Is The Australian Media Dead?
Listhp Tomptos
Hello Readers,
Recently we have been experiencing....well nothing. Out of the top ten articles in Australia seven are by government figures, one is spam, one is an article for new players and one is about an award for the best article of the week. What best article? We haven't got any. Our media used to be full of people complaining and debating about the structure of the military, income taxes, which alliance we should be in and so on. For the last while I have seen none of this and I think if this is the best we are getting we need a better class of agitator. Not just for the sake of our media but for the sake of our democracy. I say this because without a decent amount of debating and complaining there is no accountability and or pressure on the government to perform. Without debate we will soon start to stagnate politically, militarily and to some extent economically. Without debate we will eventually start going backwards.
Why has this happened though, I'm sure there are many things for us to complain about. Like why do people in the military have to ask for weapons rather than the old system of receiving them straight away. This meant that during critical wars that started at 23:40 so as the enemy were unable to fight on the first day our soldiers were also unable to fight well because they were begging for weapons until day change. Anybody could see that this system doesn't work when it really needs to. Yet nobody has posted an article complaining about this. Why?
What about the fact that some people received Orders of Australia even though they had been sacked from cabinet just days before. I personally think they deserve the medals but I really doubt that 100% of the population did. I'm right, we had senators voting against their Orders of Australia for that very reason and yet not a single word of complaint elsewhere. Why?
What about the fact that we still have the Crimson Devils wandering around Australia trying to recruit our citizens to join their ranks. Shouldn't someone be unhappy enough about the fact that our soldiers are being poached by some foreign militia to write an article. Obviously not. Why?
I've written this article in the hope that it might encourage someone who is upset about something to write their article. We need it, you might get some negative comments but that is debate for you. So for the sake of our democracy could somebody please complain.
Comments
ur right i must complain about the crimson devils right away
I agree - our media as of late is quite boring.
When people have been instructed to troll any article you post, you tend to stop posting them.
You're right, without the media, forums and IRC this game is boring and pointless. We need to resurrect the media as a force for change.
The problem is that the good newspapers aren't voted for and the spam ones are.
@larni - 100 percent agree.
Larni, people aren't told you troll your articles it just comes natural to some. (Discrate1)
So many things to complain about... so little time.
Citizens should vote up articles. Someone takes time to do an article and they only get 15 vote - not much encouragement to write more.
AB
she is talking about the wankers trolling the crimson devils at every turn
they arent even foreign. sure the high command is but the CD itself is eAustralian
Alas EAustralia is as Stagnant as the day i left 🙁
C'mon everyone! Let's get angry over something and write about it!
KITTY KITTY
hey james, good to see you around!
The Crimson Devils are not a foreign militia, and we aren't interested in poaching anyone.
By the way, I like your style Listhp. Wanna join the Crimson Devils?
http://bruckscanucks.forumotion.ca/enlist-here-f1/australian-enlistment-only-crimson-devils-sign-up-t1328.htm\" target="_blank">http://bruckscanucks.forumotion.ca/enlis[..]htm\
You won't regret it.
lol... you need us to make your media active... australayan ....
I think it might be that inless your close to the real storys, You cant find anything good to report
'Foreign militia', funny last time I checked I was an Australian citizen 😛
Talking about foreigners weren't you from eUK Listhp? 😃
Larni> people troll your articles because you trolls theirs
Adam Von Templar- Yes, I was from the eUK (note the 'e'). Maybe you don't remember but Australia was owned by Indonesia for a while, I don't speak fluent Indonesian so living here was pointless. When Queensland (my RL home state) was returned I came back (I had fought in some resistance wars here beforehand but had always returned to the eUK).
Also, Crimson Cannucks (the devils are the aussie branch) are foreign. Your mate Temujin's avatar sorta proved it.
Just a point to make:
Dbs and ACUK have to request weps on IRC as their orders may change and we expect them to be active and elite, no point in donating a set of q5 weps that gets misused or used right at the start of the day when an important battle opens later, that's an expensive mistake.
The system of donating weps automatically to AAR peeps will be reintroduced once the budget is sorted out.
Between the eIndo spam, gov articles and foreign media moguls, there isn't much room for new writers to grow.
Listhp we are not foreign. I'm a real life Queenslander too. From the lovely Sunshine Coast as a matter of fact.
I have raised a legitimate issue of bias and favourtism but I again got shouted down too. So why try...