June 23, 2004
OVER TO YOU
I'm too busy to post, what with my frantic loping-around-the-house schedule and all. (Actually, I've got a ton of work to finish. Loping time is limited.) Meanwhile, readers are invited to hammer on any articles from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Posted by Tim Blair at June 23, 2004 03:55 AMMM looks "thin" in this picture:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/22/1087844940724.html
Posted by: Christian Lindhardt-Larsen at June 23, 2004 at 10:14 AMFrom SMH's
The introduction from Margo Kingston's book Not Sure Where to Put the Hyphens, John!
(I worked with the theory that random hyphens mark words of 3 or more syllables; but that's not it.)
the 'World's Greatest Treasurer' had himself -championed a consumption tax
his L-A-W tax cuts and -unheralded hikes to indirect taxes
heart of our democracy - Parliament House, -Canberra
the House of Representatives and the -Senate
the leader of the American -people
another -sovereign people
I've come to regard John -Howard
if a cause is sound, and openly, -passionately fought for
Alongside many, many other determined Australian -citizens.
I've been involved in some of Australia's biggest political -stories in my career
strong, intelligent, trustworthy, -independent-minded candidates
Trust. Civic duty and -sacrifice
Posted by: m at June 23, 2004 at 10:32 AMSo off I go to the Henny Herald to see what to attack.
Even more depressing than the news that Kim Il Sun was beheaded by his captors was the Herald's insistence on referring to them as "militants" , and the editorial decision to headline the in deph side story on Kim Il Sun "Korean was a devout Christian".
A paper that has no compunction in regularly using terms such as "thug" and "Torture" in relation to the Abu Ghraib story (and has devoted hundreds of hectares in colunm inches to story that is 6 months old) whilst being unable to summon the T word in relation to people who kidnap an unarmed civilian on a humanitarian mission and have him publicly beg for his life before depriving him of it in the most brutal manner plumbs the depths of moral inversion.
Posted by: Johan Wehtje at June 23, 2004 at 10:57 AMJust what is the SMH doing?
They have a banner picture, advertising Moore's new film that is bigger than any two of the important stories breaking on their website, for example, the beheading of the South Korean only merits half the space devoted to 'plugging' Moore.
And yet, another plug for Margo with a picture (urrghhhhh) and all.
I wish they would try and be a newspaper and stop giving free kicks to their lefty icons.
Posted by: nic at June 23, 2004 at 11:01 AMnic,
And yet, another plug for Margo with a picture (urrghhhhh) and all.It's a man, baaaby. Posted by: Spiny Norman at June 23, 2004 at 12:39 PM
Hello, I'm from the states, where I'm in a pissfight about gays in the military. How is this being handled down under? Anybody know about UK or Israel? Thanks.
Posted by: Cheap Researcher at June 23, 2004 at 03:37 PMDifficult to go past Maureen Dowd's piece in the SMH in which she establishes moral equivalence between Bill Clinton's decision to put his dick in Monica's mouth with George W's decision to invade Iraq.
Posted by: James at June 23, 2004 at 05:43 PMWhat is it with all these mongrel left news outlets? Now people who cut people's heads off are just "militants." What happened to "terrorists?" I guess that's a word reserved for people who smoke in bars. I also noticed "their ABC" is also saying "militants." Stuff em.
Give me a break!
Posted by: Theories at June 23, 2004 at 06:00 PMWhat is it with all these mongrel right news outlets? Now people who cut people's heads off are just "militants." What happened to "terrorists?" I guess that's a word reserved for people who smoke in bars. I also noticed Fox News is also saying 'Al Qaeda-linked groups' and 'suspected' Al Qaeda terrorists. Stuff em.
Give me a break!
Cheap Researcher:
This is covered under Rule 1. Also see rules 3, 5 and 7.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 23, 2004 at 06:26 PMRegarding the British sailors captured by Iranian troops, has anyone else noticed that the following three things are being reported?
1. The waterway in question is one mile (1600m) wide at the widest point.
2. The Iran-Iraq border runs straight down the middle
3. The Iranians are claiming that the British were one thousand metres into Iranian territory.
If we believe that, then they were at least two hundred metres up on dry land in their boats. Talk about being off course!
Posted by: Jorge at June 23, 2004 at 06:59 PMTerrorist is a charged biased word with negative connotations just like Evil, Bad, Right, Wrong, Scientific Fact, Truth - Its obvious that you havent yet accepted the postmodernist agenda that reaches through the Arts Faculties as well as Media.
Posted by: JBB at June 23, 2004 at 07:05 PMHoges: this is the thread bashing the Sunday Morning Herald. Can't you read? Stay on topic.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 23, 2004 at 08:01 PM