tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post6040909198250146950..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond doubles down on dashing Donners with a dose of Barners ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11955434753523429102018-08-03T04:05:30.500+10:002018-08-03T04:05:30.500+10:00But, but, think of the non-exclusive value already...But, but, think of the non-exclusive value already being created for co-production partners in reducing and eliminating transcripts, libraries and backcatalogues, means of in-house productions, in-depth and investigative journalisms, basic news and current affairs, and the like. Then imagine how good it will be when the Foxy-Executives-in-the-Ultimo-house are done with their latest and greatest review, and all the fun LifeStyle-transformations-for-21st-Century-consumers which will ensue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90880293837140355262018-08-01T14:43:57.697+10:002018-08-01T14:43:57.697+10:00Oops, I see Amanda Meade's Guardian post does ...Oops, I see Amanda Meade's Guardian post does have comments emabled (am I just going blind ?).<br /><br />So please delete the above, DP, as I simply can't find out how to delete a comment in Blogger myself.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69183786993803984242018-08-01T13:39:52.480+10:002018-08-01T13:39:52.480+10:00Entirely way off topic, DP, but as Amanda Meade...Entirely way off topic, DP, but as Amanda Meade's article in the Guardian (2nd part of her ABC series) doesn't have comments available, and since you have mentioned her name in passing once or twice, I kinda hoped I could express some pent up feelings here. Feel free to delete this of course.<br />___________________________<br />My personal version of Hanlon's razor: "Sufficient stupidity is indistinguishable from evil."<br /><br />So, considering today's ABC, what is the practical difference in outcomes between Michelle Guthrie and Jonathon Shier ?<br /><br />Australians once collectively owned five great 'brands' that were core service and product providers: ANA, Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, PMG and ABC. Now all we have left is a badly corporatised segment of PMG (Australia Post) and an ABC in the process of being poorly corporatised too. Good one, Australians.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-5477517830213856242018-08-01T08:50:37.241+10:002018-08-01T08:50:37.241+10:00'Broady Boy' Donners: "...reinforces...'Broady Boy' Donners: "...<i>reinforces <b>the impression</b> that the government is more worried about the top end of town than those doing it hard</i>."<br /><br />The "<b>impression</b>" ? But surely Donners is well aware that those "doing it hard" are so because its their own undeserving fault ? <br /><br />As to "the top end of town", well of course the government is most worried about that, in the immortal words of Willie Sutton*, "because that's where the money is".<br /><br />* If you are not familiar with this latter day robbing hood (he died in 1980), let Wikipedia enlighten you:<br /><i>William Francis "Willie" Sutton, Jr. was an American bank robber. During his forty-year robbery career he stole an estimated $2 million, and he eventually spent more than half of his adult life in prison and escaped three times</i>.<br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com