I have been using this blog to vent my annoyance with Australian media. politics, whatever of late. I think I have two reasons for this.<\/p>\n
1) When I whinge to people verbally I usually can’t construct sensible arguments because I get so pissed off, and I lose my train of thought, but when I write it down I can go back and edit where it doesn’t make sense before I share it with folks.
\n2) When I do rant most people just tune out anyways and it’s nice to know that a few people are actually paying attention to my ranting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Now I am gonna talk a bit about the WEF<\/a> protests down in Melbourne and the crap the media is reporting and the government reaction and what not<\/a>.<\/p>\n First off this article<\/a> mentions some of the comments that have pissed me off. My favourite (funny – does that look like sarcasm to you too? hmm) is the comment that protesting is ‘un-Australian’. What a crock of shit. Ever heard of the Eureka Stockade<\/a> you turds? Anyways, I think the media hype in the last few weeks has made the whole thing worse. The Victorian govt has gone loco and decided ‘lets send in the troops’, and I think any violence that has occured can be blamed on the police – though I bet they would deny it. I don’t trust the Australian media to be impartial at all when it comes to things like this – most of our media is owned by money-grubbing corporations anyways (hello Newscorp and PBL). And our journalists (tv and newspaper) are the biggest frigging twits I have ever seen. I think they all go to the same ‘lets sounds as stupid as we can’ school of journalism. (Though most of the folks on ABC<\/a> and SBS<\/a> are pretty good).<\/p>\n
\nThis<\/a> is rather amusing.
\nAnyways – I think the polllies are using the term un-Australian to rally support of the older generation (60+) and conservatives. It’s like when the turds on A Current Affair<\/a> use the term ‘little aussie battler’ – that term makes me want to puke.<\/p>\n