The pond thought it was time to do a 'back to reptile basics' study, especially as nattering "Ned" today announced this day the dawn of realism as a test ... because realistically the pond had never imagined realism to have a home at the lizard Oz ...
In 1994, when Paul Kelly was editor-in-chief of the Australian, she was told to take photographs of attractive women to increase female readership.
“During a news conference the editor Paul Kelly indicated to the news conference staff that the Australian wanted to increase female readership,” Rogers said in her submission. “His argument was that women buy women’s magazines and that they like to look at attractive women.”
Did someone say a problem with women and values?
“During a news conference the editor Paul Kelly indicated to the news
conference staff that the Australian wanted to increase female
readership,” Rogers said in her submission. “His argument was that women
buy women’s magazines and that they like to look at attractive women.”
What, the pond should do more like this?
No? Let's see what sort of happy snap the reptiles lined up for "Ned's" usual pompous, portentous natter ...
A new realism is dawning? How dull is that? Please, let there be a new example of how to deal with winning culture wars ...
“During a news conference the editor Paul Kelly indicated to the news
conference staff that the Australian wanted to increase female
readership,” Rogers said in her submission. “His argument was that women
buy women’s magazines and that they like to look at attractive women.”
Yes, if only Scotty from marketing had understood ... how easily it could have been sorted ...
But we must plow on, and here's where the tedious bit really gets going. You see, in order to pump up the volume, and plod on in a tedious way, delivering bulk, "Ned" often reverts to quoting large gobbets from other sources ...
Climate change challenge? But the pond has been reading the reptiles for years, and knows that climate science is a religion, and vastly exaggerated and fake news delivered by uppity fake teenagers, and all that ...
Hmm, how to make it attractive and interesting? Keep those subscribers to the lizard Oz happy ...
Now the pond is cooking with gas ... but what do you know, the reptiles didn't follow "Ned's" orders and instead showed the usual bunch of protesting hippies imported from Nimbin ...
Of course "Ned" imagines his greatest authority is his authority, enabling him to scribble with authority about the speaking in tongues authority possessed by SloMo ...
But authority only comes from accumulated wisdom ...
“During a news conference the editor Paul Kelly indicated to the news conference staff that the Australian wanted to increase female readership,” Rogers said in her submission. “His argument was that women buy women’s magazines and that they like to look at attractive women.”
Yes, authority, that's what we need ...
Immense skill and difficult navigation within the ranks of reptile climate science denialism? Oh indeed it will, but there's always a way ... what we need to do is sexy up sexy coal a little, so it can be seen as the solution rather than the problem ...
Perhaps the pond overdid the joke, but what a way to get through a "Ned" column, and here we are at the last short gobbet already ...
The next test is at hand? Surely that should have read that the next pork barrel is at hand ...
And so to the next traditional outing, with the dog botherer on the loose in his usual Saturday way ...
Yes, yes, the pond knows it should have read "Rational debate killed in the sewer of the Murdochian press and Sky after dark", which inevitably reminded the pond of the venerable Meade's column yesterday "News Corp gives Kevin Rudd the silent treatment" ...
But back to the dog botherer. You see, ever since he revealed what a klutz he was, and had to take himself off Twitter, for the good of Twitter and the sanity of the world, the dog botherer has had a thing about all sorts of social media ...
Yet he remains such a fatuous self-regarding fuck that he thinks that doing a bit of ego surfing is the best way to start a column ...
Ego surfing, it will be recalled from its wiki entry here ...
...is employed by many people for a variety of reasons. According to a study by the Pew Internet & American life project, 47% of American adult Internet users have undertaken a vanity search in Google or another search engine. Some egosurf purely for entertainment, such as finding celebrities with the same name. However, many people egosurf as a means of online reputation management. Egosurfing can be used to find data spills, released information that is undesirable to have in the public eye. By searching one's own name in an online search engine, one can take on the perspective of a stranger attempting to find out personal information. Some egosurf in order to conceal personal images or information from potential employers, clients, identity thieves and the like. Similarly, some use egosurfing to maintain a positive public image and to achieve self-promotion.
Being old school, the pond prefers old school ways ...
Kibozing – prior to the existence of search engines, a similar practice existed on Usenet, known as kibozing after James "Kibo" Parry, who was well known for replying in a surreal fashion to anyone who mentioned his/her name, on any newsgroup.
But "vanity surfing" is probably more accurate with the dog botherer, and what a vain, disappointed, disappointing wretch he turned out to be, his few attempts at surrealism weaker than a gold toilet bowl in an art gallery ...
It's not really high comedy, or even surreal fashion, to see the dog botherer urging that we need a civil society, as the dog botherer makes his living abusing others, and calling people pre-Neanderthal ... more like low comedy and a sublime lack of self-awareness, or a recognition of what the dog botherer does for a living on Sky after dark ... so let the insults continue to fly ...
What is it that makes News Corp such a sewer? And how does it coarsen our discourse? Well for starters, you have the dog botherer ... and then ...
Following the damaging evidence by Rogers the committee subsequently heard from another ex-News employee, investigative journalist Anthony Klan.
Klan, a Walkley award-winning finance reporter at the Australian for 15 years, revealed he had a significant investigation spiked after lobbying from Westpac. He was called into the office of then-editor John Lehmann to discuss the story and there were several Westpac executives on speakerphone during the meeting.
“I was told I was not permitted to speak, although the meeting was held over speakerphone and only Lehmann spoke from the Australian’s end,” Klan told the inquiry. “On the other line, there were up to a dozen Westpac executives and lawyers. What ensued was all aimed at preventing the story from being published.”
Veteran News Corp journalist Tony Koch told the inquiry the company had taken a “huge right turn” since he first began his career more than 30 years ago. He said the organisation favoured the LNP and ignored negative stories about the conservative political party.
Koch won the Walkley award five times for his work at News Corp but has become a vehement critic in recent years.
And now back to that coarsening, cheapening figure ...
As the pond reached the end of this whining, self-pitying, moaning failure to contribute a single jot or whit of information of value to humanity, the pond couldn't help but think ...
“predictable idiocy”; “c#nt”; “joke”; “professional f#ckwit”; “give a flying f#ck”; “propagandist”; “hard right”; “dog-shagging best”; and the only imaginative phrase, “ambidextrous nose-picker” (I did not realise they had been watching), and "ambidextrous wanker" (I forgot I had the cat filter on while doing a Toobin).
Sorry, the pond was just trying to help out with that last bit. No doubt the pond's outrage will be shared by others that Kimmel should have awarded the first Zoomy award to the cat filter and overlooked that cat bombing which always gives the pond a laugh ...
Ah social media, always more fun than a dog botherer.
But even the worst things must come to an end, and so to the final gobbet, with a hearty dose of truly weird and surreal paranoia ...
What a dropkick loser, and what a fuckwit to boot ...
And so to the Rowe of the day ...
To which the pond should append this question, raised at the Daily Cartoonist here ...
As noted in his marginal tip-of-the-hat, it’s a take on W.A. Rogers’ cartoon about Roosevelt, which leaves me wondering if Rowe thinks it’s all such a good thing after all, since the original Big Stick cartoon was about TR’s gunboat diplomacy, with which he assisted Panama in becoming independent from Colombia in order to ram through the US-controlled canal.
TR did a lot of really good things, but most people today shudder over the canal thingie.
Well yes, and the pond isn't sure how that dance with the fascist Modi thingie is going to work out ... but it's the American way, and the American style, and it's never gone out of fashion ...
"'Ned' often reverts to quoting large gobbets from other sources ..."
ReplyDeleteYeah, he's getting lazier and lazier in his dotage, isn't he. After all, according to Wikipedia he is all of 73 years old. And of course, being who he is, he'd pick on Martin Parkinson who, it seems, has written a work full of the usual fictions pushed by "senior Australian public servants". Especially this rubbish about "sharp decline in trust in many of our institutions of power and influence".
Whereas, previous to this, our trust in "institutions of power and influence" was universal and overwhelming, wasn't it. We'd never, ever had public displays of lack of "faith" in government ever before, had we. Not even once, not even about such universally acclaimed matters as selective conscription to die in Vietnam, or having apartheid preaching South African rugby and cricket teams to visit. And of course the Australian union movement was just totally loyal to every decision of government, especially the waterside workers.
D'you reckon any of these bludgers has ever lived in the real Australia ? I doubt that Nullius Ned ever has. And nor has Martin Parkinson, or he wouldn't be spruiking such utter drudge as: "...the current circumstances risk hobbling our ability to take the actions necessary to return to a pathway of growth in economic activity, employment, incomes and living standards." But make absolutely no mention of what we might have to do to still have a vaguely livable world a couple of decades down the track.
What we might have to do is to be able to CCS from burning brown coal to produce hydrogen so that the Japanese can burn hydrogen in their cars. Oh joy - lots of "economic activity, employment, incomes and living standards" there.
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australia-is-planning-on-using-brown-coal-to-produce-hydrogen-for-japanese-vehicles/
Putting aside the issue of CCS, which has been a failure in most applications and adds costs that are often 'overlooked' in economic analysis, the market seems to have decided, at least in regard to passenger transport. Look carefully to see the red line:
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I'm sure hydrogen will have applications in commercial transport and power (what to do with very cheap power in periods of curtailment - make hydrogen).
Then perhaps Prof Ray Wills should explain that to the Japanese who seem quite happy to proceed with their hydrogen tanker ship. Wonder if they intend hydrogen powered fuel cell technology or gas driven turbine technology for their cars.
DeleteBut yeah, CCS has been a monumental failure absolutely everywhere so far. That's why the solar or wind powered electrolysis of sea water using the Stanford corrosion resistant electrode - and then presumably 'combusting' the hydrogen into ammonia for cheap storage and transport - later extracting the hydrogen via catalysis and the CSIRO membrane - seems a better bet.
PS I wonder if Prof Wills has worked out just how much lithium that would take by, say, 2040 and whether there's enough 'free' lithium in the world to manage that. Or maybe he reckons there'll just have to be a world-wide highly efficient lithium recovery industry set up real soon now to keep the supply up.
DeleteA number of big bets have been laid on hydrogen by governments and car manufacturers but it looks like they will take a bath, at least in the short term. It's often the first tech to be commercialised, not necessarily the best engineering solution, that dominates the market. If we used the best technical solutions we would have been rid of the internal combustion engine years ago.
DeleteJust as an aside, one of the kids did a study of hydrogen fuel at university and it was apparent long before the current CSIRO research that Hydrogen was best handled in compound (preferably one without carbon in it).
Apart from ammonia there is a magnesium based paste being spruiked at the moment.
https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/hydrogen/new-powerpaste-for-hydrogen-storage-20210204
I liked Sebastion's comment: "Since water is used to produce the needed hydrogen this system would not work at temperatures below freezing. Please comment."
DeleteA good question; I wonder if it has a good answer.
Myself, I was basically considering hydrogen as a 'gas' replacement generator fuel and therefore we'd get battery based vehicles as per Prof Wills.
Doggy's best friend comes sooo close to self-awareness but in the end just circles the edge and comes back to where he started.
ReplyDeleteIt's a common occurrence in the herpetarium when they are laboriously constructing strawmen or making listicles of things reactionaries hate that they come close to some sort of realisation but in the end retreat into the safety of vague ideas and the comfort of their fellow reptiles.
As to Doggy's failure to understand why people attack him, I was reminded of a previous occasion when fellow snowflake Piers Morgan complained that no one defended his views and received the succinct explanation "it's because your a cunt piers and everyone loves to laugh at you".
https://twitter.com/HolroydChris/status/337955681409835008?s=20
"Doggy's best friend comes sooo close to self-awareness..."
DeleteYou aren't perchance referring to Nicolle the Flinty are you, Bef ? She who "co-authored a paper for the Menzies Research Centre entitled "Gender and Politics", calling for more female involvement in the Liberal Party" And she who "bought 400 copies of a book published by the Menzies Research Centre, a Liberal Party think tank, spending $5818, more than any other politician spent on publications between July 2017 and June 2018, despite the book being available online for free" ?
And who also, in her maiden speech, referred to the "modern day scourge of environmental and animal activism".
Oh yeah, a dead loss that one.
I do like Doggies idea of secret ballots. We should introduce our parliamentarian representatives to the concept.
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