tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705747256657813116.post3409181364295491463..comments2014-06-14T15:12:16.867+10:00Comments on Number One Bag: The new politicsNumber One Baghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743162493927293968noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705747256657813116.post-9305955682190556512013-03-20T11:10:44.572+11:002013-03-20T11:10:44.572+11:00I gave up reading the Telegraph many years ago bei...I gave up reading the Telegraph many years ago being totally<br />disgusted with the beat up stories with no content.<br />Recently I have glanced at discarded copies in coffee lounges and the like, and note that it has degenerated even further into a political propaganda sheet inventing scandals that are not there .<br />The pointless and unfounded muckraking now extends even into the sporting pages. Just don't buy it and it might go away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705747256657813116.post-50957698897299009452013-03-19T23:24:22.076+11:002013-03-19T23:24:22.076+11:00Well, ANgry, I have two words for you: facebook.
...Well, ANgry, I have two words for you: facebook.<br /><br />This is how the 'time poor' garner information from the cosmos. You're quite right that declining ratings and circulation for traditional media marks a disengagement rather than a switch, but there is plenty of viral anti Tony Abbott "memes" and sites out there being spread about by people that I <i>know</i> are disengaged from politics to satisfy me that whatever the coalition are selling in September, Australians aren't buying.<br /><br />I'm no fan of Gillard and the ALP, but the blatant cheerleading by the media for Abbot, T. has left most Australians bemused more than anything else, and switching channels.<br /><br />Just as people who play the old politics will get their fingers burnt in the next few years, so will those who keep swollowing the old media.Number One Baghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743162493927293968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705747256657813116.post-8686593099759876752013-03-19T21:23:07.379+11:002013-03-19T21:23:07.379+11:00I wish declining newspaper circulation was evidenc...I wish declining newspaper circulation was evidence of people turning to other media, but I fear that its more a sign of people disengaging from written journalism altogether. It takes time to read, and people are generally time-poor these days because of "the busy trap" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/ and servicing high levels of debt. Duel-income families spend most of their waking hours at work, and then on domestic chores at home. Time to sit down and read the paper is a luxury. When women entered the workforce en masse there should have been a deal done to halve the working day. Instead we have grossly indebted families who are too time poor to engage much with the news apart from an impressionistic picture from television, radio news and newspaper front pages. No one has time to sort through the detail of the NBN network, but repeat the 'ALP incompetence' line long enough and people will conclude 'oh well, they must be incompetent'. It's impressionistic media and the snowball effect that is responsible for people's current political opinions.Angry of Mayfairnoreply@blogger.com