The arrival of the new Cut & Paste Trophy thread hints at something wonderful: that a new podcast has been recorded and it’s time to start collecting entries for the next one.
PS – for those new to Pure Poison:
What is the Cut & Paste Trophy?
It’s no longer really about News Ltd pretending that reader comments on the sites of other media organisations are “articles” which are equivalent, for whinging purposes, with actual articles written by actual staff.
It’s about asking whether moderators at major media sites should be filtering out more than just the merely defamatory. Are there other types of hateful, destructive comments that actually encourage more of the same? And, secondly, about wondering what the comments that a media site receives and chooses to publish tell us about just what kind of journalism they’re selling. What sort of ignorance do they appear to have fostered? Should they be concerned about their audience’s misunderstandings and what it says about how well they fulfill their role as disseminators of knowledge?
Apparently those messages have not yet been received. Let’s see if we can help these media companies out by pointing them to the most disturbing entries in the comments below.
22 Comments
Hat-tip to commenter, Poroti at Poll Bludger.
From Piers Akerman blog
John Jay replied to gertbysea
Tue 07 Feb 12 (08:28am)
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/not_sexist_to_criticise_dud_pm/
eeergh, from today’s Punch:
How did this get through the mods?
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-sun-is-shining-but-storms-lay-ahead-for-the-surplus/
Cuppa @1
Wow. So, like gary oldman in The Fifth Element? Coooooll…
Cuppa@1
Wow, that surely is the most pristine perfect shining example of right wing projection…bathed in a halo of irony!
That is some deeply embedded CRAZY sh@t!
Guys, it sure is the state of the art of the genre. Kudos to Poroti at Poll Bludger for wading through the nuggets in PiersWorld to retrieve this one. (Hope he had a hot shower with Dettol afterwards.)
@ Liz A.
Huh. That name looks familiar. Where have I seen it before? Oh yes:
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/angry-cripple-in-poverty-disability-means-stigma-and-exclusion/
Happily, he’s also getting a right bollocking.
Cuppa@1 – that John Jay is constantly submitting stuff like that to Piers’s blog. I reckon i could crash this thread with the volume of simlar tripe that “nutbag” writes. Cue Bob Brown or Capt Col claiming its actually a left wing insurgent planting them… would be an extreme length to go to if it were true… and still begs the question why Piers let’s that crazy S&^T through in the first place.
What I still don’t understand is why they whine so incessantly about a tax they won’t be paying.
Marilyn,
Well consider the stimulus that’s provoking them. Every consumer of mainstream media in Auschtralia is hostage to a vast right-wing echo chamber that includes hate radio, News Limited, Their ABC and commercial TV. ALL of these outlets are hostile to Labor/Greens and enthusiastic cheerers for the so-called “Liberals”. There IS NOT ONE mainstream media outlet that marches outside the lockstep.The amount of hate, disinformation and fear-mongering inundating public perceptions is of Orwellian proportions – and impact. That’s how millions of the population come to be dangerously brainwashed, and our democracy on a collision course with RW authoritarian fascism.
Did anyone notice the C&P section on media watch, monday night?
If you ever get a best & worst photoshopped column I nominate Dan Ilic (in the good category) for his rendition of the “Sydney Mining Herald”:
http://www.danilic.com/the-sydney-mining-herald-fairfaxs-future/
Well, I thought this was a very amusing “tell” from AB’s open thread today:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/tips_for_friday_february_10/#commentsmore
THINKING IS DANGEROUS… God forbid that there would be a “thinker” as the leader of the opposition.
roflmao
I dabbled my toe in this cesspool briefly last year, but in 2012 plan to concentrate on it more. If there is a more repulsive comments site than the 2GB webpage I am yet to find it. Reflects the standard of their broadcasting really. Clearly totally unmoderated, or alternatively, moderated by one of their screaming right-wing shock jocks who would be the only type to consider comments such as these normal. This week’s collective outraged vomit is sparked by a simple question, ‘Should Kevin Rudd be returned [sic] the Labor leadership?’….
We have the unsubstantiated and concerned (for AJ):
the abusive and scientifically and seasonally ignorant:
the homophobic:
the charming:
and finally, one that completely disproves Bob Brown’s comments earlier this week regarding sexism in some sections of Australian media:
If someone has the stomach to review the other 5+ pages of comments on the subject, you are made of a firmer constitution than I.
http://www.2gb.com/index.php?option=com_yoursay&task=view&id=1195&limitstart=60&Itemid=173#comment
eeergh revolutionary, you will need to bathe for the rest of the day to get rid of the stench of those comments…
BUT, I will see your sexist and (I think) raise you with this delightful exchange from Piers’ blog yesterday:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_still_running_from_protest/#commentsmore
Just yuk. Would these people say the same thing about their mothers / sisters / wives / girlfriends?? I doubt it.
Oh dear, oh dear,
The stupid, it burns!
Liz, I’m totally sure you got the Julius Ceasar reference … I just worry that others might not
revolutionary @13
Ok, I’m starting to reconsider my position. Maybe our schools ARE failing our children. Back to the basics, I think. People shouldn’t be able to leave school with such a failing grasp of spelling, punctuation and grammar. I’m willing to accept that not everyone will grasp the concept of a syllogism, or logic in general. But some of that writing is indistinguishable from parody.
More in the genre of the stupid: it burns
Santorum goes after Romney on energy, climate change
The article speaks for itself, but the last few comments underline whom people like Santorum and Romney are pitching at.
One of them, in addition to the usual stupidity adds a novel one:
let’s not forget that science gave us the pesticides and chemicals that contaminated the planet in the first place and made environmentalism necessary.
Hard to beat for stupidity. As offensive and misanthropic as stupidity almost always is, it’s hard not to admire novel concise multi-level stupidity for its form. That’s a form of creative art, surely?
Dear lord, keen eyed regulars! How’d you miss this one right in your very midst? Traipsing to far-flung regions of the crankosphere, when the most risible example of outright crankery is here, right in this very thread!
Check out Cuppa @ 9 to see what happens when you stray off your medication:
That’s right folks, you read it correctly: “Auschtralia”. Australia is now comparable to Nazi death camp, Auschwitz. This’d probably come as quite a surprise to the former guests thereof.
But moving on past the outright vile, we sail on into the sea of tin-foil-hat conspiracism. In case you didn’t already know the bulk of Australian media is all part of a vast right-wing “brainwashing” and “Orwellian disinformation” apparatus, inexorably leading us into “authoritarian fascism” (as oppossed to non-authoritarian fascism, presumably). You heard it here first.
Although, in fairness to Cuppa, the idea that our media is a sinister exercise in fascist, mass-mind manipulation probably seems eminently sensible to someone unhinged enough to make a comparison between Australia and death camps.
Dave and Jeremy, bring the trophy home.
In a blog post that has more to do with bullying of a book worm at a rugby loving school than politics we get this post.
Most schools would be honored to have an ex PM talk at their school, especially if he is an old boy.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/he_was_just_a_boy_and_these_wounds_last/P0/
Andrew probably gets Rudd on this issue.
There seems to be a movement underway by the disciples of the dark side to extend the Blot Report.
“For heaven’s sake, extend the Bolt Report to one hour, please.”
“An hour with Bolt would have to be a ratings winner. Also, get Niki Sava and Piers Akerman on, always excellent and balanced comnentary. ”
“Better still, replace that left wing puff piece show “The Project” with Bolta 5 nights a week. ”
This is actually a great idea. Nothing could assure 10 of a better or more rapid ratings collapse. And Gina might have to buy an internety radio thingy to listen to MTR.
On “.. at the heart of this green movement is a hatred for civilised man and his works. ”
“The greens are a communist party hell bent on destroying civilised society. They don’t need to sing the International, but merely to keep seepig acid into the activities and institutions that make us civilised.
I suggst that the exposure of the global warming scam should be civilisation’s Al Alahmein. Make sure the perpetrators of this crime end up in jail too. Show those who hate civilised standards that they will pay a high price in trying to destroy them.
And then make the simple connection between the green movement and the criminals who try to promote AGW.
Terry of LaborfreeNSW “