It’s time to kick off another weekend. I’m just preparing to return to work after a WEB – an acronym that is used to “long, dull and predictable” effect by Gerard Henderson in his first Media Watch Dog of 2010. Check it out to get the scoop on such things as which current politician Kerry [...]
READ MOREJanuary, 2010
When the shoe’s on the other foot
Ross Gittins in today’s Sydney Morning Herald Welcome to another year of media manipulation by our political leaders. Don’t you love it? The Rudd Government is sitting on two major economic reports – from the Henry review on tax reform and Treasury’s third intergenerational report – and some day soon it will let us see [...]
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What happens when Blogscience™ Fails?
In May last year the Herald Sun’s in house climatologist opinion writer, Andrew Bolt, was promoting the SurfaceStations project being co-ordinated by climate change denier Anthony Watts. Watts’ contention, eagerly repeated by Bolt, was that the warming trend seen over the past few decades could all be explained away by the poor location of the [...]
READ MOREWhat’s fit to print?
News judgement, what’s fit to print, is by its nature entirely subjective. It’s a challenge that all media organisations need to face as they walk the line between the need to report on events and the need to meet community standards about what is appropriate in mainstream media. One of the issues that often frustrates [...]
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The horror of a government governing
The Herald Sun’s chief climate scientist opinion writer, Andrew Bolt, claims to have found irrefutable proof that the Kevin Rudd is unduly influencing the outcome of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How to stack the IPCC. First, let the Rudd Government have sole power to nominate Australia’s IPCC authors: Do you see what’s happening [...]
READ MORECan Andrew Bolt walk and chew gum at the same time?
Normally when you say that someone is single minded you’re trying to express the idea that they’re focused, if not driven towards a particular goal. Rarely do we use that term in a literal sense, acknowledging that no matter how high a priority a person may place on something there are always other issues which [...]
READ MOREConvincing the poor to deny themselves healthcare
David Burchell in The Australian knows why the Democrats lost in Massachusetts: There is already sufficient evidence from Massachusetts to suggest that poorer working families in the old factory towns there – frugal households in Fitchburg, Gardner or Peabody who have purchased private health insurance at considerable costs to their style of life – are [...]
READ MOREOpen thread – Australia Day edition
Welcome to another week and another open thread. Australia Day is upon us, which pretty much signals the end of the silly season for most of us. Every man and his dog seem to be using Australia Day as an excuse to push whatever barrow of theirs can be tied to our national day, which [...]
READ MOREWeekend talk thread January 22-24
The weekend has arrived and so has the opportunity to discuss whatever takes your fancy, right here, in this open thread. Avagoodweekend.
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