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15 Apr: How to be a journalist in one easy lesson

Learn journalism the easy way

Marxist Martin HirstYou can save yourself three years of politically correct, left-wing indoctrination at journalism school by just following the simple steps below.

Learn the following vocabulary with its emphasis on hard-hitting negative verbs:
(All of the following are regularly used in media reports. See how many you can spot next time you read a newspaper or watch the TV news.)

 Sparked (the most important word in a journalist’s vocabulary), as in “sparked anger”, “sparked uproar”, “sparked outrage”, “sparked a war of words”;

 rolled, as in “Caucus rolled the Prime Minister”, or  “The Minister was rolled on  the  issue“. Political leaders never change their minds or review their decisions, they “back flip” or they are “rolled” ;

caved-in; back flip; exposed; blamed; threatened; warned; sent shock waves; shattered; pummelled; taken a hit; rolled over; attacked; intimidated; undermined; killed; spinning dangerously out of control; the death toll from a tragic ….….,    

24 Sep: ABC’s group think on climate change

Former ABC chairman, Maurice Newman warned of the global warming group think in the ABC: In March 2010 as chairman, I addressed an in-house conference of 250 ABC leaders… I blamed group think and used climate change as an example… Jonathon Holmes, the presenter of Media Watch, was so angry “he could not concentrate”… I was interviewed by PM and teased as to whether I was a “climate change denier or not as obvious as that?” . I retain a deep affection for the ABC. But, like the BBC, there are signs that a small but powerful group has captured the corporation, at least on climate change.  

18 Apr: Assault on free speech

Throughout the West there is a remorseless assault on free speech through the agency of human rights commissions, political correctness and racial discrimination laws. It was a sad day for free sppech in Australia, when on 28th September 2011 Justice Bromberg in a long, rambling homily, found Andrew  Bolt and the Herald & Weekly Times guilty of conduct that contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. In two columns, journalist Andrew Bolt, made some fairly innocuous comments about fair-skinned Aboriginals getting special benefits because of their claimed Aboriginality.  (full story) As the ABC and its left-wing and Marxist cohorts in academia and the Fairfax Group are railing against loosening the restriction of free speech imposed by the notorious Racial Discrimination Act, it is worth reflecting on Mark Steyn’s essay in the National Review of August 29, 2011. GAGGING US SOFTLY To be honest, I didn’t really think much about “freedom…