Wednesday, March 15, 2006
INTEGRITY RETAINED
“Despite being part of the NineMSN stable, and despite Tim Blair, The Bulletin retains some integrity,” writes a grumpy old man in Surry Hills. He’s talking about Paul Daley’s excellent cover story on the ABC, which is generating widespread media reaction. Also in The Bulletin:
* Tony Wright chats with Julia Gillard;
* Bernard Lagan reflects on fatherhood in his late 40s;
* Laurie Oakes analyses Labor infighting;
The interview on Al-Jazeera with the Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan was riveting. Here in part is what she said: “The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilisations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilisations. Civilisations do not clash, but compete.”
And mentioned in this week’s Continuing Crisis column are Germaine Greer, Lara Bingle, Suzie Wilks, Roy “Chubby” Brown, Robert Fisk, George W. Bush, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Prince of Wales, Basil Fawlty, Giancarlo Fisichella, Todd Walsh, and Kevin Rudd.
UPDATE. I am a river to my people.