Incompetent, irrelevant, main stream media

If the weekend marches did nothing else, they highlighted the incompetence of the main stream media. I'm not surprised at the spinning of the protests to fit the conservative talking points, or that the main stream media was reluctant to cover them. What did surprise me was the conspicuous lack of any main stream media attention at all. 

Fucks sake, over 100,000 people took part in these protests across the country. Here's a shot from Melbourne.

Yet there was virtually nothing about it on the telly. I've not watched the news on the telly at all lately. It's so boring and predictable. Crapping on about bits and pieces that might interest the brain dead, sensationalising everything, with the Ken and Barbie presenters. Anyway I actually watched a half hour of last nights news on one of the commercial stations, and apart from being bored shitless I was revolted by the crap. It's all about how to make the news entertaining  instead of informative.

And it wasn't even informative. There was one tiny little report about the Canberra protesters yesterday, almost as an aside. Some quick shots of the odd more angry and impolite signs, and declaring the protests to be extremists who swear a lot and make bad signs for the poor dears at home who get scared of the evil out there somewhere. There was nothing of the above picture. Nothing of the broad cross section of society that were represented in the protests. Nothing to give the actual real fact that over 100,000 Australians were so pissed off enough with Abbott that they were compelled to take to the streets and yell about it.

Nah mate, they were all radical leftie pinko anarchists who just wanted to yell about anything..... 

I'm not the only one thinking like this and asking why the MSM has shown it's performance over the weekend to be irrelevant as to what's actually happening under their fuckin noses:

The protests happened across the weekend, but you'd be forgiven if it slipped your consciousness since the event also went largely unnoticed by the nation's most prolific print newspapers (including The Herald Sun and The Age), as well as by the headline scouts of the television news stations for mainstream media. 

Not a single photo from Sunday's march has appeared on the catalogue for digitised stock photography giant, Getty Images, an eery absence of acknowledgement, as though the nation-wide happening was absorbed by a topical affairs-consuming black hole. I mean, let's look at the extent of this thing for a second: more than 30,000 people are reported to have gathered in Melbourne; Brisbane numbers alleged to be around 10,000, thousands more in Adelaide and tens of thousands in Sydney... Surely some kind of mainstream media recognition was a valid expectation? 

But then not even the Prime Minister was giving the protestors a hat tip. 

When asked about the Sydney March at a public speaking engagement, Mr Abbott riffed: "my understanding is that the only big rally in Sydney is the St Patrick's Day parade. That is the big event in Sydney today. I wish all of them well." more

Personally, I think the MSM is signing it's own death warrant. Australians may be naive, but they're not stupid. I doubt that the majority of Australians are dumb enough to believe the bullshit script from Abbott's far right neocon US imported politics. We are not the US. Something that the Lieberals have yet to contemplate.

And again, Abbott's comments about the St Patrick's day thing (WTF is that anyway?) were simply insulting. There were all these people protesting to try and get it into his thick fuckin head. Yet he chose to ignore it. I would estimate at his own peril. Indeed by being so irrelevant he may well be signing the same death warrant as the main stream media.