Wednesday 31 May 2023

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 31/5/23, AFR vs Michael West Media, Kohler, China, Belarus-Russia, Trump 2024,

 

AFR, Nine Entertainment

Ch9 and it’s stable of journalists have been sorted OUT

Yet from Nine Entertainment’s chairman down to senior editors though this is an organisation of yes-men and yes-women. The likes of yours truly, Michael Pascoe, Mike Carleton, John Hewson – just to name a few – have been weeded out for failing to cower sufficiently to Nine’s advertisers and assorted corporate and political agendas.

Descending the greasy pole all the way down from Liberal Party heavyweight and fundraiser Peter Costello, we have Editorial Director James Chessell (who is an ex-Liberal staffer for Joe Hockey), his 2IC Tory Maguire (whose husband is a Liberal Party linked lobbyist), Editor in Chief of the AFR Michael Stutchbury, a true believer in the virtue of big business whose ideology is to the right of the Liberal Party.

On the radio front, it’s no accident that Nine owns 2GB and 3AW. On the TV front, it’s no accident Nine Network is now framing The Voice as “The Divisive Voice to Parliament“. This is unambiguous Coalition messaging.

Source: On captured media: we respond to Nine Entertainment and the AFR’s tepid hit-job – Michael West

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How the rise of China changed America – and not for the better

I don’t know, but I suspect it means that MAGA and Trumpism will be more durable and will last longer than the technology leadership of Silicon Valley, which is already lost.
Political extremism is feeding off America’s decline, which is locked in.

Source: National Times – Alan Kohler: How the rise of China changed… | Facebook

 Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko smile as they shake hands and pose for a photo between two white columns.

Lukashenko offers 'nuclear weapons for everyone' joining Belarus-Russia union

 

Former President Donald Trump watches the first round of the LIV Golf Tournament at Trump National Golf Club, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Sterling, Va. When Republican Sen. Tim Scott launched his campaign for the White House last week, Trump welcomed his new competitor with open arms. There were no accusations of disloyalty or nasty nicknames from the GOP front-runner like the barrage he unleashed when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considered his leading rival, joined the race two days later with a bungled Twitter announcement. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The more Republican opponents Trump has the better for him. He could sponsor more himself to win the Republican nomination or even not turn up.

Republicans once warned about a repeat of 2016, when the sprawling GOP field failed to coalesce around a Trump alternative, giving him the nomination. But much of the urgency that once existed among Trump’s GOP rivals to limit the field has faded in recent months.

Source: Trump’s 2024 Calculus: The More GOP Rivals, The Better For Him | HuffPost Latest News

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