Media
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Today, Peter Hartcher, who is reporting from America, has gone to press with his big wrap on the Democratic National Convention. It’s a very positive piece about the re-machined Kamala Harris
August 25, 2024
6 mins
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After her ridiculously biased, inept, expensive and slickly misleading three-part effort to nail Donald Trump as Putin's puppet, it's hard to see how anyone could take seriously anything she says or claims. Well anyone not part of ABC management that is, because the national broadcaster continues to indulge her unhinged editorialising, as evidenced by her recent fan-girl interview with Nancy Pelosi
August 20, 2024
20 mins
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Whatever internal actions the ABC takes to promote ‘reconciliation’ is its own affair. But someone needs to remind the national broadcaster that it it exists to inform and entertain all Australians, and to reflect the nation as it is not what its virtuecrats think it should be. An end to confected 'indigenous' names for cities would be a good start
August 1, 2024
11 mins
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'All happy families are alike,' Tolstoy observed, but 'each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'. And especially unhappy just at the moment are the Murdochs, described in a spate of recent reports as deploying lawyers in a bitter dispute over the future of the family trust. For those who value The Australian, this is important
July 26, 2024
7 mins
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Paul Kelly is a formidable journalist in terms of output and opinion-page longevity, but the once and likely future US president inspires the same irrational revulsion that afflicts so many members of the legacy media's punditocracy. Consider his latest column, a case study in Trump Derangement Syndrome
July 19, 2024
16 mins
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As a general rule, you can count on any and all indigenous 'educational' material produced by Their ABC to be at best misleading and, at worst, confected agit-prop. With 'classroom resource' Keep the fire burning! Blak, loud and proud, the national broadcaster plumbs new depths of error and omission
July 17, 2024
14 mins
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Joe Biden and his enablers have put it about, as they always do, that Trump parades a cavalcade of lies whenever he gets near a microphone. Take a closer look at their big debate and it soon emerges that neither man uttered anything worse than candidates always do
July 7, 2024
15 mins
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The ultimate absurdity is that the ABC is about to launch News Verify, enforcing and imposing its version of truthiness on the Australian media landscape. Place any faith in this initiative? Well, bear in mind this is the organisation that ran with the fake news of Trump's Russia conspiracy for four years and hounded an innocent George Pell into prison
June 27, 2024
18 mins
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When Thursday's big debate kicks off, CNN's moderators will be Jake Tapper, who enjoys likening Trump to Hitler, and Dana Bash, who is married to one of the 51 'intelligence and national security veterans' who dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation. As with every other mainstream media outlet, fairness will have nothing to do with it
June 26, 2024
16 mins
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It's a sad state of affairs when a typo in the transcript of Sarah Ferguson's adoring interview with Greta Thunberg better captures the essence of the national broadcaster's climate coverage than any number of deliberately chosen, fear-tinged words. When it comes to reporting on the Swedish scold, common flatulence is more edifying
June 21, 2024
16 mins
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The outrageous appointment in 2014 as Middle East Correspondent of left-wing pro-Palestinian 'advocacy journalist' Sophie McNeill marked a new low for the ABC. Throughout her career there -- she has worked for the notoriously selective Human Rights Watch since 2020 -- she demonised Israel with reports that were brazen propaganda pieces
June 19, 2024
14 mins
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In this age of instant, globe-girdling communication, when pretty much any news or information is but a click or two away, how can it be that Australia's punditocracy and foreign correspondents insist on viewing US politics through the prism of jaundiced preconception? Coverage of the Trump verdict being the case in point
June 4, 2024
7 mins