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SirRumpole said:
The ABC and probably other networks always take morbid delight in the degree of coverage that l'il old Australia gets in foreign media on occasions like these. Quite childish really.
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Yes it reminds me of the cringe worthy coverage of the spent famous visiting to guest on the Logies. Small town thinking.

I was hoping ABC would be channelling news this morning rather than wringing out the last drops. I'm not interested in the hosts playing Columbo with limited facts and ignoring the bleeding obvious.... that's for hard hitting heavy weights like Karl and Koshie on the temporal commercial sites.
 
Logique said:
Channel Waleed, on the hostage drama.
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Quite rich coming from the dailytelegraph which is the very definition of gutter journalism.
This was their 2pm edition yesterday, complete fear mongering sensationalised garbage. It was well reported at the time that this seemed to have nothing to do with IS and yet the dailytelegraph ran with it.
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It's little surprise though when Murdoch sets the bar for insensitivity.
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Obama's adviser hit the the nail on the head when he declassified it as a publicity stunt by an individual.
 
The Martin Place captor just wanted a generic sort of flag delivered..

 
Logique said:
Channel Waleed.

Now he has expanded to The Project, which the viewers will undoubtedly welcome..both of them.
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Now we have a Muslim on the ABC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waleed_Aly

Waleed Aly (born 15 August 1978) is an Australian radio and television presenter who was born in Melbourne to Egyptian parents.[1]. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Islamic Council of Victoria and has served as the council's head of public affairs. He is a frequent commentator on Australian Muslim affairs. In 2008 he was selected to participate in the Australia 2020 Summit.
 

Waleed Aly has been on the ABC for years.

Have a listen to him sometime, he's a sensible person.
 
SirRumpole said:
So you are calling Waleed a terrorist in disguise are you ?
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I don't think he is the nice fellow you portray him to be.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/..._the_murder_of_three_young_jews_some_broader/

Nigeria’s Boko Haram group last month kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls…

As so often when Muslim terrorists strike, Aly was brought on by Channel Ten’s The Project to explain away our fears as “an expert in terrorism”.

“So who is this group exactly?” he was asked.

Not once in his answer did “Muslim” or “Islamic” pass Aly’s lips… “… they might just be vigilantes.”

This was not an atypical approach from Aly.

When jihadists bombed the Boston marathon, he initially jumped to an improbable conclusion, informing Age readers of “the very real suspicion that the perpetrators here are self-styled American patriots” and “our own societies might just be implicated”.

Aly also assured 3AW the then Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj el-Din el-Hilali, was not a worry even though he’d praised suicide bombers as “heroes” and called the September 11 attacks “God’s work against oppressors”.

Aly said he had no idea who had made Hilali mufti and he represented no one. In fact, Aly’s own Islamic Council of Victoria had voted with other members of the Federation of Islamic Councils of Australia for Hilali to represent their faith.


When Dutch writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, raised a Muslim, visited Australia to warn against Islamic radicals, Aly mocked her as just “a rock star” doing “actually very, very well out of” her message.

In fact, Hirsi Ali had already had her collaborator, film director Theo van Gogh, slaughtered by a Muslim extremist and was herself forced to live under constant police protection.
 
Logique said:
Channel Waleed.

Now he has expanded to The Project, which the viewers will undoubtedly welcome..both of them.
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Say what you will about the ABC but the Project is just embarrassing. They obviously think (know?) their audience has the attention span of a gnat so for every interview they ask two short, prescripted, superficial questions.
 
SirRumpole said:
And I don't think that Andrew Bolt is the nice fellow you portray him to be.

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I would much sooner put my life in the hands of Andrew Bolt any day thank you.

So what evidence to have to prove that Andrew Bolt is not a nice fellow...Is it because he is a different colour to you?
 
banco said:
Say what you will about the ABC but the Project is just embarrassing. They obviously think (know?) their audience has the attention span of a gnat so for every interview they ask two short, prescripted, superficial questions.
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I've only seen the last quarter of it, but that was more than enough.
I'm surprised Waleed Aly is diminishing his thus far reasonably good reputation to move there from the ABC.

I've only heard him on RN "Drive" program where he has, to my mind, been objective, intelligent and astute, so I'm amazed he's going to such a populist crap program as "The Project".

I wasn't aware of the quotes noco has supplied, and am disappointed to know that.
 

I don't think it's that damning that he's reticent to talk about the worst aspects of his religion with outsiders. Incidentally I suspect that as a practicing muslim his views on various issues would mark him as being extremely socially conservative by the ABC's standards but he also seems reluctant to talk about those views.
 
I didn't even mention anything about him being reticent or otherwise about his religion, so have no idea why you raise this when quoting my earlier post.

I have only commented on him as a presenter where he has shown objectivity, intelligence and perception in interviewing people on all sorts of subjects, nothing to do with religion.
 

You said: "I wasn't aware of the quotes noco has supplied, and am disappointed to know that". The quotes noco highlighted dealt with issues relating to islam.
 
SirRumpole said:
So you are calling Waleed a terrorist in disguise are you ?
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He like his ABC and now The Project colleagues should report the full facts, or risk being considered an apologist.

He follows the ABC line. The words 'Muslim' and 'Islam' are not to be spoken. Look into the history of the Martin Place captor, it's very clear, and where was the self-regulation within his community?

We need news from the national broadcaster, not spin.
 
noco said:
I don't think he is the nice fellow you portray him to be.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/..._the_murder_of_three_young_jews_some_broader/

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Luv the title of Bolts Blog piece;

Giving Broader Context to the murder of 3 young jews(sic)

For those that pay attention to Bolt, can you tell me if Bolt ever gave a 'Broader' context to the almost two thousand Palestinian civilians, women children, killed/murdered by Israeli Military on their raising of Gaza following on from these murders. And whether he commented as to these types of reactions having a 'Broader' effect.
 
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