Freedom of press = Terrorism?! September 12, 2006
Posted by dave128 in Australian Politics, Media.1 comment so far
An Australian politician, Michael Danby, has strongly attacked the Australian commercial television channel Network Ten because they aired the September 11 conspiracy theory film 911: In Plane Site.
Now, I can certainly understand that the idea of the 9/11 attacks being perpetrated by the U.S. government to be offensive to some people. A mainstream television network broadcasting a film about said allegations would also be offensive to such people. But Mr Danby’s reaction is rather loopy indeed. First he calls for Channel Ten’s program director to be sacked. And then he calls Channel Ten murderers!
Mr Danby said September 11 victims had been killed twice – once by the terrorists and once by Ten.
You do know that this was a repeat screening, don’t you Mr Danby? Channel Ten first aired In Plane Site in 2005. So that means they’re double murderers!
You know, this kinda reminds me of the Play School lesbian “controversy”, considering the offending segment had once been shown without a hint of scandal. I also remember a Myer catalogue advertising the DVD not long after the film first aired on Ten.
Now, if Channel Ten are murderers that also means our public broadcaster, SBS, also have blood on their hands. SBS aired the Canadian documentary Conspiracy Theories: September 11 in 2005. Though since SBS also screened the anti-conspiracy theory polemic September 11 Didn’t Happen, maybe that made them even.
I’ll be looking out to see if any columnists from News Limited papers attack Channel Ten’s decision to repeat the program. If any do it will be very interesting to see if they also attack the Australian version of The History Channel, which aired the 9/11 conspiracy theory documentary Loose Change on Monday night. The History Channel is on FOXTEL, partly owned by News Limited.
Mr Danby has a history of wishing to censor things, such as a book by Antony Loewenstein.
Mr Danby, as the Channel Ten spokeswoman said, Australia is a free country. I respect your right to criticise books, TV programs, whatever you want. Hell, many people in the 9/11 truth movement think In Plane Site is garbage. But please don’t tell me what I can or cannot watch, read, whatever. That’s the point of democracy. Mr Danby, why do you hate us for our freedoms?
There is no such thing as girlfriends and/or wives September 10, 2006
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Alan Didak is on the cover of today’s Age wishing for the media to intrude less into the lives of footballers. And I totally agree. Not because I believe in privacy or any of that namby-pamby shit, but because it’s a hindrance to fantasies for gay men all over Australia.
The thing I really hate about sport award ceremonies is the fact that you get to see footballers with their wives or girlfriends. It really kills the fantasy that I’ve built up over the preceding football season. It’s just not cricket to see Cameron Smith from the Storm side by side with his girlfriend. No, he’s MY boyfriend, bitch. (Well, at least in my deluded, though sexy, dreams.)
And today The Age has a lovely photo of Alan Didak in the middle of their sport section. He has such dreamy eyes, I could stare into them all day. Until, of course, I actually read the damn accompanying article, which quite rudely informed me that he has a girlfriend. Now his eyes aren’t the same. How dare they!!
Oh, and; also: Path to 9/11 has been switched off to the Collingwood/Bulldogs game on Fox Footy.
The path to benign heaven September 10, 2006
Posted by dave128 in Media, Television.add a comment
The Path to 9/11 is currently on TV and though not totally involved in it I couldn’t help but watch a little of the beginning. The depiction of the 1993 explosion was laughably crude and amateurish. It was like I was watching a TV movie.
Oh wait, it is a TV movie.
And I’m so over the jerky camera. Ooh, this is gritty, this is real, WHOOO! WHOOO! Stop it! Stop it now!
One positive note: at least some of the Arab characters speak Arabic amongst themselves. It always pisses me off when non-English speakers speak English to other non-English speakers. “Let us speaks bad in-ger-leesh because the in-ger-leesh telly visual watchers cannot reads the in-ger-leesh on bottom of screen.”
Also: god dammit, there’s this guy in it that I know from somewhere, but I can’t put my finger on it. Who is it?! It’s driving me insane. [ ... ] Ah! It’s the sheriff from that TV show Roswell. I can sleep easy tonight.
Also also: I reiterate, the camera is so FUCKING IRRITATING! ARRGGGHHHHHHH!!!
