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"IT WASN'T ABOUT RESIDENCY"
On Wednesday the Sydney Morning Herald’s Alan Ramsey revealed (once again) his contempt for research. Today, the same newspaper’s Mike Carlton does the same in reporting the circumstances of 104-year-old Cui Yu Hu:
The only thing that had stopped Cui from being deported to China was the fact that no airline would risk carrying her ancient bones.
No, Mike. As Cui’s spokesman told The Age three days ago:
It was all about medical care - it wasn’t about residency. There was no time at all that we felt that she would be deported.
Andrew Bolt has the full story. Are Ramsey and Carlton trying to get fired?
UPDATE. Jihad Pundit in comments: “I can’t wait to see how thoroughly next week’s Media Watch ignores these egregious transgressions.”
UPDATE II. Carlton claims that Denmark’s “doddery old King Christian X” (he was just 10 years older than Mike at the time) “congratulated Adolf Hitler on the matchless efficiency of the Wehrmacht’s invasion” of his kingdom. Not so. The King congratulated General Kurt Himer, not Hitler, as Professor Bunyip points out:
Just as Ramsey might easily have checked the James Watt furphy before making himself and his paper even more ridiculous than their best efforts have already managed, so Carlton could have taken the time to verify his charge before impugning the memory of a brave, intelligent and thoroughly decent king.
Carlton has an impressive record of flawed, or inadequate, research. What was Simon Jenkins saying earlier about the mainstream media spending millions “finding and checking” their stories? Carlton doesn’t spend a cent.
"Are they trying to get fired”?
Ummm… non-sequitur? What’s any of this “fact” stuff got to do with journalists getting fired or not? I mean, fine, that’s your truth, whatever, but it’s not their truth at all, and besides, anybody who complains obviously has a political agenda, or has political opinions, or has some kind of opinions, or is a Jew or a Christian or whatever, so their objections are ipso facto invalid. I mean, really. I mean unless somebody oppressed complains. Then you have to seriously consider the impact of your words and the possibility that your truth may have to be retriangulated.
The cartoonist Phil Foglio had a perfect definition of the stuff we get from the likes of Sgrena, Margo, Adams, McGeough and Rather: “Infotainment-like journalistic art-product.”
But it ain’t news…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 11 at 05:20 PM • permalinkA couple of questions that I consider pertinent:
Why was this woman allowed into Australia?
Which airline company flew her into Australia?
What is the cut-off age at which laws no longer apply?
Has nyone ever proposed that the leftist media take esponsibility for her social security and medical costs?
Why wasn’t she deported?
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2005 03 11 at 05:33 PM • permalinkBolta’s article is a beauty.
I made a similar comment the diatribe this week where I asked ‘what of traditional cultural values’?See, the rub here is the left usually trumpet the need to maintain cultural practices as part of multi culturalism. As ANY kid in Chinese society will willingly attest, they, as adults are responsible for the care and maintenance of their parents. It stems from the Confuciuan virtue of ‘filial piety’. So what do we have here? Son and daughter are on benefits and mum is going to get a free ride. What of ‘cultural practices’? Not on your life. We’re the suckers, not them.
I can’t wait to see how thoroughly next week’s Mediawatch ignores these egregious transgressions.
Posted by Jihad Pundit on 2005 03 11 at 08:39 PM • permalinkNightfly — I’d bet this crowd would like Girl Genius or Buck Godot ...
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 12 at 12:41 AM • permalinkBarker? He is one.
Bolt is on the money with this final barb:
"MEMO to the ABC’s Media Watch: this is the kind of media-watching you’re paid to do. Drop your jihad for the Left and get on with it."
I suspect the communards at Aunty will remain as recalcitrant as the Barking Baathists in the Middle east.
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Carlton sounds more like Phadams every day. Constructs his own cartoon mental image then ridicules it.
We had neighbours who sent their daughter to Ascham. Dad was a computer salesman and mum was a teacher at a local public school. Not an atypical family at that school.
Their daughter did brilliantly, by the way.
And of course if you’re rich you’d be crazy not to send your kid there (unless you’re idealogically opposed to private education, like the Phad).