Misplaced optimism in 48-point Helvetica On Friday morning, as per the ER post below, it was widely reported that ABC Chairwoman Ita Buttrose had ordered last monday’s infamous episode of Q&A be removed from all the national broadcaster’s platforms. More than twenty-four later, despite it being the matter of a mere moment to strike an […]

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Anyone who caught Monday’s Q&A and was appalled by its coven of foul-mouthed cliche-sprouters wallowing in the usual ABC orgy of mutual self-regard before a stacked audience will have been wondering what would be done, if anything, by way of official action and rebuke. Today, as The Australian reports, … ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose backed […]

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The Wellington Times, 1895 As the ABC tirelessly reports, the science of climate change is “settled”, which must be why the national broadcaster felt confident in a boots ‘n’ all promotion of the latest warmist publicity stunt: 11,000 ‘scientists’ warning that the end is nigh (especially if those lovely grants are in any way jeopardised). […]

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Not quite Charge of the Scots Greys but an improvement all the same. Melbourne commuters once again have been kept from their business by climate protesters, who this morning blocked Clarendon Street, on the southern edge of the CBD, in an attempt to stop the International Mining and Resources Conference taking place at Jeff’s Shed. […]

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It has long been the case that reporters craft their contributions to the sum of human knowledge with a “style book” by the keyboard, or at least in the top drawer. All news organisations have them, each different in their own ways and some extraordinarily picayune. In the US, for example, Associated Press only recently […]

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It was June  17, 2017, and the cream of Canberra journalism was clotted at the National Press Club to have preconceptions and prejudices about the Trump administration burnished by James Clapper (above), who was in town to pick up some quick pocket change for a FIFO gig at ANU. With the Russiagate hoax in full […]

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Douglas Murray, keen to highlight the leftoid prejudice that shapes Google’s search results, urges the curious to search for “gay couples” in Google Images. This is what the results present. As a second experiment, he also recommends searching on “straight couples”. This is what turns up. In the clip below he explains what’s afoot. Even […]

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Marc Hendrickx, who has led a passionate crusade to keep Ayers Rock/Uluru open to climbers, tried to have the ad reproduced above inserted in the pages of the Age and SMH, which both rejected it.  While things must be looking up at the former Fairfax rags, which can apparently afford to knock back ad dollars, […]

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Last night, 4Corners turned in one of those investigations that make you think the ABC — a tiny part of it at any rate — might actually be worth a small slice of the billion-plus dollars the all-media behemoth consumes every year. The topic was the Lawyer X scandal which saw Victoria Police make an […]

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