Steven Conroy on Q and A
Sunday, March 29, 2009How dissappointing was the discussion of the proposed Australian internet blacklist on the Q and A show the other night?
The senator was on the spot, ready to be taken to task, but the discussion barely pierced the surface level issues. The following inane question from an audience member is representative of the quality of the whole discussion:
Senator Conroy, don't you realise that 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual?
At the deepest point of the discussion all we heard was trivial rubbish about morality. In fact, if you took the most tepid, trivial coverage of this topic, mixed it in a large bucket of water, and then use that single bucket to paint a skin over an industrial size shed -- a thin smear of liquid -- it would still have been impervious to the amount of piercing accomplished by the Q and A questions.
I wish someone like Russel Blackford had been in the audience. Actually I would have preferred anyone with half a clue.
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It was absolutely appalling - at NO point in the discussion did they even get close to anything resembling the real issues at point.