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Tony Abbott’s faux concern for Thomson reported as something other than laughable

May 25, 2012 – 1:07 pm

I just love journalists running Tony Abbott’s new faux concern schtick as if it were something other than a transparent demand to be appointed PM: This morning Mr Abbott, who has been leading the political assault on Mr Thomson, shifted the emphasis of his calls on him to quit. He called on Prime Minister Julia [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in ABC | Comments (17)

We don’t know why you hate migrants after we’ve spent years demonising them

May 22, 2012 – 4:00 pm

Weirdly, people in an electorate infected with the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun are apparently increasingly opposed to immigration. I know! After all of the PEOPLE OF CERTAIN RACES THE POLICE ARE CONCEALING ARE COMMITTING VIOLENT CRIMES WINK WINK stuff, and the CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE “ILLEGALS” stuff, and the THE GOVT GIVES THEM LUXURY ITEMS [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Herald Sun | Comments (31)

Unbelievable

May 22, 2012 – 12:52 pm

Unbelievable front page of today’s Herald Sun: The Herald Sun: our prose is aimed at 8 year olds. Our front pages at the under-5s Did I seriously just read that? It can’t be. Not seriously. But it’s there – in black and white:

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Herald Sun | Comments (47)

Go on, journalists – ask the Liberals if they support WA seceding

May 20, 2012 – 11:54 pm

A Liberal Party premier of WA is quoted on one of our news sites talking of seceding from Australia. The mining boom, he says, is “concealing the true weakness of the national economy”. (A more accurate way of putting that is that the mining boom is, through draining other sectors of workers and raising the [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in News Ltd. | Comments (15)

If a journalist isn’t a conservative, then they must be a LEFTIST

May 19, 2012 – 2:56 pm

He’s Got A Little List (h/t AM for the video link) An amusing reveal by a supposed “journalist” at News Ltd of how he understands “journalism”. In essence, you must pick a side. You’re either a conservative or… you’re the opposite. A LEFTIST. No room for professional, politically neutral journalists in this list: Who’s on [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (26)

Their definition of “free speech”

May 19, 2012 – 11:19 am

The Editor in Chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, launches an extraordinary personal attack on academics daring to participate in the media enquiry, asserting, in respect of specific named people, they once: worked for The Australian and you would give them barely a pass mark as journalists A very serious assertion and if it was [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt, Chris Mitchell | Comments (43)

Andrew Bolt, supporter of gay people, opponent of marriage equality

May 17, 2012 – 11:48 am

I’ve read it twice now, but still can’t quite wrap my head around Andrew Bolt’s latest column on marriage equality. It seems that Andrew is desperate to vilify “the Left” for reactions to Professor Kuruvilla George’s stance on marriage equality and his subsequent resignation from the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission, take a stand against marriage [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (42)

News for hire at Channel Ten

May 16, 2012 – 5:44 pm

Cross promotion is nothing new on our TV networks, the breakfast programs and tabloid shows always seem to find the behind the scenes details of their own network’s current reality offerings fascinating stuff. This week Channel 10 took things one step further as their news arm all but became a part of the marketing department. [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Channel Ten | Comments (1)

SBS shows how you report on flat-Earth style “doctors”: you don’t just repeat their claims, you critically assess them

May 15, 2012 – 10:56 am

After doing alright with the first version of reporting the frankly absurd claims of “Doctors for the Family”, the ABC falls in a bit of a heap with the follow-up, giving the anti-scientific cranks a full section to make their false claim about studies showing heterosexual couples making better parents than homosexual couples. What studies? [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Lisa Zilberpriver | Comments (21)

Steve Price undermines Nazi crimes by comparing them with cyclists

May 14, 2012 – 3:09 pm

We don’t know why anyone would be determined to undermine the historical record of the Nazis as genocidal monsters, criminals of the highest order. Why anyone would be determined to portray them in as anodyne light as possible, rubbing salt into the wounds of those of their victims still alive today, and their families. And [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Steve Price | Comments (58)