Proceeds Of Crime

[prisonermonkeys]

She has also been ordered out of the villa she is in as "she" is causing a disturbance due to the media being there.

Well, if our government was willing to discuss asylum seeker policy, maybe the media would have something else to report. It's such a comforting thought to know that in a fight between a billion-dollar warship and a barely-seaworthy fishing boat, the only thing preventing the fishing boat from coming out on top is how much our government tells the media. And then the government has the nerve to criticise the ABC for daring to go to another source because they weren't satisfied with the government's "everything is good - take our word for it" approach.

And don't get me started on Christopher Pyne. I don't know what Abbott was thinking by putting his hatchet-man in charge of one of the most important portfolios in government. He has already proven he is completely incompetent.

 

[Azuremen]

How is it two wrongs?

The extreme sentence from daft prohibition logic is a wrong.

Claiming she shouldn't be released because others have also been wronged makes two wrongs.

Shame other countries don't do what Indonesia does when it comes to drug users/sellers and importers.

Lock them up for 20 years and watch as the use of these drugs goes down.

Because, you know, prohibition has worked so effectively in countries

Especially from something as trivial as marijuana.

 

[Grayfox]

completely incompetent.

This applies to every single politician

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Pyne in particular. He commissioned a review into the content of the new national curriculum to emphasise more content on Australian values and the national identity - less than two weeks before the first phase of the national curriculum was introduced. It has taken years to get the curriculum sorted and everyone satisfied, and Pyne wanted to put the brakes on the whole thing at the last minute. He had been in the job for about four months at the time, which, given his floundering over Gonski, was not nearly enough time to go through the entire national curriculum on his own. I think the teachers' federations nearly had a collective stroke when it was announced.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Update: the AFP have raided Channel 7's offices today, looking for evidence of payments to Corby. Seven deny it, if course, but they have one of their veteran reporters on standby in Denpasar days after the story fell out of the headlines. Given that the current trend in advertising the news has been on delivering exclusives, and having the most reliable and trusted team of journalists working for the network (seriously, all of the commercial networks claim this), it seems odd that they should have him up there doing nothing.

 

[Grayfox]

Stupid IMHO

Media pays people for interviews for things that are clearly a crime so they can get that persons side of the story.
They do not get their head offices raided for those, it is only when it is they pay someone popular with the whole country like Corby .

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Media pays people for interviews for things that are clearly a crime so they can get that persons side of the story.

Would you care to cite an example of that?

 

[Grayfox]

Today tonight and A Current Affair have done stories where they interviewed someone who was doing roadrage or a scammer who stole money.

The printed media also does similar things too.

If it gets ratings they will pay for the story.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Today tonight and A Current Affair have done stories where they interviewed someone who was doing roadrage or a scammer who stole money.

First, those people stand accused of a crime; they have not actually been convicted at the time the segment was produced. And secondly, those programmes sensationalise the crimes they claim were committed, and always take the victims' side. They do not pay the accused - they stalk and confront them, hoping to get an aggressive or non-response because they know it demonises the.

The printed media also does similar things too.

Again, you need to cite examples.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Update: The AFP have confirmed that they found a contract between Corby and Channel Seven when they raised Seven's offices, but it was unsigned. Now Kerry Stokes, the head of the network, has threatened to quit all of his positions (like his seat on the council of the War Memorial) because of the raid.

 

[Grayfox]

I heard that the raids were just based apon what the AFP were hearing in the news.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/02/21/18/58/corbys-fail-to-sway-minister-on-tv-deal
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/02/21/19/07/afp-apologises-over-seven-raid-error