ABC behind the main game in media moves of the new milleneum

Talkback format has been the same since the year dot . Its very frustrating and prehistoric because the issues are OFTEN not resolved in the media , but in true conversation and connection ---in cyberspace and true local space .We switch off from 774 regularly .
ABC RADIO COULD BE the first to be ahead -- ABC program directors could ask listeners to list their appropriate (PA) contact details on the ABCweb so we can talk /blog / share with them when they say something really sensible.It would be a hit .But when will it happen?

Wendy Harmers Worries

Andrew (Guest)would have drawn a lot of support for his sensible and rational input to an emotive and quite irrational response to big questions of earth day effectiveness. ( Tonight)
How did the campaign get it so wrong? switching lights off when it doesn't matter.- Better to switch off in the morning or when it makes a difference. Do they know or care what makes a difference or is chanting their main theme? Surely its partly because those who run these campaigns are novices and can't see beyond restraint theology .

The truth is that many who would like to have the fear of God to motivate others have no God and only your taxes and sweet tasting tokens to get people into the pews . Gives you a warm feeling but by no means a sustainable ceiling .Guilt is an ongoing and uncomfortable feeling - esp if your children say " why don't we switch the lights off every night mum ?"
Dumb predicatble and depressing dirges that kill are no match IF there is light at the end of a better management culture -
For those of us who trained there, the hard edge choices are neither fear driven nor education driven or government driven but a combination of all - in the right place , at the right time. Otherwise the better than thou hypocrisy takes over . Unresolved guilt in church - never very comfortable.

Restraint is not a doctrine that has any life in it .its too rigid and too simplistic .chanting "restraint" is not a modus operandi of sustainability- a cure all . CUT WITH CARE More encouragingly - you can with care -----have your electricity and save it too .

Time the ABC recognised the depressing and monocultural nature of its nature talk.
After all, its only days since RUDD gave 10 billion to save water that may not ever have gone missing-
RUDD may well, as art historian robert hughes indicated,have been persauded to provide YET another token --a sort of grand euphemism of trust in politicians and engineers to act in the publics interest . It is after all, the mostly costly ageement in Australia's history that is not an agreement.Yet

The devil of course is in the detail and leaders of any substance are good at dealing with the detail!

If only - You could bite em where it hurts

Jon Feine did a good job of pushing the point to Hon Win , that the planning system was not working, by siting instance after instance . see here

Unfortunately It was a bit like watching Tony Jones trying to corall the Minister for Global Cooling Ms wong on Lateline this week . Even after a whole 20 minutes of questions, no questions were being answered. This is partly because the cutting questions were not being put - Ms wong left smiling .
If the ABc want to get to the bottom of anything seriuos , like environ and planning challenges , scientists and env planners should be putting the questions .