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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Tony's words: your taxes paid for this
It seems one of ABC's senior reporters, Chris Uhlmann, has spent some time counting the words of PM Tony Abbot. One would think there are more important and fulfilling activities for a senior journalist to undertake.
The result:
What we can learn from Tony Abbott's words
Fascinating?... Hardly. No mention by Chris in this ludicrous piece of who spent the time counting the numbers, the methods used, the manner of analysis, and ABC have to gall to use the words "scientific " to describe it. ABC complain about funding cuts then undertake utterly pointless "research" such as this. No mention also of Uhlmann's connections to the ALP (his wife is the ALP member for Canberra).
The result:
What we can learn from Tony Abbott's words
A new analysis mines more than 200,000 words Mr Abbott uttered in Parliament and in speeches in the 12 months before and after the election. It is a fascinating portrait of the changing times.
Some of the comments sum it up nicely...
What a load of cobblers. Surely Chris, with your training, you can find something more important than this dribble.
This is complete and utter rubbish. Of course the words he uses have changed because its a different year, and there is different things to talk about. Thats why QANTAS is one of those words on the list above. I bet he uses the words 'Islamic" and 'State' more now than he did before the election. That does not mean it is some kind of a strategy. It just means he is doing his job.
This kind of superficial textual analysis does more harm than good. By looking simply for words, phrases, without a context we misrepresent meaning.
It seems that the conclusion is seeking to explain away, rather than reveal.
Where's the methodology?
Think the ABC is home to quality journalism? Think Again!
This is complete and utter rubbish. Of course the words he uses have changed because its a different year, and there is different things to talk about. Thats why QANTAS is one of those words on the list above. I bet he uses the words 'Islamic" and 'State' more now than he did before the election. That does not mean it is some kind of a strategy. It just means he is doing his job.
This kind of superficial textual analysis does more harm than good. By looking simply for words, phrases, without a context we misrepresent meaning.
It seems that the conclusion is seeking to explain away, rather than reveal.
Where's the methodology?
Think the ABC is home to quality journalism? Think Again!
Monday, September 22, 2014
Wasting tax payers funds
As ABC are exempt from FOI I won't be able to find out how much tax payers time and money they wasted putting the following website together and spinning it as "News":
Take the Tony Abbott 'before or after' quiz
While the ABC continue to ignore the regions and waste time with crap like like this, they have little hope of being able to justify any increase to funding.
Take the Tony Abbott 'before or after' quiz
While the ABC continue to ignore the regions and waste time with crap like like this, they have little hope of being able to justify any increase to funding.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
ABC at the movies, where duplication is part of the service
Some questions...
Seen a movie lately?
Did you see it based on a review?
Was that review one you saw, or heard, or read on the ABC?
A review you paid for out of your taxes?
How many times do you think your taxes should pay for a movie review?
So how many movie reviewers part, full time or casual does your ABC employ or engage?
Here's a short list of some recent ABC movie reviewers, some are employees, some are not.
Gabrielle Rumble
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton
Marc Fennell
Nick Dent
Mathew Bates
Seen a movie lately?
Did you see it based on a review?
Was that review one you saw, or heard, or read on the ABC?
A review you paid for out of your taxes?
How many times do you think your taxes should pay for a movie review?
- Not at all, I'd rather see my hard earned taxes spent on medical research.
- Not at all if someone wants an opinion about a movie there are plenty of independent reviews available for free on the internet.
- I'd like Margaret and David to review the movie, they seem to know what they are talking about.
- I want every Local and National ABC medium to conduct their own review, regardless if this represents gross duplication of government services or not. After all the ABC is about diversity-the more views the better (except on climate change where only one view is required).
So how many movie reviewers part, full time or casual does your ABC employ or engage?
Here's a short list of some recent ABC movie reviewers, some are employees, some are not.
Gabrielle Rumble
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton
Marc Fennell
Nick Dent
Mathew Bates
CJ Johnson
Briony Kidd
Briony Kidd
Joel Rheinberger and Andrew Hogan
So with so many reviewing is there a risk of duplication? For instance how many times did ABC provide a review of:
Skyfall: at least 9 times?: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Star Trek Into Darkness: at least 8 times?: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Star Trek Into Darkness: at least 8 times?: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Final question: Does this represent good use of tax payer resources?
The Greek Government recently took the knife to the budget of its public broadcaster. Based on the above it seems there is plenty of fat to carve from our own.
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