Bolt found guilty under Racial Discrimination Act
Age article here.. While the specifics of the legalities are different, my view remains the same as in 2010: Bolt is a an ugly blot on the media landscape, but that doesn’t mean that anything he wrote in those articles [...]
Must read: Shakira Hussein on Norway and terror
Shakira Hussein has written the best piece I’ve seen on the response to the massacres in Norway.
Andrew Bolt sued under Victorian Racial and Religious Tolerance Act
Right-wing Herald Sun columnist has been sued under Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance act: HERALD Sun columnist Andrew Bolt is being sued under the Racial Vilification Act by a group of Aborigines led by 73-year-old activist Pat Eatock over two [...]
The Women's Weekly and politicians
Over at Gatewatching, Jason Wilson references Andrew Elder’s very good question about the Australian Women’s Weekly being a graveyard for politicians, and asks another good one – given the magazine’s truly huge readership, were Tony Abbott’s comments ill advised? The [...]
How (not) to do things with graphs
Possum has a cracker of a post up on Andrew Bolt’s infamous climate change graphs. Go read, as they say. He also pings the blurring of the opinion/analysis distinction at the ABC, where Bolt seems to wear two hats – [...]
Newspoll: Coalition wipeout in cities if they go down denialist road
[Via Labor Outsider in comments] The Australian is reporting that an analysis of Newspoll data collected in September suggests that 63% of urban Coalition voters want the government’s CPRS passed, with only 28% against, and that the Liberals could lose [...]
Crash through or crash? What Turnbull should do now…
In the wake of today’s extraordinary events in the Coalition party room, Malcolm Turnbull could put to good use the very qualities he’s usually been panned by his right wing colleagues and the commentariat for having – displaying some courage [...]
Newspoll 55-45; The Australian turns 45
Andrew Bolt makes sense! Truth is that it’s actually a waste of time and credibility to try to make a news story about minor changes in the Newspoll figures – changes that fall even within the margin of error. Bottom [...]
Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt vs. Crikey: Upscaling the blog wars or big yawn?
Skepticlawyer reports on the incorporation of various interlinked Blair/Bolt watch blogs into Crikey’s blog network [Crikey story here]. Tim Blair seems to have taken the bait Pure Poison laid for him. Skepticlawyer comments: One entirely legitimate attack that the MSM [...]
Newspoll Monday: Labor 58-42
Newspoll’s out early today. Obviously the journos couldn’t wait to see how Malcolm Turnbull’s gambit of rejecting the stimulus package went. It may well be, as I suggested last night, that he had some similar private polling or a tip [...]
Anonymity, blog commenting and defamation
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
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