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Margo Kingston’s retirement—“Webdiary’s closure marks the end of my career in journalism. It’s time to move on”—is over after just three weeks.
What a wonderful pen portrait of Kerry Packer.
Thank you Margo. I would never have appreciated what an impressive individual he was if not for you.
Sorry? What was that? The article supposed to be criticism? Nah, that was praise.
Posted by Chris Harper on 2005 12 27 at 06:32 PM • permalink``You’ve given me an example of something that I was exonerated from and hijacked into before, the Costigan inquiry, and you’re sitting here under parliamentary privilege dragging that up again … I think you’ve got a damned hide.’‘
Man, I wish Dubya and Cheney would talk like that.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2005 12 27 at 06:36 PM • permalinkI seem to remember bronwyn Beehive getting her ass handed back to her on a plate by kerry. Was she the one who asked that Costigan question?
If kerry had run for office the day after the enquiry he would have shit it in.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 12 27 at 07:34 PM • permalinkI wonder if the headline is supposed to have a double meaning?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 12 27 at 07:56 PM • permalinkIt’s time to move on.
What would Tim do if she actually did move on?
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2005 12 27 at 08:27 PM • permalink#10 the transcript would help. Further to Tim’s previous Packer article, according to this collection of quotes Kerry Packer was reported to have said:
“Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer. Reluctantly.” - To a federal parliamentary media inquiry, when asked to state his full name and the capacity in which he appeared.
Margo (who “was there”) appears to have a rather different version, presumably to make him out to be an arsehole:
Australia’s richest man opened his evidence with belligerence: “Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer. I appear here this afternoon reluctantly.”
I don’t suppose Kingston ever got a job offer for Australian Womens’ Weekly…
Sheeeeee’s baaaaack! Or maybe not. Perhaps this is just a sort of “cameo” appearance. Of course, if Magog really does retire from journalism, what’s she going to do? I suppose if she goes on the dole it could legitimately be considered the best value the Australian taxpayer ever got for his money - assuming she shuts up, of course.
#12 - the MP getting her arse handed back to her was Jeanette McHugh, wife of current High Court Justice Michael McHugh.
Kerry also arced up when he saw a cup of tea being brought to Ian Sinclair. Kerry demanded - and got - a cup of tea as well.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2005 12 27 at 09:09 PM • permalinkMargo is back!!! My prays have been answered.
Ring the church bells and all sing from the rooftops. I had wondered what I was going to do for my laughs in 2006 after Margrok’s “retirement”. Hope to see more material very soon.
Margo your return is the best belated christmas present ever. Thank you.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 12 27 at 09:39 PM • permalinkFor those not familiar with the Packer story, the little vignette described (or misdescribed) by Magro is better appreciated when it is understood that Packer had long been the bogey man of the left. He was hated, not only because he was very rich and very powerful, but because the left feared if he bought out Fairfax (the owner of all the lefty rags in Oz to this day) he would turf out all the second-rate leftist ideologues posing as journalists (who infest it still) and use the newspapers to effectively deny the ALP government (and the left the spoils that go with it). The ALP, therefore, determined to deny him (and his friend, Murdoch) control of Fairfax – in the national interest.
One wonders whether Margo appeared in The Age with the same reluctance that Packer appeared at the inquiry.
Of course, it’s possible that Margo wrote this article 14 years ago and she’s just re-running it in The Age for a little extra pocket money. She’s in fine company if all she’s doing is reprinting articles; that shouldn’t tarnish her reputation as a non-journalist.
Margo Kingston was there.
I read that as part of the story, (and a dramatic part, at that), not an indication of who had authored… the remainder(?) of the page…
I looked all over trying to find the author’s name; I guess I’m in Australia now.
Or maybe I’m just dense.
Anyway—it reminded me of the old historical short films they would show before movies:
You were there!
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 12 28 at 02:10 AM • permalink#16 - Good point. To be fair on poor old Margo (poor in the sense of her economic status, old in the sense of her age), she was probably writing from memory, which is no doubt shoddy.
Slightly o/t, did anyone else notice how webdiary is finishing the year? Begging for money.
Heh, gotta love consumer choice.
I know Margo means to complain that the fellow was only paying a 10% marginal tax rate, but I do love how that fact alone is suppose to speak for itself as a symbol of the man’s inate evil.
(By the way, was that the only page to the story—concluding about getting his cup of tea?—because it seems like a horribly incomplete article)
Moonbat Love -if Danida likes sitting in a hole in the wall cafe with Lisialisia what good is she?
Muskrat Danida,Muskrat Lisia lisia
do the jitterbug in Muskrat Land and they jiggle,one starts to giggle…
and they whirl and they twirl and they dangle-float like the heaven above,looks like Moonbat Lo-o-o-o-0ve.
Margo’s career? Career here,career there….C’mon crash, Emma is a HOTTIE! All is forgiven with such hotness!
She could chase me anywhere, even into court. (Hizonner may not approve, however)
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 12 28 at 08:32 AM • permalinkCrash, is that right? About Bob Geldorf? That is a WTF? Moment. How is he to act as a “consultant” to the Tories? What would he offer them? Would they ask him, “Bob, are there any important rock groups that would raise money for Charter Schools and to reform the NHS?” To which Bob would answer, “Um, could I have some more of those delicious little sandies? The choco and pecan ones? Delicioso. That’s how they say it in Sao Paulo.”
after just three weeks.
hey, “never say never again…”
Although, does writing for The Age actually count as journalism?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 28 at 09:08 PM • permalinkRe #40 and #42:
The 51-year-old former Boomtown Rat and founder of Band Aid, Live Aid and Sport Aid will join David Cameron’s policy commission on globalisation. He will form an unlikely alliance with Peter Lilley, the former social security secretary, who will chair Mr Cameron’s latest attempt to rewrite Tory policy and transform the party’s uncaring image.
“Geldof’s new aid: to Tory policy”, The Australian
In an interview with the Sky News TV channel, Geldof said he wouldn’t hesitate to say if he disagreed with the eventual Conservative policy. “They must know that I am in no one’s pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone,” Geldof said.
“Geldof to advise UK Conservatives”, CNN InternationalHe also said, and I am not making this up: “The quid pro quo is a double-edged sword.”
In The Age today (Fri): Feature/column by Leftie moonbat Dr Natasha Cica, founding editor of NewMatilda.com:
“To varying degrees and with differing agendas, Eric Beecher and Di Gribble’s Crikey, Margo Kingston’s WebDiary...and John Menadue’s NewMatilda do make invaluable space for something different.”
Point One: Margo’s space is and was certainly ‘invaluable’, meaning of no value.
Second: How sad that even Leftie moonbats like Dr Cica don’t read WebDiary, otherwise Dr Cica would have known it went Kaput this month.
Other Leftie moonbat crap on the same page of The Age: Warwick McFadyen, “staff writer”
going bananas about US ‘rendition’ of terror suspects—“incarceration, interrogation and possible torture in third countries”: hey Warwick, give us one substantiated case of that “possible” torture! If you can’t, calm down a bit.
And on the opposite (Letters) page, another Leftie moonbat called L.Thek, of Glen Waverley, says of the Leftie moonbat film about McCarthy era, Good Night & Good Luck: “I wish it could be mandatory viewing.”Yeah right, would he favor gaol terms or only fines for those who refused to see it? Or surely not rendition to New Zealand?
And on the opposite (Letters) page, another Leftie moonbat called L.Thek, of Glen Waverley, says of the Leftie moonbat film about McCarthy era, Good Night & Good Luck: “I wish it could be mandatory viewing.”
That’s another Age typo. He said “masturbatory” viewing.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 29 at 09:15 PM • permalink
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Margo must have been sitting next to Alan Ramsay at the Fairfax Christmas party.