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Gus Leonisky's blogculture in a petri-cracy dish...Media is there to entertain us — not to inform us. The product of choice is inanity. When media tries to inform us it's always with twisted view points and a pander to our express desire to be distracted from reality with make-believe "reality" and to feed our pre-munched bigotry... And the more we enjoy the make-belief, the more we develop the habit to be entertained with illusions until we get bored and demand more powerful entertainment. The process is addictive as it presses the buttons of our creature of habits, with cleverly added "surprising" increments to alleviate the habit of habit-forming... Like a drug addict, we need stronger doses of inanity to make us enjoy more inanity...
the media wars...Anyone who think that the media self-regulation works please place your hand up...
the water treatmentThis Gus picture shows "the Gulf" about 100 miles from Normanton.
white smoke....Caption: "He was the only one who had not been blacklisted and could speak Italian"...
of loaves, lies and fishes...The merde-och press gets it wrong again...
kim's nightmare...News Limited chief executive Kim Williams says the media reform package tailored by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is targeted at his company.
promoting tony...Mr Murdoch tells us that the right to tell porkies is sacrosanct...
16 Quotes From Tony Abbott to Remind You Why He Shouldn’t Be Prime Minister ? On immigration:
a galah...It makes my eyes water... I don't know if I should cry or laugh... Is THIS exactly what Tony said?... What does that tell you, not so much about Tonicchio Abbott's ego which we know is bigger than the Titanic, but about his inflated imbecilic minimal understanding of the way the real world works?...
a jihad against jihad...By STEVEN YACCINO and POH SI TENG CHICAGO — There is an advertising war being fought here — not over soda or car brands but over the true meaning of the word “jihad.”
the angry summer...The Climate Commission has received questions from the community and the media seeking to understand the influence of climate change on the recent extreme summer weather.
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