As (Jewish) writer David Cole once wrote, Don’tcha Just Hate It When the Neo-Nazis Are Right? Clearly, Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing media collective does. Hence, the ABC’s extraordinary attack on neo-Nazi-aligned news website, The Noticer.
The Noticer, which clearly takes its name from non-neo-Nazi Steve Sailer’s book Noticing, is a news website, which, the ABC shrieks and gibbers:
Runs white supremacist content alongside stories lifted from selected news sites.
This is true enough. The editorial bias of The Noticer is clear enough when you read its opinion pieces. It constantly soft-soaps literal neo-Nazis as ‘nationalists’, and frequently emphasises ‘Jews’ as its villains. Make no mistake: this is indeed a neo-Nazi sympathetic site.
But, here’s the thing: it actually does a pretty good job, at the same time, of separating news from opinion. Often much better, in fact, than the ABC itself. When The Noticer publishes (or republishes) news content, it does so usually pretty straightforwardly.
Which, according to the ABC, is apparently part of a wicked, far-right plot to tell the truth.
A model experts say is intended to lend the outlet a veneer of legitimacy.
The editorial bias of the site is clear, though, in the stories it chooses to cover, which is something all news sites do. The ABC, like its British cousin the BBC, for instance, trumpets a handful of LARPers play-acting in a backyard pretend-Nuremberg rally, while doing everything it can to ignore decades of industrial-scale Muslim child-rape gangs in the UK.
The Noticer, also, unlike the mainstream media, doesn’t shy away from telling the whole truth about certain stories. If an African gang goes on a crime rampage, for instance, it doesn’t hide behind flimsy smokescreens like calling them ‘youths’ of no particular description.
This is what Sailer calls ‘noticing’ (hence the title of his book): The world actually is pretty much what it looks like, loath though we may be to admit it. Noticing, for instance, that Africans do indeed commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes in the state of Victoria (the police data doesn’t lie: police spokespeople and media do). Or noticing that alcohol-fuelled domestic violence is a plague that is especially wreaking havoc in Aboriginal Australian lives. Or noticing that lockdowns and forced vaccinations utterly failed to result in reduced rates of Covid infections and deaths.
The ABC is especially upset that some politicians and candidates are noticing, too.
United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet has openly shared and discussed content from the site on social media.
In March, the senator commented on The Noticer’s coverage of an Australia Day protest in Adelaide, where a group of NSN members were arrested, and banned from consorting under strict bail conditions.
Now, you don’t have to like or sympathise with cretinous neo-Nazis to notice that they didn’t actually do anything more than beclown themselves in public. Or, that one of the charges, “wearing an article of disguise”, seems strange, considering just how de rigeur masks and other face-coverings are at far-left rallies. Especially at extreme-left rallies attacking Australia Day, where activists have openly exhorted violence.
To his credit, Babet wasn’t having any of the ABC’s hypocritical bullshit.
ABC NEWS Verify asked the senator if he was aware The Noticer publishes neo-Nazi and white supremacist content.
“I shared a true and factual article. Did you forget that I am a black immigrant and a democratically elected federal senator?” Senator Babet said.
The senator was born in Mauritius and renounced his citizenship shortly before the 2022 federal election.
Where indeed, as Babet pointed out, was The Noticer article factually incorrect?
More to the point, where is the ABC’s similar expose of, say, Green-Left Weekly? This is an outlet that frequently promotes far-left extremists like Socialist Alliance. Its promotion of anti-Semitism is no less grotesque than The Noticer’s – only far less honest.
Don’tcha Just Hate It When the Neo-Nazis Are Right?
I certainly do. I thoroughly dislike that we have arrived at a state of affairs where a neo-Nazi-sympathetic website is actually doing a better job of reporting the news than the mainstream media.
Maybe the mainstream media such as the ABC should try being less blatantly biased. Then there mightn’t be an audience for The Noticer.
