The former Dear Leader has received his reward - something a little more prestigious than the weirdly named awards from obscure right wing think tanks he spent some time trotting over to America last year to collect. John Howard will be awarded the “Medal of Freedom” by another soon to be former leader - George W. Bush. Read more »
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This naturally follows-on from my previous post. Jennifer Marohasy is a blogger who frequently challenges the majority position and as a result often receives information that is ignored by the mainstream. Two years ago she was the first with video...
I’ve said before that I don’t put too much stock in the quarterly state Newspolls, because they’re taken at such a lengthy interval it’s hard to get a sense of when any movement shown has actually occurred, and it’s more difficult to pick a poll which may be an outlier for various sampling reasons. Read more »
My paper criticising what I saw as the foolish climate change 'denialist' views that had been repeatedly put forward recently in Quadrant Read more »
An enterprising hoaxer - claiming to be acting in the tradition of Ern Malley - has published a spurious article on a scientific topic in Quadrant with the aim of demonstrating that Keith Windschuttle would print “outrageous propositions” which accord with his ideological disposition. The article was also designed to lampoon Windschuttle’s mode of historical research. You can read the story - by Margaret Simons - at Crikey. Read more »
At Ambit Gambit, Graham Young riffs off a comment made by Jay Rosen on Twitter:
You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is “safety first” reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens.”
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Jay Rosen says on Twitter: "You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is "safety first" reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens." Not sure that I totally agree. Why do I blog?...
My paper criticising what I saw as the foolish climate change 'denialist' views that had been repeatedly put forward recently in Quadrant magazine was rejected by its editor Keith Windschuttle on the grounds that Read more »
Senator Ludlam asked: Read more »
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