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Wanted – Sound editor.

September 19, 2011 – 8:36 pm

You may have noticed that it’s been a while since the last Pure Poison Podcast was uploaded to the site. While we love bringing you the Pure Poison Podcast, it’s sometimes a struggle getting the editing done in a timely fashion – so we’re looking for someone to help us out with this part of [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Podcasts | Comments Off

Push Our Buttons: New stuff at Pure Poison

August 9, 2011 – 3:27 pm

Jeremy and I are continually looking for ways to improve Pure Poison for all of our readers, to make it a better place to engage in discussion and find interesting information about our media. There are a few small changes that we’ve implemented today that we hope you’ll all like. For starters we’ve changed the [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (23)

Technical difficulties

February 1, 2011 – 3:09 pm

As some of you have guessed, Pure Poison has been experiencing some technical difficulties via the Crikey server going, in technical-speak, bung. We’re sort of back online now, although not entirely: some content (including, hopefully, comments) is still being revived. We apologise for the reality being much less exciting than the wild, good-natured but speculative [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Comments (16)

And it’s goodnight from him

September 30, 2010 – 7:41 am

A few years ago, an academic from Australia’s drought-belt decided to start a blog about politics. Not many people read it but it made him feel better to have a place to put his opinions out there and to call out some of the nonsense he encountered in media commentary on politics. And at least [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Comments (50)

Tweeting

January 27, 2010 – 8:56 pm

For those of you whose social media / real time wibbley wobbley web preference is twitter, you can now follow us @PurePoison_Blog.

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (2)

Welcome, Dave

August 30, 2009 – 9:56 am

After a couple of excellent guest posts, I’d like to officially welcome Pure Poison‘s fourth contributor: Dave Gaukroger. When speaking in the third person Dave describes himself thusly: Dave Gaukroger lives in rural NSW and began blogging in 2007, after finally deleting his World of Warcraft account. Dave works in the technology sector, which is [...]

By Scott Bridges | Comments (13)

Apology to our readers

May 19, 2009 – 7:40 am

Pure Poison sets itself up as a site to tackle intellectual dishonesty in the media. And we recognise that part of doing our job here is holding ourselves to the high standards we are trying to encourage in others. There have been two unfortunate incidents here over the past few days for which we would [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Comments (29)

Happy Easter

April 9, 2009 – 10:08 pm

We’re all off for a long weekend of R&R so comments won’t be approved on any posts until next Tuesday. All of us here at Pure Poison wish you a happy and safe Easter and we’ll see you next week.

By Scott Bridges | Comments Off

Pure Poison comments policy

February 27, 2009 – 4:40 pm

It’s been one week since we launched this site and it’s been a wild ride already. Enormous thanks to everyone who’s been dropping in to read and join the debate. We’re looking forward to your company into the future. Now is an appropriate time for us to draw your attention to the Pure Poison comments [...]

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Help us condemn lefties too

February 19, 2009 – 2:19 pm

Some of you may have noticed that, although the four writers behind Pure Poison are clearly lefties from left-wing sites apparently dedicated left-wingedly to attacking conservative columnists (from the left), and although Pure Poison has thus far not criticised anyone who wasn’t a hardline conservative, the mission statement of the site claims that we’ll be [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Tagged | Comments (49)