Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Qui Custos ipse custodis: Who shall watch the watchers?

There are times I despair at journalists in this country. Yesterday the Government announced a completely new energy strategy. This energy strategy will determine how we power our economy's future. It will determine our industrial competitiveness, our industrial resiliance and ultimately our wealth for the future. So what do the media focus on?
Electric cars.
Sigh.
The strategy includes major tweaks to the RMA ( subtext: it doesn't work), a completely new discount rate ( subtext: we are prepared to accept a less than economic ROI for stuff we like), and a whole bunch of expert groups (subtext: we don't know what we're talking about). But the media focus on electric cars.
Worse they then find a bunch of American inventors who have come to NZ and "discovered" the water powered car and are seeking investment funds. No understanding of basic physics. All the gullibility of a child in kindergarten. Where do they get these people from?
The media in any country are the consciousness of that country. The media reflects back to the culture what it thinks. Or in our case doesn't think.
New Zealand is a thin country. It absorbs ideas very quickly. But it doesn't digest them very well. It has little capability for critical analysis (other than a basic Scottish mean-spiritedness) and flees from robust discourse. The result is an intellectual environment better suited to sheep than anything else.
It would be nice to think that the internet might change this, but alas the freedom of choice is, as the band Devo sand about in the 80's, just confuses people. This leads to everyone believing media which are frankly no more credible than many bloggers - just better promoted.

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