tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post8676960514813586126..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Sunday Essay - food prices and Australian primary productionJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-81700072864414142072009-11-17T06:48:09.940+11:002009-11-17T06:48:09.940+11:00Ari, I noticed that you also put up a similar comm...Ari, I noticed that you also put up a similar comment on a post on another blog. This makes me very cautious. You will find my email on the side bar. Pls email me with more details.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-83216897499196063552009-11-17T06:46:12.052+11:002009-11-17T06:46:12.052+11:00Hi Noric and thank you. Sorry for the delay in res...Hi Noric and thank you. Sorry for the delay in responding. BTW, your site seems down at the moment.<br /><br />I am a bit less negative about the conventional media than you, where would I be without them?, and perhaps a little more accepting of the pressures they face. I am also concerned about the ability of the on-line world to provide an acceptable substitute.<br /><br />I, too, miss the decline of the weekly and monthly. I think that this is the area where competition from on-line is presently most direct. <br /><br />I was obviously pleased that you recognised my attempt to look at this issue in a broader context. This is actually not easy because of the time involved.<br /><br />The big advantage that the print form has over blogging and other on-line forms lies in easier readability at length. Print is much better for longer articles.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-61626454680058984402009-11-16T09:35:49.183+11:002009-11-16T09:35:49.183+11:00I wanted to write on the OECD report after reading...I wanted to write on the OECD report after reading about it in either the Daily Telegraph or the Sydney Morning Herald. As I recall it was a cover story on one or both. I find it a compelling story, it certainly touches a lot of lives.<br /><br />Like you I hunted for the OECD report online for up to 15 minutes. On not finding it I gave up the thought of writing on the story. There's a story in that thanks to your article.<br /><br />As I said I found the OECD report in traditional daily print media. <br /><br />More and more traditional media sees to me to be full of distortion and I almost never write on a subject if I can't hunt down the source material. I generally don't trust the reports until I check the sources.<br /><br />Though I do 50% of my family's shopping I have not personally observed a general pattern of food price creep upwards. I had noticed the price of some items has skyrocketed, eg lamb. And a few relatives had noted their observations that prices had risen generally to me over the years, one in particular earlier this year. So I was all ears on seeing coverage of the OECD report.<br /><br />If the OECD figures are correctly interpreted in the traditional media then Australia does have a problem. You've agreed with that in your article.<br /><br />Fortunately for us, your readers, you could write on it with a mix of perspectives drawing on a wealth of information regarding retailing economics, public policy for land use planning, and rural economics.<br /><br />Disturbingly this type of multi-layered analysis is now all too rare unless you hunt for it online in rss feeds, blogs, tweets etc. <br /><br />You know that. Those who are not online constantly may have missed the decline of weekly or monthly print publications along with their most senior writers, many of whom seem to have left to run their own online publications.<br /><br />Maybe we are at a turning point. We are living at a time when so much political and media commentary responds to the darkness in traditional media reports (eg the OECD report was not hyperlinked in any media reports I saw). <br /><br />Someone turned off the lights years ago in traditional media. The light continues to leave the building. <br /><br />Meanwhile, sometimes, there is light online. And so it is with your article. That's my story on the OECD report.Noric Dilanchianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07971423154965231907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-70697419406735514582009-11-15T22:52:11.062+11:002009-11-15T22:52:11.062+11:00Hi Jim:
Sent a letter to you but wanted to make su...Hi Jim:<br />Sent a letter to you but wanted to make sure you got it. I have a question for you. Please contact me at ari_strauch@hotmail.com as soon as you can. Thank you so much.<br /><br />AriAri Strauchnoreply@blogger.com