Fighting Fake News with REAL, 7/9/21; Murdoch Gladys, Memes, Cartoons, Humour, JobKeeper AHRC, Andrews,

 

 

 

Why has it still, until very recently, been intellectually respectable in Australia to be a climate change sceptic, when that is no longer tenable in most countries in the world?

At least partly because News Corporation has tethered the debate at that end of the spectrum.

News Corporation has been heading into an intellectual, financial and even existential dead end. Advertisers flinched. The chances of renewing the ageing readership were disappearing. As successive surveys show, the outlets were losing audience trust.

News Corporation will still be trying to shape the debate, but it has been forced to shift ground to do so. That’s significant.

It may be too late. News Corporation may already be losing its grip. It’s something to watch.

 

News Corp’s shift on emissions coverage reveals something about the nature and limitations of the power of the Murdoch organisation.

News Corp’s shift on emissions reveals limitations of power

News Corp Calls For Urgent Action On Y2K Bug

“Y2K is starting to become a real concern for our readers"

 

This is a matter of fact not an endorsement of everything Chinese

JobKeeper payments flowed to a string of upmarket luxury brands, with some able to increase their profits in the depths of a recession.

Gucci, Cartier, Bulgari: Millions in JobKeeper for luxury retailers

Big business doesn’t vote, small business does. That’s the dilemma for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg as they try to keep JobKeeper secret heading into the election. Michael West reports.

 Political Dynamite: JobKeeper for billionaires a campaign wrecker for Morrison, Frydenberg – Michael West Media

 

Why is the Australian government devoid of any original strategic tactics of it’s own? Every move they make is directly from Trump’s American Republican Party the GOP? They don’t appear to have any specific tactics that are in any way Australian. They aren’t in anyway transparent but only intent on gaslighting the Australian electorate.

Yesterday the federal government quietly appointed Lorraine Finlay as the next human rights commissioner. She is a Murdoch University legal academic and human trafficking specialist with the Australian mission to ASEAN. Media releases from Attorney-General Michaelia Cash and the Australian Human Rights Commission both praised Finlay’s academic expertise and work in international human rights law. But they neglected to mention hers deep ties to the Liberal Party, as a former upper house candidate in Western Australia and president of the state’s Liberal women’s council. They also overlooked her years spent vocally taking positions that might put her at odds with the AHRC.

 The new human rights commissioner has perfect credentials (Lib, IPA, 18c)

 

 

The media has reported on Victoria and NSW's handling of COVID-19 in vastly different and inequitable ways, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.

Media bias for Berejiklian and against Andrews is clear

We join NSW’s Premier Gladys Berejiklian at her daily 11 am press conference.

Gladys boasts about how her Government is teaching us to 'live with COVID'

 By Ad astra This is a short piece. There is no need for lots of words. Images are sufficient. Have you noticed the cluster of loud-mouthed men that has appeared recently on our Melbourne streets, fists raised, shouting messages of defiance directed at our those in authority? Who are they? What is their…

What is revving up the bully boys?

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Andrew Bolt's Blog, 3/7/18; Bolt's crowding in on the act; Sky News uses Alan Moran when the IPA and Abbott won't have a bar of the man; We are a Settler Nation Bolt; Team Australia the great division and offence;AHRC;

HANSON"-YOUNG IS WRONG ABOUT ROSS AND ROWAN

On radio and TV last night I condemned comments Senator David Leyonhjelm made about the Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young, which she on the ABC this morning denounced as "slut shaming". But Hanson-Young then accused two Sky News hosts, whom she accused of "sniggering" as Leyonhjelm spoke. This is false, unfair and - it seems to me - opportunistic.

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Defending the side. Outsiders gave the platform to Leyonhjelm and allowed him his voice and failed to give any editorial comment rejecting anything he said. Neither Dean nor Cameron are known to hide their opinions from their audience. Snigger or not their silence for the time it was held spoke reams for where they really stood.  That silence for which they aren't known is sufficient to indicate whose side they are on and it's not Youngs. You have to remember they have earphones directing where they need to go if they are caught out behaving badly. Too late Bolt too late and besides Dean is renowned for his snigger it's apart of his schtick. The apologies were made not for any other reason that they were facing a legal backlash and were advised.

"Senator Hanson-Young has engaged defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who has issued legal letters to Senator Leyonhjelm, Sky News and 3AW radio over the matter.

Sky News has apologised for airing comments by Senator Leyonhjelm during its Sunday morning Outsiders program, hosted by commentator Rowan Dean and former Liberal MP Ross Cameron. They have also apologised on-air."

 Bolt in his usual "yes" "but" fashion here wants to steal part of the action as well. Yes, I agree he says Leyonhjelm crossed the line but the victim Young is even worse. A woman having been raped doesn't deserve to complain about the men watching that's just going too far. The media reaction of Sky not taking a forthright stance or taking even a delayed one speaks for itself. Bolt is now really back in the sexist mode of declaring Young and the ABC just another women's group little more than "frightbats" squealing too loudly in a misogynist culture. The victim sees more clearly than those defending what they otherwise insist is the equitable norm.
  Peter van Onselen‏Verified account @vanOnselenP

Peter van Onselen Retweeted Sharon Smith

Those accountable for that disgraceful show and its content are the male hosts, the male news director and the male CEO. Not a 25-year-old producer writing a strap which says exactly what a senator (disgracefully) said.

Peter van Onselen added,

Here Are All The Times Rowan Dean And Ross Cameron Were Extremely Normal About Women

Highlights include suggesting paid domestic violence leave was "normalising violence" and linking feminism to depression.

 Makes Bolt's defence look quite pathetic really

 

Alan Moran inspired everyone on the far right was popular with the ultra-right of the LNP, the IPA. Tony Abbott Cory Bernardi and Murdoch media all still court him and his anti-everything positions. However, he became so extreme he was suddenly dropped. Sacked by the IPA and ignored publicly by PM Abbott as his social media activities became far too extreme to be believed and simply they were too disliked by the public. Now that's saying something. However, he still remains the lovechild of the likes of Sky News opinionators Rowan Dean and Andrew Bolt. Moran was seen touting his anti-science on the Outsiders last night and Abbott will be touting the same on Bolt's program tonight. To the rest of the world, we have rapidly become a backward nation who gives voice to outliers like Moran.

"However, while Bernardi and Alan Moran’s views may be widely held within the Coalition, for the wider community they are seen as extreme, alarming and deeply unpopular."

"Moran’s views on Islam, climate change and renewable energy are closely aligned with a number of people within the federal Coalition." 

"In addition, Moran controversially suggested that deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek was using rape allegations to destabilise Bill Shorten’s leadership." 

Today the only people to take Moran seriously are the likes of the unmade bed Rowan Dean, Andrew Bolt the worst of the Sky News Free Zone after 8pm. He writes for Dean's Spectator as well as the IPA's Catallaxy Files. The man has been funded by the Tobacco Industries the Fossil Fuel Industries and other desperate regressive organization wanting to put the brakes on progress. Moran has been a long time gun for hire but too hot to handle. If you are too extreme for Tony Abbott then one can only say your too suspiciously obvious for politics.
 However, lest we forget just yesterday or the day before, Andrew Bolt once again declared Science to be just another Religion. It's as insane as declaring himself indigenous that changing the narrative is all it takes to change reality. It's strange just how much "religion" aka "science" Bolt uses to produce and distribute his commentaries but how little he uses to fill his content. His discourse generally lacks the intense method and rationale of scientific scepticism in favour of the faith that some of his readers will believe him.

DANES TELL IMMIGRANTS: GIVES US YOUR CHILDREN

Deep concern about Muslim integration in Denmark has led to extreme measures: "Starting at the age of 1, 'ghetto children' must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in “Danish values...” Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments."

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"Danish government wants double punishments for crimes in underprivileged areas"
They must have studied how Australia deals with it's indigenous.

Yep, there goes history Denmark isn't a settler nation 87% are of Danish descent. The US and Australia are and 50% of first-generation Australians have migrant connections which we support so Australia isn't a monoculture and Bolt without even consideration as to what Australians think seems to want to make it one. However, he's never really been able to define which. Go to his home and you will see Dutch culture from the shoes up. 
So Bolt who can't accept multiculturalism spends an inordinate period of time applying "angled" statistics to prove his point that those he deems unworthy to be Australians are the most dysfunctional. However, when the statistics are applied to the nation as a whole one sees they, in fact, have no impact. Bolt never applies the positive facts in the same way. One-eyed bigoted he sure is! While those he really has to tolerate be processed in Culture camps like the Chinese once had and the Danes are applying now in an otherwise smaller way the stolen children policy to preschoolers. Well, Australia was once a leader when it was "stealing children" wasn't it. The Danes, a Socialist nation, are doing now for 25hrs a week. Bolt doesn't mention the totality of their welfare programs that support migrants in Denmark differently from here.  He's in favour of the Hancock program no doubt. Lang Hancock it was rumoured suggested sterilisation as an effective means of eradicating a generational problem. 
The problem, however, seems the lack of acceptance and an attempt by a power group with its diffuse use of culture wanting to dominate by any means a group not offering itself up for examination. 

Bolt always tells us he has great ratings off a small base when he has none when examined overall. He applies that statistical method only in the negative to "others" so they are bad and don't belong. The problem is not the "other" but his "angled" view.
For instance, why does Bolt talk about the government of Denmark and then jump to Sweden? We have been lead to believe they are two distinct countries.  Bolt refers to an "amateurish" study to make some politicly driven point that uses figures of 95% of rapes without mentioning the base at all was Julian Assange the 10 or 15% of that 95%? Bolt also complains that this message has been ignored by the Swedish Media, Government and people in charge. I wonder why Sweden isn't a backward or uninformed country by any means but Bolt prefers the facts of a 40-year-old truckie published in a well-known e-zine SputnikNews a wholly operated and owned Russian ezine accused of being the Propaganda arm of Putin
They have also been labelled by Politifact as publishing misleading or false stories.  Overall, this is a borderline questionable source; however most times they report real news that is mostly factual. Sputnik is a pro-Russian website that needs fact checking. (7/31/2016) Updated (8/4/2017)
Bolt searches for stories to fit his predetermined conclusions like a bent cop

CHINA TESTS LOYALITES OF A MILLION CHINESE AUSTRALIANS

Former Prime Minister John Howard has raised a real security concern that few politicians - other than Pauline Hanson - have dared even hint at. Australia has 1 million people of Chinese ancestry, and the Chinese police state is now counting on using the divided loyalties of some. My editorial from The Bolt Report:

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The Dutch never have to test Bolt's loyalty but then if they knew who he was they probably wouldn't want him. Bolt, however, as usual, is focusing on the other telling us he can wear Orange but the Chinese Australians aren't all batting for TEAM AUSTRALIA. How Abbott of him. He wants to start symbolically at least another Cronulla if he can. However, it's Bolt that's happy to offend China if and only is it drives a wedge between Australians. Forget the fact that 75% of Aussies believe if you're a citizen your an Aussie. Bolt the dual passport holder who dreams of retirement in Holland doesn't.

SCRAP THIS WITCHHUNTING COMMISSION

Another fake claim of racism  shows the Human Rights Commission cannot be reformed. It must be scrapped. Any witch hunter we hire must find witches, and in a country so short of real racists, the commission's Race Discrimination Commissioner  has a dangerous record of inventing more.  My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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 "in a country so short of real racists, the commission's Race Discrimination Commissioner  has a dangerous record of inventing more." Bolt
It's so true in fact so true the AHRC finds it deals with next to no cases. But beware of the person who protests so much Andrew Bolt he is one of the few and he seems only protected by the legal backing of his master's lawyers. However, he has been convicted and when he cries foul today we know he remains who he is unchanged an ultra-racist. He is what he is.

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 2/7/18; Politics killed the system. The LNP's privatisation of power producers and deliverers under Howard and others has allowed for Gaming of the System ; Now Abbott's calling for Socialism to reverse what he supported and did but only of Coal;

TIPS FOR MONDAY, JULY 2

Tell us the news here. On The  Bolt Report on Sky News at 7pm: so a Sudanese woman rents your valuble house through AirBnB. Only a racist would worry, wouldn't they, despite the latest house being trashed.

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Australian teenagers have a history and record of trashing their parent's homes and the Herald Sun used to be the first to headline the events. Generally, they were the kids of a wealthy and white middle class. Kids from the schools Bolt sent his. The fact is that rules changed with easy over-enthusiastic landlords providing rentals via Airbnb market and that has allowed Bolt to selectively pick the headline news today. The trashing of homes and rental properties has always occurred but as they are now affordable and available to a wider market the attention has turned away from over-energetic spoiled white kid's destruction to that of minority groups particularly if they are Sudanese or African. The other issues of damage in the Airbnb market are left silent. Rest assured property damage in rental housing isn't solely the domain of the Sudanese kids or their community but the reporting by Bolt is and can be guaranteed when it happens. Heis guaranteed to make out it's exceptional as if it's not uncommon to that group alone. When it's not and never has been. It's part of what's regarded as Rental Risk which is higher in the new AirBnB market desperate to rent.

TIM SNIFFS RACISM WHERE NONE EXISTS

Column Tim  Soutphommasane has proved with a final smear  of the Attorney-General why the government was right to drop him as the Race Dioscrimination Commission — but must not now replace him. He has  misquoted Christian Porter to vilify him as a racist. See, when you pay a man to find witches, he must invent some where none exist.

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You have to laugh at Bolt's next Banner" Tim Sniffs "when he has proved himself to be an ultra-racist. 
1) Go to his son's IPA podcast last December and listen to Bolt's personal white boy's derision of the Sudanese Beauty Pageant. It couldn't be more racist.
2) Bolt selectively searches for episodic events that are part and parcel of short-term rental risk in which hundreds of accounts of damage are listed and ever more so since Airbnb entered the market. Bolt who once singled out white kids trashing homes when their parents were away has turned top report only the misdemeanours of the Sudanese and the implies it a whole community and immigration issue.
Yes, Tim sniffs out racism but fails to sniff in Bolt's direction where racism reeks. Bolt isn't a nail he is a Bolt

KILL PENSIONERS FOR THE PLANET

Column How dangerous is SBS? It is running an ad to push its global warming religion that could make our annual winter death toll even worse by  telling the old and poor to turn their heat off this winter.

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 According to Bolt, he's blaming SBS for reporting facts
"It is running an ad to push its global warming religion that could make our annual winter death toll even worse, especially among poor pensioners." Bolt


The day before yesterday he went on to speak of "fuel poverty" that pensioners were dying because of "fuel poverty" a new term coined by the Tories in the UK to hide the increased poverty not brought about by fuel at all but by the austerity policies of the Tory government and the widening wealth gap that's been occurring.UN human rights chief to probe extreme poverty in the UK — RT UK News

Bolt's idiocy is palpable in his support of single-use plastic bags. As with climate change the world is driving against their use even in the country, he feels at home in the most of, the Netherlands. When we know that single-use bags are 25% of the pollution outflow from our river systems which are 90% of the pollution in our oceans. His banners are sensational not to convey news or rational debate but are there to attract as PAYWALLS to the Herald-Sun and his columns. Yesterday he claimed they were excruciating hard work. However, if you actually examine them what they are they a culmination of what he has blogged about for the past week and sometimes longer. All this to sell Murdoch's papers and to be have been repeated on Sky.
Bolt last week applied statistics when he said 5.5 people more died because of stopping the use of these bags not %  but 5.5 people. Bolt's actually reported that half a person had died.

 

  Power prices are higher because energy companies are gaming the rules says Grattan Institute

 “Federal and state politicians should be honest about the likelihood that higher wholesale price expectations are the new normal, and that intervention to keep ageing legacy assets is a poor long-term solution. Instead, governments should keep the pressure on other parts of the electricity bill such as retail and networks.”
Green power is cheaper than dirty coal-powered electricity. If that's the case the average should drop but  " There is no silver bullet that will drastically reduce the cost – and price – of generating and delivering electricity,” the Grattan Institute report said.
It accused the energy industry of ‘gaming’ the system, creating artificial supply scarcity to drive up power prices."
 The fragmentation and privatisation turned the market into a profit-driven one rather than a service-driven one and now it's too big for any government to buy back and rationalise for the betterment of all Australians.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION GOES NUTS UNDER TURNBULL PICK

The Human Rights Commission gets even crazier, despite the Turnbull Government hiring someone "safer" than Gillian Triggs to run it: "A 'bizarre' human rights commission demand that an ­insurance heavyweight comp­en­sate a convicted child pornographer for refusing to hire him will be investigated by the Turnbull government."  

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Bolt's all for a country with no Bill of Rights written into its constitution no Human Right's  Commission at all. Then nobody would have the right to complain.  So why does Bolt feel so at home in the Netherlands a place dearly love to retire to a Socialist country and one of the top 10 in the EU? Why because the country has everything he wants us not to have? "All the more reason to believe the real problem is the commission itself. Don't change the captain, scrap the ship." Bolt  Is he really an Australian he certainly doesn't reflect the values of the majority of this country none of the values of the Netherlands and he certainly wouldn't survive in the USA with the attitudes he adheres to.
He's complaining that the AHRC has sent a case to be dealt in the courts because in their opinion it was a matter of law.
We know what Bolt thinks of Australian Law as well "f" the law I was innocent and should have been allowed to lie" " We're we privately assured such judgments would not happen"Bolt
Who assured him judgements that he didn't like were never going to be made again the man in the moon?  Bolt wants to scrap the AHRC, The Law, Universities, the ABC, SBS, get the drift? His man to do it is still Tony Abbott or someone groomed in the IPA in the future no doubt.
When someone wants to single-handedly change all our Institutions and Culture I think Fascist is the appropriate word, isn't it?

Andrew Bolt's Blog,4/1/18; Murdoch's business a licence to print money; Skewing the statistics and political misuse and misinformation; An appeal from humanity; A Voice of Reason;

 Rupert Murdoch called Trump a 'f---ing idiot,' new book claims

" Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch called US President Donald Trump a "f---ing idiot" after a phone call with the newly-elected president, according to an explosive book chronicling the inner workings of Trump's chaotic administration."

Nevertheless great for the fake news business

 Three teens arrested in Tarneit after 'they spat at and threatened' police

 The 17-year-old has already been charged with resisting arrest, assaulting police, riotous behavior, and other assault-related offenses, she said

How to raise the Stats a lesson in potential bias.

Here we have 3 plus plus charges laid against one boy how much more will be laid depends on the DPP. Then there are the charges to come against the other two? The number in total could be as many as 20++. One thing is certain it raises the question of bias created in crime rates in Tarneit for one, and any minority group profiled. Even more so given the reality of the charges hasn't yet been proved only alleged but recorded in police files.
  So it then becomes so easy for politicians to use skewed stats for the sake of political gamesmanship.  If these lads were Sudanese from a minority these 20+ charges have an enormous impact in terms of rates because of the small base. If these kids were recidivists even more negative bias provides fodder  for scaremongering and political football for the likes of Matthew Guy and now Federal our politicians like Turnbull Dutton and Hunt, In 2018 we will see this political fearmongering grow as we get nearer the elections, ( Old Dog Thought)
  

Teen accused of kicking police officer in the face back in custody for bail breach

 

 It is believed he was caught with a mobile phone within hours of being freed.
Victoria Police confirmed detectives from the Maribyrnong Crime Investigation Unit remanded the teenager for breaching his bail conditions on Thursday night

Why does the media really only report one side story? It's easier! Why where the police stalking a boy on bail it seems he's hardly a major threat to society? Now they are out to stop him doing Year 12. It seems odd and an overkill for a misdemenour ( Old Dog)

 

  Racial discrimination and harassment still rife in Victoria police, study finds | Australia news | The Guardian

 

  https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au/videos/10157898435109988/

 A meeting of African-Australian community leaders in Melbourne prepared a statement calling on the Federal Government to embrace a bipartisanship approach to the complex issues behind youth crime in the city.

 

  'Too much panic, not enough perspective': race commissioner Tim Soutphommasane on youth crime debate

A voice of reason

  No proof in the pudding: Dutton grilled over his restaurant fear claims

Dutton opens his mouth and fails to deliver any proof. Just how many times does he have to prove he's a buffoon? Remember Boomgate...Lest we Forget

Andrew Bolt's Blog,26/7/17; Laws of contempt available to Bromberg but not Triggs so Bolt shows his yellow underbelly; Bolt the Christian Crusader or zealot;

GILLIAN TRIGGS - POLITICAL AND WRONG TO THE LAST

Human Rights Commission head Gillian Triggs is biased. She gave false evidence to Senate committees -  then falsely claimed she hadn't, despite having apologised. Her commission has persecuted the innocent. And today she leaves with another false and biased claim: "We have a government that’s ideologically opposed to human rights."

 Professionalism in Australia is dead and as far as Bolt is concerned. Triggs need to be hung drawn and quartered on the altar of Bolt's temple of the extreme right why? The AHRC is nothing more than an instrument of repression of individuals. It's personal because Bolt seems to think the AHRC sent him to court.  However, it didn't he sent himself there. In his case, private mediation failed and the parties concerned chose to resolve their issue in court."First two of my own articles were banned. "Bolt The AHRC didn't ban Bolt's articles our courts did.

 According to Bolt, the courts have been hijacked by the  Left why? Judge Mordecai Bromberg found Bolt guilty and he has once had some affiliation with the Labor Party. Andrew Bolt also worked for the  Labor Party but as far as he's concerned he remained untainted and it still he feels looks good on his CV but not so  Bromberg who according to Bolt will have to carry that stain for life. The Arts, Judiciary, Universities Scientific organizations all our institutions have been hijacked by the Left and Andrew Bolt can prove it.  That is Andrew Bolt who says "I'm just a conservative and  not right wing" 

If style has meaning Bolt hides behind an image of a gentleman, pretends to be a sophisticate,  a dapper man, a bon vivant, man of higher tastes. But when you read Bolt's blogs you discover the real man behind the mask with a poison pen in hand. A vengeful vitriolic man on the edge, a ball of pus that bursts open with hatred for those that have slighted him in any way or have seen through his charade. Bolt claims to be a debater of issues but generally focuses on people, not their role not the systemic process but the very nature of people themselves and is it strange he more often than not fixates on women, Triggs, Baird, Ford, Gillard are among a few.

Triggs isn't a highly qualified judge a professional appointed head  Statutory appointed Independant body to over see Human Rights in a country that has no Bill of Human Rights written into it's Constitution. To Bolt Human Rights isn't an issue. Triggs is a liar, a torturer,  inquisitioner, with a personal political agenda to repress. Why does Bolt  have all this vitriol?Triggs or should I say the HRC didn't ban Bolt's articles Bromberg did. All the HRC did was to agree that there was an issue between Bolt and others and private mediation should be tried. Mediation failed and that's why it proceeded to court.

What Bolt, had written were judged to be lies. Bolt's irrationality reveals itself here " No wonder the Commission has an astonishing record of settling so cases in secret, which suggests to me that many people and companies are just handing over go-away money rather than risk their reputations..."  Bolt  The function of the AHRC is to provide two parties with the possibility of mediation and settlement of their dispute in private and not how the AHRC sees fit. Failing any resolution the parties choose to go to court. The choice is and was in Bolt's free and they both chose to resolve it in front of a judge. How can Bolt get away with what he's posted here in in the past about Gillian Triggs?Because he can't and hasn't the balls to attack Justice Bromberg. Derryn Hinch did and was slapped with a contempt charge and wound up in jail. Bolt has the freedom to attack Bromberg too for vengeance sake like Hinch. But he's a gutless Golem and goes for Triggs instead as she doesn't have the powers of Bromberg and the Law behind her to that extent. Bolt uses his freedom to stain the very nature of the freedoms he has.

 

ABC'S SOURCE: ABC WAS NOT FAIR IN SMEARING CHRISTIANITY

The ABC falsely claimed our worst wife beaters were evangelical Christians who went to church sporadically. The academic whose work the ABC cited says its anti-Christian report "fails the basic journalistic test of fairness": "[It] does not square with the evidence that church-going couples ... appear to be less likely to suffer domestic violence."  

1) Bolt has lied. Baird didn't smear Christianity she referred to some research data  and reported it. The ABC didn't run a series on anti- Christianity at all, if you try to Bolt's  link for his evidence all you hit is a PAYWALL.

2) Baird reported Wilcox's research findings which weren't wrong and threw them open for discussion. Bolt conveniently overlooks the fact that two senior Christians addressed those findings on the DRUM and both agreed along with Baird that they didn't represent Australia. However the Anglican Bishop did admit Anglicans and he had been extremely remiss in dealing with domestic violence and the support they'd provided when confronted by parishioner victims. That response by an Anglican Bishop and not an Evangelical or talking about lapsed Christian parishoners is totally ignored by Andrew Bolt. We aren't talking about what the Church "preaches" but the fact tha domestic violence is a fact of life among Christians and it's a fact known to the church which it Bishop agreed  has been mishandled. Wives were repeatedly sent back to violent family situations because the family was the all important unit.

3) Wilcox showed that sporadic evangelical  Christians did exist and they used their Chritianity to justify their domestic violent acts. Neither Baird nor Wilcox for one moment suggested that these were anything but an outlier group. Bolt begs to differ and declares it an attack on all Christianity.  He  projects his own flaws and puts them on Baird flaws she didn't commit. Bolt however has always and with the full force of his righteousness  declared that ISIL was representative of ISLAM. He's accusing Baird and the ABC of demeaning Christianity as he does ISLAM

4) Bolt regularly calls out Australian Aborigines as the most likely cohort in Australia to commit domestic violence and he's right.  What he doesn't ever say however is that Aborigines on the most part are Christians. I'm sure Bolt and Christians would raise hell and say they aren't representative of us in the same  way  Muslims say ISIL aren't Muslim.  Bolt is adamant that it's Aboriginal Culture that's at fault  along with poor child rearing. In other words Bolt blames the victims for their own demise. He avoids the association of alcohol and domestic violence and that it's visibility is associated with poverty. The more poor the more visible and Aborigines are the poorest people in this country. Domestic violence occurrs in suburbs like Bolt's as well but it's hidden and dealt with invarious and different ways

5) Religion and alocohol are also connected as Christianity is the only major faith on the planet that acknowledges alcohol as a gift from god. That's a fact and it's not a smear on Christianity and Bolt is right we are in the main a Christian nation and a world renown drunk one. We celebrated the movie Wake in Fright as a very much an Australian movie and our Christian kids are binge drinkers. Rehab centers are jammed packed with kids from private schools and elsewhere. Not packed with Buddhists, Hindus or Muslims but Christians.

6) Bolt never addresses these issues he's havin a media wara a war with the ABC with Julia Baird  because she addressed data. Data that just might make us think differently about who we are. If Bolt were preparing an essay for uni and he handed it in he'd fail. He refuses to empathize. He missed the point of Bairds findings altogether attributed to her things that were never said for the sole purpose of smearing the ABC and not defending Christianity at all.

7) Fairness isn't the issue here. Bullshit on Bolt's part is