Thank goodness that now, due to the wonders of the intertubes, these cultural artefacts will live forever.

That clip is a parable about Constance at a media training course run by Lynton Crosby, the bit where the “throwing a dead cat on the table” distraction technique is taught.

As usual, big fail for Gomer.

Tony G

> On 19 Oct 2017, at 10:20 am,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> To be fair, we once did have to pay to read the newspaper, then came the internet and we could read them for free (for a while). They do have to make a living somehow, the alternative being that terrible pop-up advertising and the like. I see that The Guardian, that wonderful record of serialised fiction, has registered itself as a charity in the USA to help with its desperate quest for funds!

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> The SMH and Telegraph have been Constance's handmaidens in constant denigration of the CSELR project.

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> For Tony:

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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3LpriSmxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3LpriSmxM ;)

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> Tony P

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> ---InTramsDownUnder@... mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com, <matthew@...> wrote :

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> On 19/10/17 10:02, 'Brian' bblunt@... mailto:bblunt@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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> > I used to be able to "cut and paste" headlines from pay-walled Telegraph

> > articles directly into the search engine. But recently they have started

> > to somehow put the articles in as "images" and I can't do it anymore.

> > But I still get through with manual transcription.

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> It's an arms race. The newspapers want to be found by google search, but

> they don't want google users pilfering their paid content, so various

> tricks are used to get the hit, but not give away the content.

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