Possum fights back

Kim — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:40:56 +0000

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

Mark Bahnisch — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:18:29 +0000

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.

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Possum fights back

Christian Kerr troll blogging at The Australian