Is it just me who finds something completely beyond useless about using All Black icons to protest against something in New Zealand? What's going to happen, is Key going to call a press conference where he gets on his knees saying all those great people at DeadJournal should so bring back those awesome icons, or the government is resigning, because icons are vital to the smooth functioning of the sheep economy?
I feel that way about a lot of protests really. Are a couple of dozen flag waving students outside the Israeli consulate going to stop the invasion of Gaza? I guess it shows someone cares but I don't think governments do until the issue gets taken up by the Murdoch press.
Where do you think the Murdoch press gets its ideas? All over, including when some of their journos see the protest while trawling the web online at home and come into the office the following morning saying: "Hey, there's a story we oughtta do..."
Where do you think the Murdoch press gets its ideas?
I don't think I would want my answer to that to be read by the servants. It rather me reminds me of an old Steve Bell cartoon of a rat pushing a barrow full of used toilet paper.
Oddly enough, during the Gaza invasion the Jerusalem National Post steadfastly ignored the daily protests against the invasion but made a meeting by a couple of hundred Zionists in a Toronto synagogue its front page story. Truly "news" is what the press barons say it is.
You're theorising complete political control over everything that gets into the papers, WITH a clear party line. Like all conspiracy theories, this suffers from a delusion that people are THAT competent/organised/clear-minded about what they/the boss/the editor/the readers want. SO not the case.
(Come on, you work in health administration? Do the things as they are presented on paper bear any resemblance to reality?)
Well, back in the day, in between sixties and seventies, you went to talk to the right kinds of kids and "demonstration" meant "overthrow the system through armed force mostly through running away from the cops and lighting things on fire." Those French guys could demonstrate like whoa. These times demonstration is more likely to mean forming a pile and walking from place A to place B while making very loud grumbling noises, and then going home and watching sports.
Sometimes an impressive Internet address changes hands. In some cases it'll have been signed by respectable members of society such as SuperGirl89, DARK_avenger, Raistlin*wizard* and Satan.
Not really "armed". Nobody got killed in May 68 in France, which argues for powerful restraint from the police and quite a bit of lackadaisical engagement on the side of the students.
Most of the people I know who have blacked out their icons would never have made the connection. I think other people have NZ and All Blacks as synonymous in their heads a lot more than kiwis do. Or maybe that's just my circle of geek friends.
Anyway, on the protest thing - it got on the national television news last night, which if nothing else has raised awareness amongst the rugby-followers that probably had heard nothing about 92a prior to that.
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Date: 2009-02-19 11:31 am (UTC)(BTDT.)
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Date: 2009-02-19 11:40 am (UTC)I don't think I would want my answer to that to be read by the servants. It rather me reminds me of an old Steve Bell cartoon of a rat pushing a barrow full of used toilet paper.
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JerusalemNational Post steadfastly ignored the daily protests against the invasion but made a meeting by a couple of hundred Zionists in a Toronto synagogue its front page story. Truly "news" is what the press barons say it is.no subject
Date: 2009-02-19 12:22 pm (UTC)(Come on, you work in health administration? Do the things as they are presented on paper bear any resemblance to reality?)
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Date: 2009-02-19 11:39 am (UTC)Sometimes an impressive Internet address changes hands. In some cases it'll have been signed by respectable members of society such as SuperGirl89, DARK_avenger, Raistlin*wizard* and Satan.
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Date: 2009-02-19 11:30 am (UTC)And that law is coming our way. France is adopting something like it in April.
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Date: 2009-02-19 03:41 pm (UTC)ROFL
Date: 2009-02-19 06:02 pm (UTC)Anyway, on the protest thing - it got on the national television news last night, which if nothing else has raised awareness amongst the rugby-followers that probably had heard nothing about 92a prior to that.
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