Page One:
"Bartel's Brownlow - Cats' Eyes now on the big prize"
i.e. James Bartel of Geelong wins the Brownlow Medal
i.e. James Bartel of Geelong wins the Brownlow Medal
Far right side column, continued page 11:
"Masses pressure Burma's regime"
i.e. At least 15,000 monks and 30,000 people take to the streets in Burma's capital Rangoon, chanting prayers and slogans, in the largest protest against the illegally ruling military junta since a 1988 democracy uprising by students led to a brutal retaliation by the army.
i.e. At least 15,000 monks and 30,000 people take to the streets in Burma's capital Rangoon, chanting prayers and slogans, in the largest protest against the illegally ruling military junta since a 1988 democracy uprising by students led to a brutal retaliation by the army.
Page 1 vs. page 11? I'm dissapointed at our collective nearsightedness. The media has a role to play in forming people's opinions (though of course their bottom line in our capitalist society is selling papers), and ranking an annual jock-award-cum-frockfest in our provincial little game above democracy-in-action is keeping a short-sighted nation continually short-sighted.
Aussie Rules is a great sport, but it's hopelessly provincial. Sports media and event promoters love to bill a given event as "the third largest sports event in the world", this title is pitched around at the Rugby World Cup, the Cricket World Cup, the various Grand Slams of Tennis - clearly, it is obvious that the AFL Grand Final won't ever deserve this obfuscation - it's just not that important. Perspective is a bitch.
On the other hand, the people's revolution in Burma is a protest that inspire. The military has held the nation in a stranglehold of militaristic rule against the result of the 1990 elections that should have brought the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi into power as Prime Minister.
During these protests, about 2000 monks and civilians were allowed by the military to pray in outside her home, where she has been under house arrest for 10 years.
Her continuing incarceration is an affront to democracy.
As a result, she has as of last Sunday (23/9/07) been imprisoned in the notorious Insein prison, perhaps in part to deny the protesters a focusing symbol of leadership. Is there really nothing they won't do to maintain their hold on power?
Aussie Rules is a great sport, but it's hopelessly provincial. Sports media and event promoters love to bill a given event as "the third largest sports event in the world", this title is pitched around at the Rugby World Cup, the Cricket World Cup, the various Grand Slams of Tennis - clearly, it is obvious that the AFL Grand Final won't ever deserve this obfuscation - it's just not that important. Perspective is a bitch.
On the other hand, the people's revolution in Burma is a protest that inspire. The military has held the nation in a stranglehold of militaristic rule against the result of the 1990 elections that should have brought the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi into power as Prime Minister.
During these protests, about 2000 monks and civilians were allowed by the military to pray in outside her home, where she has been under house arrest for 10 years.
Her continuing incarceration is an affront to democracy.
As a result, she has as of last Sunday (23/9/07) been imprisoned in the notorious Insein prison, perhaps in part to deny the protesters a focusing symbol of leadership. Is there really nothing they won't do to maintain their hold on power?
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
As always, use Wikipedia or Google for continued reading, or some fellow bloggers with far greater journalistic literacy then myself.
Oh yea, and buy a CD, please.
Oh yea, and buy a CD, please.
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