[LINK] Fwd: MR 113/07: Australians have a voracious appetite for telecommunications [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Stilgherrian wrote:
>>> From: "Australian Communications & Media Authority"
>>> <media at acma.gov.au>
>>> Date: 21 September 2007 11:02:05 AM
>>> To: <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au>
>>> Subject: MR 113/07: Australians have a voracious appetite for
>>> telecommunications [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 
> "Voracious"? Isn't that a value judgement?
> 
> For me, "voracious" has a flavour of excess about it, or at least implying
> that we're somehow greedy or big consumers. Are we? Really?

That is glutonous - voracious is not so negative.

Voracious reader has positive connotations.

> 
> I guess compared with Namibia we are. But to use the much-loved OECD
> comparisons, I thought we were pretty tame.
> 
> Certainly a figure like...
> 
>>> [snip] and 80 per cent of households having
>>> access to the Internet, mostly through broadband.
> 
> ... doesn't seem "voracious" to me.
> 
> When I see someone adding a value-judgement word to a headline, it tells me
> that want me to think a certain way before I've seen the numbers for myself.
> In this, case, is ACMA wanting me to think we're greedy, heavy comms users?
> If so, why? Is it to provide an excuse for the growth of broadband lagging
> so much, that our poor over-worked comms companies can't keep up with our
> voracious appetites?
> 
> Stil
> 
> 


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