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UNNECESSARY EMPHASIS PLACED
The Sydney Morning Herald’s code of ethics:
Staff will not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics, including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family relationships, religious belief or physical disability.
That code is no longer observed. Further thoughts from Andrew Bolt, Michael Kiely, and Andrew Landeryou.
I certainly have no trouble believing that newspapers place no emphasis on the qualities of their staffs.
All you have to do is read a newspaper to verify.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 21 at 12:13 AM • permalinkI do not like Jones. I think his ideas are second rate. I don’t care a flying fig who he sleeps with providing it’s a consenting adult. But oh my, the LEFT certainly cares about who he sleeps with!
The odd thing is that I have not met a genuine, educated conservative who gives a damn about what colour someone’s skin is, their ethnicity, or their sexual orientation.
Bogans do, as do the ill-educated. That is common anywhere.
But the educated lefties are all over this issue in one of two ways. Either they are patronisingly superior, continually assuring themselves that ‘they know’ all about it and are the only ones who ‘really understand’, or they are activily persecuting them.
It depends solely on the willingness of the homosexual/black/Asian or whatever to accept the role of ‘victim’ for the lefties involved.
At the end of the day, scratch a lefty, find a bigot and/or a racist. Conservatives tend to care much more about what is between another person’s ears. Not the left, though.
MarkL
canberra"The odd thing is that I have not met a genuine, educated conservative who gives a damn about what colour someone’s skin is, their ethnicity, or their sexual orientation.”
I object to bestiality on public roadways.
It blocks traffic.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 21 at 12:35 AM • permalink#6 you’re spot on - an educated conservative is generally far more genuinely liberal than a lefty. at a rwdb fundraiser in the heartland of costello country last night, there were gays & straights, jews & gentiles, rich people & comparative paupers, of all ages, happily nattering away to each other over a glass of cheap wine & mouth-searingly hot snacks, caring not a jot for political correctness, but practising acceptance & openness instead of gabbing about it to make a pious point
there weren’t any mad mullahs, but they wouldn’t have liked the drinking & mingling of the sexes anyway
I’ve got very little time for Chris Masters, David Marr, the ABC and everyone else lining up to throw stones at Alan Jones, but I also have very little time for Jones himself.
He’s just a shill for whatever agrarian socialist lobby is paying him to sing their tune.
For example, when he carries on about ethanol, you can bet my right nut it’s on behalf of the sugar industry.
The “cash for comment” letters of a few years ago showed just how venal he is.
And the Wallabies hated him.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 10 21 at 01:05 AM • permalink#10
You’re right. However I think that by this:For example, when he carries on about ethanol, you can bet my right nut it’s on behalf of the sugar industry.
You mean:
bet your right nut
I don’t think you’d want such an important thing in someone else’s hands (unless you really, really trusted them). Better not to take any chances.
A truely nasty hatchet job on Jones from Masters. The SMH extract seems to be full of the biggest titilations, but nothing “wrong” is exposed. Nothing!
It was the same when Masters did his 4 Corners program on Jones. You kept waiting for the bombshell, the expose of some wrongdoing - but it never came. The closest the program came I recall was a former student who simply didn’t like his former teacher (Jones). Got to the end of the program and I thought - is that it? Was that worth 45 minutes of airtime? So what?
Of course in the SMH there is the in-house helpful gay person and similar occasional hatchet-weilder David Marr (remember his breathless “expose” - non event - on Prime Minister’ Hopward’s father and grandfather?) playing handmaiden to Master’s piece, helpfully including some other juicy bits.
As others are observing, if such a book was written say, on somelike, oh… David Marr, or some other gay darling of the left, the outrage would be felt from Byron Bay to Shark Bay.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 10 21 at 01:59 AM • permalink#5 I’m not a conservative (I’m an anarchist communitarian) but I really, really object to pyronecrobestiality, in the road or not. I’m not sure whether that means making love to burning dead animals or setting oneself on fire and then making love to dead animals, but I do do know that I’m against it.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 21 at 02:05 AM • permalinkO/T but still on the SMH, today’s Good Weekend supplement has a panegyric on leftist author and activist Richard Flanagan, in which one of his mates praises his “sheer naked F...ing courage”.
Flanagan’s views, at least as they come across in the article, are in fact no more than the received wisdom of your average subrational, sentimental bourgeois para - intellectual - Howard tells lies, Muslims are being scapegoated, Hicks is just a naughty boy and Australians have all gotten meaner and nastier (except him).
None of this takes any courage, at least not in the circles where Flanagan doubtless moves, it’s the same stuff that’s regurgitated at every inner suburban dinner party, every government school staff room, every public service open plan office; it requires not a scintilla of intellectual originality or moral bravery.
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2006 10 21 at 03:11 AM • permalinkSeems to be part of the Save Labor So Smear Jones Plan
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 10 21 at 03:15 AM • permalinkThe gay-bashing, racist, etc., pontifications must be the new marching orders given to lefties all over the free world. I didn’t care for Foley before the sex-scandal-without-sex hit job by the Dems here in the States, but the way this has all been handled is a scandal all its own. You guys seem to be experiencing your own version.
Was there ever a bigger bunch of hypocrites than today’s “liberal/progressive” toadies?
You’re wrong Tim. The SMH policy CLEARLY says “unnecessary” emphasis. If you are attempting to derride any symbols of conservative opinion or trying to prop up your utopian vision of multicultural Australia by reminding the ignorant populace that white people commit crime too, then clearly it IS necessary.
Chris Masters has been a journalist for, what, more than three decades? During that time Australia has fundamentally changed, as has its place in a rapidly changing world. And as a “serious” journalist, involved in setting the agenda for public debate, and in an effort to makes sense of all the change he sees around him, Masters chooses to write a book on a conservative broadcaster that focuses on his subject’s sexual preference? It does make me wonder what’s been going on in Masters’ head all these years.
The Left is always chattering about Howard closing down debate, but this book seems to be the logical endpoint of debate closing techniques. Masters clearly hasn’t come to grips with the new world in which he lives. He’ll have his day in the sun over this, but he’s proven himself to be morally bankrupt in the process that it’s hard to imagine even the Left taking him seriously again.
Alan Jones’s sexuality, like Bob Carr’s, has been an open secret for some time. When Brogden alluded to Carr’s sexuality with his “now he can send the mail order bride back home” comments, the media (who I presume are largely aware of this fact) had the restraint to not even acknowledge what he was implying.
Those were the good old days, unfortunately Chris Masters and friends have opened a can of worms and we can expect a whole lot more gay sex scandals in the future. They can rest assured that the ALP has it’s fair share of closet cases and that their voter base are just as likely to be homophobes as ours.
Jones appears to be guilty of the following: right wing, successful and might be gay.
I’ve never particularly liked him but the hate and hypocrisy of the left is something to behold.
Is David Marr the Herald’s specifically designated Bile Correspondent?
And I can recall Mike Carlton going to town in his column not long ago because someone elsewhere had criticised Michael Kirby. He described it as “good old-fashioned Aussie poofter bashing”.
Can we expect similar outrage from Carlton over this far more blatant savaging of Jones?Yeah, also funny how this is generating lots of publicity for Masters book just in time for the Xmas shopping. So Masters likes money, she noted.
The point was noted today by a lefty friend of mine who is appalled by the cynicism, shallowness and vapidity of her other lefty friends. She’d hanging out (intellectually) with ex-socialists-now-RWDBs like me these days… and so we see another neocon being born.
This is how we win, one conversion at a time.
MarkL
CanberraPersonally, I couldn’t care less where Alan Jones sticks it. However, I was always amused by this 1998 story:
March - Convicted murderer Chopper Read appears on the Midday Show on Channel 9 along with Alan Jones. Jones is there as a guest to voice his disgust at the ABC‘s decision to give airtime to Read to defend his crimes. Read phones in and says, “People who throw stones better make sure they don’t live in glass houses… I never got arrested in a public toilet in London”. The charges in London were eventually dropped and costs awarded to Jones.
and especially this unfortunate photograph. Note that we of the Right can laugh at our own…Poor bugger. If only Jones were a criminal of Middle Eastern Appearance. Then the SMH would have nothing to say at all.
I object to bestiality on public roadways.
It blocks traffic.
But it lets you run for a Democratic Congressional seat.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 21 at 03:52 PM • permalinkI believe that the technical term for sex with a dead badger is necromelinophilia!!
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2006 10 21 at 05:27 PM • permalinkObvious hypocrisy from the left, yes. But mainly I just loved this bit:
“It is not a sin to have your penis out in a public toilet.”
I must remember that (but what if you’ve sneaked into the girls’ room?)
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2006 10 21 at 06:32 PM • permalink#24 Hazza
Mike Carlton went to town on Alan Jones for professional as well as personal reasons. Jones has more than twice Carlton’s radio ratings. Carlton is married to Morag Ramsay the ABC producer of Chris Masters Four Corners episode also called, Jonestown. So there is a very large, almost incestuous link between Masters and Carlton. You have to wonder whether in fact Carlton may have ghosted much of the manuscript such is the bile and loathing he has for Jones.Sure Carlton defended the homosexuals Marsden & Justice Michael Kirby but he is quite prepared for his homophobia to kick in when it comes to Jones. Double standards come easy to Mike Carlton - a Bollinger Bolshy if ever there was one!
What the left are attempting here with Jones is something I haven’t seen before. They are trying to link Alan Jones’ sexuality with his politics and professionalism. In other words they are trying to bring him personally and professionally undone and using his homosexuality to do it. Something that would be an absolute no-no were Jones a Lefty.
Anyway, Masters knows not what he has done. Sexuality is now in play and from here on in it will be acceptable to try to ruin somebody through their sexual proclivity.
If I were Bob Brown I’d be wondering about now just who might be researching a book on me.
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er, yes, perhaps I should have clarified that as “more legal community minded work”.
Though I get your point, I read the book about Hayes, can’t remember his name right now, the Sydney criminal in the 30s and 40s I think. The only people the crims annoyed was the crims. I can’t put my hand on the book, either, someone tidied my bookshelf - arrgh!
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personal characteristics
You know, “nice ass” used to piss me off royally. In a superficial sort of way. I mean, I’d kick YOUR ass for saying it, make you blubber like a girly girl and beg forgiveness for your unspeakable impertinence. But, after wiping my bloody knuckles on the leisure suit containing your supine remains, I’d sashay away, thinking to myself, “Heh. Nice ass. Oh, you KNOW it, LITTLE man.”
sexual orientation
Can’t speak to that. There were always too many men in the world.
What was the point here?