Fighting Fake News with Real; 26/8/19; The New Racism and the real fraudster, Andrew Bolt's woried about Alan Jones; Ch9 is beating News Corp;

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G7 'close to agreeing' help for Amazon fires

President Emmanuel Macron suggests G7 leaders are close to agreeing a plan to help the rainforest

According to Andrew Bolt, trying on a PAYWALL to subscribe to the Herald Sun "almost everything you read about the fires is false. It seems the G7 doesn't think so, but Bolt knows better(ODT)

MORE FAKE NEWS: AMAZON FIRES 'UNPRECEDENTED'

Sure enough, the media hits Brazil's Right-wing president with fake news like it did Trump: "As global outrage grows over wildfires consuming large tracts of the Amazon, it’s worth taking a look at Brazil’s leader, Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil’s president is proudly filled with contempt for the Amazon." Yet almost everything said about the fires is false. 

ALI G WAS A JOKE. NOW IT'S DEADLY SERIOUS

COLUMN Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen once played a blinged-up hood called Ali G who’d bleat at every rebuff: “Is it cos I is black?” But what was a joke is now sickly serious. Everyone plays this Ali G race card, from friends defending Meghan Markle to commentators on CNN defending anti-Israel bigots, and now vice-chancellors defending their Chinese gold. 

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"What fraud doesn't play the race card," Bolt asks. He is the most public of frauds, on top of the heap, who has been playing that card for years. He's been playing it for White Supremacists and Nationalists as well. They, in recent years, have become the new terrorists of the day. In the US this year there have been 251 mass-shootings predominately by White Supremacists Nationalists supporters of a President and a media that has enabled and inspired their behaviour. Their excuse, they are the victims of the New Racism that the Murdoch media have been pushing as an explanation that whites today are victims of Racists. In other words  "If you call Bolt a Racist your a racist."
However, there is nothing to see here but a fraudster untouched by any name-calling. A cheat that changes the meaning of language to politicise it. Asylum seekers become "illegals" able to be brutalised. Andrew Bolt defines himself as "Indigenous" and "Real News" becomes "Fake News". Those with the loudest voices declare themselves as the not so Hidden Persuaders for the ultra-conservatives. It's a business model.
They are the recruiters of support, putting the brakes on progress by merely throwing fuel on anything that amplifies cultural division and draws attention away from the even larger economic division Australia is suffering. The ever-increasing gap between the " haves" and the "have nots" the increasing income and wealth gaps that the LNP government is reluctant to do anything about. Yes, one could actually say racism in Australia is multicultural a rainbow colour and better defined as the increasing downward spiralling hierarchy. A vertical continuum of material wealth and power with a diminishing fewer at the top in control. The racial division is class-based multicultural where the minority in control and their paid lackeys simply don't care what they are called as long as they aren't called out for their economic interests and power that defines the real division in Australia.
Rainbow coloured yes on a vertical continuum of power, yes. Where colour tends to concentrate on the bottom, yes and upward mobility is severely restricted, yes. Bolt's a well paid cultural fraudster paid to persuade Australians that superficial cultural differences are more important than any real ones.

WEAK CORPORATES COLLUDE WITH SHADOWY ACTIVISTS TO SILENCE JONES

COLUMN  Alan Jones is Sydney’s most popular broadcaster. Yet his career could soon be over, thanks to a few activists, most anonymous, who think they should decide what other Australians may be permitted to hear. And let’s not forget corporate Australia — the advertisers too weak to defend our freedom to decide for ourselves what to listen to. 

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Corporate Australia hasn't been "spooked" they listened. They heard what Jones said and made a decision like any other Australian is entitled to. Bolt sounds like Trump on Twitter that his "ratings" show America approves of him when 66% when polled actually disapprove of him. Ratings might show Jones is entertaining but not that he's right. Goggle Box has high ratings. Jackass once had high ratings. So then are they yardstick of what's right?
Channel 9 don't give a rat's about Alan Jones ratings at Macquarie's 2GB.  They currently have a 55% controlling interest and want full control. Jones might have high ratings in radio, but Ch9 is much much bigger, and quality is it seems of more concern. They don't want their other interests tainted by Jone's reputation. Fairfax's Age is currently the front runner in Victoria as is SMH in NSW all outsell News Corp who are a better fit for the shock jock. Ch9 has an image significantly different to Sky and certainly doesn't want the same image as Jones delivers on Macquarie. Is Bolt really freaked by the fact that Jones might have a bigger presence than him if he changed ships?
Corporates aren't in cahoots with shadowy activists they are miles apart. There is no Bolt conspiracy, just a different business model. One that has less of a place or needs for Jones whose 78.  Ch 9 doesn't see him as useful for their other differing interests.
 It could be argued that Bolt doesn't really want Jones to have a bigger profile on Sky or at News Corp as he just might be overshadowed.

When Alan Jones met with Nine Entertainment Co CEO Hugh Marks, it wasn't in the most comfortable of circumstances for the radio veteran. Nine controls 55 per cent of Macquarie Media, which is the owner of 2GB in Sydney, 3AW in Melbourne and other stations around the country.
 But for Macquarie, the biggest challenge of the year is still to come. Singleton, and fellow shareholder Mark Carnegie, are set to vote on Nine's $115 million takeover offer next month.

Jones seems safe for now. But there are growing doubts his contract will be extended again at a business that is fully-controlled by Nine.

Just how thin has the ice become under Alan Jones?

 

NewsMediaWorks’ Enhanced Media Metrics Australia data for June 2019 shows The Age had 4.17 million readers.

The results come days after Nine posted its first full-year financial results since its historic merger with Fairfax Media, revealing the digital and publishing assets had grown earnings (before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) by 56 per cent.

The Metro Media publishing division, which includes The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, achieved a more than 60 per cent increase in earnings over the period and double-digit subscription growth across the major titles.

The Age ends financial year as Victoria's most-read news title

 

WHAT'S THE ABC'S EXCUSE FOR STILL PUSHING THIS DROWNING-ISLANDS FALSEHOOD?

For nearly a decade I've tried to correct a falsehood the ABC keeps repeating: that global warming is drowning Pacific Islands. The science is easily checked, but many ABC presenters keep ignoring it. Far more islands are growing. Chris Mitchell: "The ABC’s own fact check unit confirmed this in a ruling last year." So what's the ABC's excuse?

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"In a famous paper from the University of Auckland released last year and based on sophisticated physical models, scientists showed many of the atolls on Tuvalu, Kiribati and Tokelau are actually rising." Chris Mitchell

These people quote only some of NZ's Professor Kench's work they don't quote the qualifications he made that his conclusions do not contradict those of today. As his were drawn from the data taken back in the 50s  and do not take into account current information or the projections moving forward that can be made now. But that's not unusual for Bolt who hung his hat on the conclusion of Spencer when he kept telling us the planet was cooling for 20 years Bolt's finally dropped that. Bolt becomes even more stupid when he turns to Craig Kelly as proof to validate his argument that the "livable atto;s are growing. Where Kelly evidence comes from we aren't told.

Why all this effort? To disparage and discredit the ABC to say they are wrong and Bolt's better because they don't pay attention to Kench. The ABC could throw the same mud back, but its old dirt can't be bothered and has moved on. Morrison has even acknowledged the issues faced by the Pacific Islands while Abbott ignored them and as a token is throwing money their way. He has however taken coal and climate change out of the equation. It's amazing what China's influence has done.