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Granberry's Parlor

tomierna's Avatar Picture tomierna (Admin) – December 07, 2007 09:46PM Reply Quote
Politics. Don Granberry on the old Spork Boards was quite fond of talking about them, and here we continue on in that fine tradition.
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Tony Leggett (Moderator) – January 31, 2012 05:09PM Reply Quote
Sydney Morning Herald to be bought out by Gina Rineheart (mining tycoon & Australia's richest person).

Paper to be renamed "Open-cut: The Australian Mining Daily Soapbox"...

Immensely saddened,

TL
ddt – January 31, 2012 08:52PM Reply Quote
Well, Tony, the Chandlers were a rapacious oil family, but they owned and published the L.A. Times as an eventually excellent (maybe second or third in the States) newspaper for decades, so maybe she's doing it for other reasons... ? Slim chance? I know that is one of your fave things to link to.

ddt
tliet – January 31, 2012 11:00PM Reply Quote
Bill, watching it now and it's inspiring. However, I couldn't help thinking of this scene: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vRYBqDDR_HE&fmt=18

(even the voice is comparable)
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – February 01, 2012 02:56PM Reply Quote
ddt,

She wants a megaphone to blare her anti-mining tax, anti-carbon tax, anti-any-tax views from. Media companies that aren't parroting her views (and there's not that many) are likely to be strategically raided.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/gina-rineharts-fairfax-ploy-20120201-1qsas.html

It must be so oppressive sitting on over $10Bn and being expected to pay taxes like everyone else.
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – February 04, 2012 06:30PM Reply Quote
TPBD!

The boardroom discussion about having a "fair and balanced" news channel in Australia...

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/mining/monckton/monckton-speaks-to-mining-industry-share-this-video
tliet – February 06, 2012 10:45AM Reply Quote
Well, we know it's been done (hey, look at Murdoch). It's just amazing to see this out in the open for once.
John Willoughby – February 15, 2012 10:42AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
This is why US science and education is failing.
tliet – February 15, 2012 12:02PM Reply Quote
Just ran into the BBC coverage of that. And yes, this is how the 'scientific evidence' that global warming isn't happening gets produced.
ddt – February 15, 2012 03:10PM Reply Quote
Want to see who's been covering this for ages? You might like some of John Stauber's books and http://www.prwatch.org/

ddt
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – February 26, 2012 02:29PM Reply Quote
Ah, french filmakers are good at getting points across succinctly and effectively - case in point.

[edit] fixed the link



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Dave Loudin – February 26, 2012 04:36PM Reply Quote
Found where it's at!
Heartland also did similar work for the tobacco companies.



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Tony Leggett (Moderator) – March 04, 2012 04:23PM Reply Quote
Here's a doozy:

Don't classify me by my means, race, class or gender...

Aside from the mental gymnastics of the difference between means and class, there's the further mind-boggling extrapolation of how "class" can be anything but a system of classification...

Oh wait, I get it. Billionaires are a minority and need special consideration too!

(Note the opinion piece author (billionaire miner) and the new major shareholder of the newspaper (billionaire miner and friend of the other billionaire miner)
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – March 12, 2012 08:25PM Reply Quote
DPBD!

Interesting case...

Who would want to live 20 years like that? Not I...
John Willoughby – March 12, 2012 08:56PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Twenty years, sheesh. People routinely offer to euthanize me on only a few minutes acquaintance.
ddt – March 12, 2012 09:06PM Reply Quote
People routinely offer to euthanize me on only a few minutes acquaintance.

Damnit, I _knew_ there was something I forgot to get to today.

ddt
John Willoughby – March 13, 2012 07:52AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
And so I live another day...
El Jeffe – March 13, 2012 08:09AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
day's not over! ;^)
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – March 19, 2012 11:09PM Reply Quote
Ummm...

Quote

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the Australian Greens and Queensland environmental campaigners of "treason" in conspiring with US powers to destroy the nation's coal industry.
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – March 27, 2012 09:19PM Reply Quote
DPBD!

How much more sordid can Rupert Murdoch get?



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John Willoughby – March 27, 2012 09:23PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
None. None more sordid.
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