Stop the rot (the media rot)
This is hilarious…!
A message from change.org . . .
Rupert Murdoch, Fairfax, ABC, SBS and all other Australian media outlets: Stop interfering with the democratic process.
The editorial published in The Age on Saturday, June 22 calling on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to step down, has spurred many of us to express our anger and dismay at the way the mainstream media are manipulating the public.
Like many other Australian voters, we believe that we’re living in the most desperate times that Australia as a nation has ever faced. Nothing less than our precious democracy is at stake.
So far, we haven’t taken to the streets, but we will if necessary. Many Australian voters have found it difficult to believe what’s been happening to us, and to our Prime Minister. But the time has come for us to take action to express our anger and disgust and to demand change.
We are…
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theguttertrash.com 
“Newspoll, of course, is lying to us.”
Comedy gold! 😆
MURDOCH!
(Rupert will be shaking in his boots. 🙄 )
The thing that I find so endlessly entertaining is that the Gillard apologists fail to realise that is that she is the reason that she is so universally loathed.
But, it’s “everyone else’s fault” apparently. Not Gillard’s… 🙄
No, seriously though. These people do not like what the media is writing, so stop it. Just stop it!
*mass feet stamping*
Oh dear, so we can expect riots.
I almost feel sorry for them. Then I remember that they are wed to their team with retarded absolutism…& they blame every dissenter on their site on a handful of banned participants from here.
For reasonably articulate people, they sure do a good impression of head up arse tinfoilhatism.
The premise of that shit they believe only works if you misguidedly accept that your team is inviolable.
Then you have to construct elaborate webs of conspiracy to explain away their shortcomings.
Groupthink – we keep posting this …
“I almost feel sorry for them. “
I don’t…
I recall how Miglo was shit scared of having his identity revealed while being an anti-Howard government blogger, while being employed by the Howard govt.
No one in the blogging community betrayed that trust despite a number of us knowing his real life identity during the tenure of his employment.
The fact that, once he retired, he felt fit to reveal my real life identity on his blog while I’m still employed, speaks volumes about his epic lack of morals and ethics, and explains why his online reputation is basically in tatters .
It’s no wonder he’s now resorting to this hysterical gibberish.
He’s completely lost the plot.
I’m reading Winston’s* War, Max Hastings … and some of the editorial’s that he recieved make Murdoch’s lot pale into insignificance …
Been going on since the invention of the printing press …
(* I am decidedly not a Churchill fan, thoroughly dislike his doin’s …)
Fair enough too, reb.
Also, teebeez description above is entirely appropriate.
Maybe it was all the extra-marital affairs, the swingers’ parties at Darling Harbour….
Who knows….?
One thing I do know is that his wife seemed nice…
I’m reading, Dirty Wars, by Jeremy Scahill, while I’m away.
Sorry I meant “ex-wife”..
I’m reading half of something or other. 😯
It’s no use listing all the reason that Gillard is legitimately loathed, mistrusted, disbelieved by the electorate. Trust is the first requirement of a leader and without it there is nothing but rancour and double dealing.
People crave an honest leader. Howard got the bullet because of mistrust. Rudd won plenty of support because people trusted him (they still do), Gillard is dishonest, and people hate leaders they don’t trust.
That’s what Miglo and his pack of over the hill sycophants don’t get. It is no wonder Miglo likes Gillard, they have ethical standards in common.
“It is no wonder Miglo likes Gillard, they have ethical standards in common.”
Yes but their ethical “issues” don’t count because they’re fighting for the cause. The other side is evil, remember.
Yes.
Yes, you are…
Yes, “the cause”…whatever us that these days, now that the ALP doesn’t stand for anything?
I suppose the world’s most expensive internet is some kind of “cause”
They think the MSM makes shit up, the ‘creation of news as opposed to the reporting of news.’
This is silly, newspapers have always been partisan and their news content reflects their bent. Accurately reported, yet of a different hue.
I think it would be appropriate if the Fairfax stable, SBS and the ABC tell the the truth about CC ‘to allow Australians to have an informed vote.’
They want the media to stop interfering ‘in the democratic process.’ Don’t chase down devious union hacks like Craig Thomson, just turn a blind eye for the greater good, presumably.
As for the PM being ‘demeaned and trivialized in the media,’ Gillard is a clown and deserves the odium heaped upon her. Its has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with her political incompetence.
And just a reminder to the cafe dwellers … the electorate is not stupid.
“the mainstream media are manipulating the public”
Typical leftist bullshit. The public isn’t smart enough to discern the truth so must be protected from itself lest it makes uninformed decisions.
Anne Summers: Julia Gillard is far more popular the Graham (Richardson) is giving her credit for.
#Misogyny
George Bush Junior had the right idea, keep the media on a tight leash and only give a press conference once a month that was invite only. It saves all the grief of foot in mouth, keeps the oposition at bay with nothing to come back at you.
Even though Julia is on the nose, the constant speculation, poll driven questions, door stop media scrum bullshit does little to inform us about what’s really going on.
So either way no one really seems to know what is going on inside the labour party…do they know themselves?
Speculation and opinion rule, reporters reporting on reporters and reporters reporting on polls tells us little we didn’t already know.
There needs to be a Walkley award for the first reporter that breaks some meaningful news on the whole saga.
The dog got her Droowlia doll today, I’m afraid to say she was only mildly interested in it.
After playing with it for a moment she dropped it and forgot about it.
Her popularity is clearly waning.
Once the Boney Tony doll comes in a couple of weeks I should be able report an accurate outcome for September 14, after all dogs are a good judge of character.
The public isn’t smart enough to discern the truth so must be protected from itself lest it makes uninformed decisions.
Yer doin’ it again, ToSY, you’re playin’ with concepts and words … exactly who’s truth are you defending here and when do you know its true?
Example: The Blues State of Orange team was in a bus crash and their campaign was at risk according to a news.com.au headline … in fact … the bus got caught on a roundabout gutter and the team had to get out and catch taxis … “truth”? or “bullshit”?
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outlander
I await the outcome of your (dog’s) “assessment” with baited breathe …
“exactly who’s truth are you defending here”
Nobody’s. I shoulda pushed the /sarc button.
““the mainstream media are manipulating the public”
Typical leftist bullshit.”
Typical leftist bullshit, eh?
I think you’ve watched FoxNews et al enough to know that they regularly bemoan what they also call the ‘Mainstream Media’ (read, their ideological adversaries) bias & manipulation.
So it’s hardly just leftist bullshit to try & blame contrary phenomena on unfavourable media. They all do it.
To me, it’s the last refuge of the encrusted on either side.
“They all do it.
To me, it’s the last refuge of the encrusted on either side.
“
Exactly boss – they do all do it..
But the reality is that most people can see through the BS (otherwise Abbott would be much more popular than he actually is).
But it is funny to watch the so-called “left leaning blogs” elevate themselves to some self-professed intellectualism arguing that they’re somehow the “only ones” who know what’s really going on and the rest of us are just dull sheep religiously believing everything the MSM says…
I mean, why can’t well just like “our Julia?”
‘They all do it.’
The Fairfax and Murdoch stables do it, but I object when the public broadcasters do it.
“I object when the public broadcasters do it.”
Fair enough. However the public broadcasters hardly have any editorial staff left so you can’t really blame them from taking their lead from the other majors.
Maybe the Guardian Australian Edition will save us….