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Time to put aside an hour on your Tuesday nights as The Spin Forums hit the airwaves for 2009. On the last Tuesday of each month (or thereabouts) we will devote an entire hour to a single topic. A lot of the topics will be issues that don't get a lot of press or time on air. And some of the topics are ones we choose not to discuss. Some 'taboo'. Well nothing is taboo on The Spin. Both JOY's

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'Looking for nominations for the 'BEST OF Awards for 2008'. The joint two hour special combining The Spin and Transmission Time next Tuesday will showcase the best and worst in the news from 2008.We need your help.Firstly, please forward your most 'profound' story from 2008. Not necessarily the front page story but something that moved or affected you from Australia or overseas. Provide a few

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'Australia' brings these 'stolen' children to the big screenThe new Baz Luhrman extravaganza 'Australia' is now up on our screens after an unprecedented wait and extraordinary media blitz. I'm not a movie critic but I know what I like and I liked 'Australia'. It would even be a good name for a country. At three hours my bum was getting a bit sore.... maybe the movie could have a bit of a 'haircut

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Senator Sarah Hanson-Young bringing it back to topic at Saturday's rally. The National Union of Students rally outside the State Library last Saturday, lead by queer officer James Vigus, was all about handing over a petition supporting a reversal in the ban on gay marriage to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.... or was it?The 30,000 signatories were proudly paraded in front of the audience of around

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At last weekend's CBAA Awards JOY was honoured to accept two awards at the Gala Dinner. Two awards to JOY, out of over 450 radio stations around Australia. Goes to show the creativity, quality and commitment harnessed in this wonderful radio station.The programs were Out and About and The Sport Lounge. Both programs were a true team effort and brought together a range of skills and personnel to

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Do you have to be a card carrying member of the Labor Party to be a part of the GLBTI community? Do you have to be a feminist socialist to be a lesbian? Do you have to be a buffed, drug-taking partyboy to be young and gay?Clichés, most of them invented by our own community, have beset wider impressions of the GLBTI community for years. The media repeat them and we get upset.Of course the wider

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Well, as the Herald Sun so adequetly described the situation with the Bali Bombers on its website on Sunday morning. It had the headline...'It's Done'Indeed it was. At 12.15am Java time last Sunday morning the three convicted Bali Bombers were shot in the heart and killed for their horrific crimes. These three terrorists are now dead but the mess over Australia's attitude to capital punishment

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Photo by Paul Tresize, Herald SunSo what should the caption from this photo be?1) Police arrest shopper after trying to smuggle watermelons into Oaks Dayor2) Police arrest a young girl because the photographer thought it would look good on the front of the Herald Sun the next day.The answer might have been No. 2. But the real answer is that this young lady was actually only 17 and should have

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Some of the headlines and editorial following the execution of the three convicted Bali Bombers has assured us that the issue of capital punishment continues to polarise public opinion. The Herald Sun website screamed 'It's Done'. The Age was a little more matter of fact, 'Bali Bombers Executed'. In London, The Times completely ignored the story. CNN had the story in their top 3

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Thanh Bui, Australian IdolPhoto courtesy of www.australianidol.com.auWhat we see with Australian Idol and what really happens behind the scenes are two different things. On Nov. 11 we speak to Idol contestant Thanh Bui about perceived racism in the Australian music industry. And the media perpetuates many of these myths so listen in and tell us what you think.

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On last week's program we discussed media reporting of a report stating that the numbers of female CEO's in Australia is dropping. Dropping? How can that be? The study stated that only 2% of the CEO's in ASX200 companies were women. And that percentage is less than in the past. Our guests Andie Noonan (Editor Southern Star Observer) and Hayley Conway (VGLRL) were as mystified as most. So is the

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Jerry Lewis has landed himself in hot water on the eve of his latest Australian tour. Asked in a Channel 10 interview about Australian's obsession with Cricket he said. "Oh cricket, it's a fags game".So who is he slagging? Cricket or the gay community?The 82 year old has got priors in this area with comments about an "...illegitimate fag..." on the annual muscular dystrophy telethon in the US

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Semi-regular panelist, Tim Wilson, is having a break whilst he seeks election as Melbourne's new Deputy Lord Mayor. Apart from being very busy over the next month, his role on The Spin could compromise the JOY guidelines for presenters.Program host and producer, Tim Newton, believes his shos will be hard to fill."Tim (Wilson) has been a fabulous participant on the program. His views are sometimes

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Every year about 35,000 people go missing here in Australia. Around 1,800 remain missing for period longer than 6 months. Overseas, there are over a million Australians overseas at any one time. We will make around 4 million trips OS in 2008 and around 25,000 will seek some sort of Consular assistance with another 350,000 calling Australian consulates around the world with all sorts of enquiries

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The media landscape in Australia is about to enter a new era of change and consolidation. And it's coming from so many angles there are few who can confidently predict where it is all going to end.The days of the three pillars of print, radio and television are clearly crumbling and a new, exciting phase of media democratisation is unfurling. It involves more people sharing more views across more

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The Spin Special Edition - The New MediaFollowing an intense hour of discussions, experts, lots of facts and figures I am not really much-the-wiser about the new media. It still seems an enormously confusing breadth of technology to take in.The way we are going to interface with the media in the future will be more dynamic, instantaneous and diverse than we can possibly imagine. The choices will

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Welcome to the revolutionWhat is the new media? In the context of The Spin Special program about New Media, we would define it as the new ways we are consuming and relating to the media on a day-to-day basis.There has been a clearly defined line between the big three - radio, TV and print - up to now. But the lines defining the borders between the traditional media are not only blurring. They are

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The Spin Special - the New MediaSo far we have lined up an excellent list of commentators for our Spin Special looking at the new media as we wade through the exciting media options on our horizon.Peter Blasina, the Gadget Guy (gadgetguy.com.au) will discuss the impact of digital radio that hits Australia's radio market next May. Kath Lett from 3RRR has been intimately involved with digital radio

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For Tuesday, October 14 @ 7pmThe Tuesday, October 14 edition of The Spin will host a special program dedicated to investigating the new media pervading our lives. Where is the next media revolution? It's already happening right under your nose. The Spin will investigate the role of new media and what it means for traditional media... radio, print, television. Who will be winners and who will end

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Dear Spin CrewI represent a team of a few disgruntled journos... 500 to be precise. Please don't mention the name of our paper on air but to give you a hint we are the only printed daily broadsheet in Melbourne with a banner saying 'The Age' across the top. We need to be discreet about our problem with management so we have decided to go on strike. We're having to come out and tell everyone

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Let's look at the Matthew Mitcham phenomenon. To me, this is less of a GLBTI story and more of a general media story. I can't help imagining the way this story would have been treated by the general media 20 years ago, maybe even ten years ago. I am thinking that the 'G' word simply wouldn't have been mentioned but he would just be another golden boy done good in the four-yearly sportsfest. The

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I can imagine the front pages of the National Dailies 50 years ago would have led with this next story with great fanfare and blazing headlines. They might have read... 'Australia's next Governor General sworn in'... or....'Queen annoints new representative'. Of course it would have been a man. But in 2008 things are very different. These days a lot of the press refer to this archaic office as

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Hi. My name's Alan. Just taken over an airline and need a bit of help with some recent bad publicity. We have been flying people around Australia and the world since 1921. Seems some of our earlier planes were more reliable than our current fleet. We've had some parts falling off our jets recently and a few holes opening up at 40,000 feet. If it's not a hole in the plane it's complaints about not

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Well, sadly, this will be the last edition of The Spin. Actually tonight's programs will be the last you'll ever hear on JOY. Probably the last programs you'll hear on any radio station. In fact, it's the last day of your life... cause apparently the world is going to end tomorrow.Hidden away under the Swiss mountains near Geneva is a 27 kilometre tunnel called the Large Hedron Collider.

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Last week's radio ratings survey was one to remember and certainly will continue to have repercussions through the industry for months and years to come. For the first time in 6 years 3AW, the talk juggernaut owned by Fairfax Media, has slumped to second position. Not only dropped its crown but in the middle of the footy season, one of it's safest ratings periods.FM station FOX not only won the

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Three days from today it will be 25 years since the radical wing-keeled Australia II won the Americas Cup. It was a unique event based around the fact that no other country had won it in 132 years, that the yacht was shrouded in mystery with its truly ingenious wing keel and that the 13 crew had fought back from a 3 - 1 race situation to win the cup 4 races to 3. I recall the day well. I was

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SPIN GURUSDear Spin GurusI am a politican seeking some love from the Australian People. No one seems to like me at the moment. So in need of love, that I have really scraped the bottom of the barrel and convinced the ABC's Australian Story to do a snow job on me. I hope it works. I mean, what does a girl have to do? You gotta remember, it's a man's world up there in Parliament. You've gotta turn

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Fresh off the plane from Osaka in Japan. And, if you didn't already know, Osaka is the sister city to Melbourne although if they are sisters they must have one parent who ran into the milkman at some stage cause there's absolutely nothing even vaguely similar between them. Osaka is huge, grey and uninteresting... almost completely devoid of any greenery. But the shopping and food is bewildering

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According to the 23 year old Australian Temprement Project... and here's the scary bit, FINANCED FEDERALLY...... One in 5 of aussies in their mid 20's has a major mental or physical problem. Two in five of the same age group suffer depression, anxiety, take illegal drugs or engage in risky social behaviour.. That's a whopping 40% of all Australians in their mid-20's.Let's assume, for a moment,

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Interview with Richard Watts, Evolution MediaWhilst the world is witnessing the US financial juggernaut going down the toilet there has been a quiet revolution going on in the background in our local pink media. Without a lot of fanfare, or even a lot of notification, we have seen B-News vanish from circulation. It won't ben seen again and the company that ran it into the ground is currently

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BILL HENSON NUDE PHOTOS ISSUEThis is a stupid witchhunt by pollies et al. How pathetic and sad that art is being used this way. Go to the Westin Hotel in the city. Henson's work is everywhere. SamHi Tim. Heard that interview on 3aw. Following that, the station advertised 'alzheimers the musical' hypocrary! Cheers KenNEW MUSICAL AT THE FRINGE FESTIVALBeaconsfield - A musical in A flat minor. Not

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The Tuesday, October 14 edition of The Spin will host a special program dedicated to investigating the new media pervading our lives. Where is the next media revolution? It's already happening right under your nose. The Spin will investigate the role of new media and what it means for traditional media... radio, print, television. Who will be winners and who will end up on the media scrap heap

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