Yes, Frank. Is mickijo being miranda-ish?
Although Mickijo raises a general though obscure point as to what we could call the "design" and symbolism of the commercial-style format increasingly favoured at Auntie and SBS. There are the bells and whistles, hard on the eye visuals and provocatively stupid voice-overs crammed into increasingly long interruptions between programs. The incessant peddling and marketing of superfluous junk itself serves to remind us that significant people in the background ( typified by Scott himself ), are in no mood for that irrelevant "substance and content" stuff; ideologically in thrall to neo liberal dogma as they are.
Tiley mentioned "Lords of the Forest", the brilliant critique of environmental reactionism over the last fifteen years in this country, as shown by the pointless and costly destruction inflicted upon Tasmania by a small and greedy cabal of the privileged. We recall stories on 4 Corners involving the corrupt and corrupting PPP debacles concerning transport infrastructure in the eastern states, water policy as exemplified by Cubbie Station, deregulation of labour and financial markets in the USA demonstrating implications for Australian labour and culturalintegrity arising from AUSFTA, the undermining of AQIS and CSIRO, deliberately created problems with higher education and a whole gammut of similar issues which have SUBSTANTIAL implications for the futures of Australians.
The recent proposals concerning water policy by the PM demonstrate why the public needs to know, because we now know from what has happened with Iraq, or say the ABC, that the government will gladly sacrifice efficency and commonsense in the pursuit of its clients vested interests and voodoo ideology dislocated from reality.
Scott himself is a longterm coalition stooge. He did damage to broadsheet journalism during his reign at the SMH, and he signifies an attempt to remedy the mistake made with Shier.
This time they want the bite; not the bark. Scott is enough of an ideological zealot in the worst Henderson tradition to approach his task without even a flutter of conscience. As Heydrich was to Bohemia on behalf of the Reich, so is Scott to the ABC for brownshirt Howardism.