The Bolt Report

[McLovin]

And why does Murdoch have such a wide circulation? Hmmm - that usually means people are buying it. People choose what they buy to read. Obviously you are reading with the minority...

Because sheeple like being fed sensationalist tripe. And before you get your knickers in a knot about me being some left wing loony, I read the Australian, just like I read the SMH. I can't stand tabloids.

 

[Julia]

Equalled over the last few years by watching Andrew Bolt comprehensively demolish Marr's dim bigotries face to face on Insiders.

They are of a kind, by pure chance on opposite sides of a debate.

gg

+1 x 10.
Might be Australia would be a better place if Marr and Bolt both simply disappeared.

And it's not only Bolt. Another icon of the left, who has been rubbishing Bolt, has put his foot in it. Burnside's credibility is now down there with Bolt's.

He said;

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-on-twitter-slur/story-fn59niix-1226154571680

He claims this was a mistake. Really? He is engaging in a discussion on Twitter about Mr Abbott and says

he could not recall whether the message he was replying to was a comment from @RobertaWedge, asking: "@JulianBurnside Are sexist abbots like predator priests?"

to which he apparently directly replied:

Paedos in Speedos

How could this be a mistake or unintentional as Mr Burnside claims?

Mr Abbott has sensibly declined to comment.

Given the sentiments expressed over the last few days about the right of people to feel offended, one would imagine Mr Abbott would have every reason to feel very offended indeed.

As perhaps Andrew Bolt himself might, on hearing himself being called "Scum" by some of those celebrating the court decision. (from the link provided by Sails to the radio interview with Geoff Clarke, who for that matter, has undoubtedly offended many people in his time.)

So if we all start looking for reasons to be offended and decide to take the offending people to court, we are sure as hell going to need a lot more judges and court space.

The escalating public squabbling between journalists, lawyers and so called public intellectuals is unedifying to say the least. "The Australian" has devoted way too many pages to responding to the virulent utterings of Robert Manne, and even today gives him a further right of reply. As a reader of "The Australian" I would much prefer that they do their fighting in private.

What they don't seem to realise is how they are diminishing themselves by this silly and unproductive behaviour

 

[Calliope]

In previous tweets Mr Burnside had called Mr Abbott ''a crazed hypocritical zealot'' and
"a truly dangerous, unprincipled person: a liar and a hypocrite"

I guess we can work it out for ourselves who the unprincipled, lying hypocrite is.

 

[todster]

And why does Murdoch have such a wide circulation? Hmmm - that usually means people are buying it. People choose what they buy to read. Obviously you are reading with the minority...

Most people dont care and dont read at all,the minority is the this forum and its posters.

 

[Julia]

Most people dont care and dont read at all,the minority is the this forum and its posters.

What rubbish.

 

[todster]

What rubbish.

Yep 40000 members about 20 odd posters on this thread (usual suspects) cutting edge.
Julia you really need to get over yourself.
Rubbish indeed

 

[IFocus]

Most people dont care and dont read at all,the minority is the this forum and its posters.

Quite true most watch the 6.00pm news or the current affairs programs that show dramatic footage of lost dogs, print media has been in decline for some time.

I remember being around a work force of 300 + (Managers, engineers etc) less than 1/2 a doz were interested in discussions that we are currently having.

 

[todster]

Quite true most watch the 6.00pm news or the current affairs programs that show dramatic footage of lost dogs, print media has been in decline for some time.

I remember being around a work force of 300 + (Managers, engineers etc) less than 1/2 a doz were interested in discussions that we are currently having.

That was the point but i have a knack of winding some people.

 

[basilio]

Basilio, your postings and articles require some balance, imo. Not everyone agrees with everything you say no matter how much you use enlarged fonts...

Is this being used to further the attack on free speech in this country? Below are the viewpoints of other people: Sails

Well they would say that wouldn't they ?

Forget what I say or my opinions. They are irrelevant in this discussion

Andrew Bolt went before Judge Bromberg to defend the accuracy of his writing and the way he then expressed his views.

After carefully reviewing the stories and the evidence Judge Bromberg found that Andrew Bolt had basically made false statements about the 9 people and then trashed them on the basis of these false accusations. I highlighted and bolded the judges findings to try and make it clear to anyone who actually can and will read English what Andrew Bolt was found guilty of.

The usual suspects just don't want to accept the possibility that they can't make up whatever they want and continue to get away with it under the cloak of "free speech". It would be all be a bit awkward if their writings had to be fact checked.

But don't worry. If you all keeping yelling loud enough and long enough you can quite easily convince each other that Andrew was totally right all along because, after all,

He's White, Bright and Proud to be Right..



(Then you can all go out and send the judge to jail for getting it all so clearly wrong..)

 

[sails]

Basilio,

I think you have completely missed the point I was trying to make. This is more about the left using this as a further attempt to silence dissenting media in this country and little to do with Bolt.

I am not defending Bolt on this issue, but what I find more disturbing has been the crowing from the left that one of the opinion writers of the Murdoch media has been found to have crossed the line in one or two articles. That doesn't mean that every opinion expressed in a Murdoch rag is wrong either.

But, as it is the Murdoch media that the greenie left would like to see disappear off the face of this earth, the jubilation is not about Bolt, but something else to lay the boot into Murdoch media.

It is the attempts from the left to control the media and subsequent freedom of speech that is the most worrying issue, imo.

 

[sails]

That was the point but i have a knack of winding some people.

A little more reading would most likely help with spelling and grammar issues, Todster...

Time to get over yourself and stop throwing silly taunts.

 

[McLovin]

Basilio,

I think you have completely missed the point I was trying to make. This is more about the left using this as a further attempt to silence dissenting media in this country and little to do with Bolt.

I am not defending Bolt on this issue, but what I find more disturbing has been the crowing from the left that one of the opinion writers of the Murdoch media has been found to have crossed the line in one or two articles. That doesn't mean that every opinion expressed in a Murdoch rag is wrong either.

But, as it is the Murdoch media that the greenie left would like to see disappear off the face of this earth, the jubilation is not about Bolt, but something else to lay the boot into Murdoch media.

It is the attempts from the left to control the media and subsequent freedom of speech that is the most worrying issue, imo.

Is your humour deliberate?

 

[noco]

Basilio,

I think you have completely missed the point I was trying to make. This is more about the left using this as a further attempt to silence dissenting media in this country and little to do with Bolt.

I am not defending Bolt on this issue, but what I find more disturbing has been the crowing from the left that one of the opinion writers of the Murdoch media has been found to have crossed the line in one or two articles. That doesn't mean that every opinion expressed in a Murdoch rag is wrong either.

But, as it is the Murdoch media that the greenie left would like to see disappear off the face of this earth, the jubilation is not about Bolt, but something else to lay the boot into Murdoch media.

It is the attempts from the left to control the media and subsequent freedom of speech that is the most worrying issue, imo.

Yes Sails, you are dead right. You hit the nail on the head.

 

[todster]

A little more reading would most likely help with spelling and grammar issues, Todster...

Time to get over yourself and stop throwing silly taunts.

I have found good grammar and spelling do little to improve ones personality,you back it up.

 

[wayneL]

Let's not go down the personal attack route folks.

Pleeeeease.

 

[orr]

Just for a bit of back ground

"We treat them the same as everyone else - couldn't be fairer." Queensland Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen - 1983"

For those who need to be reminded Lang Hancock is the father of Gina Rinehart who has a major interest in Channel 10 home for your Bolt Report . The following link is to a clip taken from the film 'Couldn't be Fairer', Supplied by the National film and sound Archive. Our history, the indelible Arm Band.
It conflates so much in just over two minutes( do you have the time?). Were Bolts rants just a job application? To a big fat fruit that hasn't fallen far from the tree.

http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/couldnt-be-fairer/clip2/

 

[sails]

Let's not go down the personal attack route folks.

Pleeeeease.

Thanks Wayne and a good reminder to use the ignore facility which is something I don't like to do to posters who are prepared to have at least some sort of reasoned debate even though there are differing opinions.

 

[sails]

...For those who need to be reminded Lang Hancock is the father of Gina Rinehart who has a major interest in Channel 10 home for your Bolt Report . The following link is to a clip taken from the film 'Couldn't be Fairer', Supplied by the National film and sound Archive. Our history, the indelible Arm Band.
It conflates so much in just over two minutes( do you have the time?). Were Bolts rants just a job application? To a big fat fruit that hasn't fallen far from the tree...[/url]

Orr, yes I watched the clip and don't agree with Hancock's despicable ideas on this issue.

But in your post you somehow assume that Gina Rinehart and Bolt would both share the same opinions as Hancock - have I understood correctly?

As a grandparent I can assure you that kids don't always take on the same views as their parents, in fact, they can take the opposite in their adult years.

And also as a previous employer, I can also assure you that employees have their own opinions. And Bolt is primarily employed by the Murdoch media and only has a half hour show with channel 10. I have watched most of his shows and he is more into current politics.

I think you are reading too much into those associations of Gina and her father by a long stretch. However, I think the left are trying their hardest to get rid of the Murdoch media using Bolt as an example. I would think Bolt could actually have a field day suing the awful defamatory stuff I have read about him in the last couple of days and some can be found on his blog.

As I said in my last post, I don't think this is actually about Bolt. I think this has become a convenient platform for the left to lay another boot into the Murdoch media to gain public support in an effort to silence the information they are willing to expose.

 

[Knobby22]

As I said in my last post, I don't think this is actually about Bolt. I think this has become a convenient platform for the left to lay another boot into the Murdoch media to gain public support in an effort to silence the information they are willing to expose.

Some truth in this, Newscorp are partly guilty as they should be giving him a junior reporter to check the facts/assertions or the editor should at least read the article and edit it.

He is willing to distort facts to make a point and should be brought into line because it is bad jounalism and will cost Newscorp a lot of court time if he keeps it up.

 

[sails]

Some truth in this, Newscorp are partly guilty as they should be giving him a junior reporter to check the facts/assertions or the editor should at least read the article and edit it.

He is willing to distort facts to make a point and should be brought into line because it is bad jounalism and will cost Newscorp a lot of court time if he keeps it up.

Knobby, to be fair, I think this is all over comments from just two articles. Bolt must have written thousands over the years and yet so much fuss over just two?


And it seems that Geoff Clark had other reasons to go after Bolt. It looks to me like it is an attempt to silence Bolt on wider issues:

GEOFF Clark has admitted that he took part in a class action against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt over the general "tone" of his opinion pieces.

Mr Clark said in an interview with the Herald Sun yesterday that Bolt's writing on a range of racial issues, not just the two articles reviewed in the court case, prompted him to take legal action.

"He's got a wide audience and, subject to what he says, that audience is swayed and he has a lot of influence," he said.

By Stephen Drill: Geoff Clark reveals why he went after Andrew Bolt

Looks like a witch hunt to me...