I don’t get it. How can grown adults, learned people, leaders of our state and respected political parties completely forget that when it’s election time news cameras follow them everywhere!?
Lawrence Springborg’s dancing effort while impressing the electorate while on Cairns radio is just such an effort (oh how I wish I could find some video online of this – I’m sure it will come). As is Anna Bligh’s press conference with no content, but for the entirely opposite reason. Where are the (supposedly) ever-present spin doctors and media coaches in this election race? Why is the opposition leader dancing whilst attempting to answer serious questions about the LNP campaign? Why is the premier speaking to the press and not telling them anything? Who’s in charge here?
This is all is stark contrast to both candidate’s federal leaders during the national election in 2008. Kevin Rudd went from geek to… geek chic. John Howard got the pretty suits and ties out, pressed the flesh, offered the Liberal answers. This time around we’re getting the standard “Anna in a helmet”; “Lawrence shaking hands”; “Anna kissing babies (somewhat awkwardly)”; “Lawrence re-hashing the Kippa-Ring railway (again)”; “Anna getting shouted at from a distance at a Uni O-Week meet the people”; “Lawrence shaking hands (again)”. No sign of any real reason to turn up to these media calls other than to: (a) see the candidates say something, hopefully screw it up for it to be really newsworthy; or (b) hope one of the candidates offers something interesting in the way of policy. Long gone are the days of Premier Pete and his always entertaining press conferences – and his hate/hate/love/hate relationship with the media (taken straight from the book of Jeff Kennett).
Of note is who is working hard to update their video feeds with what’s going on for their key candidate. The ALP are popping every ad, video blog and news article almost as quickly as they happen on their YouTube channel. Comparatively the LNP haven’t touched their YouTube channel in 4 months. However, and I can only suppose this is because of the differential limitations offered by the terms of use, both the LNP and the Borg are becoming more active in posting ads, rebuttals, etc via their specific DailyMotion channels. Perhaps whoever is supporting the LNP online should take the big YouTube logo off and replace it with the more correct DailyMotion logo pointing at their channel – it would certainly save potential embarrassment when people go looking for the latest video offerings of the Borg.
The Greens, other parties and independents are yet to offer anything in the way of specific Election ’09 video content. One can only hope Pauline Hanson might offer up a re-hash (or someone may offer a mashup – hint hint) of her infamous “if you see this video, I’m dead” missile.
Tech/media score to date:
ALP – 2
LNP – 0
Ind/Others – 0
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I am surprised you haven’t mentioned myself so favourably.
Perhaps you need to find the right twitter accounts. Watch out for the real video channel coming soon. Yours @iamtheborg
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