Well, it only took them over three days, but finally the ABC has run one — count it! One! — piece on Lidia Thorpe’s strip club scrag fight. And, just as I joked, they only did it once they’d figured out a way to make her the victim. Prime Minister
My article Why Is National Not in the Lead got a strong response from our readers and a large number of comments. In reading the responses, two things hit me like the proverbial brick. Here is the first, in a comment from Gazotaki: Challenging the speaker is unheard of within
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Back in the day, Daniel Ellsberg was a hero of the media-left, for leaking the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the US government was systematically lying to the American people about the war in Vietnam. But that was a war that the media-left hated. Fifty years later, the
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There was a collective tanty from government-funded media across the world yesterday, as they had a good old sook over being labelled, well, government-funded media. As part of his bid to increase transparency on Twitter — which includes removing millions of “bot” accounts — Elon Musk has rolled out a
I wonder if the ABC will cover the story, now? For two days, the Australian media have been all over the story of a high-profile senator being ejected and banned from a Melbourne strip club, after launching a racist tirade. The Australian media… with one very notable exception. Two
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently the NZ Herald published a ridiculous article from Trevor Richards, a name probably meaning nothing to New Zealanders under about 35 years of age. Richards led the HALT (Halt All Racist Tours) movement in 1981, opposing that year’s Springbok rugby tour. But it
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In the aftermath of the outing and arrest of Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old leaker of national security documents, over there at The New York Sun, journalist Matthew Rice headlines a very appropriate question. Did the Press Find the Leaker Before Law Enforcement? Or Did
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Daniel Hirst It doesn’t take an encyclopaedic knowledge of history and politics to know humanity tends to scapegoat individuals or groups to water the thirst for collective violence or to resolve tensions and angst. The scapegoating mechanism is at the heart of the Western canon: both Socrates and Jesus
