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Weekend talk thread June 29
This is it, the very last Pure Poison open thread. I think that we’ve said everything that we wanted to about Pure Poison closing down already, but I’d like to take the opportunity once more to say thank you, Pure Poison was more than just Jeremy and I and we will miss all of your contributions, even if we won’t miss moderating them.
The many definitions of “editorial independence”
Bad news for those thinking about subscribing to The Australian, according to these remarks it published today:
The Inappropriately Happy Herald Sun reader returns
Yesterday she was giggling over a mother murdered for a cheap meal. Today she’s cacking herself about asylum seekers in peril on the sea:
Emotional parliament fears for lives of people on boats; refuses to address the actual safety of those boats
As the media demand that politicians PUT ASIDE POLITICS and SAVE LIVES but are vague on the specifics of how exactly to do that, the parliament wrestles with legislation that will SAVE LIVES whilst simultaneously PUTTING LIVES IN DANGER and if only people on the other side to me would put politics aside for a minute and vote with my party then nobody would drown again.
All hail our new boat regime overlords
Quick question: has something happened to our government this week that we’ve missed here at Pure Poison? Talking of an action by the Australian government, a columnist at News Ltd writes of ““this farcical boat people regime”.
When did that happen? Have they broken out of detention centres and seized Parliament?
In which it turns out that “free speech” for certain News Ltd columnists means the right of businesses to lie as they trade
The Coalition sends out flyers to small businesses encouraging them to raise prices and blame it on the “carbon tax”:
What’s the connection bw Dave and Jeremy leaving Crikey and Fairfax editors quitting?
Jeremy (from Victoria) and Dave (from NSW) announce that they’re leaving Crikey at the end of the week.
Suddenly the editors of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald both quit.
Coincidence? We’d love to tell you, but we can’t. Yet.
The good and the ugly
Crikey‘s First Dog On The Moon elegantly highlights the hideous flaw in anti-”boat people” rhetoric:

I’m posting it to Reddit next.

