Category: Australian Media

Quixotic Regulation: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Capitulates – » The Australian Independent Media Network

X Corp’s erratic, truculent CEO thought differently about this overly generous extension of Australia’s Online Safety Act. Elon Musk found Inman Grant’s demand insensible, calling her a “censorship commissar” in her insistence on global content bans. While he was happy to acquiesce to restricting access to the video in Australia, the world was quite something else.

When an entity such as News Corp gives advice on what should or should not be accessible to the broader citizenry of any country, the bells should be going off. The Big Tech behemoths have much to answer for – the destruction of privacy, the ruthless monetisation of user data, behavioural modification and hypnotic seduction. But governments of all hues always cling to the same logic: the public is a dangerous beast best fed morsels of information rather than the whole buffet. Ignorance breeds manageable docility.

Source: Quixotic Regulation: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Capitulates – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Mainstream media warps reality to blame Labor for ‘cost-of-living crisis’

AUSTRALIA’S MAINSTREAM MEDIA, conservative political parties, right-wing think tanks and sundry corporate commentators would have citizens believe they are in a severe cost-of-living crisis.

Source: Mainstream media warps reality to blame Labor for ‘cost-of-living crisis’

MFW and IA vs Murdoch mafia

BREAKING NEWS: Independent Australia joins forces with MFW to help adopt a #MurdochFreeWorld.

MFW has been fighting the good fight for many years. A fight against the malign journalism, practices and policies of Australia’s dominant media network, News Corp.

Source: MFW and IA vs Murdoch mafia

White Man’s Media: Anti-China media beat ups continue… – Pearls and Irritations

Crowd people. Chinese flag.

The Royal Commission on the media called for by Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull and now by Senator Hanson Young is long overdue.

The ‘experts’ in our white man’s media say nothing of course about the 800 US military bases around the world, including many that directly threaten China, or that in AUKUS we are cooperating with the US to make China more vulnerable to a US nuclear first strike.

In similar vein the US destroys the NordStream gas pipeline but scarcely a mention by our media except to run the thread bare US denial.

In our media there is the assumption, never spelled out, that China will behave as aggressively and violently as the US has done for centuries in endless foreign wars. But China is not behaving that way. It does not militarily threaten the US and its allies. However, it refuses to accept the world hegemony that the US insists for itself.

The current anti-China hysteria is that China could establish navy bases in the South Pacific…

Does any of this stand up?

Source: White Man’s Media: Anti-China media beat ups continue… – Pearls and Irritations

Has the USA captured Australia’s fourth estate? – Pearls and Irritations

We are being manipulated concept. Large scary hands with puppet string tied around fingers

You won’t find open debate in Australia’s mainstream press

The uniformly negative reaction of the national press gallery to former PM Paul Keating’s views on Australia’s security raises questions not just of its intellectual adequacy but of whether the media has been captured by and is knowingly serving the United States at Australia’s expense.

Source: Has the USA captured Australia’s fourth estate? – Pearls and Irritations

Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed

Australia created the ABC as an Independent Statuary Body yet the LNP has censured, beaten, and financially bruised the ABC to become a shadow of itself over the past ten years. They did it to gain the quid pro quo support of dominant private media and other corporately controlled sectors in this country and they will continue to do so should they regain power.

“In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.”

Source: Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed

Objectivity and accountability lacking in Australia’s mainstream press

With journalistic bias still a major problem in our country, it’s time for the press to take accountability and become more critical, writes Paul Begley.

Lack of scrutiny helped Morrison scandal go unnoticed

With the ABC neutered these past decade and Murdoch media, Ch9 and other mainstream organizations tied to the Government and it’s donors for financial gain political media in this country holds any oppositions to account rather than the Government. Democracy is no longer being served and an autocracy is encouraged to flourish. Grass roots politics brought an end to the slippery slide and has temporarily allowed the nation to catch its breathe.

Revelations about Scott Morrison’s power-grab of five secret ministries raise serious questions about the health of Australian media and in turn, the media’s commitment to contribute to a strong democracy.

The core function of political media is to hold power to account. The fact that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison was able to secretly sign himself in as co-minister in the portfolios of health, finance, resources, treasury and home affairs, in collusion with the Governor-General, speaks volumes of journalists’ unwillingness to scrutinise the powerful.

Lack of scrutiny helped Morrison scandal go unnoticed

Can Albanese’s politics of ‘nice’ break News Corp’s outrage machine?

Will Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s shiny “gentler, kinder politics” break News Corp? Or will News Corp, once again, triumph over the paradigm of nice? For the incoming government, it’s political. For News Corp, it’s existential.

Every day, News Corp (and its Fox sibling) makes its money out of the outrage story of the moment. Now, it’s confronting a new narrative: an election read as a direct repudiation equally of the News Corp business model and of the Liberal-National post-Tampa political strategy.

The Germans, as ever, have a word for it (or, in this case, a post-punk song lyric): “Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht” (“Fear, hate, titties and the weather report”). It captures the past two decades of News Corp’s and Australia’s conservative parties. Hate of political opponents and cultural dissidents, fear of the other from asylum seekers to African gangs, sexualised and homophobic panic, climate denial and obstruction.

Can Albanese’s politics of ‘nice’ break News Corp’s outrage machine?

The election outcome exposes a gaping disconnect between News Corp and voters | Malcolm Farr | The Guardian

News Corp newspaper headlines from throughout the 2022 federal election campaign

The most stupid was the mouth that was never there. Andrew Bolt put his verbal boot into, not the ALP, but Scott Morrison wishing he was more like Blair Cotteral a “real man” than a real leader. Someone who inspires dogs to fight. One thing is obvious though had the LNP followed Andrew Bolt’s advice they would have been totally obliterated.

Now Sky News after Dark is back and they’re calling for a more divided Australia and mimicking the worst of what the Republicans are currently doing in America. Inspiring mass shooters to kill. Now that’s an original idea, isn’t it? Sky News already inspired the Christchurch massacre.

What is little Matthew Guy going to do now that he only has 6 months to prepare? How far right can Sky make him swing?

And news reporters on Sky News maintained standards on interviewing during the day, although the commentary cohort known as Sky After Dark made little attempt at balance.

But there was a constant rollout of the opinion panjandrums of the News Corp titles tut-tutting uninterrupted over the menace they saw, not just of a Labor government but all those female independents. Some big name writers should worry they look rather silly.

All legacy media might worry as well.

One aspect of the election campaign, anecdotally at least, was that voters knew what they wanted in news and opinion and were open to fresh avenues of information.

They watched press conferences live on the ABC or Sky News, or as they were livestreamed from online sites. Many younger voters didn’t need the newspapers their parents relied on.

The Greens even advertised on Grindr.

Source: The election outcome exposes a gaping disconnect between News Corp and voters | Malcolm Farr | The Guardian

Plibersek Shows The Way: Labor, The Media and The Future – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Just imagine the 2nd Debate was between Tanya Plibersek and Scott Morrison and you would seen a Misogynistic Neanderthal v Rationality and Steadiness in an event sponsored by, and in Media’s Side Show Alley. “Don’t let me interrupt you Scott”

Conclusion: Sass to The Max The hostility of the media, along with its total hypocrisy (deficits are now an issue again just in time for a Labor government) is hereby exposed. Your role, Mr Albanese and the Labor team, is to no longer take the crap that media dishes out. Scott Morrison has cowered the media through his screeching about bias when confronted with facts he does not like, and they are compliant lapdogs instead of the watchdogs they are meant to be. Now, I am not suggesting that Mr. Albanese manipulate the press as his counterpart has done, but I do want him to say when confronted with some partisan BS question framed in some crap fashion Nice gotcha question there. Does anyone have a serious question they would like to ask? This is not hostile to the media broadly, but it does send the message ‘serious questions only, folks’. It will be necessary for Mr. Albanese to put the media in their place from the start, because if Labor is elected on May 21st, the media will commence Operation Restore Legitimate Government from May 22nd.

Source: Plibersek Shows The Way: Labor, The Media and The Future – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Old Dog Thought- Mainstream media is used like smoke on bees calm them so they can bee manipulated

May be a cartoon of standing

Fighting Fake News with Real, 3/1/22; Abbott says Life is precious but The Economy more; LNP organizational systems entraps individuals;

From taming ‘Big Tech’ to News Corp’s climate shift: The media moves that mattered this year

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg will not give up his attempt for a public hearing into the way the ABC handles complaints.

The Abbott/ Morrison Government had made a pact with the IPA and NewsCorp to rid  Australia of ABC News. Abbott backed into a corner knowing the ABC was Australia’s most trusted media source found that direct task too difficult so he banned the government MPs from going on the ABC. Morrison did almost the same. The government has become a regular fixture on Sky News and 2GB their “cash for comment” propaganda arms . Even granting Murdoch a free unexplained $30M.  Australia has never seen a concerted effort like we have in the past 8 years to turn Australian media into American with Australia’s Sky News a model of Fox News, without MSM diversity. Consolidation of our MSM into 3 privatized corporate arms run by Peter Costello, Kerry Stokes, and with Murdoch controlling the largest has seen our media metamorph into the Conservative Cyclops donor at the behest of the LNP, and the want of the IPA posing as a”think tank” but acting as the LNP’s mega- donor/lobbyist and even grooming politicians of the future.

Their aim to rid Australia of any organization designed to keep the bastards honest and Democracy the political system of choice for this country which demands the existence of at least two major parties both of which are prepared to lose an election but rule for all Australians. Unfortunately only one party today is prepared for that role and it isn’t the current government.

The year ended with the resignation of ABC news boss Gaven Morris and a public sledge by ABC chair Ita Buttrose, who accused the (LNP) government of political interference.

With a federal election around the corner, it is going to be a very busy and a very interesting 2022 for the public broadcaster.

The ABC’s year from hell

 

Source: From taming ‘Big Tech’ to News Corp’s climate shift: The media moves that mattered this year

 The Age Opinion, Victoria restrictions:Victorian government’s lengthy lockout of unvaccinated is an overreach

Police look on as protesters gather in Melbourne's CBD.

In the front of The Age there was Clive Palmer’s full page ad with anti- vaxxer Qraig Qelly face and the newspaper’s Opinion supporting their Message. We can expect $100M++  with Clive running yet another campaign for Morrison’s LNP and Ch9, and Murdoch trumpeting their message into our political atmosphere like muzak because they are “free” to do that. Responsible,no but free to take cash for comment. Would Clive’s money come their way if their opinion differed?

They are all standing shoulder to shoulder with QAnon, Proud Boys, Qraig Kelly and yes Nazis. The Germans have a saying looking back “if you have 10 people sitting down for dinner with a Nazi you have 11 Nazis at dinner”. Apparently it’s safe to stick our hand in fire if its smeared with vaseline so lets all do it becase “we can”.

The EU, UK, and the USA are all experiencing a massive resurgence of Covid and are bringing back restrictions, restrictions on the unvaccinated. We can ignore that lead because we are smeared with vaseline ( 95% vaccinated ). We can play Evil Kinevil. Restrictions for what? Restrictions aren’t arbitrary are there 1) to prevent unwanted death. 2) to prevent the accelerated spread 3) but moreso to prevent overloading an already Commonwealth underfunded understaffed  Public Health System 4) to be prepared for the inevitable 4th wave when winter of 2022 hits, 5)and yes, to prevent less severe lockdowns and “more freedom” for the majority of Victorians.

These right wing hypcrites  are only too happy lock out Asylum Seekers, Muslims, Gays, Africans, etc etc etc but not that 5% or 300,00 Victorians that can incapacitate our Public Health and indirectly many others. We don’t have sufficient  nurses, doctors or the ambos but Clive just wants a Coal Mine and the LNP in power. The other fruitcakes just want to feel the power. So advertise in Peter Costello’s  Age and Murdoch’s Herald -Sun. They are only too happy to oblige and provide the opinions in support of more of that money.

Victorians have benefited from vaccination mandates of certain workers or as a temporary lockdown exemption that reduces spread when coverage is still too low. For a substantial public health gain, mandates may be justified. But the Victorian government intends to extend the lockout of the unvaccinated throughout 2022. This is disproportionate to the risks the unvaccinated pose in a population that will reach at least 93 per cent two-dose coverage by year’s end.

Source: Victoria restrictions:

Scott Morrison’s mate, political advisor and Nine Chairman Peter Costello sacks John Hewson at the SMH – The Age. Is an election close? – Kangaroo Court of Australia

One of Scott Morrison’s closest political advisors is Nine Entertainment Chairman and former federal Treasurer Peter Costello and one of Scott Morrison’s biggest critics is former federal Liberal Party leader John Hewson who was sacked this week as a columnist by the Nine Entertainment owned papers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. John Hewson’s criticism of Scott Morrison is a lot more damaging to Morrison’s reputation and credibility with voters than most critics because Hewson is a former Liberal Party leader. And with Hewson having a national platform such as The SMH and The Age papers and their websites would have made Hewson one of the top targets for Morrison’s hit squad who work behind the scenes daily trying to manipulate the media.

Source: Scott Morrison’s mate, political advisor and Nine Chairman Peter Costello sacks John Hewson at the SMH – The Age. Is an election close? – Kangaroo Court of Australia

Dog’s Breakfast No Dogs Barking – Quarantine and Vaccine Rollout – » The Australian Independent Media Network

DOG’S BREAKFAST NO DOGS BARKING (POLITICAL ANALYSIS) – Quarantine and vaccine rollout. Not just Victorians shouldering the risk and blame but older Australians too, while the Liberals ‘get away with murder’.

Source: Dog’s Breakfast No Dogs Barking – Quarantine and Vaccine Rollout – » The Australian Independent Media Network

As the Christchurch shooter faces sentencing, what has Australia learned about far-right terror? | World news | The Guardian

A man walks past flowers laid outside the Al Noor mosque on the first anniversary of the Christchurch shooting

Andrew Bolt denied he had any influence on the Christchurch shooter however he certainly promoted the European Identitarian movement by giving air time to the likes of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux. Bolt also gave air time to Blair Cotteral head of the UPF all influencers of the NZ mass-shooter. On the occassion of the aftermath of that massacre Bolt literally went to ground for 3-4 days as if told to be extremely careful about how he was to respond to the event given Sky News was cut off by the NZ government for attempting to continue to broadcast it live when asked not to..

It’s about time that the use of free speech as a feeble justification for the right to commercial profitability carried with it some responsibility as does the sale of other dangerous products in our so called “free market” Some accountability is needed to prevent the damage that flows from irresponsible broadcasting and the selling of right-wing ideology as fake news or merely opinion that allows Bolt to get away with inspiring murder mayhem and chaos.

Let’s face it after the bombings in Barcelona he said he “admired” the commitment to cause the young terrorists hand and wished young Christians were the same and not “gutless” If thats not throwing down a challenge what is? (ODT)

From the document the perpetrator posted online before the shooting, the messages he scrawled on the weapons he used and his links to the European Identitarian movement, it was clear he wanted to brand himself as a member of a larger global community. Certainly the links to the far right in Australia were real enough. After the shooting, the leader of an Australian white nationalist group said he had previously approached the Christchurch shooter to join his Lad’s Society, and an investigation by the ABC found he had posted online comments supporting another Australian far right group, the United Patriots Front, as early as April 2016. Advertisement He also praised the UPF founder, Blair Cottrell, as the “true leader of the nationalist movement in Australia” and dubbed him “Emperor” on the night of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US election. Cottrell has said he did not know the gunman and recently described him as “an idiot”.

As the Christchurch shooter faces sentencing, what has Australia learned about far-right terror? | World news | The Guardian

ABC should get political and axe News 24

After suffering budget cuts, perhaps it’s time for the ABC to abolish its 24-hour news service which gives politicians an endless platform, writes Jeff Waters.

ABC should get political and axe News 24

Lauren Southern is on the comeback trail, and Australian conservatives are all too happy to help | Jason Wilson | Opinion | The Guardian

Lauren Southern

Far-right e-celeb Lauren Southern is on the comeback trail. And Australian conservatives are more than happy to offer her a helping hand.

Her bid to be taken seriously as a journalist and commentator was given a small boost recently with a slot on Sky’s Fox News mini-me culture war platform, Outsiders.

The hosts of that program – both the ignominiously departed and those that remain — have never met a rightwing chancer they didn’t like.

But they seem to have a particular affection for Southern, now resident in Australia, who is coming off a curious hiatus from her frenetic work as a far-right influencer.

via Lauren Southern is on the comeback trail, and Australian conservatives are all too happy to help | Jason Wilson | Opinion | The Guardian

Car crash v Coronavirus: doctor puts pandemic in perspective – Michael West

Coronavirus

“If you could find out when you were going to die would you want to know?”

My personal answer to this was no but, given none of us are getting out of this life alive, what are some of the real sudden death health risks to worry about? Around the world, every year, the number of people:

killed by car crash ~1,250,000
killed by their own hand ~800,000
killed by influenza ~375,000
killed by (non war) gun violence ~250,000
killed by war ~200,000
killed by terrorists ~20,000
killed by lightning ~6,000
killed by coconut falling on head ~150
eaten by shark < 10

 

 

Car crash v Coronavirus: doctor puts pandemic in perspective – Michael West

Don’t shoot the messenger – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison has demonstrated a Trumpesque ability to fudge, mislead and obfuscate, and to also suggest things are the opposite of reality.

Rowan, like Morrison and Trump are shooting the messenger. While they have every right to disagree with the position reported by some or all of the media, they also need to provide the evidence and data that would be required to demonstrate the lack of accuracy inherent in the claim of fake news. Otherwise, why should you or I believe them?

via Don’t shoot the messenger – » The Australian Independent Media Network

People smugglers plot to find chinks in a Shorten government’s armour

 

“A former people smuggler now living in Pakistan has been asked by his former bosses to return to Indonesia and test a future Shorten government by finding passengers willing to travel on boats to Australia.” Ch9

Media Matters: Channel bought Fairfax and has instatnly cahnged tack and taken on the Murdoch Model of business. This is a story you would have expected to see run in conservative fearmongering Herald Sun and Daily Telegraphs to gain attention. The carrot to raise numbers and make advertisersl follow. The ” people smugglers” in this article are unnamed, their “bosses” unnamed as is their location. Historic footage of a people smuggler is used. A fantasy yarn might make a great story and the conservatives happy to use it. Our MSM is a disgrace.

But Dutton was always ready to become Australia’s Paul Revere to let us know ” The boats are coming the boats are coming.” They have always been coming but  an “on the waters government secret” but then  the ELECTIONS are coming. (ODT)

“They want to push it. They want to send one, two, three, four, five, six, seven boats every week, twice a week … then I think it will be hard for the [Australian] government to handle it. All of a sudden 1000 people, or 2000 in a month or two,” he said.Ch9

via People smugglers plot to find chinks in a Shorten government’s armour

Old Dog Thoughts- Murdochian Myths

Last 5 Years Hottest on Record:  NASA, NOAA; & World Hotter than any time in 120,000 years

Andrew Bolt’s Blog,8/2/19; Climate Change Planet Earth NASA,NOAA the past120,000 years; Trump’s SOTU and Polling Data;

The Highest-Ranking Vatican Official Ever Convicted Of Child Sexual Abuse – Collective Evolution

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The Highest-Ranking Vatican Official Ever Convicted Of Child Sexual Abuse – Collective Evolution

Plastic bag charge to rise to 10p and be extended to every shop | The Independent

The 5p levy in Scotland has prompted an 80 per cent reduction in plastic bag use since it was introduced last year

The plastic bag charge is set to rise to 10p and be extended to every shop, according to reports.

Theresa May is expected to announce the changes as part of plans to tackle plastic pollution, The Daily Telegraph reported. Currently shops that employ more than 250 people have to charge at least 5p per bag.

Under the new measures, the fee would double to 10p and include all retailers.
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Disposable carrier bags issued by the seven biggest supermarket chains have declined by 86 per cent since the charge was introduced in 2015, official figures showed.

via Plastic bag charge to rise to 10p and be extended to every shop | The Independent

News Corp Australia’s promotion of Lauren Southern is disturbing | Jason Wilson | Australia news | The Guardian

Canadian far-right political activist Lauren Southern at the Courier-Mail office in Brisbane on 13 July.

Southern’s far-right associations, her promotion of the key ideas of white ethnonationalism, and her willingness to become directly involved in racial provocation should give us pause.

So, too, should the willingness of News Corporation’s daily newspapers to promote her.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Andrew Bolt railed about her visa problems. Nor that Miranda Devine had Southern on her podcast to talk about how antifa and Muslims cause her immigration woes.

But earlier puff pieces about her visit, and op-eds defending her in regional newspapers, suggest that News has a disturbing inability to distinguish between ordinary, conservative provocateurs, and those adjacent to white nationalist or fascist movements.

This fits with a pattern on the Australian right. Nevertheless, should News later condemn those who protest against Southern’s appearances, we should remember their role in defending Southern, and advertising her shows.

via News Corp Australia’s promotion of Lauren Southern is disturbing | Jason Wilson | Australia news | The Guardian

Mixed media: how Australia’s newspapers became locked in a war of left versus right

 

In Australia, the effects of this phenomenon are made worse by the increased polarisation of the country’s two main newspaper companies, News Corporation and Fairfax Media.

Australia has very little diversity in its traditional media sector, especially its newspapers. News Corp controls roughly 70% of daily circulation and Fairfax roughly 20%. And for all their cutbacks in journalistic capacity, it is still the newspapers that inject the most new material into the 24/7 news cycle.

via Mixed media: how Australia’s newspapers became locked in a war of left versus right

Barnaby Joyce affair shows how when men make abysmal choices, women pay the price

Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull in Parliament on Thursday.

The Barnaby Joyce scandal is a horrible saga, with so many grubby angles to it, that even after observing it for a week you feel you need a shower, or at least a break. Wife, mistress, children born and unborn: all are collateral damage.

Turnbull actually seems the only one who who spoke up for the women “As a clearly furious Malcolm Turnbull described it on Thursday, in an extraordinary press conference, Joyce has “set off a world of woe” on his family, and “appalled all of us” with his behaviour, as well as raising “very serious issues about the culture” of Parliament House as a workplace.”

Even News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt, not known for his feminist leanings, thundered this week about “the women left behind after helping their husbands build their lives and careers”.

However Andrew Bolt in typical blind posturing  then theatrically attacked Malcolm Turnbull,revealing his primary motive over and above false faux feminist sentiment along with the media crowd declaring the PM weak.

via Barnaby Joyce affair shows how when men make abysmal choices, women pay the price

Sam Slammed, But Not By A Federal Anti-Corruption Watchdog, Notably – New Matilda

Former Labor Senator Sam Dastyari.

After all, as powerful as the Chinese business lobby is, its domestic influence is a long way short of that enjoyed by the four big banks, the Minerals Council, the Property Council, or the Pharmacy Guild.

via Sam Slammed, But Not By A Federal Anti-Corruption Watchdog, Notably – New Matilda

The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker

The man behind Breitbart,

Milo’s sponsor among other things and Trump’s  Robert Mercer loves nothing better than to sponsor clowns

The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker

Milo Has A Platform Because He Upholds The Status Quo, Which Speaks Volumes About Australia – New Matilda

Milo Yiannopoulos, appearing on Channel 10's Studio 10 program to promote his current speaking tour of Australia.

The Breitbart website had the backing of the billionaire Mercer family. A few weeks after Milo was fired from Breitbart for his strange comments defending the paedophile who molested him, the Mercers began sending money for him to start up his own media company. Funny how “brave” Milo can be when he’s backed by one of the richest people on the planet to demonise Muslims and feminism.
In November, Bob Mercer announced that he would sell his stake in Breitbart to his daughter, and would stop funding Milo Inc. Though it is possible that Mercer’s daughter will back Milo, it is possible that Milo needs a new billionaire benefactor, if Breitbart won’t take him back. Whilst Milo is somehow still moderately palatable in mainstream Australian media, in the US he is utterly toxic.

Just a month ago, the conservative website Daily Caller ran an unpaid column by Milo. The people who run the site were apparently so appalled by this decision that they fired the opinion editor who was stupid enough to publish Milo in the first plac Milo Has A Platform Because He Upholds The Status Quo, Which Speaks Volumes About Australia – New Matilda

Will Rupert Murdoch lose his crown?

Given the appeal of these assets, Murdoch should have no problem maximising the sale price.

Will Rupert Murdoch lose his crown?

Australian man facing jail time in Bali for theft of designer sunglasses – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Mr Harman and another man sit in court.

If he was an Indigenous Australian in Darwin he’d be in jail. They wouldn’t even have to be designer sunglasses

Australian man facing jail time in Bali for theft of designer sunglasses – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Nine reasons why no one should hire Bill O’Reilly

Nine reasons why no one should hire Bill O’Reilly

Source: Nine reasons why no one should hire Bill O’Reilly

It’s Time to Get Violence: Breaking Down the Assault on Antifa

Of late, violence has made headlines in the U.S. corporate media by serving to discredit the work of anti-fascist activists and distract from the actual threats of fascism and white supremacy. One would think that the very expression “anti-fascism” would immediately convoke pledges of allegiance in a country whose nationalist narratives include the story of its own rise to power as the global hegemon through the militant defeat of fascism in WWII. Regardless of whether or not we sanction its veracity, the story of the violent fight against fascism—not with kicks and punches, but with bombers, tanks, heavy artillery and nuclear bombs—is, indeed, one of the founding narratives of contemporary America.

 

Source: It’s Time to Get Violence: Breaking Down the Assault on Antifa

Coalition advice for the poor – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Back in 2001, Four Corners did a program on the working poor called Going Backwards, where they quoted the statistic that 42 per cent of Australians living in poverty lived in families where one or both adults work.Then Employment Minister, Tony Abbott, summed up the Coalition view.“I’m prepared to accept that lots of people in work are doing it tough. But that’s true of lots of people at — on comparatively good incomes because they have heavier responsibilities.”Lord knows, keeping up with the lifestyle in the Northern and Eastern suburbs of Sydney can be expensive. Even people who score a job that requires no qualifications, no experience and no expertise, that pays in the top 1% of incomes and that allows you to charge your employer for pretty much everything, can struggle because of their “higher responsibilities”.

Source: Coalition advice for the poor – » The Australian Independent Media Network

A Message For The Media: Start Putting Public Interest Ahead Of Propaganda – New Matilda

The media’s role in overcoming political propaganda can’t be over-stated, writes Russell Edwards. It’s also high time journalists started fighting it. What should we expect of those who govern us? We live in a liberal democracy. The legitimacy of any government rests on the informed consent of the public. Should we therefore expect that governmentsMore

Source: A Message For The Media: Start Putting Public Interest Ahead Of Propaganda – New Matilda

Media Sauce: Where’s BLeak when it comes to #FreeSpeech for cartoonists?

As Australian cartoonists step up support of colleagues in detention around the world, Bill Leak goes MIA.

Source: Media Sauce: Where’s BLeak when it comes to #FreeSpeech for cartoonists?

FactCheck: is Australia’s level of media ownership concentration one of the highest in the world?

Was shadow minister for communications Michelle Rowland right when she said Australia’s level of media ownership concentration is one of the highest in the world?

Source: FactCheck: is Australia’s level of media ownership concentration one of the highest in the world?

Day to Day Politics: The Trump Report, No 2 – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Tuesday 13 December 2016 Author’s note: The arrival of a blatant liar, one who has taken it to unprecedented levels, as the 45th President of the United States necessitates close scrutiny. The Trump Report will appear regularly in Day to Day Politics. 1 I have progressively published the cabinet appointments Donald Trump has made with…

Source: Day to Day Politics: The Trump Report, No 2 – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We need a makeover – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Forget recession.  This country is suffering from depression, and I don’t mean the economic definition as much as the psychological one.  There is a malaise afflicting the nation. We keep hearing that the economy has had 25 uninterrupted years of growth but then we are told we have a debt and deficit disaster and a…

Source: We need a makeover – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Alarmism, economic idiocy, and Orwellian appointments: three years of political disaster | Josh Bornstein | Opinion | The Guardian

Can the relentless incoherence and incompetence of the government be attributed to a particular blend of capitalism and religion that has found favour in the US?

Source: Alarmism, economic idiocy, and Orwellian appointments: three years of political disaster | Josh Bornstein | Opinion | The Guardian

Journalism: let’s have a quality debate

As we reshape our business to meet readers’ demands, we will not take a backward step on quality.

Source: Journalism: let’s have a quality debate

Day to Day Politics: My after Easter catch up. Bolt looks to Sky. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Tuesday 29 March. 1 After a short break it’s a bit difficult to know where to start, Oh well, let’s start with Bolt. After 5 years of poor ratings with ‘The Bolt Report’ on 10 it seems he is looking to the sky with a nightly program. Ten apparently refused to continue funding his ratings…

Source: Day to Day Politics: My after Easter catch up. Bolt looks to Sky. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Stuck In The Middle With You – Stealers Wheel

https://youtu.be/DohRa9lsx0Q

Andrew Bolt and his ilk more than any other industry are  persuaders who battle for our hearts and minds while hiding, distracting and distorting the information news and facts we need to operate as as true Democracy. The only feeling they offer the Australian public in 2016 is expresses here.

When the ABC accepts the lowest common denominator in media as journalism. It surrendered to Newscorp acknowledging it as a genuine source of news and information shame ABC shame.

The ABC plunges to a new low

The ABC plunges to a new low

The ABC’s decision to produce a TV show with right wing columnist Andrew Bolt will do more harm than good, says Alan Austin. 

Ian Chappell the master of sledge wants world cricket ban on Chris Gayle for Mel McLaughlin interview.  McLaughlin has ignored Mel after all she’s a sheila.

Ex-Australian skipper says Cricket Australia should prevent Gayle getting any contracts in Australia and should recommend the world body do the same

Source: Ian Chappell wants world cricket ban on Chris Gayle for Mel McLaughlin interview | Sport | The Guardian

Did Shane Warne cop this flack? Was Frank Sinatra right to call Australian media the worst in the world? Saving Peter Dutton.

A relaxed Chris Gayle talking to the media at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport.

Chris Gayle comments cause uncomfortable Big Bash interview with Mel McLaughlin. The MSM reaction Un Australian, racist and male!

West Indian cricket star Chris Gayle has drawn stern criticism online after making advances at Channel Ten sideline reporter Mel McLaughlin during a post-innings interview.

Source: Chris Gayle comments cause uncomfortable Big Bash interview with Mel McLaughlin

Suspect in Virginia Slaying Kills Himself | Al Jazeera America

Franklin County sheriff says gunman who killed reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward has died

Source: Suspect in Virginia Slaying Kills Himself | Al Jazeera America

Andrew Bolt will ignore this report and wont take back his suggestion it was a hate -race crime against whites. He’ll play it like Fox News