Beginning journalism students are warned about the danger of becoming too sympathetic to their sources, thus colouring their objectivity. At worst, journalists are told, they may fall prey to “source capture”: privileging the interests of their sources and pushing a biased narrative. Especially when the source’s interest too-closely align
Back in the early 2000s, Australia was looking down the barrel of what the AMA called “arguably the biggest potential disaster the medical community has ever faced”. Skyrocketing medical indemnity costs were forcing more and more doctors out of practice. A meeting of 5000 doctors in Sydney threatened to pull
Not that long ago, I was engaged in a conversation with that increasingly rarest of creatures: a thoughtful, centre-leftist. An American one, at that. No doubt you’re as astonished as I was. Naturally, the conversation started with the obligatory, rambling diatribe against the Bad Orange Man. “At least he
You’ve got to hand it to them: every time we think the ‘pro-Palestine’ left couldn’t be even more offensively stupid than they already are, they come right out and prove us wrong. Whether it’s hateful numpties like Chloe Swarbrick bellowing the Hamas genocide chant, or obnoxious harpy
Every time a leftist Israel-hater denies being an antisemite, ask them why, out of all the violent, repressive Middle-Eastern dictatorships, the one they singularly obsess about is the only liberal democracy – which also happens to be the only Jewish state. If they can come up with a response at all,
As you may recall, there was a huge story in Australia which I couldn’t tell you much about. No one can: a Victorian judge slapped an almost-total suppression order on it. I can’t tell you much about a new development in the story, either. All I can tell
As I recently reported for The BFD, a claimed new lead in the case of vanished airline MH370 claims to have drastically narrowed the likely crash site. The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur in 2014. All evidence points to the plane crashing somewhere over the
So far in this series, we’ve debunked the revolting lie that Hamas are ‘resistance fighters’, and the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are ‘settler colonialists’ in their own homeland. As BFD readers are no doubt grimly aware, though, firmly believing the most obvious stupidities is an
As I’ve been reporting for The BFD, Senegal, formerly one of the few stable democracies in Africa, has been steadily sliding into violent misrule. At the heart of the unrest is the decision by incumbent president Macky Sall to postpone the elections due in February, for a proposed 10
If something is true, then it is true in all circumstances. If rape is a crime, then it is a crime, without exception. If racism is wrong in itself, then it is wrong in all circumstances. Things may be ‘morally grey’, but that doesn’t change the truth or otherwise
In the first part of this series debunking the lies of the ‘pro-Palestinian’ lobby, we dealt with perhaps the most loathsome: feting the rapist butchers of Hamas as ‘resistance fighters’. In this second part, we’ll look at the most self-evidently silly: that Jews are somehow ‘settler colonialists’ in their
There are some mysteries that grip the public imagination for decades, not least unexplained ship or aircraft disappearances. As I’ve reported recently, shipwreck hunters have recently found the wreck of the WWII-era SS Arlington at the bottom of Lake Superior, while another deep-sea exploration team has found what may
Australian state governments too often like to use car license plates as banners for their Maoist little slogans. Especially in Victoria. They used to be just “The Garden State”, but in the last few decades, they’ve had “Nuclear Free State”, “Education State”, and so on. Still, not as embarrassing
Won’t somebody please think of the public servants? It’s not easy, you know, pulling in a paltry hundred grand a year, working flexi time, and gorging yourself stupid in Lambton Quay. (Just like Canberra and Hobart, it’s conspicuous just how many fancy cafes and bars tend to
“De-colonisation” is one of the latest buzz-words to take the place of thought in the empty heads of the left. Resentful Bungas who owe pretty much everything they have to colonisation have suddenly decided that biting the hand that gave them — at last count, modern medicine, science, an end to
