Comments on: Christian Kerr troll blogging at The Australian

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:54:15 +0000

Some comments have been removed from this thread at a commenter’s own request. I’ve also removed some other comments by another commenter because I think the accusations in them might potentially be defamatory. I’m not expressing a view on the truth of those claims, but I would ask the commenter to understand that we don’t want to accept legal liability for publishing them. We’ve already got one person threatening us with legal action, and we don’t want to be fighting on more than one front.

I apologise for the fact that they weren’t spotted earlier, but I’ve been away from the computer this weekend, and I’m taking action as soon as I became aware of them.

I’m also closing this thread. Further gravatar discussion can take place on the open thread.

By: Rebekka

Rebekka — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:17:29 +0000

Personally, I find this purple prose quite pleasing.

By: Bingo Bango Boingo

Bingo Bango Boingo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:17:47 +0000

How can you loathe Landeryou when he writes this kind of stuff:

“YUM YUM: Club Fed Remorseless Eating Machines Ready To Chow Down On A Lustrous Pearl-Decorated Seafood Buffet

An email – obtained by the OC Investigations Unit – was sent to federal members of Parliament yesterday alerting them to a September seafood binge including a lavish spread of the Patagonian toothfish, a type of fish some believe to be the world’s most threatened fish species.

Sources indicate that the event is one of the favourite occasions of the Parliamentary season and offers two and a half hours of unlimited seafood dining of the kind that will have the big lads of Parliament, like Dick Adams, Kim Carr and Mitch Fifield, salivating in feasting joy in the event scheduled to run for two and half hours of crustacean munching frenzy.”

BBB

By: laura

laura — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:26:09 +0000

(Off topic) David, did I read you saying elsewhere that your gravatar is your own chook? Is she an ISA Brown?

By: David

David — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:57:21 +0000

Is Kerr from Adelaide? Shit! I apologize to Australia on behalf of my home town.

By: clarencegirl

clarencegirl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:55:44 +0000

Clicked link to Kerr’s article and fell about laughing.
This is the same man that, when working at Crikey.com.au, regularly used news tips sent to him by – yes, you guessed it- BLOGGERS!

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:09:12 +0000

Ah, yes, paul walter, but I served the cause well. I left copies of Green Left Weekly and Solidarity at the Nurses’ station for the workers to read, brought into me in the last two days by some socialist comrades who’ve just got back from Europe. I never like letting a chance to further the revolution pass.My other socialist comrade was laid low by the horrendous cold that put me there in the first place, had 3 sick teenagers on her hands, and wasn’t game to come near me lest she make me ill again.
Thanks for your kind thoughts.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:23:24 +0000

Am very sorry to learn you have been ill, Paul Burns. The last thing the world needs is one of the honest ones ailing.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:17:49 +0000

Apropos of the MSM. When I was in hospital I was virtually news deprived for a fortnight. For some peculiar reason the only newspaper available was the Daily Telerot, which I hardly ever read. Now, having read it occasionally during the past fortnight, (throwing away the Olympic wraparound without giving it a glance), I now know why. Apparently the SMH is too difficult for sick peoples’ brains to comprehend.
As some-one who watches breakfast TV to work out what the RWDBs are up to, then cfhecks out Google News,the Age, the Guardian, the Independent, the NY Times,the Times, sometimes the Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor, LP with all its marvellous links, various blogs and GLW regularly as well as ch 10 + 9 News, the ABC, 7.30 Report,Q&A, and if I’m in a good mood, SBS, I’m sure you can all imagine how information starved I was.
btw, didn’t Trioli truly show her fascist colours on Lareline tonight? I actually screamed at the TV. Think its the first time I’ve done it since we got rid of Howard the Unflushable Turd.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:46:08 +0000

Thanks,tigtog. Was chronic breathing disorder, years of smoking when I was younger.No surgery.My cancer is in remission and treated with hormones.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:14:05 +0000

He is the true flying squad bozo, post excretance.
A typical Ad uni undergrad from the eastern suburbs type; worst of all, the vacuous supercilliousness has made him utterly intolerable to this writer for years, apart from a couple of half tolerable articles for the suburban local rag, a while back. No wonder Murdochs hired him, he passes all the criteria.
Truly, I wonder if he edited “On Dit”?
Don’t laugh, you don’t know how many Murdoch clones have taken the same career path trajectory. Start with Penberthy and ( I think) Milne.
A greivous wound upon my sensibilities. His background alone should be sufficient to demonstrate what use he’d be. A hip pocket on a singlet would be functional, by contrast.
But additionally, we have his writing, too…
As for the rest; no doubt about it, The Murdoch press just can’t tolerate even a whiff of dissent, can it?

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:17 +0000

Paul,

good to see you “on blog” again. Hope that the recovery time from the surgeries flies by. Take care.

By: Bingo Bango Boingo

Bingo Bango Boingo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:07 +0000

“I’d much rather have an objective media than a spuriously “balanced” media.”

Too bloody right. Balance is unforgivably boring.

BBB

By: paul walter

paul walter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:47:33 +0000

God bless Pavlov’s Cat!

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:35:03 +0000

Maybe that’s the claim about “fact”, tigtog?

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:32:55 +0000

Kim #73

Update: More from tigtog at Hoyden

Well, it’s mainly just adding some link-juice to Mark’s post here, Kim. The one point I’ll bring from it, which a few others on this thread have alluded to, is WTF is with all the rhetoric in the MSM about “balance”? What happen to the traditional pledges/practises of “objectivity”?

I’d much rather have an objective media than a spuriously “balanced” media. A balanced view of humanity gives the dead average human being one breast, one ovary and one testicle each – but it doesn’t paint an objective picture, does it?

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:10:08 +0000

Sure, patrickg. I thought I’d agreed with that but perhaps not clearly enough!

By: patrickg

patrickg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:54:34 +0000

Yeah, but you have to admit Rebbekah’s point still stands, Kim. Don’t let your personal distaste of Landeryou (which I share, btw) blind you.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:45:32 +0000

Well, I’ve got no idea who Garrie Hutchinson is, Rebekka. I’m personally not a fan of “gotcha” journalism whether it’s bloggers or journos doing it.

By: Rebekka

Rebekka — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:44:55 +0000

Help! my last comment was eaten by the spam-bot