee.

]]> By: benpeek http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-80 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:42:54 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-80 my problem is that too much media just makes me angry and depressed at the same time. there’s only so many times you can watch, ‘such and such star has arrived in our country and love it here,’ then cut to, ‘and in palestine, children were bombed,’ with the happy-sad-happy tones.

]]> By: kirstynmcdermott http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-79 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:39:27 +0000 http://kirstynmcdermott.com/2009/01/21/well-theres-your-problem/#comment-79 Word!

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