I wanted to see you go. I do not want you to be there.

Dear Kevin Rudd,

I have something I wish to say to you. Not just on behalf of myself, but on the behalf of many people who live on the scrap of land that you have been re-appointed to “lead”. Somewhere around 150,000 of them if we use credible rather than scaremonger estimates.

This is what our media has come to (aka Alan Jones is an asshole).

The introduction of mass communication after the industrial revolution, like many changes brought about by the industrial revolution, had both good and bad effects. When the radio was the dominant medium, large groups of people could be warned of impending danger, or told of events in the community, all at once with minimal effort. When television was invented, the potential to educate children in the basics of language and mathematics was quickly realised.