June 02, 2004

MEDIA SAD MAINSTREAM IS HOW

Swoon with delight! Margo Kingston today actually uses the phrase "US military industrial complex". And Halliburton is mentioned four times! Best of all, there’s this brilliantly Margolian line:

How sad most the mainstream media is these days.

How sad indeed. You’d expect a mainstream media identity like Margo to at least be able to write a coherent sentence.

Posted by Tim Blair at June 2, 2004 05:17 AM
Comments

How sad most the mainstream media is these days.

She must use Notepad as her spell checker...

Posted by: Roger Bournival at June 2, 2004 at 05:56 AM

Reading her stuff is like slowing down to look at a car wreck.

Posted by: chuck at June 2, 2004 at 06:33 AM

Indonesia for the Indonese!

Posted by: mojo at June 2, 2004 at 07:06 AM

Maybe she's just trying to migrate to that whole Yoda-style syntax.

"Sad is - mainstream media - these days."

Posted by: Larry at June 2, 2004 at 07:36 AM

What matter with sentence?

Sound good me.

Only pedantics like Safire and Blair complain.

They neocons.

SMG

Posted by: SteveMG at June 2, 2004 at 07:48 AM

Margo, meet the word "of."

Posted by: Sean M. at June 2, 2004 at 09:16 AM

Tim, the byline for the SMH article http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/01/1086037760365.html is Jack Robertson, not Margo Kingston. (Is this a nefarious pseudonym? Is it her eviller sound-alike twin?) HAVE THEY REPLACED HER? (pant pant pant)

Posted by: m at June 2, 2004 at 09:18 AM

Don't be cruel to Margot. She's trying to improve herself by using bigger words.

Pretty soon she's going to be ready to use stuff like semi-trailer and vegemite andwich.

Posted by: Michael Gill at June 2, 2004 at 10:16 AM

'Halliburton"? Four times?

Final confirmation. She's on something.

Posted by: Byron_the_Aussie at June 2, 2004 at 10:55 AM

You know who coined the phrase Military Industrial Complex? It was Eisenhower.

I hate that pinko.

Posted by: Harry Hutton at June 2, 2004 at 11:03 AM

"Sadmost" has great potential:

I'm sadmost to read the major media.

She's a sadmost writer.

Posted by: Joanne Jacobs at June 2, 2004 at 11:51 AM

Professional media better because has editors.

Posted by: Robin Goodfellow at June 2, 2004 at 12:08 PM

Margo "Now we're supposed to believe that the government knew nothing about American war crimes in Iraq jails until April, when the pictures surfaced. "

Um, if the Government DID know, and cared, then what? Alexander rings up Rumsfeld and says "Marines naughty, smack smack"? All this outrage but no clue about what could have/should have been done if we knew that a couple of dozen foreign soldiers did some stuff far away from any Aussies. Its OUR government's responsibility?
Why no outrage that the Government knew and didnt act on Saddam's mistreatment of political prisoners?

Posted by: Evildan at June 2, 2004 at 12:43 PM


mmmm, Grammer lesson I need

Posted by: RhikoR at June 2, 2004 at 12:44 PM

m: I think Margot and Jack Robinson are the same person. I really do.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 2, 2004 at 01:14 PM

Robertson, Robinson, Margot, whatever.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 2, 2004 at 01:15 PM

Military-Industrial Complex? Isn't there a chapter on that in Kraft-Ebing?

And how complex can the military and industry be, if Margo can catch them?

Posted by: richard mcenroe at June 2, 2004 at 01:40 PM

You think Margo et al could lay off Halliburton for a little while. The far left have demonised the company day in, day out for years, and now Islamists have caught on and have mentioned it in their talks about the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia.

Can't they wait for a week or so?

Posted by: Andjam at June 2, 2004 at 09:24 PM

"Margo "Now we're supposed to believe that the government knew nothing about American war crimes in Iraq jails until April, when the pictures surfaced. "

Considering legal proceedings against the guards in question started back in January (With a neato press-conference and everything...), it's likely they did know before then.

Regards, Döbeln

-Stabil som fan!

Posted by: Döbeln at June 3, 2004 at 12:41 AM