Intellectual dishonesty is pure poison – A Crikey weblog

Monthly Archives: February 2009

Fwd: lame things News Ltd bloggers publish

February 28, 2009 – 6:32 pm

Yeah, tim, we got that email forwarded to us, too.

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Tim Blair | Comments (0)

A snitch in time saves hide — or does it?

February 28, 2009 – 12:29 pm

Divulging the contents of private emails seems to have become all the rage in our little corner of the snarkosphere lately. It goes without saying that it’s an unethical practice, and very few Pure Poison readers will be surprised to learn that Tim Blair kicked it all off. He did so by forwarding some correspondence [...]

By Ant Rogenous | Posted in Tim Blair | Comments (10)

“Spivs and chancers”

February 28, 2009 – 9:18 am

In his Friday column, Andrew Bolt launches a best-of-the-rightwing-web attack on the new US President for “surrounding himself with spivs and chancers”: GOOD thing for Barack Obama that he isn’t George Bush. He’d have been slaughtered for starting so badly that he’s picking a Cabinet of tax cheats. Only problem is, he isn’t. In the [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged | Comments (19)

Pure Poison comments policy

February 27, 2009 – 4:40 pm

It’s been one week since we launched this site and it’s been a wild ride already. Enormous thanks to everyone who’s been dropping in to read and join the debate. We’re looking forward to your company into the future. Now is an appropriate time for us to draw your attention to the Pure Poison comments [...]

By Scott Bridges | Posted in Site news | Tagged | Comments (13)

To err

February 27, 2009 – 10:50 am

Caroline Overington ponders the arrest of an ABC news crew at the scene of the Black Saturday bushfires. There are reports that an ABC Lateline reporter, thought to be Raphael Epstein, was arrested last night while at Kinglake, the site of Black Saturday bushfires. Police say it’s a breach of the Coroner’s Act, because Kinglake [...]

By Scott Bridges | Posted in Caroline Overington | Tagged , | Comments (8)

Open thread 27 Feb ’09

February 27, 2009 – 9:53 am

We love having you comment here at Pure Poison but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So each day we’ll launch an open thread where you can leave comments that don’t quite fit on one of the other posts. [...]

By Scott Bridges | Posted in Open threads | Comments (62)

What’s the point of comment moderation if racial vilification is approved?

February 26, 2009 – 12:20 pm

Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Crikey email (available to subscribers only) that said… Broadly speaking, bloggers on non-commercial sites (like Tim Blair in his pre-News Ltd. days and me in my non-Crikey hat) can let a lot of comments through that probably fall into the questionable category, while bloggers who work for large [...]

By Scott Bridges | Posted in Herald Sun | Tagged , | Comments (18)

Open thread 26 Feb ’09

February 26, 2009 – 10:31 am

We love having you comment here at Pure Poison but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So each day we’ll launch an open thread where you can leave comments that don’t quite fit on one of the other posts. [...]

By Scott Bridges | Posted in Open threads | Comments (27)

Janet, John and the compassionate conservatives

February 26, 2009 – 7:25 am

Janet Albrechtsen has taken an e-mail exchange with playwright David Williamson as the basis for her most recent column. Responding to Williamson’s claim that “conservatives lack compassion”, Janet argues that conservative policies do demonstrate compassion but that conservatives do not do a good job of marketing their compassionate credentials. Unfortunately some of the evidence and [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Janet Albrechtsen | Tagged , , , | Comments (15)

Remember when journalists gave subjects an opportunity to respond to allegations before publication?

February 25, 2009 – 11:55 am

Apparently some “journalists”, like Joe Hildebrand (or his subeditors), no longer feel it’s necessary: A GREENS politician has been told to stop bringing her husband to council meetings because he eats too much of the food. Waverley councillor Prue Cancian was told not to bring her activist husband Chris Maltby to meetings because the ratepayer-funded [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Andrew Bolt, Jennifer Marohasy, Joe Hildebrand, Open threads, Tim Blair | Tagged , , | Comments (63)