You may recall the ambulance in the Israeli/Hezbollah recent dispute. You know, the one that the Israelis ‘deliberately’ rocketed…at least that was the view of the world media. Personally, when I saw the pic of the missile hole through the roof I instantly dismissed it as bullshit and went on with life. How could I have
A letter from Iraq
From the Wall Street Journal, AKA The Opinion Journal Letter From Iraq Here’s an email we received from a U.S. military officer who asks us to withhold his name: I am currently stationed here in Iraq and have been here for the past 11 months; I am an adviser to the Iraqis and meet them
A picture speaks a thousand lies
Coonass in Texas has caught the London Times out in a blatant case of anti -anything US. I was shocked that there were photos of victims killed by marines,bound and blindfolded, these guys must be guilty I thought and there must be more photographic evidence. With a heavy heart I searched google images for ‘haditha’,
Bonfire of the inanities
John Burtis in the Canadian Free Press puts the ‘Dick Cheney shooting a lawyer mate’ press frenzy in perspective. In their Herculean efforts to lend further “gravitas” to the beleaguered story, the media trundled out grizzled hunting experts, college-trained weather men and women, experts on color recognition and the reasons for the use of international
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Jews don’t like him and neither do I
ILLUSTRATOR Michael Leunig has been accused of playing the martyr in expressing outrage over his work being included in a distasteful Iranian cartoon competition because the images were anti-Semitic. Leunig, whose cartoons appear in the Fairfax newspapers, was the subject of a bizarre hoax when someone fraudulently entered one of his works in an Iranian
Bush and God
A letter in todays Australian If Bush was on a mission from God to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, does that follow that he evolved from Intelligent Design? H.Casson Foster, Vic Not at all, H.Casson but it does follow that you didn’t. Some people will believe anything so long as it is based on the premise
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Media Watch watch
How sweet the sound of Liz Jackson of Media Watch getting confused about the blogging world. Rattling on last night in an attack against Janet Albrechtson and local Brisbane blogger, Arthur Chrenkoff, Liz makes a huge point of the fact that Arthur’s articles on the Wall Street Journal’s website Opinion Journal are not published by
BBC caught out
Tory fury as BBC sends hecklers to bait Howard The BBC was last night plunged into a damaging general election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and sending them into a campaign meeting addressed by Michael Howard, the Conservative leader. …the hecklers began shouting slogans that were “distracting and clearly hostile to
ABC Bias
The ABC bias debate. Dr Martin Hirst from the School of Journalism & Communication UQ writes to the Australian and proves the bias of the ABC by trying to prove there isn’t any. I find his letter as a case in point about what is wrong with the ABC. If you watch the ABC, particularly
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