Comments on: G20 maddness http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2006/11/23/g20-maddness/ Seriously Seditious Stitching Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: <![CDATA[Christian McCrea]]> http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2006/11/23/g20-maddness/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:17:25 +0000 http://radicalcrossstitch.com/?p=560#comment-836 Great piece... reminded me of the feckless coverage of the S11 protests (so long ago now), where imagery was allowed to trump discourse and we arrived at the logjam - where to resist is to take on the last Aussie battler symbol - disaffection. Immediately since then, to stand up is to have no voice. We were told as teenagers that the media was complicit in the plans of government to distance issues from the people it affected. Surely it was teenage angst, surely there can't be a conspiracy of circumstance and laziness that broad? The assumed right of the comfortable to criticize the inflamed has caused so much damage. A re-organisation of national debates, starting with some media ethics here and there, please. Great piece… reminded me of the feckless coverage of the S11 protests (so long ago now), where imagery was allowed to trump discourse and we arrived at the logjam – where to resist is to take on the last Aussie battler symbol – disaffection. Immediately since then, to stand up is to have no voice.

We were told as teenagers that the media was complicit in the plans of government to distance issues from the people it affected. Surely it was teenage angst, surely there can’t be a conspiracy of circumstance and laziness that broad?

The assumed right of the comfortable to criticize the inflamed has caused so much damage. A re-organisation of national debates, starting with some media ethics here and there, please.

]]>