Wednesday, December 20th, 2006...10:37 am
At this stage I am forced to believe that their stupidity must be wilful
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I was excited to hear Paul Barry on RN this morning* saying that the Summer Breakfast show would have a blogger on each morning to blather on about their particular thing.
Ooh! Who’ll be first! How interesting! How will the wonderful diversity of excellent Australian bloggers be portrayed?
I WAS WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Their first “blogger” was Jack Waterford, a name some of you may recognise as belonging to the editor at large of The Canberra Times. He has been a journalist since 1972. I don’t care if the man runs some bloody jumped up page he calls a blog. IT’S JUST THE SAME FECKING DAY, PEOPLE.
A man with a web page perhaps; not a blogger.
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*although not as excited as I always am to hear Fran; I totally ♥ Fran.
30 Comments
December 20th, 2006 at 10:57 am
I am so going to nominate him for a blog award.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Well someone’s beaten us to nominate “Sam in the City”.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Oy.
December 20th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Not the first time I’ve felt very strong Hive Mind emanations upon reading one of your posts, Ms Zoe.
December 20th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
I heard him Zo, and my first thought when they said they were going to have bloggers was ‘Where’s Zo?’ and oh, how disappointed was I to hear his shhhpiel – and even gladder to hear Paul Barry’s ‘shut him up’ finale – we’ll have to get you on to talk about something else next time Jack – indeed, because that was just drivel and hardly worth the listening airtime. Blogger? There was nothing blog-like about it. Get your a- (and your big round belly) in there Zo and tell ‘em how it really is in Blog-land!
December 20th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I’ve always felt there’s something vaguely sinister about anyone sporting the title of ‘editor-at-large’.
December 20th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Yeah, what is an editor-at-large? On a much less high-brow note, Lisa Wilkinson were one for Women’s Weekly (is she still, dunno) and it made me wonder.
Anyway, back on topic, does the blogger (assuming they get a blogger) reading their best post or how does it work? It might just turn into a morning perspective.
December 20th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Yes, I was a little surprised by the choice. Particularly since he has managed to single-handedly turn the CT into a tabloid paper – only one that is annoying large to try and read.
Actually, that wasn’t why I was suprised. I was surprised because he is patently not a blogger. The fact that he also sucks at his actual position is really by the by…
December 20th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Apparently the blog breakfast thingies are going to appear as blog posts on the Radio National website?? Couldn’t find it. Anyways, it got off to a suitably controversial start yesterday with Antony Loewenstein, who seems to be shunned by almost everybody.
Maybe we could nominate ourselves for inclusion.
December 20th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Oooow, I made a mistake. I meant to write ‘were’, but I didn’t meant to write ‘reading’…’does the blogger read their post’…blame the sparkling red sloshing about my system on a semi-permanent basis.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Just wanted to say I love Fran too & miss her & PB is annoying me.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
OT, but ThirdCat, you have been talking about sparkling red quite a bit lately. Care to share your preferred drop? I like Fox Creek Vixen and d’Arenberg Peppermint Paddock, myself.
(Also, agreed re Fran, of course.)
December 20th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Damn, didn’t read this before coming over and consuming adequate quantities of cheap pink champagne, and so missed out on AGREEING totally in person. Yes, they’ve mentioned JW on the RN breakfast website, but with no hyperlink so I’m skeptical of Jack actually being a real blogger. Come on Paul, get real (come on champagne, wear off!).
December 20th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Never ‘eard of ‘im. And he looks like a grandpa vampire.
December 20th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
I heard it too.
I rolled over in bed and said: “Fucker”
The other side of the bed said: “What?”
“Forget it”
We have duelling alarm radios – other side of bed has ABC Classical FM – not tuned in properly.
Me RN.
Don’t ask.
Of course it doesn’t work aurally.
It’s one of those shitful compromises that seem to work but I suspect gnaw away at relationships and end in the law courts.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:05 am
He’s a blogger the way seventies middle management growing their hair long, smoking pot and wifeswapping were sticking it to the man, man.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:08 am
And what the fuck is that bloody burqua doing on me? The fur, it ruffles wrong if you drape it like that.
Has gravatar gone on the blink again?
December 21st, 2006 at 8:23 am
Yeah, Nabs, everyone seems to be in burqas at the moment. I checked the gravatar site which seems to be having an “upgrade”. I wish they would just let us pay $5 each to Make It Goddam Work.
December 21st, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Well someone’s beaten us to nominate “Sam in the City”.
getoutofhere!
December 21st, 2006 at 9:26 pm
I had a similar experience recently when Sunrise announced they’d be talking about blogging and it was just that techo guy saying ‘it comes from web blog’ and ‘it can have text AND pictures OR text OR pictures’.
v dissapointing.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:27 pm
It’s this sort of ridiculous attempt to ingratiate the baby boomers to the tech generation that ticks me off. Interviewing some middle aged newspaper twat whose editorials happen to be published online doth not make a blogger.
Why can’t they get some real people in there to investigate real blogs and speak to real effing bloggers?
It’s so unbelievably naff it hurts.
PS I heart
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
That was meant to read “I heart
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Ah forgit it… (it was your html closed tag of “rant”)
December 26th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
I have yet to understand why newspapers pretend their online pieces are blogs. Being able to comment on something and use a few slang words does not a blog make, either. I’m sure they are still covered by all the same editorial guidelines as ordinary old op ed pieces and print columns.
December 27th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Hey zoe, speaking of this I have something very interesting I’d like to email you. Please to be telling me how.
December 27th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Message received, thank you Ms Audrey!
December 30th, 2006 at 1:36 am
“At this stage I am forced to believe that their stupidity must be wilful”
Thats a marvellous sentence there Zoe.
I tried to google it to see if you’d got it off me. Its a sentiment that has haunted my mind for many years.
Emails pleading you to come over to the bright side of the road will be late this year.
On account of a sudden offer to split to the coast.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Only Birdy would automatically assume that a line he liked must have been taken from him.
You can rest assured Birdy that no one would ever think of plagarising your inimitable contributions to bloggoland.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Its a marvellous line though isn’t it?
You come over to a scientific perspective on global warming yet nutball?
http://graemebird.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/the-oceans-have-lost-more-energy-since-2003-then-the-atmosphere-ever-held/
You see at this stage I am forced to believe that your stupidity must be wilful.
>>>>>>
Its satisfying to be able to use Zoes phrase.
Zoe.
I will take your line and run with it like a thief in the night.
February 18th, 2007 at 6:20 am
Can confirm RN did attempt to rope in some real bloggers, I was one. Producer made contact; we exchanged phone numbers; that was it. Typical time wasters.
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