ANDREW BOLT|Old Dog Thoughts |
News Corporation employs Andrew Bolt and provides him with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Bolt's Blog not only advocates conservative, right wing and Tea Party views it moderates out most opposing opinions which he is entitled to do. However Andrew Bolt simply lies when he says he provides an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no spin zone. He doesn't it's all spin.
Friday 19 February 2021
Fighting Fake News with REAL 19/2/21; Money Rules media, health, enviroment, and politics
Money Rules
Why is this all happening? Our
gutless Government is owned lock stock and barrel by conservative media.
Our monopoly mainstream media is jousting with the monopoly social
media platforms to gouge whatever they can out of each others’ revenue
streams. Without the backing of monopoly level conservative media our
current Government would have been chucked out long ago. So no surprise
that the Coalition is sucking up to Murdoch. Bit trite for our
Government to argue on behalf of Murdoch et al about how their revenue
streams are being ripped off by the larger social media platforms, when
that same Government is flaying the revenue streams of the ABC.
Despite
unprecedented damage to forests and wildlife, NSW Deputy Premier John
Barilaro overruled the Environment Protection Agency and determined that
industrial-scale logging continues in NSW’s burnt and unburnt forests.
Suzanne Arnold reports.
A
skydiving adventure park in a National Party electorate was showered in
bushfire grants, getting far more than it asked for, while a host of
bushfire recovery projects in the Blue Mountains were ignored, even
badly needed toilet facilities for firefighters. Callum Foote reports on
new documents in the bushfire rorts scandal.
The
ABC paid $2500 to a left-wing agitator who'd stormed the US Capitol,
smashed a window, confronted police, shouted he had a knife, and urged
the mob to "burn this s..t down", filming as he went. The ABC then
blamed the violence entirely on the "far-Right", even after he'd been
charged. Why?
We saw the riot on Capitol Hill. We heard Fox News try to suggest it was an ANTIFA run false flag to but the blame on the Right-Wing. The Militia's came prepared with guns knives and UIDs and 5 people died. So what is Bolt doing trying to distract us from what we know? As usual it's mud slinging the ABC with what he calling "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" Unfortunately the trend for fake news is fully concentrated at News Corp and the LNP is ensuring it stays concentrated there because they have a working partnership to influence. The bullshit is not diffused and watered down as it is on Facebook and they don't want there power weakened.
What "original" news does Murdoch's fake news generator News Corp and Sky actually generate? They are a Churnalist organisation at best having sacked so many of their journalists because of cost. News Corp is largely a paid and subsidized LNP influencer nothing more or nothing less and in an election year the LNP is dancing to Murdoch's will. Bolt is Murdoch's marionette. All week really he's had nothing to do because Morrison in his typical form has been a disaster happening before our eyes. He's been concentrating on self-promotion rather than leading.
Bolt has obediently stayed "shtum". When that became too embarassing he's turned to it's distraction yelling "Hey look over there"
First
Facebook censored conservatives. Then it censored news unhelpful to
Democrat Joe Biden. Then it censored Donald Trump. Then it censored an
Australian politician who quoted scientific studies.. Then it censored
Australia. Now it wants to police thought on global warming. And it's
started by pushing alarmist claims. Facebook is a menace.
Firstly Global Warming is a conclusion born out of Science a sceptic and on going methodology for understanding the physical world in which we live. It's not simply a faith nor a religion born out of self-interest. Beliefs tend rather to be non substantiated untested or discarded and out of date assumptions about what is occurring posited by contrarians for purposes other than a search for knowledge and understanding. Meteorology has improved because of the the application of science. Climate science has likewise improved about our understanding of the planet and has moved way beyond Bolt's misplaced "beliefs" based purely on interest. So much so Bolt is today's equivalent of a "flat earther" holding on to the religious belief the planet is cooling or if warming it has nothing to do with us so we need do nothing.
Facebook has upstaged Murdoch Media's selling of contrarian "belief" and Bolt's obediently whining. Firstly Facebook didn't censor Conservatives. It censored promoters of Domestic Terrorism and Violence because of increasing public pressure to do so. "Standby and Stand-back" "be prepared" Trump's call was being activated.
The extreme right-wingers aren't Conservatives nor is Andrew Bolt racist, misogynist white Christian supremacist. He doesn't even work for a Liberal/Conservative organization. He works for News Corp selling a specific right-wing message and enabling danger. The unnamed politician censored for fake and dangerous news and information was Craig Kelly who was even censored by his own party as was a politician by the Victorian branch of the LNP. So there's been a lot of censorious activity going on but all on the behest of the LNP by the LNP.
By the way Bolt quotes "science" but withholds the names of those he's quoting. Roy Spencer is a regular so often used an abused by Bolt you'd think Spencer would call out rape. Spencer obviously doesn't give a shit about Andrew who? However Andrew Bolt seems embarrassed to acknowledge Spencer who no longer even has the Standing Christy has among the heavy hitting Climate Deniers in what was the Trump Administration. Bolt's claim that Facebook is behind all of this and wants to police "global warming deniers" is absurd besides they are a private organization and as Bolt has always said are free to do what they want in the market. Free to do what Andrew Bolt maintains he's free to do.
Facebook has chosen to withhold Bolt's and News Corps "fake news and opinions" from their platform they are entitled to. Fake News is the only "original" information News Corp runs and Facebook has said "Cool we'll fix that" but that's the only thing that's cool not the planet.
Yes, on any other day Bolt's argument would be that Facebook is a Private Company as is News Corp and the Bolt principle is that Private Companies can do what they want in a free market, Oops! Apparently Bolt's hypocritically happy with the government's censorship of Facebook.
The ABC however can't according to Bolt. It can't be allowed to be either free original or question the government because that carries with it what Bolt regards as a left-wing bias. In fact diversity of opinion and political scepticism is fundamentally a left-wing activity. Andrew Bolt runs and works for the very censorious Murdoch Corp where everything editorially determined and certainly not algorithmically based like Facebook who who service a far more general and diverse agenda.To be fair to Australia and Democracy we need the ABC, an Independent Statutory Body, that ensures a trend to Real News and information. By and large if the ABC were a digital hub on offer to us rather than Bolt's Fake products being pitched for which he demands freedom from regulation. Regulation he wants of others like Facebook and the ABC. That freedom he demands be denied and reduced to others.
The fascist trend Murdoch the LNP and the IPA are aiming for is not for the good of the countryor Democracy.
The Kevin Rudd experience is REAL and needs to be Stopped 500,000 signatures demand it. That's far more than Andrew Bolt's ratings but less than the power of Murdoch.
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