We fear for The Punch. Without a Crikey blog regularly mocking its extremes and shameless troll-baiting, what will motivate them to continue? Without our Yin to their diabolical Yang, can they continue to exist? Who is Robb Stark without a Joffrey “Baratheon” to oppose? (Shut up, you know why.) Anyway, here’s their Monday offering: Tory [...]
READ MOREPunch political correspondent Sophie Mirabella has some surprisingly negative things to say about the Greens
What exactly does the mindless rant by Sophie Mirabella, purporting to “analyse” the Greens’ result in the Queensland state election – basically gloating that the Green vote fell slightly as the ALP’s plummeted – with which The Punch is leading today, add to anything? If The Punch wanted to analyse the result meaningfully, presumably they [...]
READ MORE“Riot”? “Peril”? Are the rational journalists away for the long weekend?
Apparently most of the journalists with some grounding in reality took the long weekend Friday off, because it’s been a hideous day of bullshit about the incident in Canberra yesterday, now apparently being called a “riot” (although oddly none of the footage they’ve been repeating actually shows one). Naturally the Opposition and its cheerleaders at [...]
READ MOREI know why you bother, I just don’t see why the rest of us must live under religious laws
A nice little case study in intellectual dishonesty in an article on The Punch this week, “Why God botherers bother“: You hear many complaints nowadays about pesky, outspoken Christians. Across the West, a fashionable attitude has emerged: Beyond the doing of charitable works, and perhaps the soothing of the bereaved at funerals, “religion” should be [...]
READ MOREThe Punch now using “9/11 truther” as clickbait
Did News Ltd’s The Punch really publish a rant by a “9/11 Truther” this morning? Yes, they really did: The evidence points to rogue networks within the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies who were using co-opted Islamic extremists as patsies. This view is corroborated by documented evidence that a key planner of the 9/11 [...]
READ MORESomething, something, kids, marriage, gays.
You know what’s a really great way to win a debate? Discuss the issue that you’re focussing on through the narrow lens of one particular moment in the 20th century rather than with any broader perspective, and pretend that it is somehow impossible for any kind of change to occur. That seems to be the [...]
READ MOREAnd Al Gore invented the Internet
News Ltd’s attempt to do Crikey, The Punch, celebrating its second birthday today: Before we launched The Punch two years ago a lot of people had trouble imagining what it was all about. Now it’s hard to imagine a media landscape without opinion sites (a lot of them sprang up in our wake), where anyone [...]
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Penbo muddies the water
Today in the Punch David Penberthy continues with his flawed attack on the NSW Greens, which he began on Friday with a manufactured preference deal that never was. Not only is Penbo refusing to correct the story, he’s actually muddying the water further by reinterpreting his own words from Friday. The Greens are taking The [...]
READ MOREGuest Post: The media and disasters
A guest post from Tammi Jonas takes a look at the performance of the media in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake: Coverage of the devastating earthquake in New Zealand this week compelled ABC The Drum’s Jonathan Green to write a post titled “The media is not there to help. It does not feel your [...]
READ MORECome on girls, back to the kitchen!
Men, are your women getting ahead of themselves due to this new fangled feminism thing? Then point them in the direction of this counter-revoltionary anti-feminist article at The Punch. This collection of non sequiturs and straw men is exactly the sort of wordy article that you can use to befuddle your beloved into following your [...]
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