Category Archives: Society

Have a look at the following promo that graced the West’s online home page for most of last week.

As I confessed in the Comments section of my previous post, I am a bit of a trash TV tragic. So yes, I did watch Nine’s 4 hour special “Schapelle Corby – The Hidden Truth” (I really didn’t mean to, honest, but you’re sitting there channel surfing waiting for the program you really want to watch to come on and make the mistake of lingering more than 2 minutes, and next thing you know the hook is set and you’re there for the long trashy haul).

My expectation was of a lot of padding and puff, and Nine delivered. Their promo promise to finally expose the “hidden truth” about Corby’s innocence or guilt was, of course, guff. We did get more detail on the main players in this unfortunate tragic-comedy, but “the truth” consisted of an implication by a crim that he knew how the dope ended up in Shapelle’s boogie board bag, but wouldn’t be telling until all legal obstacles were out of the way (which, it transpires, included a spell in the clink by said crim for drug-trafficking).

So, I wondered, what’s Murray on about? Surely he’s not judging Schapelle guilty on the basis of Nine’s crappy doco? Continue reading Paul Murray – Journo, Judge, Jury →

Media, Modern Marketing, Popular Culture, Society, TV

Sixty Minutes’ “Little Women” – A Comedy in Three Acts

June 23, 2008 rolanstein 8 Comments

On 60 Minutes last night, we had some dippy professor, Louise Newman, asserting in relation to the Henson photographs that it is irrelevant whether the artist was intentionally eroticising his images or not, but that “if one paedophile views those images as sexually arousing and that encourages them in their behaviour, then we have a serious problem.”

This twit is head of Child Psychiatry at Newcastle University. Which doesn’t say much for the standards of academe in Newcastle, or, perhaps, for the affirmative action policy that – surely! – put the good prof in her seat. Continue reading Sixty Minutes’ “Little Women” – A Comedy in Three Acts →

Political, Popular Culture, Society

Here Are The Henson Pictures – But A Dilemma Remains

June 6, 2008 rolanstein 23 Comments

I left my position on the Henson pics dangling in my last post, concluding with a serve at the nanny state for confiscating the offending items and locking them away in a high cupboard where the kiddies couldn’t get at them.

Subsequently, a commenter provided a link to some of the pics of Bill Henson’s that are at the centre of all the fuss (thanks, Lyn). So, nanny state subverted by the lawless Web (bleearrgh!), here’s what all the fuss is about: