Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Dec 22nd 2008, 10:35 pm
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Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Have a look at this article in today's Herald.
The broadcaster, the Labor MP and the off switch
Essentially a 'shock jock' style DJ has broadcast some allegations of corruption involving the NSW ALP, and then mysteriously his show is cancelled, and he is removed from the radio station by the police.
Maybe it is because of an internal discipline issue, but do you really ask the police to come and escort disgruntled employees from the workplace when that sort of thing happens? It all seems a little too convenient to me.
It makes you wonder exactly how free this country is, and highlights that a bill of rights outlining freedom of speech would be a very good idea...
S
The broadcaster, the Labor MP and the off switch
Essentially a 'shock jock' style DJ has broadcast some allegations of corruption involving the NSW ALP, and then mysteriously his show is cancelled, and he is removed from the radio station by the police.
Maybe it is because of an internal discipline issue, but do you really ask the police to come and escort disgruntled employees from the workplace when that sort of thing happens? It all seems a little too convenient to me.
It makes you wonder exactly how free this country is, and highlights that a bill of rights outlining freedom of speech would be a very good idea...
S
Dec 23rd 2008, 12:34 am
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Re: Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Interesting...
The lack of a right to freedom of speach was something I did not know about
until a similar thread on here a few weeks ago.
A few news stories that I have read since then has given me thoughts about just how much the media is potentially 'censored'. This story from ABC has another side, on the TV last night, the 'victim' that the women was supposed to be attacking claimed that actually he had hold of her and that she did not go for police and that the knife was actually a normal table fork.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...tion=australia
Strange, I can't see that the report has been corrected anywhere by ABC.
The lack of a right to freedom of speach was something I did not know about
until a similar thread on here a few weeks ago.
A few news stories that I have read since then has given me thoughts about just how much the media is potentially 'censored'. This story from ABC has another side, on the TV last night, the 'victim' that the women was supposed to be attacking claimed that actually he had hold of her and that she did not go for police and that the knife was actually a normal table fork.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...tion=australia
Strange, I can't see that the report has been corrected anywhere by ABC.
Dec 23rd 2008, 2:03 am
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Re: Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Careful...
discussion of this nature could result in BE being added to the list of australian government blacklisted sites!
discussion of this nature could result in BE being added to the list of australian government blacklisted sites!
Dec 23rd 2008, 3:37 am
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Re: Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Have a look at this article in today's Herald.
The broadcaster, the Labor MP and the off switch
Essentially a 'shock jock' style DJ has broadcast some allegations of corruption involving the NSW ALP, and then mysteriously his show is cancelled, and he is removed from the radio station by the police.
Maybe it is because of an internal discipline issue, but do you really ask the police to come and escort disgruntled employees from the workplace when that sort of thing happens? It all seems a little too convenient to me.
It makes you wonder exactly how free this country is, and highlights that a bill of rights outlining freedom of speech would be a very good idea...
S
The broadcaster, the Labor MP and the off switch
Essentially a 'shock jock' style DJ has broadcast some allegations of corruption involving the NSW ALP, and then mysteriously his show is cancelled, and he is removed from the radio station by the police.
Maybe it is because of an internal discipline issue, but do you really ask the police to come and escort disgruntled employees from the workplace when that sort of thing happens? It all seems a little too convenient to me.
It makes you wonder exactly how free this country is, and highlights that a bill of rights outlining freedom of speech would be a very good idea...
S
'Ms Hay, who was named in a wiretap played to corruption hearings into Wollongong council earlier this year but was not named as a person of interest by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, is one of Vox FM's advertisers.'
(my emphasis)
... might have something to do with it.
Money talks.
Dec 23rd 2008, 7:11 am
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Re: Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Dec 23rd 2008, 8:05 am
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Dec 23rd 2008, 12:20 pm
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Dec 23rd 2008, 8:13 pm
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Re: Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Dec 23rd 2008, 9:16 pm
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Re: Censorship, workplace dispute or something else?
Hmmm. The fact that Conroy won't publish the negative findings of the commission by the previous government doesn't bode well though. I feel that he has decided to make this his own personal crusade now, and is determined to push it through no matter what.
At least the greens and the coalition can see it for what it is - just have to hope that they can defeat the bill in the house.
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