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

[Ivan Trundle]

On 24/09/2007, at 1:01 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> On 24/09/2007, at 12:04 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
>>> If "news" is something noteworthy, then the facts in the bit that  
>>> was
>>> originally quoted are not news. Tarting it up with impressive- 
>>> sounding
>>> adjectives doesn't (or at least shouldn't) turn a routine fact  
>>> into news.
>>>
>>> Am I expecting too much? ;)
>> In a society with a voracious appetite for news, only the good  
>> stuff (i.e. newsworthy) would filter to the top.
>
> when used with appetite wouldn't swallow rather than filter to the  
> top be a more positive verb?
>

:-) ... swallowed - hook, line and sinker.

Nonetheless, the pool of available news resources is rather shallow  
in Australia, yet a good deal of filtering takes place before any of  
it is considered fit for our consumption.

iT