It’s The Same Everywhere
There is nothing really new in the column, The media is in denial about its own failings. It covers the same complaints we have all had about the M$M and the crummy job they have been doing lately… well, except for the fact that it’s on the ABC site, complaining about the Australian media.
It is cold comfort to know that the Australians are also watching their media surrender reliable information on the altar of profits for corporations. When all of the “cost containment” comes from “production” the “product” will always suffer. The problem isn’t producing a product cheaper, it is producing a cheap product and expecting people to pay the same price for it.
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Told you sotm 😛 😉
It’s the same everywhere. *shrug*. I read a great blog by an old (and very “old fashioned”) reporter called The Failed Estate. He’s been reporting on this sort of crap since he began blogging, and long before in traditional media. 🙂 I have a lot of respect for Tim Dunlop (author of the piece you referenced above). I notice he referenced a recent blog published by “The Failed Estate”.
I only watch and read ABC (Aus) and now, as do many others. Readership and profits of others is falling, especially NewsCorp (who simply lie about everything, even to their own shareholders.) I can’t see them lasting much longer. Good. 🙂
There was this piece a few days ago Lighting the fuse and watching it burn which is possibly the best coverage of that Koran burning idiocy I’ve seen so far.
OT: Been really busy, and won’t be around much, if at all over the next few days or so. Got my own crap to deal with. *shrug* 🙂
OT: Yeah, Real Life™ is the curse of the blogging masses. It has been mostly hurricanes until the Atlantic calms down in a week or so.
I stick with the BBC, ABC, and CBC as the more authoritative voices of what is happening, especially in the US. The commercial news sites are mostly garbage. I first saw “news” of the weather in New York on the CBC site and then had to search for a US reference, only because most people still can’t deal with metric.
The US PBS is polluted by being entirely too political, and is over-loaded with appointees from the Hedgemony during the Bush years. They are dependent on Congress for funding, so they “shade” their news.
Finding facts is not easy these days.
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power.”
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Walter M. Miller, Jr.
That says it all really. So really, today is no different from the past it seems.
OT: Among many other things, one of my main HDD’s died. I got a couple of the new WD Green 1TB / 64MB cache SATA drives (cheap here, $75 wholesale), and a cool eSATA HDD toaster thingy! 😆 (It’s a HDD Dock with eSATA/USB2.0 I/F): NexStar Dual Bay Hard Drive Dock. Works very well. Makes it easy to get a HDD ready for a build, lot easier than using an external case, or installing it into a PC to format/partition etc. Shoulda got one ages ago! Oh well… 😉 And, because HDD’s are so cheap now, and have such a huge capacity, it’s almost impossible to bakup with DVD’s or tape (unless you get a DLT4 or 5, and they cost a few $k for the drive). Just get another HDD for $75 and mirror it, then seal it in an antistatic bag and put it away securely. 🙂
It’s 2:30AM, and I’m reinstalling win. What fun. 😐 Cya!
That was a great book. I read it so long ago that the majority of my hair was on the top of my head instead of the bottom.
There is one big difference – in the old days no one in the media pretended they were “fair and balanced”, so you knew what their biases were.
OT: As much as we complain I remember when it took more than a day to do a reliability check on a 30MB drive before you could install Novell’s Netware system.
It is a great book. 🙂 Lucky for me, I had a *classic* education! 😉 😆
OT: Speaking of Novell… Have you seen this? Promises to be very interesting!
Goodbye, Novell
My linux box is running a data recovery on the 1TB HDD that *died*. Been going over 2 days now, I expect it to take a couple more. Since the MFT & directory are corrupted beyond repair, it has to scan every byte and rebuild the directory. That’s the problem with big drives! 😀 I wish M$ would dump NTFS and use EXT3, It’s far more robust! But I know that will never happen. Of course, the Server/Enterprise variant of NTFS is much more robust. Workstations apparently don’t need it. Morons.
Novell played the game like IBM, often buying patents to prevent things that might compete with their money products from seeing the light of day. People are competing for the right to sue. The US needs a major re-write of current patent laws, and to stop patenting software.
M$ consistently selects the worst option when making changes – the version that is the most limited in capability. That’s why none of their products scale worth a damn. They really have no vision of the future, so they make no provisions for it in their software.