Saturday 11 September 2010

Never mind the quality, feel the post-election hate


Not content with a mind-blowing Page 13 editorial on 9 September 2010 which clearly positioned the newspaper:
Greens leader Bob Brown has accused The Australian of trying to wreck the alliance between the Greens and Labor. We wear Senator Brown's criticism with pride. We believe he and his Green colleagues are hypocrites; that they are bad for the nation; and that they should be destroyed at the ballot box.

On the same day The Australian pointed out (as though it matters) that Prime Minister Gillard doesn't normally carry a handbag.
A handbag? So why is this so weighty a matter that it has an entire article devoted to it?

I'm much older than Julia, am most definitely not an elite female of any sort and, I haven't carried a handbag for the last twenty years.
Journalist Glenda Korporaal is the odd one out here - not Gillard or I.

However, it is not really about handbags is it? This is merely a snippet from the river of hate continuing to flow Gillard's way and why The Australian is often considered the in-house newspaper of the Coalition parties.

1 comment:

Pip said...

Everyone who is concerned about the News Ltd./Murdochracy should perhaps be writing to their Federal MP and ask them to question Tony Abbott in the Parliament about his breakfast date with Rupert Murdoch just after becoming the Opposition Leader. Ask him what sort of arrangement or agreement or promise he made about the ABC given the criticisms made by some of the Liberal MPs.
Perhaps as Mr. Abbott is not in charge the government should clear out all the Howard appointees all of whom have either Liberal Party and/or News Ltd connections.
Recently I read an article which quoted John Hewson; when Hewson was the Liberal Leader he had a mmeting with News Ltd. "guru" Paul Kelly and was told if he played his cards right he would support him, if he didn't he would lose. This tactic appears to be the same as the UK PM Cameron reportedly met with.
Today PM Gillard had an opportunity to strike back on the ABC. She criticised the media for failing to report on the Coalitions costings black hole until two weeks after the election. She said "the biggest story of the campaign was missed". Also, "I don't believe in editorialising on the front page. I do believe people have an obligation to report the facts". And, "there are times when media personalities actually think that they are involved in the political process rather than commenting on the political process".
I think our PM needs some support from all of us who are worried and disturbed at the reach and power of Mr. Murdoch and his many minions.
The news of the phone hacking in the UK shows the depth of the problem and wonder whether it will happen here.