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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.
Former
PM calls for the country’s media watchdog to be abolished, saying it
had failed during the pandemic by not upholding broadcast standards at
Sky News.
When the Media does for the LNP what the LNP doesn't do for us. "Making Anonymous Announcements" it shows we have neither a government, a media, nor a Democracy. Just a shit scared LNP grasping for authoritarian control.
While the focus is on the Nationals’ objections, moderate Liberals say behind the scenes they have all but won the argument.
As the price of renewable generation continues to fall, Scott Morrison is facing a test on energy policy as Barnaby Joyce backs new coal fired power.
Analysis
Climate policy
Net zero by 2050: why Liberal Party moderates believe they’ve won
While the focus is on the Nationals’ objections, moderate Liberals say behind the scenes they have all but won the argument.
James Massola
Yes Morrison keeps "announcing his plan" just as he does for COVID
Afghan friends and colleagues began asking for help leaving the
country in June. The requests were nothing new, but in the past they’d
mostly been in jest. Now they were serious and urgent. The people who
made them weren’t just seeking a better life but refuge.
Keeping this off the front pages of our MSM does Morrison a favour
As the High Court’s final decision on the Julian Assange trial draws
nearer, John Pilger bears witness to the latest development in the
attack on journalistic integrity.
Infiltrating
a nest of Australia’s far-right radicals revealed they are angry, armed
and training for societal collapse. Uncovering their identities came
next.
What Fox News does Sky News's Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt follow. They are the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb, the Dumb and Dumber of Murdoch's Australian stable. Even 2GBs Ray Hadley has shown that, along with Media Watch's Paul Barry, Jones can't read or understand statistics while Andrew Bolt is little more than his blind Neanderthal follower drooling yes yes from both sides of his mouth.
Even the CEO of Sky News recently pulled Jones's ridiculously false commentary on set of stats encouraging Australians that there is greater danger from Covid if vaccinated. Bolt cheering Jones all the way. The self claimed most read Political Blogger and podcaster hasn't posted more than 2 posts in two weeks and is 107th on Chartable's podcast ratings. More often than not he seems to have others do the talking for him. Others like Katy Hopkins who he stands shoulder to shoulder with.
These two anti-lockdowners and anti- vaxxers by the way work for Murdoch who demands his staff be jabbed.
Bye Bye Mr Nice Guy say his blue ribbon seat Kooyong Constituents
It’s also clear that Frydenberg has always had a ruthless streak, so
perhaps he could indeed become prime minister one day. The Coalition has
successfully changed leaders before the past two elections and
Frydenberg is Liberal Party heir apparent. However, it will take more
than faux opinion pieces in the Herald Sun to repair the damage
done in Victoria and Kooyong, so if Frydenberg does want to become
prime minister, he would be wise to force a Libspill before the next
election.
The Tokyo “2020” Olympic games are just like every other Olympics:
a bonanza for corporate profits, and miserable for everyone else. The
Olympics can’t be reformed — it’s time to abolish them.
Sky News boss Paul Whittaker is trying to find a free-to-air future for his news channel.
Sky News Australia is trying to strike a deal to keep programs such as The Bolt Report, Jones and Co and Paul Murray Live on free-to-air television as it nears the end of its agreement with broadcaster WIN Corp.
Meanwhile, Sky News’ current partner, WIN, is unlikely to agree to a new
deal because of a new arrangement with Nine that will come into effect
in the middle of the year. Sky News declined to comment.
Sky News has been able to expand its audience rapidly through regional WIN TV over the past three years but not because of it's talent.
Here is an oxymoron if ever there was one " The Future of News- Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones"and Paul Murray. Whittaker Sky's CEO has to be the laziest unimaginative boss in Murdoch's global stable. Andrew Bolt has been a ratings failure since being thrown off 2GB. His podcasts have been trashed by an inexpensive program delivered from a shed by Van Badham and Ben Davison. A truly David and Goliath feat.
His TV program has been waved goodbye to by regional broadcaster WIN and the Herald Sun print part of News Corp is bleeding money. Yet what does lazy Whittaker do but the unimaginative and tries to wheel Bolt, Jones and the others out like Egyptian mummies to another location to try to save the day on even more "free to air" space.
Give Bolt a megaphone and a fruit box and see the attention he gets in the Sorrento/ Portsea shopping strip. Not one Lazarus or mummy her here but a bevy who are certainly not the fire starters to save SKY. Yes, finally the SKY is falling in after 8 years of telling us it was. Whittaker in this case is Chicken Little and the Sky is imploding. In the past Free to Air cranked Bolt's ratings up by almost 40% without him actually having to do anything a "free ride". He's no Sky Rocket that's for sure.
It’s been 100 days
since a mob of extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to
block the certification of President Biden’s victory and overthrow our
government at the urging of Donald Trump and his Big Lie. This week,
host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founders Steve
Schmidt & Rick Wilson, as well as Lincoln Project Senior Advisor
Stuart Stevens to discuss the aftermath of the insurrection and the
importance of never forgetting the events of January 6, 2021. Plus, a
look-ahead to the 2022 midterm elections.
Exiting the endless staircase of LNP sending us to war agent orange war crimes and hell and the ALP returning the troops back to "normality"
Australian Defence Association Executive Director Neil James says people
have “chosen to ignore” the issue of veteran suicides, with one key
reason being that so few Australians now have “any personal experience
of military service”.
His comments come after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced plans
for a Royal Commission into veteran suicides in order to address the
mental toll deployment takes on Australian soldiers.
“This has been a serious problem for some time,” Mr James told Sky News
host Andrew Bolt.
“People have chosen to ignore it, there are many varied reasons for it”.
“But one of the key ones is so few Australians now have any personal
experience of military service - even in their extended family, they
don’t understand the problem and the veterans come back to a national
community that doesn’t understand what they’ve been through.”
The lack of attention to vet suicide isn't due to any public outcry or choice. It's due to the lack of attention care and leadership of governments. Governments that simply focus on issues that will attract votes rather than problems. Vietnam and successive losses thereafter weren't wars governments wanted remembered. The mental health issues they caused were ignored for years. As has indigenous deaths in custody domestic violence and gambling.
Scott Morrison has shown he's failing badly on all these counts and has been desperately in need of an issue to distract us and make him look good. He needs an issue, the assistance of the media to bring to the forefront of our minds and ANZAC DAY and vets is it. Andrew Bolt the white nationalist is just the person to do that. Recently back from holiday and need of a subject what better than making the PM appear to have empathy. However, Andrew Bolt didn't choose the topic it was prepared for him to read on his first day back.
Objections from Byron Bay locals to the filming of a new Netflix reality
series ‘Byron Baes’ is “nothing more than class warfare,” according to
the IPA’s Bella D’Abrera.
The reality show, about social media influencers in Byron Bay, has been
met by a petition signed by more than 6,000 people who don’t want it to
be filmed in the town.
“Australia’s meant to be a classless society, but the elite have
colonised Byron Bay,” Ms D’Abrera told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“They now inhabit Byron Bay and they don’t want the great unwashed
flooding the streets of Byron Bay”.
“Really this is nothing more than elite nimbyism, that’s all this is.”
It's interesting isn't it a Right-Wing think tank like the IPA sounding as if they are Donald Trump. Anti-elitist and establishment but working class heroes. Australia was never "meant" to be a "classless society". It was meant to only "seem" one. Where are these IPA commentators from? We were never a "classless society". If we were there'd be no Toorak, Portsea or Sorrento, Palm Beach, Double Bay or Vaucluse there'd be social housing in all those suburbs.
Byron Bay was once the social welfare Capital of Australia. A place where the rich and poor youth of the 60s and 70s went to turn on, tune in , drop out and surf for a while. A place for a gap year. But like everywhere areas once discovered by the young, the unemployed and alternative life stylers it would inevitably become gentrified developed and taken over by the wealthier arrivals. There was "no class war". There may have been a progressively multicultural change? But no war, rather it's called the progressive march of capitalism over time. The evolution of rising prices displaced the poor who simply can't afford to live there any longer. 6000 people simply don't want an accelerated change of lifestyles commercialized by Netflix. They don't want Byron's "charm" destroyed any more than it has already been with the road in and out totally gridlocked and an unreality reality show promoting it.
The IPA really doesn't care about individual peoples lifestyles it's a cartel and a government influencer, It's a lobbyist's for established corporations, and industries the real elite as opposed to the cultural and diverse one in Byron. There is no class war to be found there. Nor would there be one if the program was proposed for Sorrento, Portsea, or Lorne. They're simply people who have invested in a cultural lifestyle and don't wan't it rapidly changed. There is no class divide in Byron maybe a curiosity as there is the Kardashians to commercialise.
The
conflicting, contradictory pressures on Scott Morrison’s government and
his grasp on the prime ministership were graphically displayed these
past seven days.
This week was indeed a long time in politics.
Morrison started his latest horror stretch by losing control
completely of his signature, self-styled “one job” for 2021 – the
seamless, successful and rain-making rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
After deploying the usual suite of absurdist over-promising,
self-congratulatory, look-at-me promises and targets, Morrison was left
without a feather to hide his immodesty, let alone fly with, as
everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
“Critical race theory?” “Gender ideology?” “Woke progressive agenda?”
“Identity politics?” Add in “cancel culture” and “political
correctness,” and Campos-Duffy would have a full right-wing bingo card.
These terms, which I’ve referred to in the past as “rhetorical empty calories,” have long served as verbal crutches in conservative media
How
often did the media spread lies about Donald Trump? The latest is
exposed: "The Washington Post is standing by a "Four Pinocchios"
fact-check rating it gave then-President Donald Trump last year, even
after U.S. intelligence backed away from reports that Russia placed
bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan."
Due to an obligatory work order to phish for subscriptions Bolt has seen fit to raise Lazarus from the dead while on his gardening holiday. Meanwhile Trump is sinking from sight in America according to Pew Polls and Biden is bathing in the support of 75% of the country. Andrew Bolt is in some retarded way trying to attract attention to himself by yelling "Trump" and not to any truth.
We all know Trump and Manaforte were Russian assets who would have had insider's information from the Kremlin, the FSB and once a member always a member Colonel Putin. All Putin wanted them to do was foment chaos and he'd look good. However, what isn't clear is the information U.S. Intelligence had or how they used it given America's best were still in Afghanistan. What the Secret Service says publicly, what they know and what they do with it is certainly not relayed to either Murdoch or his hacks like Bolt with any guaranteed integrity. The Washington Post however stood by the invetigative integrity of a reputed fact checker and not America's spies who have always had a history of manipulating news for other than truth. A bit like Bolt really.
So if Bolt is the last person to know what and why America's secret service does as we all are. What is he and news Corp up to? We know Trump paid no attention to the daily security briefings as he was too busy watching Fox and Morning Joe. Consequently the only thing exposed is Bolt flashing to draw attention to himself and the subs he's pressured and duty bound to collect, That's the only media hoax here.
White House press
secretary refused to say if announced withdrawal of US troops include
special forces — because they’re staying — along with CIA operatives,
other US dark forces and PMCs — not leaving.
Pentagon special forces operate covertly and overtly in around two-thirds of world community countries.
According to analyst Nick Turse, preemptive US wars on invented enemies increasingly rely on“special operations forces, private contractors, local proxies working with and for the military and CIA, and air power.”
Comprising most of the US presence in Afghanistan, they’ll remain if and when Pentagon foot soldiers are withdrawn.
Much
of what they’re involved in is covert. All of it is up to no good —
exploiting the country and its people, including by crimes of war and
against humanity.
For
the past two weeks, millions of Americans have been living in an
alternative universe, but their comfortable bubble is about to be burst
...
He gets protection in the White House and this evaporates in about eight weeks.
In other words, the grift is coming to an end. Taxpayers will no
longer pick up the tab for his golfing trips and the privileged
lifestyle his family maintains. On top of that, Trump has nearly a billion dollars in debt and most of it is due to be repaid next year.
As Hugh Marks abruptly exits Nine, what kind of destruction is he leaving behind?
News might not be a buyer for Seven outright but the two have been
rumoured to look at merging their news operations to give the struggling
Sky News a free-to-air outlet after Lachlan Murdoch lost the takeover
for the Ten network.
The departure of Nine boss Hugh Marks couldn't have come at a better time for News Corp. Did someone in Nine help him on his way? If they did, it has weakened
the company just as the company was on the cusp of overtaking News Corp
as the dominant force in Australian media.
After an entirely unexpected election win, Morrison is being hailed as a genius
Matthias Cormann is hailed as a competent strategist. It was his idea to court Pauling Hanson before the Western Australian state election, and it was his backing that led to Peter Dutton challenging for the leadership. He retains the Finance portfolio despite his disloyalty and obvious inability to count. When he assures us that the economy is strong, it’s about as believable as when he said he was loyal to Malcolm Turnbull. When you knowingly surround yourself with unscrupulous incompetents for political purposes, the question needs to be asked – were you just trying to win an election or do you seriously want to take on the job of actually running the country?
Good stuff from Fox News who quietly changed its headline that amplified the hoax that Antifa was throwing cement milkshakes at the Proud Boys in Portland without issuing a correction, or even acknowledging it
While there is plenty of video evidence of people throwing milkshakes, and members of the left-wing contingent were handing them out, there’s no actual evidence to suggest that the “quick-drying cement” rumour is anything more than that -- an unsubstantiated rumour.
Conservative journalists and commentators began running with the PPB’s tweet as confirmation that there was concrete mixed into the shakes when, of course, this was far from a statement of certainty.
Fox News published a story to its website headlined “Antifa, conservative protests turn violent as demonstrators throw milkshakes of quick-dry cement at police and onlookers.” Mother Jones reporter Ali Breland noted that Fox later quietly edited its headline to remove the reference to the milkshakes without issuing a correction. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/media-watch/series/0/video/FA1835H021S00 Paul Barry Media Catches Andrew Bolt out again for Faking Facts Like the ban on plastic bags will wreck the economy. Bolt just prattles on withotfacts to back up anything he reall has to say. He delivers it as information but it's fake and without fact.
All this whinging of course is coming from a white male heterosexual indigenous Australian who holds himself up as the symbol victimhood of everything Australian. Andrew Bolt afraid to step out the front door why? Thinking he won't be recognised or noticed. In short, he attacks an Aboriginal playwright for being Aboriginal. Then he attacks Julie Bishop for being a danger to who he and Tony Abbott of course. Will Julie Bishop, and Malcolm Turnbull be seen campaigning in Warringah? Will they speak poorly of the Liberal Party? They are entitled to but smack em down before they do. After all, they don't have the permanent mike in hand. How dare they speak up to anything in Australia's interest? They are just pedestrian people now not celebrities and ought not to be allowed to have an amplified voice. Maybe Bolt could offer Milo a paid gig to support Tony and distract Warringah? Watch Bolt's claim of personal victimhood in the next post below. The victim of "bad bad Corporate citizens". Definition of lousy anyone who doesn't listen to Andrew Bolt dual Citizen.
11m If corporations are citizens then so are trade Unions Bolt it seems is the arbiter of good and bad "a business that helps the mob to shut down debate is a very bad corporate citizen. " That's not a very convincing start to debate but more of the one you would expect from a preacher. But then Bolt's a gutless one at that When all said and done the companies and individuals are entitled to what they want against or for Andrew Bolt. Note however whose gutless here who isn't specific but readily just talks in generalisations. Who doesn't name anyone himself but just draw attention to Albrechtsen and Beasley really only Beasley reporting his opinion? Yes, Bolt's Don Quixote he's the one battling the "bad" corporations. But how often have we heard Bolt point out that private businesses are entitled to do whatever they want in their best commercial interests? Sky is allowed to change as well should Lachlan Murdoch consider it an appropriate thing to do. Is Bolt worried he might like 2GB did? As for Beasley, he's one man also entitled to his opinion no generalisations, however, can really be made from that one man's opinion as Bolt does. Bolt could however easily attack NIB directly and Pool Werks alongside Beasley instead of treating him as some third party. There doesn't seem to be any shoulder to shoulder fightback here on Bolt's part does there. Yes many Australians appreciate the ethics revealed of companies like those that have turned their backs on Sky Gutless Bolt sure is "many" start a petition Bolt gather names not generalisations "I have heard from many other Australians who are also alarmed that companies are siding with a few activists" Bolt
“Yeah, but at least an advertiser boycott is more a grassroots thing, like lots of people, have to participate for it to work,” Carlson said. “It’s when the government gets in, the FCC, and a bunch of unelected bureaucrats take you off the air — that’s scary, I think that’s different.” Tucker Carlson
What you do hear is Aborigines are Australia's worst offenders. Christianity protects children and women. Let's overlook the fact that Aborigines are also much higher practising Christians than Australia's whites are.
"There are 7,000 clergy planet-wide that are under charges for abuse of children," said John Lawrence, a protester outside the court who told Al Jazeera he was a victim of sexual abuse in the Church. "I think it's time that after this case they face the consequences."
Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for the sexual abuse of two boys in 1996 in a Melbourne cathedral. Pell - once the Vatican's chief financial officer and an adviser to Pope Francis - is the highest-ranking Catholic Church official to be convicted of molesting children.
Andrew Bolt has ears like nobody else unique he says when listening to the Juge sentencing Pell He's promising a cut and paste butchering of what the Judge said cherry picking it to present an alternative judgement not a sentence before the appeal process even begins. His conclusion is his priority, the question that comes to mind the judge was bound by the verdict to hand down a sentence according to our laws. Bolt isn't secured by anything but his own bias.
Who and what ideas and behaviour Andrew Bolt actually promotes to gain attention to himself should be clear to everyone by now. Yet Murdoch media gives him the go-ahead. I suspect Bolt is a dual passport holder, and as such deserves to answer the same questions he demands of other Australians he claims should have their's withdrawn,(ODT)
A letter sent to Yiannopoulos by immigration officials foreshadowed this week's final decision. The letter noted Australia had the power to block someone from entering the country if there was a risk that person would "incite discord in the Australian community or in a segment of that community".
The letter was released by one of Yiannopoulos' strongest supporters, Sky News host Andrew Bolt, earlier this month.
In June last year, Paypal suspended Yiannopoulos after he used the online payment system to send $14.88 to a Jewish journalist. The number 1488 is used by white supremacists and neo-Nazis because '14' represents the mantra of securing a future for white children and '88' represents "Heil Hitler". The same month he sent threatening text messages to journalists, stating: "I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight."
The 33-year-old confirmed he wrote the messages but said that he sent them to the reporters as a way to troll them.
When Bolt can't do it, he calls on some other paid lackey to do it for him and who better than ex-advertising guru now editor of The Spectator and Shockvertizer of Sky News but Rowan Dean to defend his defence of a failed political entertainer strapped for cash.
The free speech advocates never ask free speech to preach what. Goebel exercised free speech, and he whipped up anti-Semitism to such a state it justified killing 6 million Jews. He whipped the same hatred of the Romani which helped kill 2 million Gypsies. That same free speech is being used against the Rohingya today and against Muslims and the South Sudanese here. What we have here are who racist idiots arguing that any ideas with the resources and technology that they have access to ought to be free, why? Because Newcorp is the equivalent of just another individual voice. It's not.
What rot Newscorp is actively providing a mega- platform, not just a speakers corner box to stand on but a platform and loudspeakers the technology to promote bigotry and hate in an otherwise ordinary Democracy. Why call a conman strapped for cash who owes us $50,000 a victim? Because it gains them the attention of a Barnum a Bailey pornographic event. Milo isn't a victim in any way shape or form of anything other than his own use-by date that has left him with Neocons, ultra Racists Nazis and Pedophile groups as his only supporters and on the verge of bankruptcy.
If Bolt Dean are faux and fake supporters of "free speech" indecent speech and uncivilised speech un mannered speech in a world of children why is it they so anti- safe schools that want to promote decent speech?
Molestation in a public space just couldn't claim Pell's defenders. (ODT)
THE AGE TIPS GARBAGE OVER PELL. TO HELL WITH FAIRNESS
Witch hunt journalism. The Age now runs any trash about Cardinal George Pell: "'Joe' [claimed in 1996] Pell... had, 10 to 15 years earlier, been having sex with Mannix College trainee clerics at 'parties … involving young men’... He wanted $20,000 for compromising photographs which appeared to be of Pell... but could not produce the negatives."
PAYWALL
The man who claims to be a man of reason sound very Trumpish in debating the Age doesn't he. For days he's been flouting his faith in Pell over a 4-week court process in which he was found guilty. Let's not consider the years of investigation by the police and the time the DPP considering along the mentions that there was indeed a case to be heard.
To hell with that effort of fairness. All this steam and bluster to sell you and me a subscription to a Murdoch dirt rag. Bolt's plea that Pell is innocent was mostly held because Pell wouldn't have done the acts he was charged with in any public place where as a chorus of others would Pell was the exception and how do we know because a man of Andrew Bolt's reputation has said so. Bolt's really not original is he the uses the exact word we heard Pell use in a video of a police interview in Rome "garbage". Is that meant to sway his readers # me too Pell the man really is a child of authority, isn't he? Until of course he'd be interfered with by some authoritarian figure himself.
A subject totally ignored by Bolt but sounding far more reasoned than him was the letter submitted by Claire Kathleen Linane the wife of a victim of molestation by a priest when a boy and the extent they would go to to have their way.
Transparency is logically a must as it's been documented that serial sperm donors do exist. The children have the right to not break our laws of incest which is possible, and ignorance is no defence in the face of the law. However, the court deciding on parenthood is something significantly different, and as Bolt likes to tell us there was never any "Stolen Children". The question of whether the court assesses each case individually or applies the formula of one suit fits all as history shows it did to indigenous children is significantly different.
As this is a PAYWALL, I can only guess Andrew Bolt is on the side of history where stereotyping was heavily applied, and he prefers to say the reverse happened.
Andrew Bolt sees no "we" in Human Rights because it questions the interests of "me". The planet isn't "our" planet it's belongs to the survival of the fittest throughout history, and any interference in that and the free market of global competition will bring the world to the brink.
Philosophically Bolt has difficulty in explaining away China which has brought 1.3 billion out of poverty in less than 70 years. The world's history has been one of transition but Bolt and of course his notion of progress it might be asked in the benefit of whom. That is never really objectively assessed from all perspectives but told merely from those that benefited most.
Julian Burnside is dangerous as are the Greens or anyone that attempts to question the Colonial History of this country which only began 200 years ago.
Again the question arises from the man behind the desk the man who holds the volume button. Bolt's not arguing about free speech all our actions indicate that. What he's concerned about is he just might lose his microphone. Manners civility which Bolt calls for is thrown to the wind when he mocks and derides whole communities of Australians for their colour their religion and their beliefs in Australia's democracy. It's surprising and refreshing to watch The Drum, Q&A where a semblance of a form of debate actually takes place compared with the platforms of Sky after Dark mainly when Pool Werks and now the NIB have decided to withdraw their sponsorships. Nothing scares Bolt more than a BDS against Newscorp as does the BDS against Israel. The reality is Bolt is accountable to his audience and his advertisers. His advertisers are his weak spot and can be convinced what a waste of money he really is both in terms of ratings, value for money and the smell left associated with their brand. If he loses them, then he'll have no voice his greatest fear being switched off. His second most walking the streets of Melbourne in the belief people listen.
Bolt has always been into Tokenism, he looks for individuals like Sarah Henderson, Warren Mundine, Daisy Cummins to declare they are the real majority. However, all it shows is the amount of attention the minority gets when protecting their interests. Climate deniers are given 50% plus media attention on Sky, yet they represent the minority of global scientists. Warren Mundine where else but Sky would he be given the time when not seen as a representative of indigenous Australians Bolt turns to tokens easily found and represents them as the general. Henderson isn't representative of Liberal Party Culture no matter what she says, and Bolt certainly is holding her up as if the living proof.