Topic: big media
Author’s general introductory note
This is not a well packaged story. It’s a contemporaneous traverse of the Sunday television free to air political talkies indicating the agenda of Establishment interests: Better to know ones rivals and allies in Big Politics and Big Media.
For actual transcripts and/or video feeds go to the programme web sites quoted including Riley Diary on 7. And note transcripts don’t really give you the image content value.
Other sources of pollie talkies on Sunday include SkyNews paytv Sunday Agenda, Radio National Monica Attard Sunday Profile show. And of course Sunday night shows SBS Dateline, Sixty Minutes and now Sunday Tonight on 7.
Media backgrounders
* Royal Commissioner draws veil of ‘sensitivity’ over initial hearings with victims on location in Victoria. News Ltd The Australian newspaper are seriously annoyed, and we tend to agree.
* Moir cartoon rerun of Turnbull instead of Howard with cataclysms all around.
* conservative press get nasty against Pauline Hanson using 30 year old nude photographs to trash her credibility. TVs are running the story this morning. It’s a News Corp version of the Rudd in a strip club story – loaded with malice.
* Garrett rocking along but MIA as federal environment minister on Qld oil spill, in an election week no less, shallow over substance is the lasting impression
* Barry OFarrell ignores the reality of Enron doco available on google video of Bushwacking of Gray Davis, even claimed on Stateline Davis was corrupt as well as incompetent as Enron literally shut down traffic lights and caused fatal accidents, and huge windfall profits. Still went bankrupt with Enron deeply corrupt.
* SAM possibly first to call the Costello leadership agitation last Saturday. Crikey editorial finishes the week as Costello a “stalker”. We also carried this back in October 2008:
Friday, 3 October 2008
quizzical* Lisa Hamilton honours thesis 1988 or so, later IR Freehills Melbourne probably the real brains behind Costello’s Dollar Sweets case leveraging common law IR legal cause of action. That’s our memory of an ex girlfriend now counsel at Woodside NW WA.
10 Meet the Press: 8- 8-30 am
Press round up Garrett, Hanson, stimulus effectiveness. New set looks okay.
Talent is Tony Burke re Agri minister, arts law city man, looks a bit like Larry or Doug Anthony but it’skin deep. Enjoys his job no doubt. Big guy as per side shot.
PB targets ETS issue.
Humour break – Rudd and the swear jar as per X
Panel Is MGrattan Fairfax/Age, Milne NewsCorp – good weight.
MG on unemployment increase. 11% in last recession figure. TB uses the recession word. No map? Relies on economic modelers, very lame response. Didn’t even talk up his own agri sector good news. Eyes looking shifty in full glare of headlights of big media questions.
TB - Credibility in Copenhagen. Sledges [flip flop] Turnbull but gently. Then stronger later pandering to work choices and climate skeptics.
Estimates bushfire 12K km fences, thousands stock. Permananent plantings take 5 years.
Humour break re Costello references in Parliament and Moir cartoon.
Public Service Union tv advert re essential services.
Polling thermometer economy – environment only fell 5 points since September versus 36 point increase for economy now leading at 69%. Says most surprised env holding it’s ground.
Sounds a credible survey speaker Randall Pearce.
Meet The Press - Watch Political Video Online - Channel TEN.
Riley Diary 7, from 8.30am
Parly word games and acceptance of the ‘Great Recession’, ‘Rudd recession’ etc. Peter Costello mystery in an enigma. Footage of PC waving to Rudd but methinks its waving goodbye not hello, and hostile for splashing ‘his’ surplus [again we see it as GST rollback in effect]. Q&A with Riles after this. Tony Abbott asleep in the Liberal Conference yesterday.
http://www.seven.com.au/sunrise/weekend
9 Sunday newshour Laurie Oakes interview 8.40 am
Synchronised with Riley. Talent is foreign minister Stephen Smith but all domestic issues first section.
Agrees with our view above re strip club analysis Rudd in strip club. [ALP could come out swinging against abuse of political process against Hanson as a game of misogyny, even as they disagree with her policies. That might position Premier Bligh though.]
Goes into Afghanistan. Conference in Hague 31 March UN conference. Smith labouring a little on his answer.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/oakes
Insiders 2: 9- 10am
Opens on Costello in Howard walkies mode. Riley Diary style soundtrack. Chris Uhlmann called in early. “Up to no good”. “Overshadow”.
CU: Having effect on policy shifting Turnbull to Right, abandoning ETS. Costello could still end up in the orchestra pit but appearances damaging Turnbull.
Sunday Press – goes to Gerard Henderson 1/3 party room back Costello, 28 versus 21 anonymous 11 undecided as per Sunday Telegraph [pointed refusal to cover Pauline Hanson so far]
Misha Schubert, Annabel Crabb also. Midnight Oil reprise. ‘Long time since 30 seconds of Garrett’. Henderson attacks media trivia on page 1. He’s so right. Schubert and Crabb should have damned this story but lacking in fibre.
Swan as treasurer in London – 10% unemployment by Christmas? Won’t agree to that. Banks do more to keep jobs here? Swan sticking with CPRS to position for green jobs.
Everyperson via Brisbane presenter about ….?
Discussion about “crazy” party. Costello is “passive aggressive”. Turnbull thrives on confrontation. Henderson notes the votes have increased since last 10 years under Howard.
Cross to Anna Bligh one week out Qld vote. Gender discussed. Choice is about parties etc.
Discussion about salty/bad/toilet language.
Website cross referencing here: http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/
Inside Business
Essential viewing for summary of Emissions Trading Scheme. Interesting to see dweeb Miles Prosser as aluminium industry, previously logger industry, stooge from non descript student at Ursula College residence ANU in the eighties.
Kohler's talking point is a cracker about 20 spectators at the G20 running out of excuses, with roundup of causes of the GFC and 2 years of debt adjustment and rising unemployment.
Refer http://www.abc.net.au/insidebusiness/
