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Tim Dunlop’s been pro-blogging for News Ltd since late last year, mostly about John Howard (he’s evil) and the Australian newspaper (it’s biased). Comfort posts for lefties; usually harmless.
Trouble is, the Australian is also published by News Ltd, which may have grown tired of paying someone to trash their own national daily (often in general terms; Dunlop seems to oppose the paper’s entire editorial direction). This morning a Dunlop piece, again critical of the Australian, was pulled.
No big deal. It was always going to happen. If you’re going to consistently attack a particular enterprise, it’s probably best not to be employed by that same enterprise. Lefties struggle with this simple concept.
Anyway, Dunlop’s kamikaze post and its subsequent removal is a sign of the end times:
This desperation from News Ltd is another clear sign of panic in the ranks, panic spreading all the way from the White House to Wall Street, from No. 10 to the PM’s Kirribilli Lodge. It’s a doomsday scenario: the collapse of conservatism across the Western political spectrum.
Can’t say I’ve ever really noticed the ‘lopster’s contributions to the blogosphere - his writing style brings to mind a kind of a grey blancmange.
There is nothing that will put you to sleep quite so quickly as the argument that the “left-right dichotomy” as a way of explaining things is entirely unsatisfactory and the lopster loves this argument.
However he has never quite been able to apply this rule to himself, thus:
It is precisely that “generous” “broadly supportive” “right-of-centre” tilt that people are responding to when they see Newspoll reported the way it was this week. For the editorial to deny that any such tilt exist seems disingenuous.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 12 at 05:54 AM • permalinkShades of Sylvia Plath having a nervous breakdown because the editors at Mademoiselle made her rewrite one of her columns.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 12 at 05:56 AM • permalink#1 - speaking of that prat David Marr, I opened up my local rag last week and found a photo of him staring out at me. Ugh.
The caption read:
The editors and supporters of Acting from the Heart: Australian advocates for asylum seekers tell their stories, launched the book at Glebe. The launch was hosted by media personality Julie McCrossin and journalist David Marr. All royalties from the sale of the book are being donated to local group Bridge for Asylum Seekers, which was represented at the launch by Virginia Walker.
I just love that title - Acting from the heart. I don’t know why they didn’t call it Bleeding heart - Australian poseurs have another whinge in print that no one wants to read.
That should raise two or three dollars in royalties for our local basket weavers.
I wonder if Marr lives around here? If so, I should be able to run him down at some point with my 4WD. Or if I see him when I am out for a cycle, I could try this.
(Waves at Media Watch researcher).
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 12 at 06:12 AM • permalinkNo, Tim. A paper that can’t handle criticism as mild as Dunlop’s (excerpt: “News Ltd, including The Australian, has opened itself to comment and criticism from its readership more so than Fairfax”) ain’t worth a pinch of shit. You don’t have to buy into any LP comments thread guff about “the collapse of conservatism” to recognise this. Dunlop should be applauded for walking away, if that is indeed what he’s done (only a rumour at this stage).
Posted by Captain Wacky on 2007 07 12 at 06:15 AM • permalinkThat’s right, Blogstrop. An excerpt: “a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like”. One that demonstrates that Dunlop was not exactly engaged in a campaign of Michael Moore-style hysteria against News Limited, if that is what you don’t understand.
Posted by Captain Wacky on 2007 07 12 at 06:41 AM • permalinkWhat are you talking about, Jim? Blogstrop appears to be disputing that what I provided was an “excerpt”. Was he right?
Posted by Captain Wacky on 2007 07 12 at 06:54 AM • permalinkYou can read The Oz editorial here.
Dunlop’s fanboi quotes him as writing that:
The editorial is up this morning and yes, they do “go” Peter Brent. They defend themselves in the strongest possible terms and attack, specifically and generally, just about anyone who disagrees with them, particularly “Australia’s online news commentariat ...”
Readers will notice a startling discrepancy between the actual editorial and Dunlop’s characterization of it.
Readers will also notice that Dunlop’s effort perfectly exemplifies the cocooned, distorted lefty thinking that the editorial criticises. The irony, the irony! The magnificent, glorious irony!
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2007 07 12 at 07:27 AM • permalinkChris, not only am I not “startled” by the discrepancy between the editorial and its characterisation by Dunlop (of whom I am no great fan - class act as a person, as Tim Blair will attest, but of undeniably tiresome left-liberal political persuasion), I fail to see it altogether. Unless, perhaps, you are interpreting “just about anyone who disagrees with them” outside of the context of the specific issue (i.e. The Australian’s insistence on reporting every disastrous Newspoll result as great news for the government).
Brett, I remain fairly confident that Blogstrop’s question was of the rhetorical smartarse variety.
Posted by Captain Wacky on 2007 07 12 at 07:55 AM • permalinkWhat are you talking about, Jim?
Pedantry.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 07 12 at 08:00 AM • permalinkOh good, nothing to do with me then.
Mm-hm.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 07 12 at 08:04 AM • permalinkOh dear! I hope the collapsing conservatism doesn’t fall on me and crush me.
Posted by miriams ideas on 2007 07 12 at 08:58 AM • permalink“Wall Street”? It’s at an all time high. Does this guy even read the papers he “critiques”?
Posted by Hucklebuck on 2007 07 12 at 10:04 AM • permalinkIt’s a doomsday scenario: the collapse of conservatism across the Western political spectrum.
Eh, what? Is Tim D often given to rhetorical excess, or is he a bit full of himself today?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 07 12 at 10:06 AM • permalinkOh, nevermind. That was from a mouth-breather at Larval Rodeo…
After sifting through the self-indulgent whining, I have to say that anyone who uses the word “hegemonic” in a what is allegedly a serious comment is a infantile wanker.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 07 12 at 10:25 AM • permalink#25 wreckage: (Sniffs opportunity and pedantry wafting in the air; opens up door to office and walks to popcorn stand, anticipating huge profits from merciless smackdown and especially when Andrea breaks out the Zulu spear).
Get your popcorn while it’s hot!
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 07 12 at 11:13 AM • permalinkTreacher vs. Captain Wacky
The Precision Analogy Construction Optimizer gives the following results:
1) Dodge Viper at 120 mph vs. possum with gout
2) Mossberg Pump-action shotgun vs. water balloon
3) IDF vs. Farfour
4) John Smeaton vs. Muslim doctors
5) Paco Enterprises vs. the Securities and Exchange Commission
Others, too numerous to mention, but those are the top five.
34# Another wuss. Darn. (Shuffles back into office, closes door).
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 07 12 at 12:23 PM • permalink“This morning a Dunlop piece, again critical of the Australian, was pulled.”
Good. Those who employ censorship (about every ten secoinds in Dunlop’s case) ought to get a taste of their own medicine.
How’s it feel, surfer-boy?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 12 at 01:01 PM • permalinkDunlop bit the hand that fed him? And he’s complaining about getting smacked with a rolled up newspaper?
Whinger.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 12 at 03:24 PM • permalinkNotice the analytical ‘sophistication’ of Dunlop - even Wall St is ‘conservative’
[= evil] too.
The opposite, of course, is RADICAL, the source of all stability as well as the ‘progress’ of all humanity…Marx, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, WHITLAM, Khomeini, Mygabe, the Taliban…
..all RADICALSDream on Dunlop, but why should we contract your nightmares?
Y’know I worked for an editor who earned the knick name Captain Wacky.
Hey Cap’n, your surname’s not Gordon is it?
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 12 at 08:01 PM • permalinkI suppose that to these people, Crikey isn’t biased.
Never subscribed, but get the squatter email..that place has gone completely over the edge since Mayne sold it.
Posted by anonymous guest on 2007 07 12 at 08:41 PM • permalinkHow does “conservatism” get across the entire political spectrum. Are the conservative anarcho-syndicalists in trouble too?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 12 at 09:52 PM • permalink‘How does “conservatism” get across the entire political spectrum.’
Because conservatives want to maintain the existing order. The guys running China right now are conservatives, as well as being ultra-left.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 12 at 11:29 PM • permalinkIf you’re going to consistently attack a particular enterprise, it’s probably best not to be employed by that same enterprise. Lefties struggle with this simple concept.
Damn right! Lefties expect a free ride right across the media and generally get it. But say The Age for instance. Would they ever publish anything of Ackerman’s or Bolt’s?.
Never! The concept of a conservative ever getting exposure in Pravda on the Yarra is laughable!
Therefore, Uncle Rupert practices greater freedom of speech than The Age - a rag that obsesses about free speech (as long as you agree with them).
’How does “conservatism” get across the entire political spectrum.’
Conservatism is like carbon dioxide, which is like ebola, which is like causing temperature spikes.*
*Sciency dude told me. Gotta be truth.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 12 at 11:58 PM • permalinkThis desperation from News Ltd is another clear sign of panic in the ranks, panic spreading all the way from the White House to Wall Street, from No. 10 to the PM’s Kirribilli Lodge. It’s a doomsday scenario: the collapse of conservatism across the Western political spectrum.
I saw the pulling of the Dunlop column as a clear indication of the collapse of western civilization, the precursor to a plague of winged monkeys and the resurrection of the anti-Christ.
But them again maybe it was just a case of flushing some shit down the dunny as all of us have to do sometime. It was News Ltd’s turn today.
I am utterly high on the awsome destructive power of breathing out EBOLA VIRUS.
Do not mess with me, fuckers, or you’ll bleed to death out yer arse.
I have Ebola virus dissolved in my blood, leaking from my rectum, and filling my lungs. I breathe out, and surely on these cold mornings that fog is none other than Africa’s most infamous hemorrhagic fever, clustered about, awaiting my bidding. I am filled with Ebola, the most feared pathogen on earth, AND YET I LIVE.
FEAR ME, MORTALS!
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He really is a bit of a retread, isn’t he? I think he’s developed a slow leak. At this stage I’d say all he’s good for now is burnouts- what say we pop him on the back of a Skyline and head to Aldi for some circle work?
Actually his lame, pouty hystrionics sound remarkably like the latest blather from Dave Marr, whose dissent is likewise being crushed by getting aired in national newsprint and broadcast mediums.
I for one can’t work out wht News Ltd gave him the gig in the first place- he’d be more at home at Fairfax, but maybe they weren’t paying. I’d be happy to take on his gig and slavishly toe the party line, fawning all over JWH, GWB and the Adonis-like Rupert (but not his idiot son, who’s a complete twat).