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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Murdoch Madness,22/5/19; Sniping at everything in sight; Thanking God;
The politics of fear and division was a successful tactic by Menzies, which has now been effectively recycled.
OH, BLESSED SILENCE. THE VOICES STILLED BY LABOR'S LOSS
Had Labor won, here are some people who'd be gloating and lecturing and hectoring: Malcolm Turnbull, Alex Turnbull, Julia Banks, GetUp, Kristina Keneally, Jon Faine, Tim Flannery, Peter FitzSimons, Fran Kelly, Mark Dreyfus, Penny Wong, Julian Burnside, Richard Di Natale, Julie Bishop, Sally McManus. Nominate which you're most grateful not to hear.
Has anybody wondered who Bolt considers friends? John Roskam, the man with a Dutch name, is he Andrew Bolt's mate? After all, he employs his son James, is he a friend? We know Roskam is and has been a long term friend of Bill Shorten and his two wives. I believe one was even a Godfather to the other's child. Bill, was Roskam's best man was Andrew Bolt also invited? If he was what table was he on? The Godliest voice giving thanks heard coming from Murdoch's media is the Grateful sound of agnostic Andrew Bolt. It's quiet, unlike the silence before Tony Abbott got rolled by Malcolm. Quite unlike the silence when Tony just kept putting his foot in his mouth time and time again and even the world was agog. There was no gloating then by Mr politeness at all costs Andrew Bolt. During this election, it seemed Andrew Bolt was put out to graze by News Corp. Is it because he doesn't think too quickly when unproduced and unscripted like those with a journalist's background? It takes Andrew a week to produce, reproduce and repeat an idea on his Lazy Susan carousel of gigs. He's lost some recently like the radio and podcast which gives him less practice now. Nevertheless, he will soon have a new toy and target to play with Zali Steggal. Needless to say, he'll have to test out first because she might just be as feisty as Miranda Devine and bite back faster than Bolt can dish it out. He's already run out of ideas and guests for his show so he needs an in-house filler for his show and that would be Rowan Dean of course back to save Bolt from the embarrassment of just being seen to be reading the autocue and finding guests. It seems Tony Abbott's unavailable for the 353rd time on Bolt's show of limited guests. However, he'd be a rating booster and a more enormous comic relief than Dean
Even as Tony Abbott was campaigning during what he called the fight of his life, he still didn't seem able to comprehend what was happening to him and his political career, writes Sean Nicholls.
Guess Bolt's trying to be funny here in some sort of strange way to get attention. Tim Seeling can't now go around crying out coal will save Qld either, or that Adani will provide the state with 14,000 jobs. However, need he become like the ABC as Bolt demands, need he become impartial like the LNP were Federally these past 6 years and will be for the next 3? After all, they have done nothing or bungled everything since 2013. Will the Qld gov put their fate in the hands of the Murdoch media from here on in as the LNP did? After all, they won't be short of cash with all those death taxes the Courier Mail spoke of. Will Clive keep donating his time and money to the new ALP in Qld?
I do believe we heard Josh Frydenberg emphatically saying to Barry Cassidy that "We do believe in Climate Change. We do believe it's real and man-made. We do believe in the Science, and we will be taking affirmative action to reduce Co2 levels". If Bolt hasn't a tin ear, I doubt we will be hearing him call it a religion anymore in the same way, as he stopped telling us the planet was cooling these past 20 years. But then maybe he'll become a crusader for Pauline and continue to? The day of warming denialists is done if Bolt even looks out the window as records are being broken not just here but across the planet. Investment isn't going to suddenly flow back to fossil fuels, and even oil companies are investing in pushing the price of fossil fuels up and renewables down. Signs that the days of the fossil are over is the sound of Trump's war drums. He wants oil for politics to be cheap and needs an excess. His current allies aren't producing enough, so he needs Venezuela's, and Iran's. Did anyone notice ScoMo's win shot the electricity prices up?
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