Bespoke is a great word (when used correctly) … I love it!
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Yep, bizarro world. Everything is so over the top on FTA TV and in gossip rags and newspapers (which are beginning to resemble gossip rags) that you really hope no one is actually fooled into thinking it’s remotely accurate. Might as well find some well written fiction via streaming or downloading.
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Then you’ll be happy to know that the Daily Telegraph has a front page spread about a fictional scenario of “100 days of Labor in power” with a bunch of supposedly scary scenarios like marriage equality, and restoring penalty rates. Yeah, apparently they put blatant fiction on the front page these days.
“But… my producer said that’s what punk is all about.”
I’ve always liked the word. Brings me images of an old country artisan.
With ya. Nothing worse than when a pack of wannabe wankers grab a word and overuse it until you can’t stand it anymore.
Innocuous used to be a good word, … then someone mentioned it in relation to a football injury, and …
Im sure this has been said already BUT does Essington count?
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Flake News
Posted on July 6, 2017 [email protected] in Craft Standards, News Corp, Political News
Now Murdoch’s media has abandoned claims of a connection to actual journalism and shark-vaulted into the Trumpian post-truth void, we can set aside conventional media criticism and marvel at the death-throes desperation of its ‘yarn’-spinning.
No longer content to merely feed today’s news through the standard News Corp grinder and pack it together with the usual ideological offal, the Daily Telegraph’s fact butchers are now manufacturing the meat altogether. This new ‘news’, like the cheapest sausage, is injected so full of sodium and carcinogenic chemicals it bears no resemblance to anything close to real life.
With a now soulless Liberal Party in the grip of autophagia, the spectral Abbott haunting Turnbull’s prime ministerial banquet like a bloodied Banquo rattling a set of rosary beads, and the Labor Party, slowly marching Birnam Wood-style upon Dunsinane, the Tele preferred to focus its front page on two years’ hence and predictions of a new, more terrible tyrant in, err, Bill Shorten.
Honestly, you couldn’t make this up, except they just did. Imagine, for a moment, The Washington Post setting aside the Watergate inquiry while they projected three years into the future to a Jimmy Carter-led dystopia, one that threatened the long-suffering American people with a reign of competency and compassion. Oh, the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
This surely is yet another symbol that News Corporation, the loss-making, fact-shedding news media detritus of Murdoch’s once mighty empire (21st Century Fox being the profitable and much bigger business) is in its final, feeble days.
Just look at it: The octogenarian head of the Family Firm is revelling in his role as the new handbag (alligator skin) of super groupie Jerry Hall (Jerry and the Pacemaker). Son Lachlan here in Australia is purely focused on taking control of the Ten Network in the quite reasonable anticipation that federal parliament will change media ownership laws for his benefit. And the other son James has put that whole unfortunate phone hacking scandal behind him by lobbying Teresa May’s mortally wounded minority government to let Fox take control of the UK’s Sky Television.
Is it any wonder, then, that the old, decaying and increasingly irrelevant print legacy assets are being left to their own murky devices. Over at Times Roman Catholic broadsheet The Australian, battalions of crusty old cranks fulminate about climate conspiracies and pearl-clutching matrons fret that our godlessness will be our destruction (Donald Trump being the exception, of course).
But the tabloids have to work that much harder to convince their supposedly blue-collar market to vote against their own interests. So we hear that Shorten will lift corporate taxes and bring back penalty rates if elected. Golly, what a vote loser that’ll be in Western Sydney (“We’re for the West”).
It used to be infuriating this stuff. But now it seems rather desperate and clearly workshopped (and photoshopped) to within an inch of its life. And the best part is that it isn’t working. The myth that Howard’s blue-collar Tories would stick with having their livelihoods destroyed so long as those in power were brutalising refugees, Aborigines and the unemployed has lost its magic. Victorians and Queenslanders ignored the tabloid lies in state elections and we saw in the UK the spectacular backfire by The Sun and the other truth-manufacturing UK tabloids to halt Jeremy Corbyn.
So now, they’re resorting to not just spinning today’s news, but faking up the future. It’s low, it’s desperate, it’s tawdry and it has absolutely nothing to do with journalism or the truth.
Which is why the toilet paper that is Murdoch’s tabloids is set to be flushed. And for good this time one would hope.
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Umm, those words are very old.
Do you mean you don’t like the way people have made new uses for them?
If so, I am on your side.
Bespoke is quite an old word, judging by the number of bespoke tailors in London, usually to mean made specially for customers, not off the rack.
Geelong used to be called the Pivot of Victoria, thus the name Pivotonians before the Cats.
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People started calling Toowoomba ‘Poowoomba’ when they were looking at putting recycled water back into the drinking water supply.
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That, and all the ■■■■ heads that come from there.
J/k
Actually, I really like Toowoomba. Spent a few days there last year.
The way that any work in any field is referred to as being work in a particular “space”.
It gets my utopia-detector up (thanks John Clarke).
I wonder what NASA employees say? I work in the space space???
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I caught an old episode of a Qld based travel show the other day that featured Toowoomba and it’s numerous and varied high quality street art. It was very impressive. No mention of poo flavoured water though.
“Talking to…,”
As in, Gil the Dill yesterday when talking about Ali Fahour:
“I’m not going to talk to the specific events…”
It’s talk about, not to, you farking clown. Always has been, always will be. Only business wankers think otherwise.
It’s becoming increasingly noticeable, and it needs to be stopped immediately!
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It’s a bit hard to speak properly when you have heaps of money up your ■■■■ acquired through criminal means.
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■■■■■■■ scammers!
I’ve been getting flooded the last couple of weeks with people telling me I have money in an account that I haven’t touched, jobs that I’ve applied for, iPhones I’ve applied for and sundry other things, and they send these emails 4 times a day.
As if I don’t know exactly what money I have and where, and I’ve forgotten that I’ve retired and already have the latest model iPhone. If the email gets ignored once, why do these arseholes bother? Pity they don’t charge separately for each email…ten cents a pop would sort these ■■■■■■■ right out.
And one today tried to flog me portable breathalysers because there are 5,000 teenagers a year who die because they get behind the wheel stonkered. What’s Australia’s national annual road toll? 1200? These idiots who change USA to Australia and leave the numbers the same…■■■■■■■ idiots. Like the ones that tell us all 565 Australian congressmen (sic) have criminal records. Eejits! And arseholes!
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Yep, brought this one up myself a while back and it’s worth repeating
City Councils. Honestly, I think they are at the top of my hate list, above the AFL.
You go too far…
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