http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/kit-macfarlane/ Kit MacFarlane completed a PhD in English literature and film in 2008 and still isn’t sure what his thesis was about. He lectures in Media, English, Creative Writing, and anything else they’ll throw at him as a freelance lecturer, and has published regular higher education and cultural commentary. When he’s done shouting at the TV, he writes a monthly column on historical pop culture for online magazine Popmatters called ‘Retro Remote’, where he treats pop culture nicely when it’s nice, and badly when it’s bad. Links to his writing can be found on his very ugly website http://kitmac.com. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/This-one-time-on-adfa-camp/ It sure is nice to see everyone upset with a culture of inequality and sexual objectification in the Australian Defence Force Academy. And then what happens after all the stern faces and head-shaking about those wayward ADF boys? Coming up next…Two and a Half Men! Or how about a premiere screening of Observe and Report starring that adorably hilarious Seth Rogen? Or a special repeat screening of the inexplicably popular Wedding Crashers? Or maybe you don’t make it through the ads and turn off after a commercial for the new Hawaii Five-0. Maybe a DVD instead; how about a perennial classic like a James Bond movie or teen-flick American Pie? Sick of TV, why not head outside and check out the unavoidable posters plastered all over bus-shelters for the new Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston flick, Just Go With It? feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kit MacFarlane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/This-one-time-on-adfa-camp/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/This-one-time-on-adfa-camp/#item5611 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:50:08 +0000 Kit MacFarlane | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-feel-good-tv-show-hiding-corporate-reality/ The average executive salary is 100 times more than the average worker’s—and widening—according to ACTU figures. We’re told that bank CEOs’ loot-bags are bulging with the run-off from excess rate rises and capricious ATM fees. But like so many social issues, the real battleground may be taking place outside of the political and news-based arena. It’s the mainstream popular media where opinions can be shaped and slippery messages fed to the young and the passive. Ten’s “Undercover Boss Australia”—recently renewed for a second season—is a prime example of cynical corporate interests being delivered as “entertainment”. And yet it gets a free pass in the cultural debate over workers’ conditions, pay rates and CEO salary obscenity. In an environment where popular media isn’t considered to be worth serious discussion, we’re just expected to lap it up, not to talk about it. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Kit MacFarlane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-feel-good-tv-show-hiding-corporate-reality/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-feel-good-tv-show-hiding-corporate-reality/#item4574 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:40:13 +0000 Kit MacFarlane | Author bios | The Punch