Revolution needed in political media methods

4-00am Thursday 28th October 2004

To the "western" media.

Each day you broadcast through reputable and more self-interested media organisations, interviews with our, and other nation's political leaders and other "representatives".

Yet each day the farce seems to increase with their hyperbola, distortions and perversions.

With each attempt by reporters, journalists and interviewers to get the facts, direct answers and the Truth, the politicians (refering here to Australian federal government members) unashamedly and quite expertly adoid or direct you-the-interviewers, and through what makes it to air, the listening public, away from any truthful, relevant or or pertinent content in their responses.

Clearly they assume an arrogance in quite deliberately NOT answering your questions.

The accepted thing in journalism is to merely report whatever the 'polies' (not far from the "parrot"-kind!) say.

Yet Australia is NO WISER for all the reportage all the media offers us, for it's severely and dangerously ignorant population has recently voted our worst political offenders in for another 3 year term!

Who is responsible for this cruel fact?

The political media of today, more aware than it has ever been, must, like the recently defeated, and in some cases decimated political parties, take steps to re-consider it's performance, and it's 'til now accepted 'modus operandii', if any of you are serious about your work and about contributing to a more Just World.

For years, and no doubt for as long as journalists have been printing/broadcasting on politics, I, and the reading/listening public have felt utter exasperation at the mealy-mouthed responses and prevarications of the politicians, to the reporters questions.

It's one of the conundrums of these affairs - the Wisdom of hindsight - it's easy to be Wise in retrospect - after the fact, etc.

That the world beyond our paypacket and breakfast-bowl is closer-than-ever to eruption into catastrophe on a global scale - North Korea being intimidated by US and Japanese war-games in nearby waters, into a possibly deadly response; Taiwan is being encouraged/seduced by capitalist, anti-Chinese, anti-Socialist 'spellbinder' forces to secede from it's mainland family-and-kin, which the capitalists hope will threaten to ignite and escalate into a US-China war; Israel's impending civil war (!?) etc.:- the list is long, of extreme situations of anti-peace agitation in many parts of the world - demands that the media adapt to the political deciet spewing from the mouthes of the politicians, and adopt different, more effective methods.

To this, I put it thus:

Intervies with all political "representatives" as farcical as that title is, should proceed with the overtly expressed (to the interviewee) method of recording what answers they gove, so they may be reviewed by the media after the interview for accuracy, relevence and veracity of what the polies have said.

Then equipped with a list of any flawed answers/statements from ANY, but preferably (soas to remain current) from the most recent interviews, the reporter may structure there next interview with the politician in such a way as will call the polie to account for whatever errors/deceits theyu spoke in the previous interviews.

Now, I know many in the relevant media to whom I put this suggestion will laugh, because clearly, with the arrogance of politicians and the self-interested agenda of the commercials, they will simply be ignored, sacked or blackbanned from further interviewing the polies.

Obviously, I direct this at first, to Australia's ABC media teams, but realise that for such an idea to succeed, an agreement towards it's introduction needs-must be reached across all media - public and commercial.

As I wrote earlier, global and national tensions are high (like my clothes) and the likelihood of upheaval and collapse into unstoppable social disintegration is more real than ever.

Because of this, while stock-markets, gold, oil companies AND media corporate share-values increase with increaes in international unease (war!), I feel that commercial media's reporting of comments by politicians, if any in those media are at all genuine, have no choice but to co-operate with their media associates on modernising their 'modus operandii' in intervieing those who supposedly represent the People.

People who rely totally on the media for information and knowledge on how our lives are being governed.

I've been prompted to put this to you after listening to Alexander Downer [MORE ROHIPNOL!!], Australia's Foreign Minister (of a certainty, foreign to the Truth) on ABC local radio's "AM" Program yesterday morning (Wed 27th Oct '04) when being interviewed about the head of ASIO, Dennis Richardson's comments saying the aftermath of the Iraq war has increased Australia's susceptability to being hit by terrorists.

Downer 'justified' everything about our involvement with the US and Britain by saying "Yes but we got rid of Saddam Hussein!" (paraphrased) pushing once more the lie that Saddam was the biggest threat to western, US, and Australian Peace and stability.

The interviewer, as pressure forces them, kept closely to her questions, and made no challenge to this worn-out catch-phrase, such as our and the US government are so expert at throwing-out, appealing to whatever the public was conned to believe, sometimes decades ago.

Another classic example of these deliberate and tyrannical circumnavigations by politicians was pre-October 9th Australian federal election, when John Howard 'threw-in' the nineteen-fifties, McCarthiest "Communist" tag against the Greens.

A line, if not THE line which ultimately sunk the Greens at the polls.

Here. it may rightly have been upto the Greens to refute or defray such a base and untrue statement, but, I assert, today it is irresponsible and complicit of the media to NOT challenge such an inflammatory and false comment, at such a time (pre-election) by such a tyrant, WHEN IT HAPPENS.

Downer and Howard are undeniably liars, yet Australia re-elected them.

When it comes down to it, our media are the main group responsible for such a travesty of Justice.

For it is the media, not just the agenda-ridden tyrants, who tell the voting public what's going on, what's perceived to be going on, and what's actually going on.

Shame-shame-shame on you all. You too Derryn Hinch! (I know you're listening!)

RAther than a Revolution on the streets to make things right, where many thousands of Australians would die, I say it's time there was a Revolution in our media - across the fucking board (-room-tables) where a few utterly corrupted, that-is self0interested morons will be tossed-out, and, oh-dear, lose their precious wank-jobs.

Wank-jobs of church-schooled egomaniacs as pervade the media, from mailroom boys to CEOs, in commercial and public media organisations.

Time you all took your hands OFF your organs, and faced up to how responsible you are for the planet's political violence, and to how responsible you could and should be for arresting our national and global slide into social destruction.

DON'T WAIT FOR HIM!

"BUT WHAT ABOUT MY SUPERANNUATION!?!?!?!?!?"

PS: Keep ignoring my existence - I don't give a f--k.

I'll stay "2-eyed" while you lot (and the rest of this entranced nation) hide from YOUR Responsibilities.

While you do,you display typical Judeo-Christian culturcidal ignorance, ESPECIALLY about what Yeshua ben Joseph (JC) was trying to Teach dumb-fuck-whitey.

But it's pointless trying to teach anything to a brick-wall - a big hammer is about all that'll get through!

You listening Geraldine Doogue, Paul Collins et al?

Democracy has no Leader!

Wise Elders Yes. But where today are they, and what %-age of the public would recognise them and then Listen?

Looks like we're headed for tyranny then.

"How long must I be with you????"

Christianity is a rort!


Concluding, I return to Downer's abuse of Saddam Hussien's name for political capital:

The facts remain that Saddam was promoted to become the puppet-tyrant by those very same true tyrannical puppet-makers-and-masters of the oil-hungry US and British powers, over the 3 decades before he 'fell'.

It is a failure of the media to let such facts pass in the rhetorical pomposities of the likes of Howard, Downer and Co.