I find it hard to envisage how the Australian newspaper could possibly be more intensely unbalanced that it has been in the last couple of months.
Today, for example, the opinion pieces are by Judith Sloan (right wing economist and Catallaxy blogger whose contributions have become increasingly light weight and pejorative, and who distrusts any economist or public servant who believes in climate change); Arthur Sinnodinos (Coaltion Senator, even though a relatively moderate one); Cassandra Wilkinson (former Labor adviser who seems to have re-invented herself as a pro-small government, culture war critic of Labor); Nick Cater [Murdoch journalist who has just written a book promoted by the IPA that seeks to re-establish a whole "culture war" reinterpretation of the last decade or so of Australian politics (when I reckon the culture war had became pretty irrelevant during the term of the Howard government.)]
I mean, honestly: why doesn't Murdoch just hand over the editorship to John Roskam of the IPA and be done with?
Sloan's pieces are not just lightweight. The Kouk showed one of her pieces some time ago on budget consolidation were based on figures she made up and quite recently he demolished her with regard to the market's worry about debt levels.
ReplyDeletewith any other employer she would have been sacked!