• Rupert Murdoch's owned newspaper, The Australian, has a bitch about the ABC and Fairfax media
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[QUOTE]The Australian is blessed with writers such as Dennis Shanahan on politics, Greg Sheridan on foreign affairs, John Durie on business and Judith Sloan and David Uren on economics, and many others in the top rank, who have lived through the big moments in the nation's history and are able to provide readers with a sense of perspective, knowledge and balance on the issues of the day. Along with experienced editors, they allow us to cut through the noise and tumult of a frenetic news cycle to explain events. Yet that can't be said of all media outlets, especially when seasoned journalists are being traded for ones unable to see beyond the dazzle of the instantaneous fix of Twitter or web-first publishing. These callow reporters and trainee talking heads are setting the pace at Fairfax Media and the ABC, with their "breaking" views and zippy analysis five minutes after something has happened. We can see the crude results in the way the Abbott government is being portrayed as bad, mad and chaotic by the baby faces in the press gallery and beyond. To date, the low-point of juvenilia was struck by John van Tiggelen, editor of The Monthly, old enough to know better but clueless about Canberra, who wrote about the Abbott government's "onanistic reverence for John Howard" and described it as "this frat party of Young Liberals who refuse to grow up". This twaddle would be harmless if these ill-informed innocents were on the fringes of new media, learning their craft in the minor leagues. Alarmingly, these infantile musings reflect the priorities of their organisations: it's a reverse-publishing model, which sees the trivialities of Generation Y setting the agenda for once-venerable newspapers, which traditionally served older, educated, middle-income readers in Sydney and Melbourne. No wonder Fairfax Media editors have lost touch with loyal readers and the respect of the old-hands still in the newsroom. At the ABC, Triple-J alumni have wrested cultural and editorial control in the face of insipid leadership from managing director Mark Scott and his news director, Kate Torney. You wonder if anyone's really in charge at Pyrmont, Docklands and Ultimo and how long this idiocy can last.[/QUOTE] I posted this entire article because it was short and everything ties in with the next thing - See more at: [URL]http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editorials/comment-should-not-be-cheap/story-e6frg71x-1226774601754#sthash.F5tDRSDb.dpuf[/URL]
Good god it is rich to hear the Australian have a bitch about juvenile journalism in the ABC or Fairfax media. This is the same group of balding men who grew up during the cold war and have been unable to reconcile themselves with the fact that the communists lost out, leaving us with gems such as this travesty of a budget analysis: [img]http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/files/2012/05/Oz-355x450.jpg[/img] I mean honestly, complaining about the 'crude results' of zero journalistic integrity after they released that turd of an edition is audacious if not downright Machiavellian. It stinks, it absolutely stinks. The recently elected Abbott government gets five minutes of criticism for having the finesse of a three year old in regards to international diplomacy and already the peanut gallery is calling foul. Its the pot calling the kettle black it a way that makes me want to cry, and the funny thing is its the pot calling the kettle black when the kettle is actually white as snow. I hope they collectively neck themselves. [editline]4th December 2013[/editline] They've been doing this for multiple weeks now, because they have the idea that journalistic impartiality requires the ABC to drop all investigative journalism and become the same neo-liberal press release aggregator as they are [editline]4th December 2013[/editline] Fuck im really angry
Being surprised at this is like being surprised at a monkey for flinging shit, it is universal knowledge that The Australian is terribly - comically biased and bad.
Anything owned by Rupert Murdoch is pure shit who knew
[QUOTE]which sees the trivialities of Generation Y setting the agenda for once-venerable newspapers, which traditionally served older, educated, middle-income readers in Sydney and Melbourne.[/QUOTE] Hahahaha. [editline]4th December 2013[/editline] GET OFF MY LAWN YOU KIDS.
Australia has its own special kind of journalism [img]http://i.imgur.com/SESY17v.jpg[/img]
Never forget this gem from Rupert's Sunday Telegraph [IMG]http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ScreenHunter_27-Sep.-02-14.40.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;43063527]Never forget this gem from Rupert's Sunday Telegraph [IMG]http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ScreenHunter_27-Sep.-02-14.40.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] That this isn't illegal to publish is a disgrace.
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