By Dave Gorman
It’s tough to visualize an international the place something you may need to know approximately – and every thing you don’t even recognize you must find out about – isn't available 24-hours an afternoon, seven days every week, with quite a few faucets of our hands. yet that global as soon as existed. And Dave Gorman recollects it. He recollects whilst there have been basically 3 channels on television. He recalls whilst cellphones have been the shield of boastful property brokers and yuppie twonks. And he recollects in case you needed to unplug your mobilephone to plug the pc into the landline on the way to use the (crippling sluggish) internet.
Nowadays after all, the area is stuffed with humans attempting to let us know issues. a lot in order that we have now taught our brains to not pay a lot awareness. in spite of everything, click on the mouse, faucet the reveal, flick the channel and it's directly to the subsequent factor. yet Dave Gorman thinks it's time to have a better glance, to determine how a lot nonsense we tacitly accept.
Suspicious advertisements, baffling newspaper headlines, faux twitter, unending cat movies, insane television indicates the place the presenters ask an identical questions over and over.
Can we even pay attention ourselves imagine over the emerging din? Or is there simply too a lot details?
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Which are gone. You use them and they’re gone. So what is the government’s policy on this issue? Obviously the government’s policy on this issue is to favour in terms of allocating research resources and funding, the renewable forms of energy, Bryan, the ones that don’t damage the air and the earth and the sea. You’re reading that upside down. I beg your pardon. The government favours the fossil fuel forms of energy, Bryan, the ones that damage the air and the earth and the sea. Why would that be, Mr Howard?
You had a lot on. I did. I think I was supposed to announce it but my notes were in my other trousers. And of course that money did go on roads. It just didn’t go on roads until later. Yes. Why is it this money’s not spent on the roads the rest of the time? A lot of it is. There are some repairs to roads all the time. Yes, but 200 million. It’s a lot. That’s right. It’s a good point, Bryan. I’ll ask about that. Who will you ask? I’ll ask the prime minister. Is he the Minister for Roads? No, but he’s in charge of the election.
What policies have you been pushing? I’ve been concentrating on not issuing any kind of challenge to John Howard’s leadership. The prime minister has said the election is about trust. That’s right. Doesn’t the children overboard story militate against… It’s about trust on the big important issues. Trust in economic management. Hasn’t the huge deficit announced this week thrown that management into question? It’s about trust in those areas of economic management that don’t bear particularly on the vagaries of monthly trade figures.