Comments on: Blog against MSM – are they both wrong

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:07:37 +0000

Jen, I wish the MSM would be as transparent as you are being. I never once heard the Age clarify how their reporter was conned by Greenpeace 2 years ago.
Not that I’m suggesting this is a con so much as over-statement.
The games the Sea Shepherd were playing certainly looked dangerous – I don’t think I’d want to be doing it with bits of pack ice floating around! And it would be pretty easy to have a bit of fender to fender contact which wouldn’t show-up amongst all the bruises that ships get in their daily grind.

By: Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:51:14 +0000

Hi Graham,
I think you make some good points.
I’ve asked the Japanese for video footage and been told there is none of the collision.
Presumably there is little damage to show – or there would at least be a post collision video showing it.
In an interview with Kristen Gelineau at http://www.foxnews.com, Paul Watson is quoted saying his boat only “lightly brushed” the whalers vessel.
Interestingly in the same interview he describes bottle-throwing as harmless.

By: Ayjay

Ayjay — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:35:17 +0000

John Passant,socialism will not save us,no matter how noble it’s tenets.
Ultimately,it is the individual who must take responsibility and with this current economic catastrophy it should be a philosophy of evolution rather than revolution.You only have revolutions when a system is totally dysfunctional.We have to build on past tried and tested tenets or suffer oblivian.
There is a lot wrong with capitalism and the motivation of those at the apex of this insecurity of humanity,who seek power to appease their insecurities.
With the current economic collapse,the forces of religion, socialism and facism are mustering their forces to take centre stage on the plain of our weakness.None of these forces respect true democracy.True democracy could be instigated tomorrow with the power of the internet.It won’t happen since the balance of power would belong to the people and the egotists would be left to look in the mirror and accept the drudgery of survival.

By: John Passant

John Passant — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:04:50 +0000

On “safety first” and blogging, I blog to get some basic ideas of socialism into the ether and to develop my own ideas.
I think the Main Stream Media is too narrow in its world views. Obviously there will be differences but that’s a bit like saying the Coalition and the ALP fundamentally differ on managing capitalism. They don’t differ at all on the fundamentals.
Jack Waterford in today’s Canberra Times argues the thing that newspapers can give is analysis and explanation. Hmmm. That’s true, but most of it is so anodyne it is no wonder many people flee to the net to fnd more challenging and explanatory analysis.