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Sunday Telegraph advocates taking NSW back, in its words, to “the Dark Ages”

January 15, 2012 – 9:09 am

As expected, today’s Sunday Telegraph runs with a beatup about electricity prices in NSW. But it’s actually a somewhat confusing one. To see how absurd it is, before looking at the main story, let’s have a look at the paper’s editorial position on the issue (my bolding): The reality is, as outlined by Mr Sims, [...]

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If you agree with our editorial line, we’ll pretend you’re representative of “the public”

January 13, 2012 – 4:22 pm

Gee, I wonder what the Sunday Telegraph‘s angle will be on this story? Who here thinks the Sunday Telegraph will do the honest thing and concede in the article that they manufactured the story by searching exclusively for families that were “fuming” and “outraged” about electricity prices “skyrocketing”? Anyone?

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