The Reader has produced a nice little spectrum of bias in Australian journalism, which may be handy for those who pick and choose their news sources… as Curtis T. Lee once said to me, “If you're going to read a bias newspaper, best you read one which shares your bias.”
True Socialist - Adele Horin (SMH)
True Socialist - Phillip Adams (ABC Radio, The Australian)
Libertarian Left - Mike Carlton (2UE, SMH)
Libertarian Left - Jon Faine (ABC Radio)
Small 'L' Liberal - Alan Ramsey (SMH)
Small 'L' Liberal - Kerry O'Brien (ABC TV)
Moderate Left - Laurie Oakes (Channel Nine, The Bulletin)
Straight-as-a-die, her only bias is towards truth in political coverage - Michelle Grattan (The Age)
Moderate Right - Ross Gittins (SMH)
Moderate Right - John Laws (2UE)
'Tory' Values - Robert Gottliebsen (The Australian)
Arch-Conservative - Alan Jones (2GB)
Red Neck - Steve Price (2UE)
Red Neck - Neil Mitchell (3AW)
Attila the Hun - Andrew Bolt (Herald Sun)
(thanks to Crikey)
KL says:
Hey, there's no way this is as cool as the shoutbot in here.
Barney says:
yeah, this is no shoutbot…the wallpaper's boring, there's no careful scientist… I like the shoutbot… I'm getting out of here…
Comments says:
C'mon fellas, I put out waaaay easier than any of your sisters, and Im cheaper than a thruppence Mary of Magdelane!
All I want is for you to "Comment" me in the morning, noon and nite, coz..
"I gotta get me some of that…
I NEED to get me some of that…etc."
Shoutbot is a pussy, and I kiss his ass all ways from Sunday - I mean, "kick", oh god, no wonder you don't love me…
Maybe if I told a joke…
What did the hand say to the face?
*SLAP* Im Rick James bitch!
See you on da flipside homo's!
KL says:
Dear Comments,
You strike me as being a little unhinged.
That "joke" was even a little frightening.
Yours,
Rick James
Barney says:
I always knew you had rhythm KL, but I had no idea you also had incense, wine and candles…and I really liked what you were doing with your hair back in the hey-day…this 'short with a slight fin' look is cool and all, but it just ain't the same as those beautiful braids…
killer says:
whatchu talkin' 'bout barney… is there some picture we should know about?
killer says:
oh i see, you're talking about our main man [url=http://www.rickjames.com/]Ricky James[/url]
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Rick James says:
"That was just me going through an artistic ego trip. I didn't want rappers touching my shit, but a lot of us older musicians felt that way then. I wanted to sue them. But then I saw what kind of money I was making from Hammer and LL Cool J and Will Smith and on and on with the people sampling Rick James music. And I said, 'Never mind.' "
Right on!
KL says:
Small 'L' Liberal - Alan Ramsey (SMH)
Small 'L' Liberal - Kerry O'Brien (ABC TV)
Big 'C' Unt - Ray Martin (9)
Barney says:
Could not be more right about that gap-toothed, supercilious, self-agrandising, over-paid, over-touted and over-rated son of a bi-atch… The smile he wears while talking about income inequality is like nails down a chalkboard. I hate Ray…
fancy dave says:
I dunno about Mike Carlton.
He certainly acts like a conservative. I think he's a plant. And not the green kind (tee hee).
Has anyone else read "LIES and the Lying Liars who tell them" by Al Franken?
It's about the right-wing media in the US and their crazy bullshit. Hilarious. I'll lend it to you Killer, at risk of compromising your studies. You will be obsessed with it.
KL says:
I been thinking of picking up that Franken book… worth a read eh Fancy?