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WAR OF THE POSERS
Who could ever have guessed that Earth Hour - beautiful, sacred, holy Earth Hour - might turn out to be the event that scuttles Age ed-in-chief Andrew Jaspan? Last night’s Media Watch maintained the pressure on li’l Andrew, whose staff are independently leaking audio of hostile staff meetings, much to the distress of Age independents:
The Age Independence Committee objects to the publication in Crikey of three audio extracts from last Wednesday’s meeting between the editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan, and the editorial staff. Such proceedings are confidential for a very good reason: this confidentiality enables people to speak their minds on sensitive matters without fear their remarks will be circulated outside the meeting. To publish audio extracts from the meeting undermines this confidence. It also breaches the rights of those involved in that the extracts were reproduced outside the meeting without their knowledge or consent.
Jaspan vs. Age journalists; Crikey vs. Jaspan; Age journalists vs. other Age journalists leaking to Crikey; Media Watch vs. Jaspan; Age journalists vs. Earth Hour. This can’t possibly become any more delicious ... can it?
The Age Independence Committee objects to the publication in Crikey of three audio extracts ...
Yeah, well I object to their objection. It’s a transparent fascist attempt to squash the legitimate dissent of brave journalists who I no doubt will go back to despising tomorrow.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 14 at 01:36 PM • permalinkThis can’t possibly become any more delicious ... can it?
It’s even more delicious than the homemade split pea and ham soup that I’m currently slurping on for lunch.
Mmmmmmmmmmm…....lefties eating lefties. Ain’t nothing tastes like that!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 14 at 02:40 PM • permalinkThis can’t possibly become any more delicious ... can it?
Sure it could. And this is the perfect place and time for contest. I nominate wronwright and paco as judges. RebeccaH gets the gavel.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 04 14 at 02:49 PM • permalinkCan we get the Men of No Appearance and the Pacific Tribal Gangs to go at it over this? That would about round it out…
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It also breaches the rights of those involved in that the extracts were reproduced outside the meeting without their knowledge or consent.Well, ain’t that just rich irony from a newspaper? One hopes the Age never prints anything leaked from a meeting or anything anyone involved didn’t know or consent to!
It also breaches the rights of those involved in that the extracts were reproduced outside the meeting without their knowledge or consent.
Oh, you mean like any sort of investigative journalism where the reporter wears a wire or has a hidden camera?
Feckin’ hypocrites.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2008 04 14 at 04:47 PM • permalinkDissent is being crushed by the
HoWARd governmentAge Independence Committee.Er, have I woken up in a parallel universe this morning?
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 14 at 04:48 PM • permalinkOn the subject of controlling information, I think Rudd’s
email and internet surveillance plan has more to do with plugging leaks from the public service than national security. Leaks were the bane of Howard’s administration and Labor doesn’t want a repeat as its policies start to hurt public servants. What better way than a Big Brother that monitors emails.Send an email to a media outlet and the central scrutiniser will know in seconds what it is you said. All attachments to emails will be checked to make sure that are not embarrassing to Labor. Visit disloyal websites, such as this one, and a public servant will find his private life examined.
Welcome to 1984, Rudd style
Such proceedings are confidential for a very good reason: this confidentiality enables people to speak their minds on sensitive matters without fear their remarks will be circulated outside the meeting. To publish audio extracts from the meeting undermines this confidence.
Do they realize that this is what is called, in law, Executive Privilege? It is the reason Cheney’s meetings with oil producing companies are confidential, and the President’s meetings with any advisors are confidential.This story is inacurate at best. The 24th MEU Marines will not secure a border nor will they work side-by-side tracking “Taliban” across the border. The 24th MEU will act as a thaetre task force for the ISAF Commander. Furthermore, the overall mission of the MEU Marines is to provide an environment of stability in which the people of Afghanistan can prosper.
roger, Kandahar, Afghanistan
#20
I think this guy knows the score!
How stupid of the MOD. These public servants have no idea.
THIS is the difference between what the US is trying to do in the MidEast and what the European powers having been doing since Napoleon.
They see the MidEast as an unfixable status quo and only want enough of it to stay at least temporarily stable enough to sell guns to and buy oil from; we see it as a chance to drag millions of people out of bloody medieval stagnation. One choice is easy, one choice is noble, however difficult its execution.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 14 at 07:58 PM • permalinkSomething like this?
(couldnt find the original)17. Contrail. Nice call, I hadnt thought of that angle. It would be a godsend for the Government to be able to prosecute leakers, after all most of Krudds previous problems (Healthcare in Queensland) have stemmed from inside sources.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 04 14 at 08:14 PM • permalinkO/T, but not really if we’re slinging shit at the ALP and incompetent state governments…
Qld Gov is going to sell off the airports. The money they get will be used to build more/newer hospitals in northern Queensland.
Wonderful.
Now, how are they going to pay for the staff? Where are they going to get the doctors and nurses from?
Perkin aimed to establish the paper’s credibility as a purveyor of reliable information, authoritative analysis and entertaining writing that would be read by the young and the middle class, and that would make politicians sensitive to the needs of their constituency. He succeeded in part by raising the Age’s journalistic standards.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 14 at 10:27 PM • permalinkWhat the FUCK happened to “the public have a right to know”?
Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 04 15 at 12:43 AM • permalink#17 Contrail:
Rudd’s email and internet surveillance plan has more to do with plugging leaks from the public service than national security
I agree.
Has anyone any ideas of how the MSM would have reacted if the Howard government had instituted an email surveillance plan as a defence against terrorism?#17. I disagree. The APS can already audit email accounts. They do it all the time to get rid of time-wasters.
If they made tighter laws on leakers it would be a good thing. Public servants are public servants, not amateur left-wing journalists.
Most people who leak stuff have a political agenda or are self-entitled wankers who have been overlooked and have injured egos.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2008 04 15 at 04:53 AM • permalink#26. Have a right to know what exactly? National secrets? Confidential draft policy formulations? High level negotiations between governments that, if publicised, might cost us billions?
No. Wait. You’re right. Let’s purge the public service - because the public have a right to know - and put Rudd’s 1000 best and brightest at the top. I’m sure they could run a war in Afghanistan, an economy, a health care system… Cate Blanchett could run the Defence forces! Hurrah!
A right to know, my arse.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2008 04 15 at 04:58 AM • permalink#17 #28 That’s right, at least in the QPS they monitor emails and which websites are visited. Its how they catch people looking at naughty pages, who are then subject to instant dismissal.
Some managers are periodically supplied with a list of the web pages visited by their staff - I was informed by my manager about four years ago that she had learned many things she didn’t know about me, such as the fact I am a mac head with right wing tendencies (she promised to fix that illness for me). Even though she was ALP, at least she was an economic rationalist right wing variety of the ALP herself, so I wasn’t too worried. She got shafted in a factional purge a year later.Needless to say, I am careful what I say when corresponding on the work computer.
Abu, I’m hope you saw my irony there. I was suggesting that journalists often use the right to know bullshit as justification for the damage you describe, but then fail to apply it to their own, “in club” scandals.
I’m way too subtle..Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 04 15 at 11:14 PM • permalinkSorry honey. I just got back home from working in the PUBIC service when I wrote that, so my subtlety radar was on the fritz.
Apologies.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2008 04 16 at 05:50 AM • permalink
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