How to smear an American (the predictably tawdry, Fox News way):
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It’s clear who we should trust
I’ve spent the last days at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, listening to speakers from around the world and talking about my new book, The Blogging Revolution. One of Australia’s finest bloggers, John Quiggin, with whom I spoke last week, explained to his readers the ways in which blogging and new technology is finally challenging the…
Really, it’s true, no really it is
One of Australia’s “leading” conservative commentators: It’s true that some of the Left are genuinely nice people motivated by a sense of justice and compassion, however mistakenly applied. But it’s also true that the Left is the natural home of the barbarian. Let me see now. How many Jews can I slaughter this Sabbath?
Tell us what you really think
David Kilcullen is an Australian who has spent the last years working with the Bush administration in its fights against “terror.” Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper wrote this about him in late 2006: Meet David Kilcullen, a 40-year-old former Australian infantry commander who likes nothing more than getting dirt on his boots as he switches between…
Nail everything down
What next, the weather channel being sponsored by the nuclear industry? Oh wait: The tentacle-like growth of clandestine advertising in American TV shows in the form of product placement has taken another controversial step with the introduction of McDonald’s products into regional news programmes. Several TV outlets have begun to sell the fast-food giant the…
The oil is running out, part 8621
Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine, appears on Fox News to discuss the role of energy security (and aptly deals with two typically clueless Murdoch hacks)
Don’t mention Vietnam
The American mainstream media displays typical, unrestrained mania over daring to challenge John McCain’s Vietnam record. God forbid somebody may question the Republican nominee:
The last gasps of the mogul
The Atlantic investigates: Rupert Murdoch wants his Wall Street Journal to displace The New York Times as the world’s paper of record. His ambitions could be good news for the newspaper industry – or another nail in the coffin of serious journalism. Of course, Murdoch did suggest before the Iraq war that one of its…