Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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One was when I tried to roll over during treatment on my messed-up back on Monday.
What's wrong with your back?
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After the US MSM decided that McCain came off best at that recent faith forum conversation thingy with The Purpose-Driven Life Guy (I mean, seriously, WTF on so many levels), I lost most of my hope.
I thought Rick Warren's questions were SO much better than the idiotic 'gotcha' topics that came up during the primary debates. Granted, Warren's questions were mostly about character not policy but that's still a vast improvement over the sustained trivial idiocy of the network debates.
I suspect that the questions about character and personal belief (though not that important to me) were of great interest to the majority of American voters - much more so than Reverend Wright and why Obama doesn't wear a flag lapel.
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Trotter seems to be something of a newbie where blogging is concerned. He seems to take every word incredibly seriously and exhibits that newbie excitability that we all learn to shed soon enough (or go insane). There are 6 billion of "them" and only one of Trotter. He can't win them all and shouldn't try.
He's also cheerfully telling anyone who disagrees with him that they are 'just like Hitler', which is a classic newbie red flag (sadly some people never get past this).
On the other hand he's obviously enjoying himself, which is nice.
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I'm of the opinion that most sites would be better without comments, frankly. Reading them is usually a complete waste of time, and detracts attention from the article in question. If you have a response, get a blog and write your arguments out well, rather than scrawling them down.
Andrew Sullivan doesn't have a comments section but he does have a 'dissent of the day' in which he posts feedback from readers who disagree with his positions.
For this to work you need articulate readers, which he has - but I suspect I/S's readers are also of a pretty high caliber. He could try it - it might work.
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Cameron Slater's rant is completely hilarious:
. . . I’ll just do what I hould have done long ago and remove any links to Russell Brown from my site and never post a link to any more of his drivellings ever again. I will now also place you and you fat fuck mate in the firing line. In fact here is a challenge for you, i know Russell won’t take it up because he is a blouse but Mikey might, in 12 weeks I get in the ring, it’ll be after the election so how about huh? you big fat fuck, it’d do you good, the training and the discipline.
Take that, Mr Brown!
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I believe that much of the mysterious, invisible public see through the bullshit that the mainstream news media churn out and that they've simply given up on it . . .
Although I don't think any of our newspapers are perfect I think the Dom-Post and The Herald are both pretty good. I think people prefer media outlets like Investigate because it flatters their ideological viewpoint about the world. While the newspapers are attempting to provide an objective viewpoint Investigate is joyously biased; Wishart's rants are also a lot more entertaining than reading a bunch of dry old balanced facts.
My concern about this project is that it would be a left-wing version of Investigate; a pleasant alternative to people who don't enjoy hearing unpleasant facts about the political parties they like and a way for people to feel as if they are being informed without having any of their preconceptions challenged.
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Comments?
People seem to be very reluctant to pay for online content. I'm happy to be proved wrong but I can't think of a notable single web model that survives on public subscriptions.
So if this is going to work it'll have to involve either printing and selling a dead tree edition or making your money through advertising like everyone else.
I'm also skeptical about the public demand for quality freelance journalism; the newspapers publish all those Paris Hilton stories for a reason - because that's what most people are genuinely interested in.
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At the end of the week, you'd automatically typeset and bundle it into a downloadable PDF -- readers would be able to print this out themselves or pay for a print-on-demand version to read on the dunny.
This sounds frighteningly similar to what Ian Wishart is doing.
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@danyl 'snap'
Heh. Coddington and her weekly regurgitation of cortex-shrinking idiocy is a walking rejoinder to any argument that 'old media' enjoys any moral or intellectual superiority over the blogosphere.
She is a bit of an outlier though so its a bit unfair to keep bringing her up.
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Very few bloggers do reportage. But then, neither does Jane Clifton. She's a commentator.
Very true. Clifton used to be a journalist, but then so did Deborah Coddington.
I've noticed that some ex-journalists tend to think of themselves as still being journo's LONG after they've ceased to do anything remotely resembling reporting. One dear friend of mine still describes himself as a reporter after over ten years as a loathsome PR apparatchik in which they've been performing the exact opposite of journalism.