2018.07.31 Mane Attraction
[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. - Neil Postman
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"...warnings have customarily been directed against those consciously formulated ideologies that appeal to the worst tendencies in human nature. But what is happening [...] is not the design of an articulated ideology. No Mein Kampf or Communist Manifesto announced its coming. It comes as the unintended consequence of a dramatic change in our modes of public conversation. But it is an ideology nonetheless, for it imposes a way of life, a set of relations among people and ideas, about which there has been no consensus, no discussion and no opposition. Only compliance." - Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselves To Death"
F.U.
By-Elections
"Directing preferences"
Nine-Fairfax and Australian journalism
Murphy and journalism
Guardian Australia profitable https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/31/guardian-australia-reports-first-profit-2018-annual-results
Ubre Blanca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubre_Blanca
MH370 final Malaysian Govt report http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/mh370-report-is-delivered-to-faimilies/10052838
Assange https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/07/25/wikileaks-political-rorschach-test/
Nuclear medicine https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/04/nuclear-medicine-generators-shutdown-endangering-lives-scientists-warn
Ipswich Council http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/ccc-chief-says-plan-to-sack-ipswich-council-entirely-warranted/10050502
I'm with Jose http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/ramos-horta-calls-on-australia-to-drop-spying-exposers-charges/10052546
Trouble in Dreamland http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/dreamworld-value-continues-to-fall-in-wake-of-2016-ride-deaths/10052192
Things
Plastic Fantastics sniffing the winds of change? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/michaelia-cash-awu-raids-tip-off-referred-to-cdpp/10051612
Kissinger's legacy continues http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/laos-dam-collapse-survivors-warned-of-unexploded-ordinance/10052804
Authentocracy https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/cappucino-gate-or-the-crisis-of-authentocracy
Good week for plane nerds in the Top End http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/fuel-tank-ejected-from-plane-darwin-during-pitch-black/10051802
My Health Record
Sport
Cricket Australia and abortion https://www.theage.com.au/national/cricket-australia-sacks-worker-over-series-of-tweets-about-abortion-20180729-p4zuar.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/cricket-australia-sacks-staffer-over-abortion-tweets/10051972
The World Game http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/matildas-usa-tournament-of-nations/10050814
Not so good? https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/fifa-world-cup-2018/qatar-alleged-to-have-used-ex-cia-to-sabotage-australia-s-world-cup-bid-20180730-p4zuck.html https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/opinion/world-cup-qatar-saboteurs-will-go-scotfree/news-story/caf7fa28be818470e1eb1a4f52a2c175
FFA Cup https://www.theffacup.com.au/
