• On Science-Fiction

    I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

    I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

    - Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"
  • In education as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place.

    - A. N. Whitehead
  • A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
  • English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
  • True words are not beautiful,
    Beautiful words are not true.
  • Bishop of Bath and Wells: You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity… Have you ever considered a career in the church? Blackadder: Yes, but I couldn't get used to the underwear.

    Blackadder the Second
  • What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

    - Samuel Johnson

  • Terry Pratchett

    That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

    "It's still a lie. Like the lie about masks."
    "What lie about masks?"
    "The way people say they hide faces."
    "They do hide faces."
    "Only the one on the outside."

    Maskerade

  • Balzac a dit:

    Mes avis sur vos relations avec les femmes sont aussi dans ce mot de chevalerie: Les servir toutes, n'en aimer qu'une.

    Le véritable amour est éternel, infini, toujours semblable à lui-même; il est égal et pur, sans démonstrations violentes; il se voit en cheveux blancs, toujours jeune de cœur.

Spoken too soon

Posted on 14 April, 2008 by Jon Whyte

I take back yesterday’s words of a well-prepared mind and give you today’s (toned down) vicious thoughts.

Happy with my media? Bah humbug.
Fair and unbiased? Poppycock.
Honest representation? Pooh-pooh.

So what’s with all that rubbish on the news lately about anti-China demonstrations the world over and not a word to say about yesterday’s Chinese students’ Anti-Media Distortion demonstration? Don’t tell me that it’s a fair deal considering China doesn’t broadcast Tibetan demonstrations. Sure they do – just as Western media cuts out pro-China demonstrators at these pro-Tibetan rallies.

*breathes*

Major world suck. DFTBA guys.

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6 Responses

  1. sof, on April 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm Said:

    Your blog is great. I hope you gonna keep writing that way.

  2. Media Bias? « Deneb’s Corner (II), on April 15th, 2008 at 2:24 am Said:

    [...] read this blog post by someone who lives(?) in Australia and expressed outrage at their media. The Au news sources [...]

  3. Dracil, on April 15th, 2008 at 2:28 pm Said:

    Were any of the Australian media even given a press release? The way I look at it, I see two things 1) Would they invite the very people they are trying to demonize here? 2) Would the people they are trying demonize bother to come?

    Seems like a lose-lose situation for the media.

  4. Chesterfield Spud, on April 15th, 2008 at 7:06 pm Said:

    I’d assumed so. Why would they hold a demonstration just for the fun of it without any publicity?

  5. Dracil, on April 15th, 2008 at 7:36 pm Said:

    They might invite Chinese media, but not necessarily Western media given their whole demonstration is about how they cannot be trusted.

    It would be like Republicans inviting Democrats to a pro-Republican/anti-Democrat event (I’m not familiar with the Australian political system so I’m just using the US system).

  6. Chesterfield Spud, on April 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm Said:

    Woah there, I don’t think they mean to say that Western media is not to be trusted – just a protest against perceived distortion in public access media sources.

    I suppose you have a point, but wasn’t the whole point of journalism to bring light to murky areas and all that?

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