The Bloody Issues Which Matter

banging on about advertising, marketing and social media

15 June 2009 2 Comments

If you missed it last week, there was a nice piece by Sandi Tighello on Onya Magazine. The post asks Australia to put an end to the endless, empty celebrity fluff that is overtaking our media channels. From Gordon Ramsey to Claire Werbeloff – we’ve had enough. You can find the article here.

So, it was bittersweet to see the main story on WAtoday this morning covering the bloody protests in Iran. As much as it is disturbing to see and hear stories such as these, it is important to bring them to the forefront for any change to occur…

There was no mention of this on any of the other major newspaper sites (apart from the reliable Australian). So congratulations to WAtoday. However, it is understandable that it didn’t make all newspaper sites. A footballer with a blood nose is front page worthy as well…

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Daniel Oyston said:

What pisses me off is news sites (yes that’s you news.com.au you shifty bastards) would have put that pic up with the headline “Protesters Slain”. No mention of Iran.

They always put these articles up without a headline that indicates where the story took place and you click through and it happened somewhere else!

annoying

# 17 June 2009 at 9:34 pm

Laura Gofton said:

So true. I was watching Ch10 late news last night and it seems to be getting closer and closer to ACA or TT in content. They briefly touched on the protests in Iran only to then spend double the amount of time talking about how amazing it was that Iranians were using social media to get their story out to the world. Priorities? It was hardly surprising, then, that the next story was about the girl who fell asleep and got 50-odd stars tattooed on her face.

# 17 June 2009 at 11:06 pm