The Utter Shame of Agreeing with Andrew Bolt

It strikes me as odd that prominent left-wing academic, anthropologist Dr Peter Sutton’s critique of the ABC’s documentary The Dark Emu Story should appear in The Australian, rather than say, his more logical milieu, The Age and SMH. After all, The Australian is owned by News Corp, the same company that shelters “right-wing shock jocks” such as Andrew Bolt, who, naturally, gets a serve in the article.

Might I theorise that Sutton wanted to use his article to, primarily, bag Their ABC.  He knew that, at The Australian, he’d get free rein to exercise his right to free speech, but probably not so much at The Age.  His other target is Dr Marcia Langton, that darling of the Left and current outspoken champion of the Voice.  She too could expect a degree of protection from Fairfax.  And Sutton does, indeed, get a lot of support in the comments thread.  Ironic, when you think about it, that he should find succour among the Murdoch-informed philistines whose company, one gathers…