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By golly, it was a doozy.
RN's The World Today this very day, managed to mix Annabelle Quince preparing a story in gays in Russia for Rear Vision, with the sounds of news reports on sheep scandals and so on.
On and on went the novelty mix, minute after minute, in a way worthy of Stockhausen, with Annabelle at one point asking if it sounded okay.
It sounded fine Annabelle.
The pond loves post-modernist radio mixes and this improved The World Today no end ...
More please.
I guess we should thank the long absent lord the signal cleaned up so we could hear Barners saying he didn't propose shutting down the banking industry because of bank robbers.
By golly, he's a sharp pollie ... but you know, multi-tracking him might help the blather sound more convincing ...
(Below: okay, it was just a cynical excuse to run a few radio cartoons and have a laugh. As soon as the Bolter says we shouldn't be laughing, it's way beyond time for a laugh).
It's interesting you mention torture, because I was just thinking same.
ReplyDeleteFirst, there was old Barnaby's determined, but ultimately doomed, attempt at rational thought (an example of taxpayers paying more in order to get men of little calibre) .
Then I caught a moment of the PM doing his usual “the left side of my mouth says X and the right side of my mouth says Y” routine. Yes, according to the PM it might not be nice to see the torture of animals, but we must not rush into things (just like we don't rush laws or have knee jerk reactions on bikies or challenge same sex marriages in the High Court, etc.,) and he might look at the issue to see if it is true, but it has only been two TV programmes, not reality you know and so he got through that news segment...phew! ...and he and Old B are doing lots by getting rid of any oversight on animal welfare, so there!
If that wasn't enough, I foolishly listened to the old man himself, who has deigned to grace us with his presence on a day when all his top UK people are facing criminal charges back in the PM's mother country. So there he was preaching to us about maintaining values. In order to advance into the twenty-first century, Rupert told us that we must expect disruption - his political agitations and the Coalition's antics for the last six years are set to continue apparently. Australia can achieve all that Rupert wants if we just value people and knowledge. Clearly, he must be excluding Millie Downer and a host of others as well as the science on climate change.