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Complain about a nakedly biased report -- in this instance the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse -- and the ABC's complaints unit will invest considerable effort in explaining why black is white, up is down and why a foreign correspondent's editorialising is actually straight-bat reporting
December 16, 2021
6 mins
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Those who haven't visited Junkee don't know what they're missing, which isn't much if truth be told, other than the opportunity to observe the tragically hip assuring readers and each other how seriously they take every latest fashion in social justice. Surely it's time for those on the right to get down with the youth and offer unwoke alternatives
February 23, 2021
6 mins
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Transcript minus FRAN KELLY Hello and welcome […]
November 8, 2019
64 mins
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When the New Statesman summoned up a tumbril for Sir Roger Scruton, having accused him of multiple varieties of hateful intolerance, it seemed yet another scalp had joined the Left's ever-growing collection, all picked off one by one to the cheers of social media's lynch mob. This time, though, the assassination hasn't gone to plan
April 27, 2019
5 mins
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The are certain locutions journalism employs to avoid prejudicing court cases. One car never hits another, for example, as that would assign guilt, so responsible reporters and editors always say 'two cars collided'. The same conventions did not apply to a prince of the church
February 27, 2019
2 mins
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Another day, another example of the national broadcaster's monocular perspective. This time it involves an apparent 'race hate' hoax in Chicago and, tellingly, a blind refusal to publish any reports that might diminish the impression crosses are burning in the dark night of Trump's America
February 16, 2019
9 mins
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Perhaps the polls are wrong, perhaps the remaining few months will see the Coalition's stocks revive. If not, aided and abetted by a Labor government, the national broadcaster will have free rein and an even bigger budget to further indulge its worst instincts and inclinations. Prime Minister Scott Morrison could do something about that before the ballot boxes cast their verdict
January 10, 2019
19 mins
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You can't expect much from the Fairfax rags at the best of times -- and it's never the best of times at the company's Daily Life website for readers who value those quaint jounalistic values of fairness, curiosity, preliminary research, straight-bat reporting and, well, sanity
September 26, 2018
5 mins
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Until we know more about why the board terminated Michelle Guthrie it is impossible to tell what the prospects for reforming the ABC are likely to be. What we do know is that her replacement will almost certainly fail to see the charter observed and nothing will change
September 25, 2018
7 mins
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Democrats sat on a fact-lite accusation of sexual assault against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, then summoned US media allies for a last minuteĀ pile-on. From this melange of innuendo and pearl-clutching horror, the ABC's Zoe Daniel extracted only the worst to 'inform' her Australian audience
September 22, 2018
9 mins
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The ABC has proven immune to criticism and, no matter what the latest entreaty, impervious to reform. Appointing conservatives to the board hasn't worked, as the staff collective ignores any and all pleas for at least a semblance of balance. There just might be another way however
September 22, 2018
11 mins