Obviously not resting on their laurels, the evil empire now seeks to extends its propaganda arm under the guise of an innocuos sounding “Politics and Technology Forum” where delegates will ” focus on new forms of Information technology and how they fashion or replicate the political debate and trends.”
Besides the obvious problem of self interest on the part of the sponsor, one has to seriously question Microsoft’s credibility on anything to do with the web. Frankly they have never contributed anything innovative to the net and their modus operandi has been to steal and imitate any good idea they can see a buck in. Having foisted a crappy buggy insecure operating system onto the public at large thru illegal monopolistic practices, they now seek to extend their rather dubious view of the world via blatant manipulation of information such as this forum. If they have a message for government, they should at least have the guts to deliver it in a competitive forum where alternative points of view can also be put and considered. But they are probably in good company with this government who no doubt lacks any internal fortitude with regard to public policy and information tech.
Crikey beat me to it. The thrust of their comment is that governments need to start acting, NOW! Oil is only going up, any talk of something else on the horizon is just a crock. Food is going up, perhaps in part because of oil, perhaps in part because of global warming and the impact on agriculture and probably because there are just more people to feed.
There are some simple facts about life in the 21st century. Fuel not only costs more, it will continue to rise in real terms due to the scarcity of supply and the compounding problem of carbon in the atmosphere. We need a cheap carbon neutral alternative yesterday. The second simple fact is people need food to survive. Sure having a shiny new gizmo is fun, but until everyone has the basics covered new toys are a luxury, a fact that seems to be lost in the west as consumption approaches something akin to religion.
Now the basic consequence of rising fuel and food prices is pretty simple. Poor people won’t be able to afford to pay. I don’t pretend to have a definitive answer but I have a feeling that there a lot of dirt poor people in the world. Even here in the so-called lucky country, the distribution of wealth in recent years has skewed significantly back in favour of those that already have enough so my guess is that this trend might be happening elsewhere. Drawing the dots together shouldn’t be too hard but there is another element in a democratic society.
Just to refresh, a democracy is a system of government where everyone (or nearly everyone) over a certain age gets to vote for the people who make the laws that we are supposed to abide by. The people thus elected agree to act in the interests of everyone even if they didn’t vote for them. Once democracy was couched in terms like “of the people, by the people and for the people”. One problem these days for democracies is a pretty big one, they are hostage to the prevailing economic conditions. This is a fairly recent phenomenon in a sense, there was a time when governments realised the importance of protecting society from free market forces, especially after the famous stock market crash in 1929 however since then and especially since the rise to power of the neoconservatives the state has capitulated on the key issue of public ownership of important infrastructure.
So the extra dot that needs to be joined is this one. The general population may one day recognise the need to actually do something big about the problems we face. They might in turn apply pressure through the ballot box to get the government of its arse, however any large scale structural changes contemplated by a government run a serious risk of having to confront the big end of town. After all they can afford to pay more so they don’t need to change a thing.
If you have any doubt as to how powerless governments have become, look at the stupid plastic shopping bag. Then look at how much money governments commit to building more roads and bigger cities. ask yourself if these are sustainable policies in light of what is what is really going on ie the price of fuel and food. Then ask yourself why the stock market continues to go up, where is all the energy and food going to come from in few years time and why aren’t our governments doing something about it, like NOW!
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In a conversation today the subject of the future of journalism came up. A respected journalist with the ABC was speculating about the impact of a continuous news cycle on journalistic standards. It wasn’t particularly positive.
Quality journalism is a labour intensive trade. Even writing a half decent blog is time consuming. The problem is that up to now our western experience with the written word is strongly rooted in a strong literary tradition, albeit one that has moved with the times. As print media was supplemented with radio and then TV, the basic ingredient of news remained the journalist and their abilities to present a view of the world the public could understand. The development of radio and TV news diversified the news environment and naturally enough led to more people working in the field, more news outlets meant more people creating the product.
The online revolution threatens to undermine this process. It seeks to centralise the source of news and then distribute to a variety of automated processes that will deliver the news to the different platforms, in the industry jargon this is summed up by the notion of “make once and play many”. So in this scenario, a radio journalist might write a story using a sub set of the same tools a TV reporter might use and ultimately using the same sources. The content is easily moved across to the online medium and can be fed to a printing press as and when required. One can easily see the attraction for media owners.
The other equally disturbing implication is the pressure to constantly create new news. On the surface this might even appear to be the saving grace for the online revolution, however it is unlikely to happen that way. The need to make more news is in the first instance going to manifest itself as pressure on existing sources to simply create more news. This pressure is the antithesis of the current journalistic process which is driven by fixed deadlines, not those that are totally fluid. Then there is the question of simply recycling and varying the content to give the appearance of change. Finally there is the problem that a much shorter timescale leads to a less well developed story.
These problems can be dealt with. The simplest way is to hire more newsmakers. Even in organisations with constraints on resources this is the obvious trade-off with the new technology. Another cost neutral idea is to develop new standards that enshrine some of the integrity of the existing system, a protection for story development for example. But the bottom line is that more shouldn’t result in less. Less diversity, less development and less investigation means a news that loses it meaning and would be a significant threat to the public right to know and how that right underpins our western democratic tradition.
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