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I have very nearly finished the book (about twenty pages to go) - and thus far I haven't read anything "new". The less than flattering review by Ross Fitzgerald in the Oz makes me feel it is time to blog on Jonestwon. * As an example this weekend's newspaper coverage of both Beazley's and Debnam's leadership, both devoid of anything about what the politicians might stand for. As Hitler proved - a demagogue is not a democrat. If Jones were truly engaged in some democratic form I suggest he might actually care about the conclusion in "cash-for-comment". Read the chapter on his voluminous correspondence, read the chapters on the causes he "chooses" to take up. The theory that he is accountable to his audience is wrong, given that he controls what his audience is able to hear. I suggest people read the book if they want to claim that Jones is some kind of modern democratic form. I have a colleague who decries modern media of being only interested in reporting "a horse race or celebrity", and look at the coverage of politics ad you see just that.* This perhaps opens up a more interesting question of whether the media (or the "fourth estate" to borrow the French revolutionary term) is performing its role. My anonymous commentor falls into this trap, trying to describe the Jones radio show as some kind of "higher democracy" and praising Jones for getting resulys. It is not so much a concern with Alan Jones, but with how the whole city of Sydney and hence NSW politics, and to a far lesser degree Australian politics, has allowed itself to become subject to the "power" of this broadcaster. The last chapters of Jonestown take us to Chris Masters core of concern. My post on Jonestown has elicited a response which I will comment on here.
#The delusion of the 'willing victim' tv
Or does the final word really belong to the Pay TV consortium under its original monicker of PMT? As one of the world’s biggest content providers, there’s plenty of self-interest riding for Rupert." I guess the final word goes to Crikey who noted "You have to almost admire the hide of Rupert Murdoch, managing on the one platform to demand major tax cuts and that the government spend $10 billion to $12 billion on broadband that will just happen to help his own business. Is this some orchestrated campaign by Packer and Murdoch with their Payy TV partner? Or is it some softening up for the Government concerned that broadband is becoming an election issue. Two leading economists Joshua Gans and Jerry Haussman argued in a recent AFR article Telstra should be required to divest its HFC network as part of T3. Someone might like to explain the market structure in Australia in which Murdoch and Packer are joint venture partners with Telstra in a Pay TV business - leaving Australia devoid of the competition between fixed line telephone operators and Pay TV operators that some claim would see this change. And if it such a good deal, why isn't someone else doing it? And to the extent that the Government wants, as the Government should want, a best practice broadband infrastructure, if the Government has got to do something to help Telstra get a commercial return. is perfectly entitled to say that, you know, I want to make a commercial rate of return on the investment that I'm putting in. Packer followed last night saying "I think that Telstra is in. In Australia we only have a couple of million people on broadband and they don't even get 1Mb." People then spend a lot of time with their laptops and computers.
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It started with Murdoch who said "When you have broadband - real broadband, not the type they're talking about here - where you get, say, 20Mbps of data into your home, it changes everything.
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Well, we've now had the daily double - Packer and Murdoch both decrying the state of broadband in Australia.