Well worth a read and a try I thinks.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
the media - do they care? not a bit...
The relationship between media and victims is so often plainly exploitative. Look no further than this afternoon's News Limited websites, the Herald Sun and the Daily Telegraph. Both featured screen-wide images of a family, a father and two children, moments after they had been told there was no hope that their mother could have survived the crushing impact of the quake.
All three are caught by the camera in a frozen spasm of grief. It is torture to see. It is an extraordinary intrusion ... a stolen moment of agony that has nothing to do with any of us. The news agencies that flog the image have nothing to offer these people in return. No empathy, no support, merely a momentary exploitation of sorrow in the hope the image might arrest the passing internet eye and draw traffic. Grotesque.
This is an extract from a piece in ABC The Drum by Jonathan Green.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Vale Bobbi Sykes - A strong black woman...
Final Count
The children are dying /
In terrible numbers of
Malnutrition and
Related diseases and /
We do not count their numbers
Amongst the brave dead of
Our revolution /
Yet their blood is surely spilled
As though shot upon the street /
Had they lived
Long enough to die.
We must count them /
We must count them /
For if we do not
They will have died in vain.i
B.S.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Trying to organise a family holiday from Australia to the Uk is a complex task. I am not sure whether to over or under organise. I can see both extremes causing annoying and unexpected consequences. I have chosen, on the advice of other more seasoned travellers, to err on the side of under organising... I have the tickets, the passports, the accomodation for the first two weeks and the hire of the campervan covered. Everyhting else I am leaving to chance. Apart from the packing...
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