A baffling attack on Australian republican sentiment by the Southbank Jester this morning: Here were the churches and the military, along with the statesmen and the dignitaries from an admiring world, gathered at the most brilliant celebration of a family which serves as the living symbol of a nation. And all of them, in their [...]
READ MOREApril, 2011
Weekend Open Thread 29 April – 1 May
A weekend Open Thread for absolutely everything except the royal family. The antidote to the previous thread.
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Royal Wedding frenzy
This is another of those charter-defying posts where I’m not alerting you to any particular intellectual dishonesty in the media, but where Pure Poison readers can discuss a forthcoming media frenzy – tonight’s Royal Wedding (TM) If It’s Okay With Clarence House That We Call It That. A special occasion, to be treated only with [...]
READ MOREWhen it’s only your opponents who are making noise
The main thing that holds back a chorus of relentless criticism of a government by its opponents in the media from spiraling completely out of control, is the willingness of neutral and friendly players to call public attention to the discrepancies between the hyperbole and reality. Take the Home Insulation Program: Ultimately, the HIP – [...]
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Looking after their own.
Sometimes life’s just not fair. Miranda ‘Rogering Gerbils‘ Devine had only last week told us how Larissa Behrendt’s twitter stream had exposed “a rare insight into the core of the leftist, ivory-tower thinking that pervades every level of politics, every university, and every comfortable suburb shielded from hardship and immune to reality”, no doubt winning [...]
READ MORESouthbank Jester redefines “confession”
I hate to start a short week with the Southbank Jester, but this effort yesterday is a pretty spectacular example of outright misrepresentation. Here’s Bolt’s opening: Labor runs out of cash Suddenly Labor everywhere confesses it’s done your dough. And he links to three stories – one federal, one from Tasmania, and one from South [...]
READ MOREOpen Thread 27-29 April 2011
…and we’re back! Now that the various twitter-based Jims have said their silly pieces, been soundly mocked and retired in shame, what will take the media fancy for this shortest of weeks? Discuss it as it happens right here.
READ MOREPure Poison Podcast #21 – Easter Long Weekend
There’s too much stuff to mention, but we do have a Cut and Paste trophy winner and a brand new segment, New Faces. You can download the podcast, find it at the iTunes music store, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or stream it online at our podbean page. For those of you subscribing through [...]
READ MOREEaster weekend / ANZAC Day Open thread.
I’ve been having so much fun here at Pure Poison today that I almost forgot that the rest of you are already in holiday mode. On behalf of Jeremy and myself I’d like to wish you a happy and relaxing Easter and hope that those of you travelling all stay safe. I will take this [...]
READ MOREStupid enough to make you scream
There’s been a bit of a dust up between Crikey’s own film nerd Luke Buckmaster and The Age’s Jim Schembri over the latter’s unfathomable decision to give away the ending to Scream 4 in his review of it on The Age website. Luke covers the initial incident in detail at the Cinetology blog, but the [...]
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