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Symptoms of media dysfunction
In an analysis of the election
result of May 18, Samantha Maiden, stating that the Labor Party was “trounced
on Saturday night”. While use of the word ‘trounced’ would indicate some sort
of electoral landslide, the Labor Party overall lost only a few seats, such
that the Coalition will now have a majority of a couple of seats in the House
of Representatives. Hardly a trouncing. Perhaps the most pathetic item in
Online abuse of women
I don’t know whether on-line abuse is
mostly reserved for women, especially prominent women, but I suspect it is.
Misogyny runs deep in our society, as does envy. Author and commentator, Jane
Caro, related some of the abuse she received after tweeting subsequent to the May
18 election result. It was the usual sort of abuse reserved for women, I presume:
Blah, blah, bitch, blah, blah, cow, blah, blah. To give an example: some right-wing
Craig MacPherson quote
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Paddy Manning quote
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Combover supports coal-fired Abbott
The combover, Maurice
Newman, climate change denier and intimate of Tony Abbott, seems to be
suspicious of Four Corners’ efforts to understand the Zali Steggall campaign to
unseat Tony Abbott, stating they are “risking time and money to capture the
surreal moment when Abbott may be out of the parliament”. Then he states that
it is a “consummation devoutly to be wished by the Left”. This is where he is
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