Comment on The Australian Article “Broadband’s Losers Could Vote Labour Out” April 27 2009
Let’s get to the point shall we? Broadband is at least 10 years behind in this country and we need a FTTH NBN like yesterday. Before the Labour Gov. come up with this plan there was what we have now: one of the slowest, most costly networks in the developed world – and what have you chosen to report on? Not the 90% of Australia who are happy, not the nation its self coming out of the dark ages – you report on the 10% of Australia who can’t get 100Mbps, but only 12Mbps – and you flavour this phrase with “if they are lucky”, what do you mean if they are lucky? The fact is they WILL get 12Mbps. If I lived in a small town I wouldn’t be mad at that, 12Mbps is still pretty good – better than I’d expect, and certainly alot better than Telstra’s monopoly is offering at the moment anywhere close to across the board.
I’ve been following this issue a LOT, and The Australian seems to be the only source I’ve read online where every article about the NBN is totally negative, bar one which started scalding the government’s decision – but only spoke positively in the final paragraph, even then it falls short of crediting the current government for this(Take a stand on broadband – BUSINESS April 24).
Even the tone of the current article sounds less like unbiased news and more like a call to action – “Broadband losers could vote Labour out” (kinda sounds like “You could eat the fruit and be like God, Eve“).
This article is so biased. So what is it The Australian / Newscorp? Is it your love for the Liberals or your partnership with Telstra that makes you this way inclined?
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Comment on The Australian Article “Broadband’s Losers Could Vote Labour Out” April 27 2009
Let’s get to the point shall we? Broadband is at least 10 years behind in this country and we need a FTTH NBN like yesterday. Before the Labour Gov. come up with this plan there was what we have now: one of the slowest, most costly networks in the developed world – and what have you chosen to report on? Not the 90% of Australia who are happy, not the nation its self coming out of the dark ages – you report on the 10% of Australia who can’t get 100Mbps, but only 12Mbps – and you flavour this phrase with “if they are lucky”, what do you mean if they are lucky? The fact is they WILL get 12Mbps. If I lived in a small town I wouldn’t be mad at that, 12Mbps is still pretty good – better than I’d expect, and certainly alot better than Telstra’s monopoly is offering at the moment anywhere close to across the board.
I’ve been following this issue a LOT, and The Australian seems to be the only source I’ve read online where every article about the NBN is totally negative, bar one which started scalding the government’s decision – but only spoke positively in the final paragraph, even then it falls short of crediting the current government for this(Take a stand on broadband – BUSINESS April 24).
Even the tone of the current article sounds less like unbiased news and more like a call to action – “Broadband losers could vote Labour out” (kinda sounds like “You could eat the fruit and be like God, Eve“).
This article is so biased. So what is it The Australian / Newscorp? Is it your love for the Liberals or your partnership with Telstra that makes you this way inclined?
This entry was posted on Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 5:05 am and is filed under Australian Issues, FOC news commentary, NBN. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.