Why the hell does The West continue to run its crappy racing liftout? My theory is that the paper would feel embarassingly thin if it wasn’t padded out with Doomben dogs. Woogle it, it’s true. However I do have a lazy grand on Little Slapper in the Man to Man Menswear with Mr Sandals for a place.
I just saw someone go past with a pile of the latest Western Toerag aka Curtin’s The Western Independent. Entertainingly had a student journo pontificating on journalistic ethics compared to bloggers. (yawn). Also entertainingly had Media and Arts Alliance cadre David Fucking Outrage Cohen defending The West’s cross promotion with Channel 7, by pointing out that they had done a story on Dixie Marshall. Well that’s OK then. The copy is still warm and it’s already slagged off here. Grok is out too. I feel I should be checking out “Creative Corner” (I tell no lie, they actually have a section called Creative Corner FFS) but haven’t got the stomach for it at the moment. Perhaps I never will.
The Worst of Perth 
Is this guy really claiming that “uninformed opinion bypass[ing] ethical control” isn’t a problem at a Curtin Student rag?
And, “fora” ?
Really?
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and “but this us not necessarily the case”…….
journalists may indeed be trained to separate fact from opinion but did someone forget to train them to use spell check?
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DFOC is their trainer but he has been careless with the whip. I think the field may be full of donkeys.
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It was relying on spellcheck that was their demise, mp. It doesn’t understand if you spell a wrong word correctly.
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ah yes snuff, rereading that comment i obviously hit the turps too early this morning. as for yesterdays “wees” line, it took me all morning to figure out that it meant to say sees. some days i really am a complete window licker :)
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Come to daddy, mp.
p.s. I liked G’day from WA’s suggestion that it could have been wets, too.
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hmmm. that video is incredibly wrong! just the way i like it. thanks snuff.
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Always a pleasure, mp. I’m guessing they might not have played much Aphex Twin at Margeaux’s.
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correct! :)
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I think he meant “Pubic Flora”
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That would make more sense. A story about pubic flora would be much more interesting.
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I’ve just noticed Phill me Mate in the Man to Man
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Imagine the race call:
“…with Phill Me Mate bringing up the rear in the Man on Man…”
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what about irregular bloggers?
and don’t they do Dixie stories because she’s associated with the West through marriage?
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Yet another DFOC-manufactured Worst. This man has clearly gone mad with power, and must be stopped.
I assume Creative Corner will provide useful tips on how to make shoes out of Cornflakes boxes, or bongs out of things you can find in your neighbours’ gardens. Please, dear god, don’t let it be amateur poetry.
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I wouldn’t look Bento. Seriously.
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I went to Bellevue twice. Once at night.
Nothing scares me now. Except Richarbl’s kung fu rugby league skills.
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Well we all now know where to go to acquire them.
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Fear not, Bento. They’re nothing compared to the political advice of someone whom on the basis of some photos on one flyer goes online and calls somebody an idiot and a feckless fool, morally bereft, slimy and vacuous. Malcolm possibly shouldn’t have listened to him about that Godwin Grech email.
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What I don’t get is how Richarbl said he had political experience (15 years I believe) Yet his RSVP profile states “no strong” political beliefs. So Richarbl were you lying for 15 years or just to the ladies?
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having no strong political beliefs is not incompatible with, say, being a member of the Liberal Party. Other reasons for membership might have been more important, such as social climbing, or having no mates.
he may have just been doing it to meet all the hot chicks
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Oh I don’t want Richarbl to log on tonight and feel like we have been picking on him while he’s not here to defend himself. So I would like to say for the record that I don’t think he’s too bad really. Just a bit ‘random’ as the kids of today say.
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You’re right Shazza, but he did seem to come on a bit strong with Buckels, and probably deserved a burn or two. Sure, Matt Buckels has a stupid haircut and obviously does yoga- but there seemed to be some genuine venom in Richarbls ravings.
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richarbl if you read this, you remind me of my older brother-smart but unchallenged – hence the need to stir everything up. probably quite bored and in need of a good bitch slappin’. feel free to let me know how far off base i am…..
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skink you are correct with your Liberal party membership assumption. I spent a lot of time with the party in various activities and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed every moment.
Any strong political beliefs I may have were dissolved when Bronwyn Bishop gave a one hour speech to a major gathering of Liberal and National party rural aristocracy.
She came across as the rabid love child of ayn rand determined to teach the hicks about individualism, I managed to stay for at least twenty minutes before leaving.
Shazza, there is only one thing I regret about the rsvp thing is that my own comments made me sound shallow and superficial. There is a lot more to serious internet dating than random contact and Plastic Matt is certainly right about one thing, its not easy to sell yourself on one page of a glossy brochure.
mp, close enough, you don’t have a couple of those coupons do you?
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richarbl, i will send you some for your birthday :)
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You’re not much of a party member if you can’t endure twenty one minutes of Bronny. How do you know she ranted for sixty? If you were serious you would have fought cunts like the Member for Mackellar, just like the Member for Bradfield does – did.
You enjoyed EVERY minute but your admittedly not very strong beliefs were dissolved by Bronny, what is she? the Alien queen? What did those previous beliefs turn into? A desire for IKEA storage solutions?
HTFU
wow “plastic Matt” , gumming satire
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You wouldn’t know Orbea because you weren’t there to put up with the bullshit. I know it was one hour because that was what was promised.
I left in front of about 500 Liberal bluebloods, half of them thought I was the rudest cunt in the universe the other half probably wished they had the balls to do the same thing.
I enjoyed my renegade status with the party for some years after that.
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‘renegade Liberal’
sounds about as dangerous as ‘extreme scrabble’
“I’m a tiger, grrr”
I can’t help agreeing with Orbea, if you can’t stand to be in the same room as Bronwyn Bishop, you’re in the wrong party.
Malcolm Turnbull might have the same epiphany at any minute
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sorry, when you said I was right in my assumption, was that my conjection that you only joined the party for social climbing and to hang out with hot chicks?
one simple test: have you at any time had a sexual fantasy involving Julie Bishop?
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What would be wrong with that?
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I can’t say sexual, Julie B may be the very pinnacle
in female hotness but the only fantasy involves hiding behind her impenetrable hairdo in case of nuclear attack.
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Your quasi feminist views make so much more sense now Richarbl. 15 years of affiliation with the Liberal party will tend to soften the brain.
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Are you sure your hegemony is not clouding your vision Shazza?
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You’re confusing your ’cause and effect’ parameters here, shazza.
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Oh I see it clearly now, your brain has to be soft first. Thanks guys.
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the, after being in a room with Bronwyn for an hour, your testes shrivel
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Perhaps tips on the multiple uses for goon bags and milk crates?
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BTW. Keep an eye out at Curtin tomorrow. I forgot to ask our delivery folks to pick up a copy of Grok. damn…
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Don’t see it yet. Perhaps Curtin operatives have been asked to remove the publication.
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No-one else mad with power has been stopped: why start with me?
Iz it coz I am gerbalist?
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Like a man in calipers, I stand corrected.
I welcome our pencil-sucking, Christmas-sacrileging overlords.
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Agreed Bento
If one has to smoke a few herrings to remain part of the sphincter tight crowd, then so be it.
It’s only a matter of time before DFOC pops up on the A list, and I hope he will remember the little people who supported him when he was a just a bubble headed booby.
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‘Phill Me Mate’…. um.. with what exactly?
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With Trojan Bullet perhaps CD?
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De little one, obviously.
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i was thinking that dashing oberon might fit the bill.
or mate.
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Thorn Connery’s a chance, too.
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or mr sandals (and socks). whilst still wearing them.
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Now you’ve gone too far, curious.
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the stuff of nightmares snuff.
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The field is bunched up at the end/
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And finally, it’s I’m Not Sure, Sorry FTW !
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Yawn is right, by the way, TLA As FSJ points out, you just have to know the code.
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Well Mr Dixie no longer works for that organisation and is the PR spinmeister at the Dockers – and I believe they are not legally wed, but living in sin.
And re the racing, you’ll find that a lot of races are named after the sponsors of a particular meeting, so if you have say a 6PR Race Day, you’d have the Simon Beaumont Stakes, the Howard Sattler Handicap etc.
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that’s why I carefully used the word ‘associated’
no doubt they still think of her fondly
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how confusing, a “man to man” maiden.
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Ahhh the Western Independent, I remember that old rag quite well – spent many an hour trying to work out Indesign ….
Not sure about a journo from WI pontificating on journalistic ethics vs blogging ethics but I suppose you gotta write about something …
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I think everyone here should take the time (all of two seconds) to look at the context, because the WI’s quote on online journalism is actually from the inside cover, written by the student editors.
It isn’t by any means intended as a hard news story, in fact it begins with “Journalism is at the heart of the Western Independent this edition” and goes on to describe the highs and lows the students faced getting the paper written and published as well as discussing and linking articles within.
Maybe you should take a look at the whole article and its circumstance within the newspaper before making their judgements.
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The context was well and truly looked at ell. That it was written by student editors was my point. The concept of student journalists exercising ethical control is a highly amusing don’t you think? “Trained journalists are fully aquainted with ethical codes and responsibilities…” C’mon, even a student journo couldn’t believe that cobblers.
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It was certainly an optimistic take on journalism- I’ll give you that!
Though I can understand where the hopeful (and admittedly unrealistic) ‘journalists with degrees know all that’s up ethically’ attitude is coming from- since the authors are dropping $30+ grand on receiving said training themselves :)
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Exactly. They’re paying for it, so you’d hope they’d be dropping the ethical right from the beginning. Which they actually do anyway.
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In answer to your question of why the West still publishes the racing guide… it’s because it’s one giant advertisement paid for by the TAB. They pay the West to publish it and distribute it on their behalf.
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