tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post2428297091175522104..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Andrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-16467455121236773812010-03-20T18:27:41.268+11:002010-03-20T18:27:41.268+11:00Given the continual irrelevant attaches of the gov...Given the continual irrelevant attaches of the government by the media I see the current pole results as an indication of how disrespected the doyen(ne)s are and not so much as a reflection of how well the government is or isn't doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-30771543775494805582010-03-20T11:30:05.502+11:002010-03-20T11:30:05.502+11:00Well put.
I can't figure out why Grattanm La...Well put. <br /><br />I can't figure out why Grattanm La Stupenda herself, is still looked upon as a star.<br /><br />Her columns are usually of the form: <br /><br /><i>"This might be true, or then again it might not."</i> <br /><br />Wow, such perception! Such depth!<br /><br />She and her bretheren at the other media outlets concentrate far too much on "the politics", rendering serious, indeed vital subjects and policy areas to the level of ball-by-ball descriptions from a 20-20 match. <br /><br />Recently Shanahan declared that Climate Change was not any longer a matter of science. It was just politics, which therefore enabled him to just make stuff up on the subject, disguising it as considered opinion.<br /><br />Today (Saturday), Paul Kelly tells the rest of "the media" (apparently he does not class himself as a member) to go easy on Abbott's somewhat contradictory moral beliefs. Abbott foesn't deserve such close scrutiny, says St. Paul. If he says he isn't going to do something, he won't do it. <br /><br />Like a PPL? Like a Big New Tax? <br /><br />His personal beliefs don't ever impinge on his ministerial actions. <br /><br />Like RU-486?<br /><br />Abbott deserves more scrutiny than ever, even if only for the scientific purpose of watching an Opposition leader go clinically insane in public. <br /><br />But Kelly is seeking to protect him, tut-tutting about how other journalists are going in too hard.<br /><br />Contrast this with the forensic, some might say colonoscopic scrutiny that attends to every Rudd word, deed and thought, and I think you'll get my drift.Bushfire Billhttp://www.thepoliticalsword.com/noreply@blogger.com