The Daily Telegraph’s Steve Lewis and the ABC’s Chris Uhlmann have teamed up to write a fictional work centred on Federal parliament. Perhaps Steve Lewis got a taste for writing fiction after Utegate?
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Herald Sun continuing to treat its readers with contempt on carbon price
I’m sure you haven’t forgotten Andrew Bolt’s description of how to run a scare-campaign on his blog this week: That’s how people wind up so convinced there’s a crisis. The scares are reported, but the reassurances are not. Very true. Something to keep in mind today, as we check out the most shameless Herald Sun [...]
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Daily Tele outraged by consequences of doing what it advocates
The Daily Telegraph has noticed that deporting criminals on chartered flights (because the airlines refuse to fly them) with plenty of security (so they don’t abscond) is quite expensive: Con Air flights costing us millions TAXPAYERS are being slugged millions of dollars to fly dangerous criminals and illegal immigrants overseas on special “Con Air” charters. [...]
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RAAF pilots’ “drunken escapade” somehow evidence of PM’s hypocrisy
News.com.au reports: TWO elite RAAF pilots who regularly fly Julia Gillard and other VIPs around the country were suspended following a drunken escapade only hours after a military funeral attended by the Prime Minister. Or, if you just looked at the picture: Yup, I’m not making that up – News Ltd illustrated this story with [...]
READ MOREUteGate and the media
This was published in yesterday’s Crikey subscriber email. It raises some interesting questions that are worthy of discussion here at Pure Poison. Utegate raises no end of questions for the media too Here’s Crikey’s own Bernard Keane thinking out loud via Twitter on Saturday: Not sure how both Rudd and Turnbull can still be leaders [...]
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