Thursday, July 12, 2007
POST DELETED, EMPIRE DESTROYED
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.