What’s been your most/least favourite political moment lately? Will an unelectable stick become the next Liberal PM?
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
media spin
Actually, EC President Barroso did NOT “slap down”/”slam” Gillard
Maybe, if we’re being scrupulously generous, it might be only one journalist who made up the anti-Gillard spin, and all the rest just copied it instead of viewing the primary source material. Still doesn’t speak much of their ethics, does it?
Media Circus: new polling lows, media asks why nobody likes either side?
Dear Media, it’s not them, it’s you.
Media Circus: still all about Craig Thomson?
So what else is going on in Canberra? Or the state capitals? Or your local council? Are they all on the austerity bandwagon, having drunk the Austrian Kool-Aid like the Dems in the USA? Or is something progressive/constructive actually going on in your part of the world?
Glad they haven’t seen my place
These photos do not say what you want them to say.
Gonski, shmonski says Aussie media
I’m not going to add up the column inches, but “febrile leadership speculation” easily outran Gonski coverage by a shameful margin.
Clarke and Dawe on cynical bread and circuses churnalism
Apropos my rant yesterday about journalism standards, Mr Clarke and Mr Dawe spoke about this sort of thing last week. Play along on Twitter with #IfThePressGalleryReportedCricket
I don’t think that means what you think it means: Margaret Court edition
It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion.
says Margaret Court, freely sharing her opinion on the pages of The Australian.
BFTP: The myth of bra burning feminists
In 1968, some activists demonstrated against the Miss America beauty pageant and threw objects of “female oppression” – bras, high-heeled shoes, girdles, curlers – into a trash can. They were arguing about liberation – there was never any bra-burning – but the myth of the feminist as a bra-burner was created by the western media.
There was also a crucial word missed in the description of the trashed bras.
Thought for the Day: Political Correctness
Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some important truth is not being spoken for fear of offending someone. But that concern is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Hoyden About Town 