Tag Archive for 'journalists and bloggers'

Possum fights back

Published
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Kim
1 year, 6 months ago
in Blogging, Media and Politics
. 22 Comments

Possum isn’t going to take being dissed by Christian Kerr and the “balance and fact” crew at The Australian lying down:

Update [by Mark]: Jason Wilson at Gatewatching espies a tipping point in the Australian political blogosphere.

Christian Kerr troll blogging at The Australian

Published
by
Mark
1 year, 6 months ago
in Blogging, Ethics and Media
. 93 Comments

Yep, Christian Kerr is talking about us. Among others. Guess what, we’re smug, ill informed, prone to conspiracy theories, full of hatred for the noble profession of journalism, divorced from the real world, an echo chamber, too academic, etc, etc. But he couldn’t possibly tell his readers which “certain blog” he’s talking about. Lord no. Even though there is a direct quote from a post at LP. People might come here and make up their own mind. So the impression is left that bloggers are bad and as far as Kerr is concerned, that’s all anyone needs to know. Yet he provides “balance and fact”. Obviously. Btw, you can’t comment on his article. And if you disagree with him here, you just go into the “ill informed” pile, I guess. The irony that he’s ostensibly writing about free speech seems to have escaped him.

Anyway, he was baiting for a link. He’s got one. I hope he’s happy now.

Update: [by Kim] More from tigtog at Hoyden.

The state of political blogging II

Published
by
Mark
1 year, 7 months ago
in Culture, Federal Elections, Media, Politics, Polls, Sociology and The Web
. 2 Comments

Last year I shared some thoughts on the state of political blogging in Australia. Trevor Cook has just examined the claim that the blogging phenomenon is “losing impetus”. I’m not sure that’s so, and coincidentally, I’ve just sent off a write up of the talk I gave at the Public Right to Know Conference at UTS last year, for a special issue of the Pacific Journalism Review being co-ordinated by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. You can read it here [link to pdf].

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