Cabinet holds war briefing over News Federal cabinet has held a lengthy discussion about “going to war” with the country’s largest media organisation, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday attacked The Australian for publishing “a false report in breach of all known standards of journalism”. Via Australian Financial Review
READ MOREAugust, 2011
High Court rules out Malaysia asylum seeker deal
Use this thread to discuss the High Court’s decision today, as well as highlighting the different ways that it’s portrayed in our media. Update: From the comments. Andrew Bolt – March 17, 2010: Let’s announce that from today we’ll send every boatload of “asylum seekers” we intercept to some refugee camp in Indonesia, Pakistan or [...]
READ MOREGuest Post – Two takes on David van Gend’s anti marriage equality arguments
On Monday David van Gend, of the Family Council of Queensland was published in The Australian, making his argument against marriage equality. Last night I asked twitter to find an intern for us so that his arguments wouldn’t be left uncontested. What I received were two excellent, very different, contributions from David Byrnes and Heath [...]
READ MORESlinging mud while screaming “Free speech”
Andrew Bolt’s article today is potentially the largest collection of weasel words ever assembled in one place. There’s innuendo, guilt by association and victimhood, all neatly packaged up with a new attack on a PM who Andrew is ideologically opposed to. Bolt’s attempt to link News Limited’s decision to pull a story that they admit [...]
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#LOLBolt quarantine zone – 31 August
There’s no doubting the incredible work ethic of the Southbank Jester, Andrew Bolt, which is why we’ve decided to dedicate a thread to him each week where you can discuss his unique contributions to public discussion. Dump your #LOLBolt observations in here so we can keep discussions in the open threads a little more sane, [...]
READ MOREElsewhere – Event horizon: the black hole in The Australians climate change coverage
Event horizon: the black hole in The Australian's climate change coverage The black hole’s stupendous gravity causes time itself to be warped — an astronaut falling inwards sufficiently slowly would see arbitrarily far into the future history of the Universe during their final minutes and seconds before crossing the event horizon. There is no other [...]
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The “most-read political blog in Australia”
Andrew Bolt has left his readers that cryptic message, and little else today. Gone is yesterday’s post where he quoted at length from Glenn Milne’s article that had been pulled from The Australian. Gone too is the post from Saturday that said: On Monday, I’m tipping, a witness with a statutory declaration will come forward [...]
READ MOREElsewhere – Toughen up
Toughen up Last night I was trawling my twitter feed when I came across an opinion piece by @tedlapkin aka Ted Lapkin who penned the article “Too much to bear’ in The Age / SMH. You can read it here. In brief, Mr Lapkin outlines his view of Marriage Equality leading to an inevitable ’slide [...]
READ MORECut and Paste Trophy – August 30
It’s time for this week’s Cut and Paste trophy, for a fresh collation of the best and worst published comments from news websites all over the land. PS – for those new to Pure Poison: What is the Cut & Paste Trophy?
READ MOREElsewhere – The forgotten art of political communication
The forgotten art of political communication With the medium dominating the scene and focussing attention on anything and everything but significant content, how can a politician hope to transmit anything at all complex, as indeed some policies of necessity must be? Via The Political Sword
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